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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!

Week in the Life – The put-together for Tuesday 9/10

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Well, I managed to pull this together in less than two hours including helping child with her homework AND watching Project Runway (squeeee!!)

I felt like a had a weird collection of photos for Tuesday, there were hardly any photos of people, mostly shots around the house and lots of the world while running errands.  So, I told seven stories.  View from the front porch, Sue, Dog, Nighstands, Project, Farm Co-op and Library.  It took a day of mulling it over to figure out how to work the photos into vignettes but I feel pretty good about it!

WITL-13-Tuesday-Cover page WITL-13-Tuesday-Collage page

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Photos:  I started with 109 images, I deleted down to 82 (indecisive), of that I used 22.  I edited photos, mostly to brighten and lighten them up in PSE.

Templates, Paper and Embellishments (same as Monday):

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

Paper:  “Summer Blossoms” kit by WhimpyChompers Creative.

Embellishments:  Ali’s “Week in the Life Circles”  as a base, deleted the word inside and replaced them with mine.  Font is Antique Olive (chunky sans-serif)

Excellent!  Thanks for coming by!!  If you’re doing Week in the Life this year, how are you doing putting your layouts together?

slow and steady…

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Or just slow…

Well, we know what the road to heck is paved with…

My intention for assembling my Week in the Life layouts was to tackle, one day from last week, this week.  Alas, it is Thursday and this is as far as I’ve gotten on Tuesday…

WITL-13-Tuesday-Cover page

 

But it’s pretty don’t you think?  😉   Goin’ in…wish me luck!

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!!