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Week in the Life 2012 – Sunday

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It’s here

The last day

Can’t believe I made it all the way to the end.  As a bonus, all 35 layouts are done, checked, tweaked and ready to upload to printer in the morning.   For a project this size I will have them printed, if it was one or two pages then I’d print at home.  (When I don’t print at home, I use Persnickety Prints for my layouts and I use Shutterfly for regular prints)

Last year I documented the week but things were so crazy everything got packed in a box and so I will be assembling both 2011 and 2012 when I get my prints from this year back.

Yes, I’m crazy…but I think it’s worth it

Here’s Sunday…

 

 

There is nothing better than a new bike…nothing.

# Photos taken 114, ed to 61, used 30

(getting better and better at editing and purging)

I also made a video of the girls with their new bikes but that’s another project!

7/7  Done

More tomorrow on WitL thoughts and the first day of LOAD

Sleeping I will be

Week in the Life – Saturday

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As I’d surmised, working on this project is far easier during the week than on the weekends.  But we had a great weekend and I am managing to get my Saturday pages posted before Sunday is over….it’s 11:32pm

Here’s the last Saturday in April — eeeek!

Today I took a ton of photos because of the soccer game…want to post them somewhere to share with the team.

Total photos:  211….soccer photos 80…ed. down to 45 used 34

6/7’s done!

…and so to bed…

Week in the Life – Wednesday

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I am loving this project more as each day goes on.  As I mentioned on Monday, I wasn’t sure if I was going to do this for 2012…waaaay too overcommitted on the memory keeping front right now and “LOAD” (layout a day) is coming up next week eeeek!  But, in the spirit of continuing to work on building a creative practice every day, I decided to go for it and I’m very pleased with the results.

The formulas and tools seem to be working really well….helps to pare down the images and distill the story to bring out the essence of our days.

One Main Page

One photo that captures the day..Ali’s templates and a touch of paper and embelli’s.  It’s an editorial challenge to pick the photo for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Detail Page

One page of “highlight” photos and the main stories of the day.  As I scroll through the photos and think about the day, the story emerges as I type which then informs the selection of the photos to support the story. I’m also keeping the detail sheets by hand which has the excruciating details of the day, observations etc…these will go back to back in one page protector as is when I put the album together.  Frees me from repeating here what we had for lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three 9 photo pages

I decided to do 3 pages of 9 rather than just 2 so I have options to add/delete photos or notes when I put the album together.  I’m going to use Becky Higgins “grid” journaling cards (just checked her site and I don’t see them but you can check out her products HERE…awesome for all sorts of things) to record other snippets and drawings and to have the girls write some things for every day…considering I just came up with this idea, need to have the girls do some retroactively…

Am also loving the decision to put mini titles to each of the 27 photos…can’t help editorializing.  Am going back to do Mondays set as well.

…and I’m slowly getting the hang of actually working with wordpress…only took slightly less than forever to arrange all this and it’s not quite what I had in mind but…it’s a process

Total photo count incl. Charlie’s from NYC:  96  Total used:  34

3/7 th the way done…time to walk the dog

Week in the Life 2012 – design plan and Monday

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I debated and pondered whether I was going to participate in WITL this year…I’ve actually not quite finished up WITL 2011 (somehow I missed uploading some of the pages, and didn’t realize until I started putting it all together that I was missing pages sooo it’s awaiting my next printing order )  but I decided I’d go for it and assemble both years together.

Week in the Life is a project originated and shepherded  by Ali Edwards, specific info on getting started can be found here, and her digital templates and products are available  at Designer Digitals.

Again this year, I am approaching this as a digital project.  I will most likely add in some more tactile elements when I put the project together.  I’m using Ali’s Week in the Life digital templates #4 in the 8 1/2 x 11 size.  I really enjoyed working with this size last year and it’s a nice departure from my usual 12×12 approach.   If I have room left in the album I purchased for 2011, then I’ll add in 2012, if not, it will have it’s own album, I like the WeR Memory Keepers albums.  I also have some brushes and stamps and other digi-elements that I may include.  In addition to the digi-templates and photos, I’m using one of my new purchases, the “Homesewn” Line by Jodi Lee of paper and embelli’s  Love the soft vintage look of the papers that I’ll use for backgrounds where needed.  I’ll also try and dig up some other items that coordinate without going overboard.

The goal is as many photos and words as possible, not very much “stuff” if at all, that goes into the Project Life books.

I was very ambitious today and once I started editing photos, that lead down the slippery slope to laying out the pages and then before I knew it, it was done…

Photo count:  154  (did a lot of goofing around with different settings) edited to 33 best images.

In addition to the photos, I’m keeping notes on the day using note sheets that Ali devised and I’ll probably add them in as is when I put the book together.

Whew!  So glad it’s done and off to a great start!

Load-212-Day Threeeee!

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Day three … and a layout done before lunchtime  (along with phone calls, laundry and tidying up!)  The prompt today was a layout about yourself.  Charlie recently found a cache of old (old) photos of mine and in that treasure trove of late 70’s and early 80’s goodness was a photo of me at the summit of Pike’s Peak in 1979 so that dear reader, along with a Basic Grey kit, inspired this page:

I have a stash of Basic Grey kits that I collected over two years that I have pledged to break out and use (instead of letting them age like fine wine) which is fun because some of them are not things I would normally pick.   It makes it a challenge within a challenge to make a kit work with other things in my stash (in this case the metal tag on the left and thickers stickers for the title).

All in all I am pleased with it and am loving loving loving not scrapping chronologically anymore!!