A Week in the Life - How it Looks in the Album

This was a fun little project and it's nice that it was relatively quick. Even though the rings in the binder album are small, I think it would still fit some more pages so I'm hoping I can do this again in the future and just add the pages here. It'd be a nice way to compare how our routines change as we do.

Here's a glimpse of how it looks in the album.

 

I stamped, "Week in the Life" from the Notice the Details stamp set, directly onto the album's cover. I just wanted to keep it simple so I didn't add any other embellishments to the cover.

The front page just has random shots from around the house (lunch boxes, the fridge, computer screen, toothbrushes, etc.)

Here are some of the layouts from inside the album. Sorry the pictures are small. When I enlarge them, they get somewhat blurry so I've kept them this size.

Supplies used: (Z1141) My Creations 3-Ring Binder, (D1378) December 2009 Stamp of the Month - Notice the Details, (D1286) Today's Date stamp set, (D1222) Tiny Typewriter Alphabet stamp set, (retired) Calendar stamp set, (1385) White Daisy cardstock, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (Z1034) Ribbon Rounds Black Collection

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A Week in the Life - Layout

I think it definitely would have helped me to have known how I wanted to lay out my, "A Week in the Life" album in advance. It would have helped me have a better idea of how many pictures and which types of pictures I should take (I know that getting sick played a big role in the amount of pictures on certain days). Although it felt like I was taking a lot of pictures, when I do this again, I will try to take more. I will also try to journal each day instead of all at the end of the week, which is what I did this time. But I do think it all worked out pretty well.

After playing around with the pictures and paper, I decided on a pretty simple layout which I hope to follow for each day. I'm using a CTMH My Creations 3-ring Binder as my album. I typed up my journaling on the computer and printed it out on White Daisy cardstock which I then cut to the same shape as the tabbed paper which comes with the binder. I'm putting my photo collage of nine pictures on the left side of each open layout and stamping the word, "today," on the tab on that page. My photo collage is slightly smaller than 5" x 7" so that there can be a bit of a border around the photos on that page. My journaling goes on the right side of the two page layout with a strip of three additional photos above it. The photos are small, approximately 1.5" x 2" each in the strip above the journaling. I will stamp a letter to indicate which day of the week it is on the tab on this page. Underneath the journaling, I will stamp the date. Then along the left side of this page, I will adhere a black ribbon with white stitching. I like the idea of using the binder because I can easily just add to the album when I repeat this project in the future and have the pages all in one place. I think it'll be interesting to compare and see how things/routines change.

Here's the left side of the two page layout:

Here's the right side of the two page layout:

And here they are together:

Supplies used: (Z1141) My Creations 3-Ring Binder, (1385) White Daisy cardstock, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (D1222) Tiny Typewriter Alphabet stamp set, (D1286) Today's Date stamp set, (Z1034) Ribbon Rounds Black Collection, (retired) Calendar stamp setPin It

A Week in the Life

If you read Ali Edwards' blog, you're probably familiar with the, "A Week in the Life," project. If you don't know about it, you can view her posts about the project here. Basically, you document a week in your life and focus on everyday things. I know that at least in my life and the lives of my family, our routine has been changing quite a bit these past few years. Sometimes, it takes a lot of recall for me to remember things that used to be a matter of habit but just no longer exist in our routine now. There used to be a time about 7 or 8 years ago (I can't even remember exactly!) when my son and I would meet my husband at one of the local Rec Centers every Friday after he got off work. He would get there first and start running on the treadmill. By the time we got there, he'd be ready to take our then toddler son to the pool and let me get some exercising time. Then I'd join them and we'd all swim. That was such an integral part of our weekly routine which just vanished as our lives changed and as our family grew bigger.

While I have done a single scrapbook page on our daily routine before and I have done a small scrapbook documenting a month of our lives before, I have never done the, "A Week in the Life Project." Ali blogged about starting the project again in April and I got so excited about doing it myself that I decided to just start...and it happened to be a Tuesday the next day. There was no rhyme or reason for me to start on a Tuesday but when inspiration hits, you go with it! And sure enough, it turned out that it became an atypical week. I got sick with a stomach virus yesterday! This is the first time I have gotten sick since the school year has started. So while I took more than enough pictures for Tuesday, I just wasn't focusing on taking picture while I was sick. I only remembered to give the camera to my husband at about 4pm! So, I'm including some photos that I took on Tuesday, which weren't day specific, for Wednesday. I did consider starting over with another week (hey, I could even start with tomorrow) but after looking at the pictures, I decided to just go ahead and continue.

I haven't completely decided on the format yet, but I am leaning towards using CTMH's My Creations 3-ring Binder. I think I'll probably make collages in Photoshop for each day. The photo collages can be on the left side of a double layout and then I can include journaling on the right side.

Here is the photo collage for day 1, Tuesday. There was a tree that was actually blooming in the garden at work!

Here is the photo collage for day 2. Note the tray of crackers and ibupforen.

Here is the photo collage for day 3. Again, we only started taking pictures after 4pm since I was mostly resting in the morning but I think it turned out okay. I like the pink legos!

Yes, I know. I need to get a better picture of myself in there! I will work on it now that I'm feeling well again.

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