A Week In The Life Update

Hi Ali and friends! I was so inspired by this project so this year I am doing a week - every week. I try to just snap away and catch the moments throughout the week - every week. I then collect highlights in a psd.file, "premade" with grids, and print every once in a while. I collect them all in one specially made album. Love this process and thanks for the inspiration to document everyday life Ali.
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I love the black background pages of the album you used last year. What is the brand? I like the way it makes the photos "pop"

Hi Ali,
thanks for doing this again, I started mine on monday and today is day 5 of the week, but Im sure I will do it in january or february with you again.
Hugs Cornelia

I'm game! In all the years I've followed you, I've always said that nothing interesting happens to me during the span of a week. But maybe this year is different.

I completely missed a day too this time and I think I'm going to make a page of things I missed taking pictures of. I've also "cheated" a little and taken pictures of people and things from that day later and stuck them in.

I just finished my second time doing this and I am so glad I did! I'm getting all the pictures developed now but it has been such a wonderful walk down memory lane to look at last year's album. Of course my kids have grown and changed so much but little things too, the dog I thought we'd always have was in last year's album and has since died, my closet pictures are fun because I've organized differently...little things.
Thanks for all of your inspiration!

Hi! Thanks for this response to my e-mail inquiry. I did find some great things here in the supplies section that will work. I put off starting until Sunday so I'm in good shape. I want to document this week as am on maternity leave and in interesting adjustment period, but would love to do it again in late winter or spring as I think we'll see lots of changes this year!

Awesome Abbey - I was just starting to write you an email.

Ali - thought you might have seen this already - but wanted to send you the link anyways!!!
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Hi Ali, I had so much fun with this project last year. Knowing it was just for a week made it seem a lot less stressful and it was so much fun! I did another week this past July and think doing one again in Jan/Feb will be fun in fact I'm looking forward to it!

My 2 "A Week in the Life" albums are my absolute favorites! I am definitely going to attempt it again on my own!

Thanks for the reminder. I think I will do the first week in November.

I was just looking at my day/weekend in the life 5 X 5 digital pages from last year (couldn't commit to a week! :o) and thinking I should start again this year.
Here's my blog post and the photos from each page,
http://foxyurl.com/wct

too funny! Just this morning I got out my notes/journaling about this project from Oct. last year. I haven't actually printed my photos or created a book yet but.... I have good intentions-all my memoribilia from that week AND all my notes. It was really fun to read detailed notes of an entire week. I was already planning to document next week...

Ali,
I took this class with you in 2005 and loved it so much. I did the album again two years later and would never have imagined the changes in my life that are now documented. Thank you for mentoring us through this great project. I feel like I have done something that really documented a part of my life for my kids.
Dianne P.

I was just thinking that I wanted to give this a go before the holidays start. My best friend and I thought it might be fun to do it together (900 miles apart)and post it on our blogs...hope we can pull it together!
Thanks for ALL of the inspiration Ali~you're my first *click* every morning!

Hi Ali,
Can you recommend a version of Adobe Photoshop that would be good for beginners? I'd love to use your 8 1/2 x 11 templates but I've never used Adobe. When looking on Adobe.com, I'm not sure which one I need for basic digital scrapbooking. Help!
Thanks,
Amy

Thanks for this post Ali! I can't wait to start on this project. Hubby got me a new camera for our anniversary so this sounds like a perfect way to give it a work out :) I'm also using an 8 1/2 x 11 American Crafts album....do you find that a week fills up the whole album, or could you fit in more than one week? I'm thinking about doing it seasonally.

I had made a note on my calendar to do this again this week. Have been enjoying gathering my info--can't wait to complete my pages and see what is different and what stayed the same from last year.

I did it last year, and was thinking it was about time to do it again. But I want to choose a different month, move it around a bit to keep things interesting.