Hello. I’m Caylee Grey. I am delighted to be one of the newest members of the creative team and look forward to sharing my memory keeping with you. I am a South African living a mini adventure in Germany with my husband. I decided that our first year of marriage was the perfect time to start recording our little part of the universe with Project Life.
I started our 2013 album after our wedding and named the first one and a half days Week Zero. This was my very first Project Life spread ever.
Here’s a close up of the left side:
And the right:
Dates covered: 2-3 February 2013
Location: Stanford, South Africa
Favourite moments: getting to our honeymoon suite and casually hanging out in my wedding dress and his wedding suit, our first married tea, our first married breakfast, our first married drive… prefixing everything with our first married…
While researching wedding traditions for our big day, I came across a gorgeously romantic custom called Love Locks. The idea is to put an initialled padlock on a fence as a symbol of love and commitment. While the entire continent of Africa does not have a Love Lock location, I thought it would be a sweet idea to put one on the fence at our Mini-moon location.
These selfies were taken soon after getting to our suite and my hair grips came out. I fitted two photos onto 6×4″, left loads of gorgeous white space around them, and pasted two stickers from the kit.
Sometimes elements from the kit speak louder than I can, and this is when they deserve their own pocket.
Memorabilia: I kept the letter that greeted us upon arrival at our honeymoon suite (our first piece of paper addressing us as newlyweds), and the sweet weather card
Kit used: Fairytale
I always design my layouts digitally, do a mock-up of how it will look put together, and then print out the cards at a professional shop as 6x4s. The printing and putting into the file only takes an extra half hour and is worth it. Photoshop is my playground, but I love having something physical to keep and show friends and family. I also then see if anything extra is needed. Handwriting sometimes works better than fonts do. Project Life is a great way of getting my photos off my computer and onto display without covering my walls in memories.
I loved putting together this layout. I hope you have a great week creating adventures, and recording them.
– Caylee
You can find more bits of my life on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and my blog.
I love this! It’s so refreshing seeing PL albums that aren’t full of kids. As much as I love looking at those too, for those of us that don’t have families of photogenic kids to take pictures of, it is nice inspiration!
I really like the love lock layout. I also design my layouts digitally and then print the photos, and I’m always trying to figure out aesthetically pleasing ways to put more than one photo on a 4×6. Thanks for the ideas!
Hi Cindie
Having one photo in one pocket is so lovely and simple but sometimes weeks are fuller and I love pairing similar photos together.
I found that white space allows me more options for multiple photos on a 4×6. There are also some great templates that I have since discovered which make it easier to ensure that everything is lined up. I quite like this set: https://the-lilypad.com/store/4×6-Photo-Templates.html and use it in almost every spread.
♥C
Absolutely beautiful, Caylee!
And congratulations too.
Ronnie xo
Thanks Ronnie !
This is absolutely the idea I have had for like 10 years if I ever get married (no one on the horizon – yet). I just love the idea of documenting your first year as husband & wife. I’m so glad to get to see your layouts first 🙂
Oh, and congratulations!
Hi Jody
Thank you ! I’m bummed I didn’t make one for my single life. I might do it one day, but have each layout a different aspect of “getting to know me” rather than organised by week. Have you got one going ? It’s nice to look back and see what we used to be like and how we’ve changed. People do that for their children and I don’t see why we can’t do it for ourselves too.
♥C
Oh, yes. I’ve been scrapping since about ’96 and am in my 2nd year of Project Life. I’d totally recommend going back and doing that if you get the chance.
Absolutely stunning, Caylee! It seems very fitting that you should use the Fairytale collection. Can’t wait to get to know you better though your spreads here 🙂
You’re such a sweetheart, Aimee. I thought Fairytale really did suit that week perfectly 🙂
Stunning layouts! I too enjoy a PL that’s not all about kids… and I love the romantic, dreamy colour scheme of yours! Congratulations to you both!
Hi Liz
I have no idea how people with kids do these albums because husband and I have so much going on just between the two of us that I sometimes struggle to fit a week in two pages. I think I have five to ten years to learn how to scale down before the kids, though.
Thanks for your lovely comment
♥C
totally beautiful ! I love everything about this spread !
Oh, I know where to find inspirations 🙂
I love your clean style, I love the photos and your story !
You are a darling. Thank you.
So beautiful!! The spreads are so clean and streamlined…very uniformed! I love it!!
Thanks, Alice. I don’t always get it right but clean and streamlined is the aim.
Gorgeous!! So timeless, perfect for documenting such a meaningful occasion.
Thank you !
Thank you !
Caylee — I do exactly the same thing in designing the layout digitally and then printing the cards to insert into the page protectors. I love the idea of a “Week Zero”.
Doing it this way makes everything quicker and simpler without wastage. I don’t think I could do it any other way.
I love the gentleness of this, if that makes sense. Beautiful.
Thank you for your kind comment. I was indeed going for a soft, gentle look, so glad it turned out that way.
♥C