Week In The Life 2011 | Bringing It All Together (with Video Overview)

Thanks so much for this, Ali. Beautiful work, as always, and so inspiring! =)

Ali, your practical approach, with just the right amount of creativity always brings me back to earth. I started this and had a stutter in the middle of the week where I felt overwhelmed, but kept plodding through. Now I'm thinking about a do-over, putting less pressure on myself (should have listened to you in the first place!!!). This did get me back into picture taking mode, as I'd slipped a bit in Project Life....at the very least I have a plethora of pictures I can use there - they can be sprinkled in around the last few months since they're just snapshots of our life right now. One way or the other, I'll still have a good story about a week in our life.

Wow! That came out really nice and it looks so easy. Great job!

Love this!
I have a question about the left side pages...the one with the large photo. Do you print that photo at home on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet or is there somewhere that will print this size for you? Or is the photo matted on white cardstock? I like the clean lines of the white border.

Hi, Ali!

Thanks so much for sharing your WITL album. I have a couple of questions about your completed album:

1. On your left-hand pages, with the large photos -- did you scan in your daily sheets & use those as a background? I can see the times to the left of the photo, just not sure what you did here.

2. On your right hand pages, where you put your pictures . . . I noticed you "journaled" on your photos, along with the time. Are these just from the daily sheets, as well, or just a description of the photo in your own words?

Thanks, again!!

Thanks for sharing your album and the video about your thoughts and your process! I decided to use your templates from last year and had a great time putting the album together! Like you mentioned in the video, seeing the week play out definitely brought to mind things that I'd love to change or improve on in my life! Thanks again for allowing us to join you in this project!

I have done the 'week in the life of' book for a few years now and am wanting to do it again this year... although I'm doing the daily Becky Higgin's too so I'm wanting to simplify the process... is there any way you could email me the daily sheets that you have used? I tried to look on your blog but I couldnt' find the actual downloadable documents that you used. Please help me :) By the way.. LOVE how your books always turn out! GREAT job!

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absolutely amazing and so inspiring. i will put less pressure on myself and just get it done in the next couple weeks. thanks for using the smile tag!

Thank you Ali for the inspiration to capture life. Just so wonderful to participate and have my week captured and pages done. Your pages are awesome and so life-ful! I am a digital scrapbooker and do miss the part about adding bits and pieces of notes, receipts, etc to my pages. I know we can scan them in, but would love to see how you might do it beautifully if you do it digitally next year. Thank you!!

Hi Ali,
thank you so much for the inspirations! I was browsing on your website to learn more about making albums/memory books. I am a card-maker & currently doing a project of making at least 1 card/papercraft product for 365 days. I would like to start making (long, overdue) albums for my 2 boys. Again, thank you for sharing the techniques & inspirations; especially for advising us to make it easy & not to make the projects taken over our lives! :)

It's just lovely Ali!

My Mom and I each did a December Daily album with you & the community last year. I'm hoping we will do this together each December. We each take our own photos and journaling. I printed as much as possible for the week of Christmas, and each morning that week we put our albums together, working a little bit each morning.

No takers in my fam for WITL, so that I did alone, still love the finished result!

Ali your book is awesome. This was my first time doing the WITL and I really enjoyed it. Even though my kids are grown and my life is fairly "boring, this helped me see how much can transpire in a week! Even though my album is pretty much like all the other ones I make (the old fashion way) I think it will be fun just to look back at it. I know you said you thought summer was a little harder time to do this but I bet your family will appreciate being able to recall life in all the seasons. Thanks again for all your inspiration.

Ali, you inspire me to tell the stories of the everyday and that has completely changed the way I experience the little things in life :)

a very mundane question: which font/size you used for the time and comment that you put on the pictures? I just love the way it looks

Thanks!

I'm also wondering about your stamp storage system - is it just plastic sheets and paper stapled together? It looks like it would work well.

Dear Ali,

you are such an inspiration and this encourages me so much to find my own voice. thank you for your amazing work, i love it so much.

would like to know where those little shipping tags from this year's album are from?

thank you! have a beautiful sunday.

Ali thank you so much for this project. This is my second year doing this and I really enjoy it.

Hi Ali,

I think that this is a WONDERFUL idea and am going to give this a go - can't wait!!! However, I can't seem to open the 'daily sheets' pdf... Is this still available to use?

And thank you ever so much for all your wonderful tips and the amazing inspiration you offer; I am overwhelmed by my creative juices at the moment LOL ;-)

Cheers,
Kylie

This is a delight to look at ... and I love the way you've put in the journalling pages even if they're not full. That's the way life goes, sometimes! This will be so wonderful to look back on. I've been pondering photo books too but my internal jury is still out ...

Ali, I am always filled with gratitude for your openess and ability to share and inspire with your projects. Yet again I am left smiling watching your vimeo recording. Listening to your reflection on the products used and end result is awesome.