Day In The Life™ 2016 | Mark Your Calendar For March 29th
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One of the projects I plan to continue this year is Day In The Life™.
One single day of in-depth documentation, Day In The Life™ is an awesome opportunity to record your right now - from the time you wake up until the time your head hits the pillow. What do you do, where do you go, who do you see, what's important to you, what are you eating, what are you saying, etc?
My completed Day In The Life™ projects have come together in a variety of different ways including monthly in Project Life®(did this for about six months in 2014), in minibooks, on traditional layouts, etc. For this next one I'm planning to use pocket pages and most likely include it as an insert in my Project Life® album.
This year I'm hoping to do quarterly Day In The Life™ projects - with the first date scheduled for Tuesday, March 29th (other dates throughout the year will be announced as we get closer to them).
What I love about Day In The Life™:
The invitation to use my "big" camera for the day. It's simply a fun photo project that encourages taking more photos than I usually do on any given day and I always end up with some photos I really love that tell the story of my life right now.
It tells the complete story of just one day. In Project Life® I'm most often aiming for an overview of the week so I don't capture all the details of every single day (that would be way too much). Day In The Life™ gives me the chance to capture more of a single day: routines, things said, how much time I spend doing this or that, etc.
There's nothing you need to sign up for - just mark your calendar and I'll post more ideas as we get closer to the actual day in March.
Check out my archive of past Day In The Life™ documentation here. I also have a Day In The Life™ Mini Class available as well if you are interested in learning more about how I've approached this project in the past and seeing the step-by-step for a simple 4x4 album.
DAY IN THE LIFE™ MINI KIT
To help you with your intentional storytelling for Day In The Life™ I've put together a small kit of supplies that is available now:
In addition to the 3x4 & 4x6 cards and the chipboard circles, this kit includes something that I'm super excited about - a rolling time stamp. This is a product I've wanted to find/offer/create for a very long time and I'm super excited to have it to use to document the times of day for this and other memory keeping projects:
Here's a short video overview of what's included in the Day In The Life™ Mini Kit:
We will be offering a digital version of this set with the cards + circles at the beginning of March.
WEEK IN THE LIFE™ | COMING SOON
I also want to let you know that the pre-order for the 2016 Week In The Life™ kit will be coming soon. I'll be documenting my week in May 2016. More details to come.


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LOVE this!! I do mostly digital, any chance you would make some digital files of the stamp?!? That would be awesome! So excited to participate.
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That stamp! Absolutely LOVE it!
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That stamp!! Ordered as sson as I read this post.
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Ali how will you document this day in the life? Eg what size album and will you be posting it on the blog? I love seeing what you do, I find I need that as inspiration to commit. Also will you bring back the stamp set with the large numbers in it and the AM and PM. I wish I had bought that one. Thanks!
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I'll be doing it in divided page protectors and adding it to PL this time (either multiple 6x8's or a cut down 12x12 or something along those lines). I'll be sharing the process here on my blog. I think we are re-ordering that stamp set - waiting on confirmation (it usually takes a couple months).
Thanks Ali and I meant to say thanks for making shipping so reasonable too!
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you had me at rolling time stamp...LOVE it!
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I can see this being a fav of mine too.
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I signed up for the kit - the stamp is so cute and I can see myself using it a lot.
Thanks for the sharing you do with us.
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Oh that stamp! Please tell me it will be available separately?
Looking forward to Day in the Life :)
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Hi - it might be sometime in the future but it won't be soon :).
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The day in the life kits that are in the shop with the albums says 2015 kits will there be a 2016 kit
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This is the first one for 2016 (the same one that is shown above): http://aliedwards.com/shop/day-in-the-life/day-in-the-life-kit. Are you thinking this is Week In The Life? Different project - those kits for 2016 will be available soon.
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Can't wait- I don't think there was a kit when I did it last! :) So excited... this will be my travel day home from Europe, so I'm excited to track my "day in the life" for more than 24 hours as I travel through different time zones! :D
Will there be any digital elements for this Day in the Life?
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I just bought the class I guess from the last time you did this project. Super excited! I am anxiously waiting for the kit as I see others are getting theirs...we are expecting snow tonight into tomorrow and Thurs but, the mailman better bring my kit! lol..I also ordered your pen, and a stamp set. your classes are going to cause me to work overtime...:)
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Hi Ali! Very excited for both Day in the Life and Week in the Life 2016 as well! So appreciate your style and the daily inspiration. Just wondering if the 3 x 4 Number Stamp will be restocked? I am kicking myself for not ordering it sooner and have stalked your site regularly checking to see if it is back in stock.
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I've followed along with Day & Week in the Life a few times, but this is the first time I've ordered a proper kit - so stoked about the rolling time stamp!! Pure genius Ali! As always, thanks for all that you do to inspire us :)
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How do people share their pages/creations with each other? I'm just getting back into scrapping and I'm not sure where to go to see the awesome pages/stories of others that are participating. (Thanks!)
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