Pocket Pages: January & February 2019

Since it's September I thought I'd share some of my pocket pages from 2019. I usually do a better job of sharing them, but better late than never. This is the fifth year that I've done a weekly pocket style spread and it's a pretty firmly entrenched routine in my life at this point. On Saturday morning I go through the photos on my phone and collect any interesting ones from Jordan's (Google Photo makes this very simple). Then I download all the photos I've favorited from the week, add them to my layout template and add in my journaling (I've been using this weekly pocket card). The key to keeping on top of this process is that I don't decorate the pages at the same time that I layout them out. Choosing my photos and adding them to the template takes maybe twenty minutes and is a weekly commitment I can keep up with. Doing the fancy part takes more effort so I save that for when I've got the time. I usually do decorate a spread on Saturday, but the point is that I don't have to. I can usually catch them all up without too much lag into the next year. Now that I've got a stack of finished photo books from the last four years, it's pretty motivating to keep the ball rolling.

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Marisa Lerin

About Me

Hi There! I’m Marisa Lerin and you’ll see me around at DigitalScrapbook.com a lot. I started this site in 2010 soon after I discovered a new love in digital scrapbooking. DigitalScrapbook.com has gone through some significant changes since that time and it’s grown into this lovely community site you are seeing now. I am daily surprised by the turn of life’s events that has led me down this path. If you're new to the site, welcome! Here are a few tidbits about me that I hope will help you get to know me better!

I’m originally from Minnesota, USA, but spent a good chunk of my childhood living abroad (in Bolivia and Hong Kong). I returned to Minnesota to attend university, got married and then moved overseas again (Korea, then Jordan and 1 year of traveling). My designs are heavily influenced by these many nomadic years. I am currently back in the USA, now living in the great state of Oregon!

I have no official training for what I’m doing, since I decided very wisely (haha) to study physics in university. I am always learning new things about digital scrapbooking, and this community has been immensely helpful for that!

If I manage to stop digital scrapbooking you will probably find me watching TV, reading or baking. I also enjoy writing for the blog here at DigitalScrapbook.com where I talk about whatever happens to be catching my fancy at the moment.