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Week in the Life – The put-together for Saturday & Sunday 9/14 & 9/15

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It occurs to me that LIFE got in the way and I never posted the last two days of my Week in the Life pages….Well, we’ll just remedy that right now with two days in one post…

Saturday:

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The story:  Gwen made her first goal playing soccer for our town today…totally awesome!!! That I got it as it happened, because I did have my big camera with me… serendipity.  Usual stuff, house stuff, crafting, silly stuff and a little pottery barn catalog window shopping.

Photos:  I started with 104 images, I deleted down to  83 (I had a ton of pix today as I was playing with the sport / burst setting on my big camera at Gwen’s soccer game), of that I used 23.  Templates, Paper and Embellishments (same as the rest of the week)

SUNDAY

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The Story:  You know, when I went to put the story together for this day… I found that a lot of my photos were duplicates or minutely different versions of the same thing. So I only did two pages, because I didn’t need four, because I felt that the two pages pretty much summed up the day, and because I did not have any lazer tag pictures from the birthday party the girls spent the day at, AND I didn’t think that my photos of cool stuff at The Container Store (where I killed time while girls were at said party) were really that interesting or relevant….so two pages it was.

Photos:  I started with 134 images, I deleted down to 102 , of that I used 11 (yes, you heard me, 11).

Templates:  Ali Edwards  Week in the Life Layered Template Set 8.5 x 11 Vol. 05.  and my 9 photo template.

Paper & Tags:  “Summer Blossoms” kit by WhimpyChompers Creative.  Font is Remington Noiseless (love typewriter fonts!)

AAAND we’re done!  With the putting together of the pages!  At this writing  (on October 20…where does the time go????) I have ordered and received my prints from Persnickety Prints and they are carefully stacked up and tucked away awaiting their place in an album…more on that, as soon as they find their new home!

Love this project, As I mentioned I didn’t know if I was going to work on it again this year but I’m glad I did and I’m glad I kept it super duper simple (for me!)

Thanks for coming along…more on wrapping up this project in another post (hopefully sooner than 6 months)

Week in the Life – The put-together for Friday 9/13

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I did not take too many pictures today…OK, that’s kind of relative to the average person but for the purposes of this project, 59 is not a lot.  My inner art director decided to go with just a two page spread today and only include the best photos of the bunch.  Quick annotations on the collage page (and the “p” alliteration was completely by accident)  Quiet average day, errands, chores, soccer, a girls crafting and a yummy beer to end the day !

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Photos:  I started with 59 images, I deleted down to 33 (more decisive today!), of that I used 24.  Templates, Paper and Embellishments (same as the rest of the week):

Templates:  Ali Edwards  Week in the Life Layered Template Set 8.5 x 11 Vol. 05.

Paper & Tags:  “Summer Blossoms” kit by WhimpyChompers Creative.  Font is Remington Noiseless (love typewriter fonts!)

2 days left…almost done!

Week in the Life – The put-together for Thursday 9/12

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Am steaming along now because I just found out that Persnickety Prints is having a print sale on SATURDAY!  (squeeee!) and I want to have these all done and uploaded so I can take advantage of the sale.  In looking over the pictures today, there was one or two stories and the rest felt kind of dis-jointed…hence, the blow-ups of the morning kitchen !  Lots of crafting today with my partner in crime Sara and the girls making Rainbow Loom bracelets…the dogs even had a playdate and poor Shadow didn’t move off of the sofa the entire day!

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Photos:  I started with 91 images, I deleted down to 50 (more decisive today!), of that I used 24.  Templates, Paper and Embellishments (same as the rest of the week):

Templates:  Ali Edwards  Week in the Life Layered Template Set 8.5 x 11 Vol. 05.  and my 9 photo template.

Paper & Tags:  “Summer Blossoms” kit by WhimpyChompers Creative.  Font is Remington Noiseless (love typewriter fonts!)

Yay 4 down, 3 to go!!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Week in the Life – The put-together for Wednesday 9/11

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Finally got this day done.  I realized after I pulled everything together, I didn’t have anything that captured the fact that it was September 11th, and the anniversary of the attacks.  I decided that it was what it was and not to try and make up stuff that I didn’t document.  I had some beautiful early morning flag photos that I took when I got up that morning but I had already used similar ones in a previous layout…so here is Wednesday, half day for the girls, super hot day….I’m having fun coming up with mini themes for a row of pictures which I’m really liking.

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Photos:  I started with 146 images, I deleted down to 89 (indecisive…again), of that I used 28 (counting all the screen shots of the ridiculously high temperatures!)  I did very little photo editing, if any.

Templates, Paper and Embellishments (same as the rest of the week):

Templates:  Ali Edwards  Week in the Life Layered Template Set 8.5 x 11 Vol. 05.  and my 9 photo template which I tweaked to include the weather screen shots from my phone.

Paper & Tags:  “Summer Blossoms” kit by WhimpyChompers Creative.  Font is Remington Noiseless (love typewriter fonts!)

Thank you for stopping by and sticking with my sloooowwww progress on this week!

Photo counts …

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As you may have been able to glean, I am somewhat of an avid memory keeper, and if there is a project going on, I’m on it!  Last week I was working on the in-depth documentation for “Week in the Life” which is a project started by Ali Edwards.  This is my third year and this year, I’ve given myself a pass to not have to have the photos processed and posted the day I take them (like I tried to do, mostly successfully last year)  too much work.  Instead, my plan is to process the photos and pull the pages together a day at a time (maybe more if I get carried away with myself!)

I just downloaded my “big girl camera” and my iphone and here are my photo counts for last week (not including any photos from Charlie which he downloads when he plugs his phone in at work on Monday mornings)…

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Monday:  120 (there were more, I had started deleting doubles and crummy photos)

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Tuesday:  109

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Wednesday:  146

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Thursday:  91

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Friday:  59

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Saturday:  104

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Sunday:  134

Total:  763 (so far)

…no wonder people were starting to hide when I brought my camera out!

So now begins the deleting, selecting and editing (!)  I use iPhoto for organization and some editing and Photoshop Elements 8 (I think that’s the version) for more in-depth editing and laying out the pages digitally.  Last month, I downloaded Aperture and am slooooowly migrating toward using that, am going to see how big the learning curve for editing is and hopefully work on some of the photos with Aperture.  Wish me luck!!