New Years Pocket Page

Last time when I was running low on page protectors

I grabbed a box without looking and wa-laa

50 project life pocket pages.

I decided to keep them because I'm seriously

running out of album storage so I may

play around with them more to reduce the amount of 

albums I've been creating.

Since I create a page for 5 days each for the blog times

52 is about 260 pages a year.

About 3-4 albums sooooo....

 if I want to highlight a certain photo I can do that too.

Love how this turned out for maybe my second or

third 12x12 pocket page (I have done smaller ones). 

We took off camping for new year's 

with some friends and camped in Fort Perkins for 2 days

and because of bad weather we left and went

back to their place (they have a nice slice of property)

 and camped out.

However, prior to the bad weather we did go on a field trip

to the Naval Aviation Museum and the Pensacola Lighthouse.

I adore both.

It was a lovely time all around and very easygoing.

Storing different size pages in your 12x12

I have an acute tennis elbow or tendonitis in my right arm.

Let me say there's nothing cute about it.

Its keeping me from doing things I love; such as,

crossfit, scrapping, typing, any repetitive arm movements.

Extremely annoying I must say.

So therefore, I haven't done any scrapping - except minimal stuff.

I have seen this question or issue pop up in some threads 

and thought I'd address it.

It appears that some scrappers love creating 8.5x11 or 6x12 etc

but feel that if they scrap in that size they would need

that size album.

I'm here to say au contraire, my friends.

I have been doing this for years - putting all sizes in my 12x12 album.

And I must say its really fun to flip through.

Not so much photographing though

LOL.

But fun to have them in my albums and mixed in between because

 A. There's no rhyme nor reason to my albums

(very freeing) I scrap whatever photo or story as the mood moves me

for my every day stuff. Therefore

 B. there's no matchy matchy (which I can

do in matchy matchy in like baby or heritage albums) 

and also means there is absolutely no cohesive-ness to my albums

which I know that will drive some of you crazy.

I'd say welcome to my world - but I'm okay with it.

 I tend to let some things dictate what size I will scrap, such as:

A. Size of the photo

B. How stinkin awesome the papers are on both sides

and do I want to use both sides somehow

C. The size of any leftover and/or hoarded paper I deem awesome again

and still want to use.

D. The size or lack thereof of the journaling, embellishments and titles.

 So as I complete pages they get tossed in in random order.

As you can see here, I found some different sizes

that could use another page in them.

I love that - 

Also you can see I have assorted sizes, 8.5x11, 8x8 (which you

usually have to punch a hole for it to sit right in the book) and

6x12. I'll soon have some 9x12 - can't wait to try that size.

Pocket pages are totally fun to add in

especially when I think I have so many amazing photos (in my head)

that I want seen and a windy story to tell.

I also have some leftover pocket pages that are random sizes from

my last travel trip that I'll be tossing in too.

Just because I can.
I love not being bound to the same size all the time.