I was tempted with the idea of P365 at the end of 2008, not knowing whether to order one of the kits from the States or not. With all the stuff up's that ended up happening I'm glad I didn't waste any time on the phone trying to reserve one!! But because of all the problems Becky Higgins put the journalling cards etc as downloads on her blog - bonus!
So with the help of the downloads I set about creating my version of a P365 album over 2009 ...
... the front page of my album, our first family photo of the year at the beginning of January...
... I created a new folder on my computer and under that a folder for each month, I would copy selected photos to the relevant folder, edit them and add the 'date' to the bottom left corner (doing this is Picasa). This helped me to stay on top of the project, it didn't matter if I didn't get to town to print the photos for a few weeks, at least I knew I had them all sitting on the computer/usb stick. It was easy then once I had printed them to just add to the album and write a quick note about what had happened ...
... instead of a card every week saying 'Week from x to x' I decided on a card for the beginning of each month. These were downloads on Becky's blog and I edited them in Picasa to add the name of the month. There were two different base designs of these cards and I alternated each month. Also on the journalling card the corresponded with the beginning of each month I added a little calendar that I had printed off - for a visual look reference of the dates and so I could check what day of the week each date was ...
... as you can see I kept me journal cards along the bottom (I used WRMK page refills that are separated into 6 pockets of 6x4). The journal card download was 4 different designs, which I alternated as well in a pattern throughout the album ...