Day In The Life | 2013 Monthly Project

For 2013 I'm planning to do a Day In The Life each month as an additional insert to my Project Life album.

I'm hoping to include a little more in-depth documentation - capturing the nitty gritty flow of my/our day. I also know from experience that the process of capturing a specific point in time always challenges me to capture things I've been missing in my regular photo-taking routines.

Last year I did a Day In The Life in February. Here's the posts that went along with that project:


This year I've designed a set of 6x12 Day In The Life layered templates that I can use as inserts in Project Life. They include space for a photo plus areas for journaling morning, afternoon, evening and gratitude. Next week I'll share a layered template tutorial for working with these new 6x12 layered templates.

My plan is to do my Day In The Life the last week of each month, most likely on the last day.

I'll be documenting my first monthly day on Thursday, January 31 using a Daily Sheet for documentation. You can download a free set of Daily Sheets (originally designed for Week In The Life but you can choose to just print one page) here.

I'll be using the Project Life 6x12 Page Protectors to include this content in my Project Life album.

I've also designed a 6x12 Photo Collage Template set to go along with the Day In The Life layered templates. They can be used in conjunction or on their own for anytime you want to add a 6x12. You can also combine the two together to create a 12x12 layout. I'll be using these as the back page of the 6x12 insert to include photos I take throughout the day.

Like the idea of 6x12 layered templates? You can also check out my 6x12 Words And Photos Layered Templates and see how I used them in Project Life here.

WEEK IN THE LIFE 2013 | And in case you are wondering I do currently plan to embark on a Week In The Life project again this year as well. Most likely this will happen in the fall.

Consider yourself invited! I'll post a reminder each month here on my site and via Facebook and Twitter.

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  1. Mrs. b says…
    02/01/2013

    Love this! I recorded yesterday (can't believe it's already February now!) and now purchased the layered templates from Designer Digitals. However, when I open it in CS5 I get a warning: "Some text layers are containing fonts that are missing. These layers will need to have the missing fonts replaced before they can be used for vector based output". When looking further there are warning sign "labels" on almost all layers. If I interpret this correctly I don't seem to have the "BebasNeue" font. I googled this and it looks to be a free font, so I will try to download this to see if the template works.
    But just sending this question - is this how I should do to get it to work? (Anyone else having the same problem?)

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    1. Mrs. b says…
      02/03/2013

      Finally I had time to try this out. Yes - after downloading and installing the "BebasNeue" font it worked!

    2. Ali says…
      02/03/2013

      Glad you guys were able to figure it out. Yes - Bebas is a free font that you need to download if you want to use that same font (you could also substitute it with something else too). Having it that way allows you more flexibility for those that might want it. And yes - garamond is the journaling font.

    3. Megan @ The Nerd Nest says…
      02/03/2013

      I think I figured it out: Garamond!

    4. Megan @ The Nerd Nest says…
      02/03/2013

      I am missing the other font, but because it is mixed with BebasNeue, my computer is just telling me that they layer contains fonts that are missing, but does not tell me what the missing font is. The font I'm looking for is the body text font. Does anyone know the name of that font?

    5. Megan @ The Nerd Nest says…
      02/04/2013

      Thanks, Ali! I hadn't heard of Bebas previously, and I'm LOVING it. It's such a great title font. I love that it's vertically justified. I can see myself using it on a lot of projects in the future! Awesome added bonus to the template :)

  2. 2013 project life: week 4 « heathyr hintz says…
    02/02/2013

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  3. libbywilko says…
    02/03/2013

    Oh I missed it... Maybe I can start it in February instead :-) love the idea of doing it monthly.

    Reply 1 Reply
    1. Karidan says…
      02/05/2013

      Me too Libby... I wish I would have thought of this.. but I guess I will do it Feb 28th!

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  8. a day in the life: january 31, 2013 — sarah learns says…
    02/11/2013

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    02/24/2013

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    [...] Read about how this project got started here. [...]

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