One Saturday morning, my friend Natalie and I went on a riff about the actual steps in a large scrapbooking project. We’ve both done our fair share of large projects; there’s some serious experience behind these words.

Now, for your amusement:

The Twelve Stages of a Large Scrapbooking Project

  1. Map out project and start chronologically creating pages.
  2. Get bored with the next chronological part of the project, and start skipping around to more interesting stories.
  3. Get stuck, lose motivation to work on project.
  4. Complain about the project. A lot.
  5. Find inspiration, get your mojo back and charge through the project until you have just 5 to 10% of it left.
  6. Complain that “the project will never end”.
  7. Procrastinate by doing the laundry and the dishes, or anything else but the project.
  8. Dream about the next project and how it will be SO MUCH EASIER to finish.
  9. Come up with a plan to tackle those last stories.
  10. Execute plan; post “I only have X more layouts/pages to go” every time you finish a layout.
  11. Finish project and celebrate!
  12. Collapse into a heap of exhausted creativity, or charge immediately into the next project.
How Scrapbooking Projects Really Work
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