Week In The Life : Bringing It All Together • The Photos, Part Two

Im so loving what your done with it Ali, looking forward to seeing the basketball pages....Love the photo of Anna in the bath its stunning and the photo of you reading the paper the next day is cool too.....i had taken photos last week but decied i didn't like what and how i had done it so going to try again next week lol....and then i will have all my supplies i want for it ready to go....thanks again for the inspiration

wow Ali, looks great! thank you so much for doing those tutorials! i made a few pages using the templates that i bought and also made up some of the 5 x 7 for the baseball protectors. i'm so excited to be able to do this. i'm still uploading as i create but am thrilled so far! have a super week, thanks again! susan

it's looking Abs. fab!

Beautiful! I so love this idea, I wasn't able to do it last week but I do plan on picking a week very soon and putting one together for my family. Such a treasure!

looks A*W*E*S*O*M*E ali...as always you inspire me.
xoxo

Hi Ali, I just wanted to say a personal heartfelt thankyou to you for the inspiration, encouragement and support to do this project. Although I've not yet completed my physical album, I have gained so much from this project already and my 5 yo daughter was onboard and suprisingly so into documenting our daily life. I know this album will be something we will treasure for years to come.
You are amazing!!! Thank you x

Happy May and Monday Ali,
I love all your pictures and the way you put it together. I agree that the collage pages looked good as is, I'm still cutting and trimming, cropping my photos so much work but it feels so good and satisfying. I keep re-reading the notes for that week and getting a little teary-eyed. So happy and thankful that I took this challenge with you and have such wonderful memories. I can't wait to do this again, not soon but not too long either. I think each time will be a different season will be a whole new outlook everytime then. I've been using my self-timer all over the place now and because of you I love to be in the photos now, love seeing myself in a whole new way playing and interacting with our family instead of being behind the camera. I can't thank you enough for that Ali. My album is almost done a few photos to crop and then the journaling to finish up and I will post it for you to see.
My potd for project life is my lilac bushes they finally bloomed and I put some in vases around the house and it smells wonderful in here. Reminds me of your lilac's in your Monday's photos. Hope you have a wonderful day and that everyone is healthy and feeling good. Thanks from the bottom of my heart!!

I'm so nervous about my pictures! I made the 5 x 7 (4 shots on one canvas) and I made photo collages on Elements and uploaded them all to Scrapbookpictures.com It's the first time in a long time I've used Photoshop and I'm so psychotic that I forgot to do something and my pictures are going to come back all yucky...
We shall see...
Tina J.

Oh your photos are beautiful together, you really are a great photographer. I received my prints through the post on Saturday. It's been a long time since I ordered prints rather than printing them at home and it felt wonderful to see my photos, especially the enlargements. I really must do that more often, I guess that's the thing with digital photography, I hardly ever get them printed. I've assembled my WITL album and just have the journaling and the front page to do. Did you follow the same design for the front page as the opening pages for each day?

Great album...I've loved doing this. My main problem with getting things done is I need to simplify and not worry about things being PERFECT...very hard for me. Quick question: How do you document pics you take on a daily basis if you don't do the life project? Like I said...I need to simplify!

This looks so great. To be clear, your turquoise and beige strips are digi papers or real adhered paper? (Either way they look great!)

I enjoyed seeing your album - makes me feel I'm on the right track LOL. I experimented with sending enlargements to Meijers as a poster print and cutting them apart b/c I didn't want the white border my printer leaves when printing 8.5 x 11 (and didn't want to wait for the mail). Results were not great, but I think I'm going to try some with borders, especially on the collage page, as I notice when I put them in the sleeves there is some overlap resulting in a border which doesn't look bad at all anyway. Didn't take many pictures day 1 and 2 so it is interesting working with what I have - embracing imperfection over here!

Just a thought, working on little embellished pieces for my baseball card protectors this week, if anyone has any examples provide links! Amping this aspect up due to lack of good pictures day 1 and 2 :-P

This just further cements in my mind what is so great about your style. I always think that for the most part, the way you document your lives will not look outdated nearly so much as many of the trendy, time/labor/stuff-intensive pages that are (and have been) popular online and in magazines. Simon and Anna will be able to share these with their grandkids and they will still look good! The patterned papers add a touch of simple beauty without detracting from the pictures or the story. Thank you for sharing your work with the rest of us and for providing a wonderful example to follow in this area!

Real pattern paper :).

Love this! It's so fun to see it all come together. I especially like the photos you picked to make the "big" ones for each day.

I am so very much a newbie!!
and I'm excited, nervous and loving this project very much!
I have a silly question: when you have your pictures printed do you print: glossy, matte, pro-matte or canvas???
Thanks in advance!
Jodi

Ali,
I just LOVE IT! fun real life pictures are the BEST!
I love this kind of documentatioN! I keep going back and looking at my WEEK IN THE LIFE albums they are my favorite! tara

Ali thank you for this inspiration. I hope to do a week in life project & and I hope soon :)

WOW.WOW.WOW!!!!!