Week In The Life™ 2024 | Special Guest Jennie Rey

Hi friends, Jennie here with my plans for Week in the Life 2024. The community documenting week this year is the week of the 22nd of April which is kind of a crazy week for me. We will be traveling for a part of it and it includes a national holiday, so no ordinary week for sure but it will be a fun one! 

With a busy week like that I would like to be as prepped as possible so let me tell you a bit about my plans. 

To set myself up for success I decided on a few design elements and thought of a set of pages I will repeat for each day. 

Each day will begin with a page with some of my observations of the day, prompted by one of the paper labels from the main kit. I’ve used similar labels before for a December Daily Product Play lesson where I put them on the page on an angle and I decided to do the same here. I’ve created a template where I can add two photos with my journaling in between. Each day will end with a similar page with another label, this time the ‘day of the week was…’ label. My plan is to choose one word for the day and put it below my photo in a bold font. 

Same as Ali I decided to use the half circle page upside down and cover the front with a black and grey polka dot background I created in Photoshop using one of the journal cards from the Main Kit. I added the plastic ‘day of the week’ pieces on top with a label with the date on it (created using the digital paper labels and number stamp set). 

On the back I will add a photo and a paper label with one of the ING-words. I created a template for the photo so I can add the label in the same angle as the other pages. 

I will include 2 page protectors per day: a 2x2’s one with the 2x2’s ‘you, me & us’ cards and a page protector with 4 3x4 pockets. I’ve stamped the day of the weeks on the vellum frame cards and embossed them with gold embossing powder and cut the ‘highs & lows’ card in half to be able to add them to the 3x4 pockets. I also created a template to be able to add 2 photos to one 3x4 pocket with a label added on top on an angle. 

If I have enough photos I will add 2 big photos of 5x8,25 inches back to back, with one of the ‘days of the week’ journal cards as a tab. I would like to add one big photo of the two of us and add one of the pleather ampersands and tell a story of something we are doing the same or differently. On the other big photo I am planning to add a few of the plastic and chipboard banners. 

I also would like to use the vellum circle pages and use them as a place to collect photos, ephemera and embellishments of the whole week of that specific color. 

To keep track of the photos/journaling/other I will need per day I’ve created a list:

• 2 horizontal photos of 3,5x7 inches (for the first page)
• 1 vertical photo of 4x6 inches (for the half circle)
• 1 square photo of 7x7 inches (for the last page) 
• 4 3x4 photos (or 3 3x4 photos and 2 2,25x3 photos) (for the 3x4’s page protector)
• 3 photos of breakfast/lunch/dinner of 2,25 x 1,75 (for the morning/afternoon/evening 3x8 card)
• 1 photo of the weather (for the back of the 3x8 card)
• Max 13 2x2 photos (for the 2x2’s page protector)
• 2 vertical photos of 5x8,25 inches (back to back – you & me)
• Max 12 1,5x1,5 photos (for the vellum circle pages)

For my journaling I would like to have:

• observations of the day 
• a high & a low one 
• word for the day

And I would like to collect photos, ephemera and embellishments in the colors: red, orange, black, yellow, green, blue and pink.

To be as prepped as possible I also created my cover page with some recent photos of the six of us.

You can see more of my preparations and how I created my cover page in the video below.

Love this project so much! Hope you all have fun documenting a week in your life, I am so glad we are doing this together!

Jennie has graciously shared a few of her templates as a free download. Find them here. 

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