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…
Zoom
There goes another school week …
average every day stuff
but it’s super yummy
Photos taken: 170 edited to 76 used 33 Editing is getting easier as the week goes by, still messing w my camera (think that’s a permanent condition)
Earliest post ever this week! Off to help w yard work then soccer then visit from grandparents
fun
Have a great saturday
Day Four … done
Thursday was a weird, uneven kind of day. Exhaustion interspersed with bursts of energy, and at the end of the day…I actually got something done. Creative time though not so great…think it was a result of being so pooped out but, as Scarlett said…tomorrow is another day.
Here’s Thursday
Photo count…209 again edited down to 35…I am not totally insane (only partially) but took many multiples of shots to get the right one using different camera settings .
WitL 4/7 done
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
Another day, another day documented! 2/7 of the way there (yes, I have been doing too much 5th grade math) Again this morning (wednesday) once I started downloading and editing photos this morning…
i just
couldn’t
stop
But the upside is day 2 is done done done and it’s nice to write everything up while the memories are fresh…just have to get a little faster at it. Once I started editing though, the framework of the stories came together nicely. The interesting thing is the stories I had in my head to tell weren’t the ones that came out on the page when I started writing…Plenty of fodder for pages or other ideas later. I’m still loving my paper choices and saves tons of time making those design decisions ahead of time.
Tuesday…
1 cover page, 1 story page, 3 9 photo pages (again, may not use them all for this project) 122 photos ed. down to 37…
triggsey 