Starting To Plan For Week In The Life

Ali - I am super excited! I've finally decided to commit and do the week in a life project with you!! It'll be my first time. :)
Question, I'm not a digi scraper at all. I don't even have Photoshop. I have a MAC, but only use picasa to edit my pics. Will you have templates similar to "The Story of Today" that I can just print out and use straight from my printer?
Also, why did you decide to use 8.5X11 pages? I also usually scrap 12X12 and am not sure what I want to do for this project.
Thanks!!!

Such a great idea, and thanks for the push to get it going.

Hi Ali
I am joining in again for the thrid year running. I keep a daily journal so choosing what I will record for the whole week is a bit of a challenge for me to make it stand out from the rest of my journal. Some things I do record are
- the puzzles that I complete - sudako or crosswords,
- any comics or pictures I find in the papers that make me smile,
- word of the day and it's meaning from dictionary.com,
- the major news item on Sunrise (our morning talk show),
- a recipe from one of the meals I cook through the week
- parts of any phone conversations that I have
- any small pictures of sketches that I draw
- a snippet from my uni work
Just to name a few things that I will be recording.
Look forward to seeing the different pages created.
Emma

Got my album today and a pack of page protectors. Love that idea. I am very excited!!! Challenges are a big help to me to get something done...a finite commitment. :D

Molly, I'm just going to add the pages to my regular Everyday album -- the album where I keep all my layouts that are about everyday things and routines we do.

Every day Izzy and I make sure to spend some concentrated one-on-one time with each other. Once in a while it's just to sit and talk at the end of the day. Often we leave the oldest in charge after dinner so we can go get a drink together. Or he'll play guitar while I sing along. Sometimes we bake or play games or read to each other. I'm excited to give those together times their own little place in my pages so I have a document of each of them.
I also take a daily Me-time where I write or do something artistic. I plan to give my Me-time a daily place, too.

Every night at supper we all go around the table and tell our high and low of the day.
Our youngest is 3 and she even participates.
So one of the things I want to document is each person's high and low every day.

Ali - how are you taking the shots of you during your week? Checked out your previous posts, and wondered if you have a helper, or are you just using a timer? Thanks!

I have to admit, I wasn't going to participate. It is a funny time with finals right around the corner, etc. Then reading this post- it dawned on me! I graduate in May, after 7yrs I FINALLY graduate, what better way to document this last chapter? So, long story short- I'm in!

I'm going to a weekend crop April 23-24. I've never taken photos at a crop before. Now I have to! We're also moving a piano that weekend. The rest of the week is "mundane," but that's the attraction to doing this project. I'll be paying special attention to my health each day. I've got lupus and never know which are going to be my good and which my bad days. This project will help push me to open up about my illness.

That is a great opportunity. I have almost 4 weeks until our first child will be with us! I will start documenting the last weeks of pregnancy, and then her first year or so. I wanted to take one photo a week to see her grow anyways, why not document her whole growing process. EXCITED!!! Thank you for the push!
And: Spring cleaning? My husband is away for work during the week. I usually clean the house while he is away, so he can come home to a nice organized home and enjoy us for the weekend. But spring cleaning is a bit more intense! I want to clean the whole house from top to bottom. Windows, etc! As long as I still can! I am totally motivated! Give me a broom and I´ll sweep off! :-)
Have a great day.

I think this must have been a sign, LOL! I have to take my Mom to MDAnderson for her first series of treatments there for the week, so it will be just us two girlz! How amazing will it be to capture all the things that will be happening as we go through these next steps to share with family that can not be there. I am prepping an album this week for easy travel, but wonder if it won't turn into a book...ACK! I hope there will be ideas on how to stash or use all those papers/reciepts we manage to pick up daily too. We will turn this bad life experience into good!

Love that album. Maybe I'll have to get one for myself....

okay i have been back and forth on this all since you first mentioned it a few months back. I have decided to do it. i hope i can keep up and i am starting tomorrow. Wed thur Tuesday. so here goes and wish me luck!

maybe i will give this a go next week...like you said there is never the "perfect time."
A*L*I...what page are you featured in the real simple april issue? i am having trouble finding you.
thanks!
patty

Dear Ali,
I love your articles and miss them each month in CK, I have to be content with looking at old issues. I have ordered your mini album book but am having trouble locating your Life Artist book. Even if our styles are nothing alike, our thinking definately is. thanks for all the inspiration, hope to meet you one day!
Kota
Centurion
South Africa

This year will be my first time joining in and I really want to focus on me, me, me... okay, a bit too much? I just like the idea of capturing a week in the life and doing this every year, I can see the differences and progressions...that's the idea anyway! One thing I always have trouble with is providing enough journaling space...or too much. It's hard to estimate what you might have to say per day, because I want to use similar layout for each day. Just using A4 papers in half with pockets to keep things and to work on top of!

Ali:
This year your project begins on the the last leg of our 6 week trip so I will not be able to attempt it. I have been keeping a week-by-week chronicle of our trip (no doubt inspired by past WITL projects) that I plan to make into an album once I'm home. I'll be reading along and looking forward to the inspiration.
Denise

I'm actually going to be on vacation next week, as it is spring break for our school district and we're going to travel. It's always fun to "play along" and be part of a community for things like this, even if I'm documenting an out-of-the-ordinary week instead of an ordinary one. Do you have any digital products that are more geared toward vacations?

Elisa, if it makes you feel better, I am still putting together my December Daily album, in between making cards and the rest of my life. :-) I have all my materials, took lots of pictures and did a lot of journaling in December, so it's really just a matter of getting the rest of the pictures printed up and putting the pages together. Maybe by Christmas 2010? ha, ha I chose to do a 12 x 12 album instead of a mini-book -- I can really see the wisdom of doing something smaller this year.