enJOY it

It's week thirty-seven and I love this project.

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Week of : September 9 – September 15.

What happened this week? I sort of participated in "Week in the Life" this week. I took 6 photos each week day and shared them on Instagram. I was trying to capture different parts of our days. When it came time to pull the spread together though, I decided to just pick a favorite photo from each day and a few others to round out the spread. I did not include every photo – or even half – of what I took during the week.

Anything special in the spread? I used Cathy Zielske's 3×4 instagram card download again this week. One for each day. I love how they look in a row like that.

Techniques this week : I didn't use a 3×4 card for journaling this week and instead wrote on top of the 4×6 title card. I love that I was able to highlight some of what happened – most of which is represented in the photos. I have not been doing "this week" journaling in 2013 and sometimes I miss it.

Overall thoughts : Focus on the photos and it's always a win.

Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 11 to 3.

Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : All Elise. (For the ones I am in I used the TimerCam app.)

Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Kelly Purkey Project Life kit 3×4 card, Cathy Zielske's 3×4 instagram card download, Elise Joy stamp.

Tools used : Design A pocket pages, Fiskars corner rounder, Zig Millenium pen, Rotatrim paper trimmer, Office Depot date stamp, staz-on ink. All photos were printed at home on my HP Photosmart 2575 printer on Office Depot semi-gloss photo paper.

Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. I use photos, text and stuff to document our life weekly. You can see all the posts from 2012 here and 2013 here. Do you have a question about how I am tackling this project (including anything about the photos)? Check here.