Week in the Life 2012 – Tuesday

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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…

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!

how time slips away…

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Holy cow…just popped over and realized it’s been almost two months since I blogged….and i’ve had so much rolling around in my head to share and no time/energy/will to get it all down.  It’s been a whirlwind of time and i am still drinking it all in…but the good news is i’ve caught up on some projects, started sewing again and am trying to get into some kind of creative routine…all works in process…have also been trying a little bit to update the look of the blog and figure out how it “works” ….  more updates later… hopefully sooner than two months.

LOAD-212: Day Four!

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Today, the girls took their pre-test for their Junior Black Belts in karate!  They have worked so hard toward this goal and today was the first step in the process, and I think they passed with flying colors.  Unfortunately in all the craziness of the early day, I totally forgot to get a photo of the three girls (lily, gwen and their friend marielle) before their test.  What I did photograph was the wait.

The wait for the test to be over.  Liz and I with our knitting in a cafe waiting.  And of course, in honor of the layout a day challenge this month…I scrapbooked it!

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!!