Week in the Life 2022

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Might be interesting to compare it over years.

Looks like my theme will be what arrived in the mail each day….so far I am three from three for a package I’ve been waiting on for ages full of lots of goodies. This is especially the case as I forgot it was WITL week this week!!!! Also working almost every day means I’m not going to take a million photos of my computer at work as that’s all I’ll see until Friday.
And now my dd is sick, and it is her birthday tomorrow. This IS getting a place in the album as so far in the past year my ds was sick at Easter and Christmas and my ds got covid on her brothers birthday and sick on her birthday. WHAT ARE THE CHaNCES?!??!

Hi guys! I've been following along on this thread but never got around to popping in, whoops.

I am playing along this week, I think WITL is my favorite craft project with a start and an end (more than December Daily! I know... unpopular opinion lol). I agree with the comments about focusing on words + photos this week and not worrying about assembling the album... I couldn't imagine putting it together DURING the week, ah!

I did do an album set up ahead of time, but it was very simple and mostly to give myself an idea of how many photos I want per day and the specialty items I want to include. This is my 8th year doing this project and I think my favorite part is searching for specific things to collect photos of (I call it a scavenger hunt) and make that my focus because it's just such a fun process and makes the ordinary very exciting. For example, my album set up has a 3 1/2 inch circle day of the week on each transparent divider. I plan to photograph something every day that is circular that I can punch out to fit the back of that in my album. So far I have my plate of sushi for lunch Monday, my coffee grinder on Tuesday, and a round cracker with salami & cheese on Wednesday.

I also was thinking a lot about my approach this year because of where my life is... my daughter is 17 and is very independent/busy so I don't see her constantly like I did when she was small. Some days I barely see her at all, other days we will spend quality time together. I also found that I am spending a lot of time alone these days, I am an introvert and really like this, but it's just a very different season of life for me. So I decided to really embrace that for this project this year and am really focusing on myself... getting myself in the photo and telling the story of MY week. I am including photos of my family as they are in my life, but when we're not together I'm not hounding them for photos of their days like I have in the past (I was never super naggy about this, but I at least asked). I might include a couple photos of my daughter doing her own thing just because she has some interesting events this week, but primarily I'm just focusing on my life and what I am doing. That left extra space for me to focus on my scavenger hunt items and so far I'm loving it!

My process for this week is fairly simple... take photos throughout the day as I go about my life, including searching for my scavenger hunt items. I am taking my photos 99% with my iphone, but if I use my DSLR I will transfer them to my photo stream at the end of the day. Then, each evening before bed, I am scrolling through my photos and favoriting the ones I will probably want to use in my album. I am also checking off the items on my scavenger hunt list (and giving myself grace to skip some of them or make them up on a later day). Then I am typing up some notes from the day in the Day One app for my journaling.

Each morning I am using the Color Story app to edit all of my favorited photos from the day before and saving them to an album on my phone. Then I'm sharing a select few in my instagram stories.

When the week is over, I will copy my photos to my computer, crop and print them in PSE to the sizes I need, print out my journaling and assemble the album. I want to get at least a little crafty, but I will figure that out when I put the album together.

I'm enjoying the process of collecting my photos/stories each day and really love this project... both the documenting week and the assembly portion.

If you hit edit, it will generate a new list. :-)

Shannan has a new video up on Youtube and I thought her approach of putting together the first couple of pages was an interesting way to go about the project. She said she likes to do it that way to make sure she knows the type of photos to get and a good idea of how many photos she might need. She also talks about using pictures from different days, and even taking photos the week before she knew she wanted to use but might not have time to get (in this case, it was places around her office, so the exact day doesn't matter). I take that same approach of being flexible with my photos too since it take the pressure off and future me won't care exactly which day a photo is from, the goal is a snapshot of this particular week over all. I'm super nerdy and like to hear about how other people tackle projects like this, and if you are nerdy like me, you might check out her video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYDHOt2k2J4

I had the Simple Stories with 2 stacked 4x4 and a long 2x8 pocket on the side but never saw one with the vertical row of 2x2. I haven't seen these stocked by a retailer in some time although they still appear on the website. The SB.com PP quality is really good, however. 

I definitely see some holes in my days where I can fill in with some flatlays. It helped this year being satisfied using my phone for the majority of my pics instead of lugging my DSLR around. My big challenge is going to be Friday - how do I document the SCOTUS crap without it being too overwhelming?

I decided to go with the one word a day idea. One word, one photo, one story. Probably end up with a 2-page layout. Each word/story was significant for the day. I’m happy.

This week is my first week in the life. I listened to some podcasts about prepping and tips.. and I did what they all said NOT to do. Lol I took way too many pictures. And it’s only 7:20 pm. I’m done for today. I’ll catch night stuff/routines another time. Although I’m not really in love with a lot of the shots I got today so I guess I can look for other opportunities later in the week to redo. I’m already feeling overwhelmed thinking about editing today’s pictures down!

I will have to hide my camera from myself 😂 - or maybe I’ll be thankful when the Thursday slump comes everyone warned about and I’ll just want to be done and I can use some material from today then. Lol