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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)…

WITL-Monday

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

WITL-Tuesday

Tuesday:  109

WITL-Wednesday

Wednesday:  146

WITL-Thursday

Thursday:  91

WITL-Friday

Friday:  59

WITL-Saturday

Saturday:  104

WITL-Sunday

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!!

week in the life 2013

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…(because I don’t have enough to do)  This week, I’ve been working on / participating in Week in the Life.  This project is an in-depth documentation of one week of your life, spearheaded by the fabulous Ali Edwards.  You can read more about it here on Ali’s blog.

I’ve done 4 out of 7 days so far and still going strong.  Although, I have to admit one of my children is starting to hide when I whip my camera out to take pictures.  I’ll write further about my process in another post (it’s getting laaate here! and time to get to bed) but wanted to post my cover page for Monday here to at least get the ball rolling …

Week in the Life 2013 - Monday

My grand plans of posting my layouts the next day has not worked out so I am opting for focusing on collecting and documenting now and working up the layouts later this week.

I originally was not going to work on this again this year, I’ve done it in 2011 and 2012 and really liked the results but was not up for the time it took to pull it all together.  But I decided to go for it and keep it simple.  Stay tuned and Wish me luck!

Are you working on Week in the Life this year?  Any other big memory keeping projects on the horizon for you?

ready, set, sew

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Some days (weeks, months) it seems like progress is slow to nonexistent.  Such is the case with my latest sewing project for (wait for it…) myself (!)  *gasp*  I know, really, I can’t think of the last time I made something for myself…it’s been at least since we’ve moved (which is coming up on 2 years)  lots of stuff for the girls, things for the house and for hubby but me?  not so much.

all ready and waiting

Well…I saw this super cute “Tova” top in a post over at Hawthorne Threads blog and thought…this is it!  I ordered up some beautiful cotton lawn from them  (super super nice people with a lovely shop if you are in the market for on-line fabric purchases, hope to visit their actual shop one day!)  I ordered the “Mariella” in grey/pink

Three fitting muslins later, I have cut out the (altered) pattern, picked buttons and found thread to match…then the girls came home from school.  *sigh*  maybe this afternoon?  Fingers crossed friends, fingers crossed.

LOAD 0213

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Yes, because I am completely insane and don’t have enough projects jumping up and down and calling my name….

I’m participating in a scrapbooking layout-a-day challenge for the month of February.  yep. insane.  This is actually the 4th time (or 5th can’t remember) time I’ve done this and it is a challenge to keep it going for the whole month.  Sometimes life gets in the way and that’s OK…the point is the stories are getting told.

So without further ado…here ar

LOAD213-01-CapeCod2011Day one’s challenge was a layout without writing a story (or “journaling” in scrapbooking parlance).  I’m working on a series of pages about our Cape Cod trip in 2011 (and also 2010) and needed a “cover” page so…voila.  The only words are the Place and Date.

02-The Best DayDay two’s challenge was to create a layout about your perfect day.  Not content to just keep all the fun to myself, I hounded my family for their “perfect” days.  Charlie was awesome (but had to be admonished to keep it clean, it’s a family show after all)  The girls had tons of questions but managed to settle on a few of their most important items.

Both layouts are digital layouts, done completely on the computer and I’ll have them printed out to put in an album.  I also scrapbook as a “paper” scrapper but with doing a layout a day, it’s much quicker to pull something together on my laptop which I can take anywhere (including the cafeteria at Nashoba Valley where I’m waiting for my girls to come rocketing down the slopes any minute).

If you’re interested in learning more about the layout-a-day challenge click here to go to Lain Ehmann’s “Layout-A-Day” site.  It’s fun, challenging whether you follow the suggestions for layouts (or “prompts”) or not and the other “Loadsters” are a really nice community.

Cheers!

 

project life week 1

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This is one of my favorite projects.  Becky Higgins “Project Life”.  I’m starting my third year using this idea to document the everyday moments of the craziness that is the Triggs-Rhuda household.  I will be setting up a page specifically dedicated to my 2013 PL pages but want to show them on my main blog page as well (evidently, only my main blog page posts to facebook etc…)

Each year, Becky releases a new card set or two to use with the divided page protectors to facilitate telling your story.  This year, I’m going to use the “Seafoam” edition…but alas, it has not yet shown up for ordering on Amazon.  One of my memory keeping goals for 2013 is to keep up with my PL pages and post them weekly here on my blog…so here goes…

Week1-original layout

Week One, with place holders for the Seafoam kit which I hope to have next week.  I usually run my weeks Mon-Sun but started with Jan 1 this week…NY Day party, Basketball, surprise in the mail and Hello winter this week!

Thanks for looking!  Are you working on a PL album this year?  If you have been looking for a way to easily and simply document your life and capture your memories, PL might be for you!