Day In The Life 2013 | February Reminder
Tags:Here's your reminder that I'll be continuing with my monthly 2013 Day In The Life project next week on Thursday, February 28th.
I'm including this monthly documentation in with Project Life but it would also work great in a traditional album as well.
HELPFUL LINKS + ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Read about how this project got started here.
Download free Daily Sheets for documenting your day.Purchase my Day In The Life layered template set and 6x12 Day In The Life Photo Collage set and check out my free video tutorial on how to work with those templates in Photoshop Elements.
Check out my Day In The Life 2013 | January post. You can also check out how I incorporated it into my completed Week Five Project Life spread.
6x12 format not for you? Check out my 8.5x11 Day In The Life layered template that's great for incorporating a bunch of photos. See how I used that in 2012 here (simply combined the 8.5x11 photo collage template + the Daily Sheets with my hand-written documentation together in Project Life 2012 | Week Six).
I'll actually be traveling on this particular day next week and am looking forward to documenting a travel and work day.
Hope you'll consider participating!

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I love the 6x12 template, but where do you get them printed? I tried putting it on a 8 x 12 canvas and printing it at Costco, thinking I could trim the extra off of each, but they still cropped it where it was not the full 6x12.
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Hi Deiga - I print them here at home on an Epson R2000 printer. To get around the cropping at a service provider like that I would create my 6x12 page and when it was all done I'd move it onto a 8x12 canvas (file/new/8x12 at 300dpi) and then save that whole thing as a JPG. Is that what you did last time?
Persnickety Prints offers a 6x12 option, if you're interested in ordering prints online. (I am unaffiliated with them, just happy with the service I've received the few times I've used them.)
I use Costco too, but I put both 6x12 layouts on a 12x12 canvas and print at Costco. Works like a charm!
I printed at home. But since I only had photo paper in A4 format (i.e. not 12'' tall) I "cut" the layout in two halves (two pieces, 6x6 each) and printed each piece on A4 photo paper. Then I put them back into a 6x12 layout by adhering onto a 6x12 piece of cardstock.
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In January I did the day in the life with Ali and loved the end results. Since day in the life falls again on a week day (a work day for my family), I asked my hubby if he would do day in the life...I will make it easy for him by printing out the day sheet, and he could just jot down what he does throughout the day. He also agreed to take some pics. Using Ali's templates, we don't need too many pics, if he takes 5 pics throughout the day, that is actually more than enough. I think this will give another perspective instead of just being only my day in the life each month in 2013. Luckily, March day in the life falls on the weekend, so that will change things up a bit from our weekly day in the life. I also plan to have my daughter, who is away at college, do the April day in the life.
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So love that idea.
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Loved the font you used for "mark your calendar" would you mind sharing which one it is?
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That one is called Brannboll.
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What fonts did you use for your inmage? The "day in the life, mark your calendars"
Thanks!
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Bebas Neue and Brannboll.
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I love this idea! Thanks for sharing some inspiration.
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I need to do this! Last year I tried to do it on the 12th of each month, but it only happened two times! oh well! at least those two full days are documented! I love doing this though!
xoxo
tara
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Hmmm. I missed January, but I could do February. March will fall on my birthday/Easter, so that could be interesting...Thanks for the heads' up! I'm glad you're here to keep me honest;-)
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I'm going to do it on the 27th to document my birthday! Thanks for the inspiration! Now I'm heading over to Designer Digitals to get some cool stuff. And, thank for the freebie!
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I am going to try-I haven't started my project life yet and it's almost March! I have been taking pictures though.
Ali-i love how you reply to so many peoples comments and questions :)
It SNOWED here this week so I have some awesome pctures-we live in Tucson so it was a special event!
HUGS
Gretchen
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Thanks Gretchen - I try to respond.
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Ali, thanks for the intro. I'll have to allocate some proper time to this to get up to speed! Got plenty of great photos to choose from, that was the easy bit!
Zoe xxx
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I decided to jump the gun and did it last week, because I ended up with a ton of pictures on Friday since we had a really busy day. I was trying to figure out how to fit them all into my PL album then I thought -- why not do my "day in the life" today?! I ended up printing it 5.5x8.5 because I happened to have a page protector that size and I love how it turned out. Thanks, again, Ali for the continued inspiration!
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What a fabulous idea!! I don't know how I missed January but I will start with feb & do the whole year. I always do the Week in the Life and adore that. It'll be fun to see how everything changes from month to month:) I don't "do" project life because its just too much for me to tackle right now so I think this will be the next best thing:)
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hi ali - what font/s and size did you use for the documentation/text portion of the template, ie the times and notes. many thanks!
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You mentioned that you use to do a week in review and moved to the day in review. Do you have a weekly and monthly template available? I love the idea but can't keep up with a daily one.
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