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week in the life : in the book.

Week1 Detail1

I was NOT super active camera wise last week. Really only Wednesday, did I make a major effort to take a bunch of photos. But that's the beauty of my plan to only include seven photos a day. My favorites got in and I threw the pressure out the window. Below are the full pages.

Weeksunmon
Weektuesweds
Weekthursfri
Weeksat

I printed and saved and documented throughout the week and for that I am grateful. I loved the baseball card pocket pages. LOVED them. Perfect size for little snapshots. Will be remembering that for next year. Love all the color. Love the square corners. Love the result of each page and each spread.

Week7 Detail5

The only text other than some bits and pieces on the photos was the "day in the life" journaling I blogged last week. I printed it on a piece of 5×11 paper and trimmed an 8.5×11 page protector down to fit it. I didn't have enough text to fill both sides of the page so I slipped a piece of American Crafts paper on the back.

Week2
Week6

Instead of using photos from this week as bookends for "week in the life," I picked ones from our photoshoot in mid-April.

Week3 Week5

One was cropped up from a big photo and the other side holds just 4×6 and 3×4 snap shots. Good enough. I am planning on making some sort of full album of just those photos, but I also wanted some of my favorites in this Project Life album. I am happy with the result.

Detail2

Some of the pockets got a business card or an embellishment to talk more about the photo.

Detail4

Others days were kept pretty simple – just photos.

This week in the life section is actually THE END of volume one of my Project Life album. I decided to break the year into three albums (Jan-Apr, May-Aug & Sep-Dec). Size wise, it's going to work out just about right, I think. To make things official, I stuck an envelope page into the back of the album (into it went a few letters from P I hadn't put anywhere else and our anniversary cards).

Label

I also stamped & stickered a label for the spine.

I am still working on the end page of this first 2012 album (it's SO much harder than a title page!) but I'll share that when I'm done as well as my title page for 2012, volume II.

Embellishments used in these pages came from Elle's Studio, Banana Fish Studio & Ormolu.

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37 responses to “week in the life : in the book.”

  1. Vera Avatar
    Vera

    What a great way to close the first book for the year, with WITL. Love your approach to it. I think this is something that I may be able to adapt and might just work for me. I am really enjoying for Project Life posts. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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  2. Pink Ronnie Avatar
    Pink Ronnie

    Looks amazing Elise. I love that you limited yourself to seven photos a day. Awesome idea. The layout is just perfect too! I still can’t thank you enough for introducing me to PL. I’ve kept on top of the last four weeks, and I seriously love doing it. And it doesn’t take all that much time either, once a workflow is established….
    Ronnie xo
    p.s. Also admire your punctuality in posting early every morning! I love logging on at 10pm Sydney time and being able to read your new posts every night! 🙂

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  3. Thinkie Avatar
    Thinkie

    My albums are a mixture of classic photo-album, scrapbookalbum, journal and project life. Since here in the Netherlands 4-ring binders (and therefor 4-hole page protectors) are standard and I like to mix things up and use my (4-)holepunch to make anything flat into a page, and because of my limited budget, I don’t use project life. I do love the mixture of smaller and larger pockets in project life though, baseball card pocket pages are my favorite way of getting that feel, I use them a lot for photo’s, atc’s, little journallingcards and tidbits. Thanks for some inspiration for using them!

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  4. Kelli Avatar
    Kelli

    love it. I may try this soon, I really like how you simplified it 🙂

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  5. Jessi Avatar
    Jessi

    I love how it turned out! I’m still trying to decide how to incorporate week in the life into my PL album. I’m sure something will come to me. I always love seeing your spreads for ideas and inspiration. You are waaaaay more creative than I am 🙂

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  6. katrina Avatar
    katrina

    this is great! i closed volume one this week, also – and did an infographic for my ending page. i’ll post it tomorrow (although it’s on instagram now – @katrinasimeck).

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  7. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    Looks great and fits in perfectly….thanks for sharing Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia

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  8. Sherry Avatar
    Sherry

    Love the large numbers you used for your “week in the life” pages. LOVE them. I use baseball card protector pages for my version of Project Life and LOVE it. It’s the perfect size and has worked out really well with my album.

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  9. Janet K Avatar
    Janet K

    Love how you did your Week..it looks fantastic! I have used baseball card pages before….I used them as a monthly roundup page.

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  10. jodi Avatar
    jodi

    it looks so great! your week looks so bright & colorful.
    i saw this ending page on instagram over the weekend. i think it’s a great way to mark the end of one binder.
    http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/detail/180588335474039978_24910150

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  11. Julia K. Avatar
    Julia K.

    What do you think, how many albums will you have after one year PL?

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  12. Jessica at Kids Napping? I'm Scrapping! Avatar
    Jessica at Kids Napping? I’m Scrapping!

    Fabulous layouts. I love that you recycled the numbers from your calendar.

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  13. eek! Avatar
    eek!

    I love that you let go of pressure to take photos all day everyday. That’s what stressed me out this time around. If I choose to do WITL again, I am going your route!

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  14. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    I will have three. Months are broken down at the bottom of the post.

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  15. gabby Avatar
    gabby

    this is amazing, elise!
    i can’t wait to see how you do the first page of your second album– i’m having that dilemma right now, too, but i know you’ll come up with something brilliant.
    xoxo.

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  16. Sarah p Avatar
    Sarah p

    I love your WITL pages! Your blog is fun to read – creative and realistic!

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  17. Linn Avatar
    Linn

    I agree, creative and realistic, yet ambitious! These Project Life posts are really nudging me to start scrap booking!

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  18. Em Avatar
    Em

    This was my first time doing Week in the Life and I did it without knowing what the end product would be like (included in PL, an album of its own, etc.) I still don’t know actually so I’m kinda counting on veterans like yourself 😉 to give me inspiration.
    Anyway. It’s working. I really like how simple your WitL turned out to be. Just pictures and a long journaler. Considering my days were pretty much the same that idea could work for me as well.
    So thanks for sharing! 🙂

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  19. beth Avatar
    beth

    I just love your style of documenting things. it makes me want to try something like this so bad.

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  20. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    like everyone else, i really love how simply you made a week in the life and ‘no pressure’ to take hundreds of photos in one day!

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  21. jennie Avatar
    jennie

    love your approach, and seeing how you merged pl and witl. i’m going to throw a day in the life baseball card page protector insert in mine…thanks for the idea. 🙂

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  22. Laura A in OR Avatar
    Laura A in OR

    Thanks, Elise! This was a fabulous take on WITL. I chose not to participate this year because of PL, but I love your hybrid. So glad Ali introduced us to you a couple of weeks ago, with your everyday pics post…have subscribed to your blog and enjoyed every post since! Thanks for the inspiration.

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  23. Kam Avatar
    Kam

    I enjoy all of your posts, but I can’t help but drop whatever I’m doing and sit down to read your Project Life posts. Sometimes it is a bit lonely in the PL world if you don’t have children, so I’m thrilled that I can get kid-less inspiration from your project…at least for now 😉

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  24. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    🙂

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  25. cinback Avatar
    cinback

    This is brilliant! I love how you just incorporated WITL right into your PL album. No fuss, no extra stress. Gonna remember this for next time…

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  26. Emily Todd Avatar
    Emily Todd

    New to the blog and love it already! I really like your approach with the Project Life project and I am tempted to try my hand at it as well.

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  27. Design Editor Avatar
    Design Editor

    Simply fabulous as usual! Love your baseball card approach and the bold b&w dates. I’m integrating WIL in PL as well. One stop memory bank!

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  28. Whitney Avatar
    Whitney

    Did you take all your photos “up & down”/”portrait layout” throughout the week or did you just crop them to size? Did you keep that in mind while shooting your photos throughout the week? I have so many landscape photos and am way to type A to have a landscape photo going up & down 🙂

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  29. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    I took a lot portrait style because I knew the pockets were vertical. I also cropped some. 🙂

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  30. J3SS1C4 Avatar
    J3SS1C4

    I did the same with my project life… I usually take horizontal pics, but since I’m using vertical dividers, I decided to experiment and try some more vertical shots. I’ll crop some of the horizontal ones down though as well.

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  31. christine Avatar
    christine

    What a fantastic job! Love your PL album. I find it difficult sometimes not to do repeats but I’m working on it besides I enjoy routine.
    My question is how did you crop your large photo and what type of printer do you use to print out your pictures? I’m debating as to purchase a small printer just for this project and photos.
    Christine

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  32. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    thanks. I have an HP Photosmart 2575 and I shared a video in this post with the printing method for large photos (http://eliseblaha.typepad.com/golden/2012/04/project-life-week-13.html)

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  33. Skye Avatar
    Skye

    Love, love, love the way you did the pockets, limited number of photos, and the one long piece of journaling. I’ve always been intimidated by trying to capture a detailed week in the life, and I love how you made yours simple and not daunting, but still captured the day-to-day moments of your week! It looks great in your PL album, too.

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  34. Daphna Avatar
    Daphna

    I just wanted to thank you. Thanks to you I joined this project, and now I have a wonderful souvenir of “just another week” in my life.
    I only uploaded the pics, did not print them, but I still love the result.
    Thank you, it came in great timing. Thanks so much.

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  35. Elisabeth Avatar
    Elisabeth

    You inspire me 🙂
    Have a great day!

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  36. Chrystina Avatar
    Chrystina

    I really like the idea of seven pictures a day. It’s a manageable number, but enough to tell a story.

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  37. CeciMami Avatar
    CeciMami

    Love how your WITL project turned out! The numbers for the dates are so bold and graphic…loving that. I did something similar with my beginning and ending pages, check it out if you’d like! 🙂

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