week in the life: the pages

I am so grateful to have this project finished.

In the end, I kept it really really simple and added it to my project life album. I used Becky Higgins Design F page proctors and trimed the end strip off to make them slightly smaller than the full 12x12 size. This left me with 7, 3x4 spots to fill each day. Seven photos. I could do that. I decided to use the 6x4 spot on each page for that days words. Keeping with my super simple theme, I typed my text directly into Ali Edwards 6x4 story overlays in photoshop elements.

Some days, I ended up with more photos than others. When it came time to print the photos to add to the album, it didn't bother me too much if some photos were placed in another day. On a whole, my weekdays are usually pretty similar to each other and in months/years to come I know I am going to be grateful for the bigger picture and not to concerned about the minor details.

I had been waiting for the right photo/moment to have a go at using the one photo to fill the 12x12 page. I went with a photo of me ready to document my week. I love how it looks. I may still go back and add some journalling to this photo, as I currently undecided as to whether or not it is complete. I used this tutorial to cut my photo up (I divided my photo into 6 6x4 photos) to save and print as I don't print my photos at home. Side note: make sure you save your images in the proper format or they won't print (I totally learnt this the hard way! I'll need to wait till the next time I develop photos to print the top left hand corner!) The opposite 12x12 page is still unfilled. I'm thinking about dividing another 12x12 photo of my bedroom currently but I am still undecided.

In short. I absolutely loved this project. I will definitely be doing it in some form or another next year.

How do you currently keep your photos and memories? Blogs? Photo albums? I would love to know.

week in the life | the last few days

It's been all about photos this week in my creative space. Photos that document my life. Right now. Here are some of my favourite pictures that tell me current story.

Now to take all the words + photos and turn them into something. I'm hoping to wrap this project up over the weekend and be able to share my pages next Thursday. Posting here is one way of keeping myself accountable to this goal.

Meanwhile, there is still progress being made on the simple granny square blanket. Although, the rate the squares are being made at has slowly decreased since term two started...

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week in the life | the first few days

Snippets of life from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I thought I knew how I was going to approach this project and then I saw this post from Elise Blaha and now I am back to square one. 

For now, I'm just happy to be focusing on the photos and words that capture my life right now.

ready

My camera batteries are charged and I am ready to capture a week in my life. I plan to share my words + photos each day right here.

Are you documenting a week in your life?

week in the life | 2012

I am weeks behind in Project Life. I have pieces of life all over my little desk and photos saved into files ready to print but flipping back through my album it's about 6 weeks till you see a finished week.

Yet I can't stop thinking about Ali Edwards, Week in the Life project. I feel like I need to capture my life as it is right now: work + family + living in the family home because I know next year it will be different.

I attempted it last year. I took some photos. Wrote some words. Then life got busy. Again. This year feels different. I have freed myself from thinking it has to be like the beautiful layouts I see on the internet. I know now that isn't me.

This year I am determined to make it work.

I have a plan and it all started with an email from Kiki-K about their new photobooks. The seeds were planted. All I need it words and pictures to create a beautiful photo book of a week in my life.

I think I will take photos and blog them each night. That way I can keep track of the day to day stuff. I am also going to try really hard to capture my work day as I find that can be tricky, as I start to feel like each day is the same. 

Will you be participating in Week in the Life 2012?