Week In The Life™ 2025 | Special Guest Jill Drangsholt

Hey friends! Today I'm excited to share with you a bit of my Week in the Life set up. I actually decided to jump right into my documenting after I set this up, so I am in the midst of my documenting week right now. I will share more of that soon, but for now let's look at my foundation pages!

Here's a walk through of how I have set up my album and how I plan to use some of the products:

And here are some photos of some of ways I am using the products:

I loved using the sticker sheet in the main set to customize some "ing" word cards for each day. Don't these stickers look so cute on the 4x6 cards from the paper pack? I was able to just use the words that are relevant for my life and for each particular day. For example, I only needed one "reading" sticker for the whole week, but I wanted to sprinkle the "watching" ones throughout, knowing I'd be watching multiple different things.

I decided that I wanted to fill the vellum pockets with circles instead of the scalloped ovals they came with, and I was very excited that the 2.5 inch circles on the Numbers Kit paper fit perfectly in the pockets! Since there are only 5 circles on that sheet, I used the digital to print out two more. I used a 2.5 inch circle punch to cut these out, but you can also hand cut them.

With the prompt of "life is currently measured by" on the circles, I decided they would be a great place to do some simple numbers based documenting with the Numbers Kit. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the prospect of the extra work to keep track of things during my week, so I looked for some simple things to count. Luckily, the plastic words in the kit not only lend themselves to some simple documeting, but they also fit perfectly on top of the circles! I glued mine down with permanent Scotch glue sticks and they seem to be holding really well. I also topped my circles with a washi tape faux ribbon. You can check out the video for how I created those.

Here is how I plan to use those plastic words:

• DAYS: how many days in the week my son is with me and how many he is with his dad

• BOOKS: how many books I have check out at the library and how many I have on hold

• MEALS: how many meals I cooked, how many nights of leftovers, and how many dinners eaten out

• CUPS: how many cups of tea, coffee, fizzy water I drink in a day

• HOURS: how many hours I worked that week

• SLEEPS: how many hours I typically sleep right now and what time I go to bed and wake up

• WALKS: how many walks to the river and walks to my son's bus stop

I decided to use the color blocked scalloped dividers for my main journaling spot with the front page news on the back. I cut mine to 5.5 inches wide so that there is a bit peeking out from the next page. I love how covering most of the page with a white sheet of journaling leaves a cute pop of scalloped color.

My title page is very similar to Ali's, except I used a paper from the Grit Story Kit.

On the back of my title page, I am including a simple page to identify the main characters in my documenting week along with our ages and photos. I used a paper from the Fun Storyteller Kit as my base paired with the paper numbers from the Numbers kit and stamped names using the new stencil alpha stamp. I will add photos after the documeting week is over.

I hope you enjoyed this peek into my setup! I also think I may add a few of the 2x2 page protectors, but I was waiting to see if I have enough photos for that. My goal is to get my album all put together by the end of the community documenting week so that I can share how it looks just as everyone is ready to put theirs together. See you back here soon!

You can follow along with my other crafting adventures on Instagram (@jill.drangsholt).