Week in the Life 2022

I have trouble using them as well. How about the word of the day or a receipt, or a snippet of some kind?

I didn't buy any WITL products this year but I thought the stitched hearts would look nice to hold a small photo or two of the one thing you're extra grateful for each day. You can journal on the grid pattern of the pocket.

blemon Hope your medical procedure went well!

Whew. This project is turning out bigger than I planned. I had planned to put it at the end of my PL album (Jan-June) but now the album is too fat. I feel like I’m just cramming it all in there anyway and going with it. Lol If I do it next year I will either really have to pare down or cave and it will get its own album.

So far I have Wednesday completely done and part of Monday and Saturday. No rhyme or reason really to how I’m working on it. 😂 My week goes through today so I am still documenting, too, but basically done with that part. How’s it going for everyone else? Are you working on the project now or shelving it until later? Part of the reason I’m doing it now is that I didn’t take notes so I’m relying on memory (with the pictures to help jog it and I took lots of pics). So basically if I want it done with good journaling it needs to happen sooner than later.

So now I regret not getting those pocket hearts after seeing this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfj9_vDO0tT

I now have Wednesday and Saturday totally done. Tuesday is about half done. I thought I would work on it more this evening but it didn’t work out. Even though it’s turning out to be a lot I’d work, I’m glad I did it. I like the completed days more than I thought.

Guys I'm finally getting around to it!

Watching a Les Mis bootleg, drinking a margarita in the middle of the afternoon, and editing photos... is this that adulting thing people always talk about?

I literally just set up my pages! I've had zero motivation to scrapbook anything in the last month or so. But I still want to get this project done. I'm going to try to get my photos sorted out and printed which hopefully will inspire me to keep going.

Oh thanks for sharing that twist on a WITL. I like it! I incorporated my WITL in my regular album but it’s too many pages/too bulky and I wouldn’t chose to do it this way next year. I might do a take of of those version- maybe spreading into 2-3 layouts which would still save more space than what I did this year.

Months beginning on a Monday are my favorite. 🤩 It’s usually when I create grandiose exercise plans and fitness schedules. 😂

It's Tuesday afternoon and I thought I'd leave a quick update on how my WITL is going so far.

Monday focus: the canicule  |  Heatwave is not the precise translation for this term. Canicule refers specifically to too small a difference between the hot day temperatures and night temps. This means that in countries like mine where AC at home isn't widespread, we enter danger zone. The body doesn't get to cool off properly at night (we're back to having 31-32°C/88-90°F inside the apartment past midnight - it's uncomfortable), especially when it just lasts and lasts and lasts (yep, that means a spike in deaths). I documented how we just got out of 2 weeks of canicule last Wednesday and reentered canicule on Sunday night. Then I documented how this weather phenomenon is impacting our daily life: working out, daily schedule (stay up at least 2h later than usual to try and catch a little bit of a break from the heat), living in the dark with all shutters closed and even closing the windows at the warmest hours of the day, avoiding leaving home between 11AM and 5PM, etc. It was all about summer routines adapted to this weather.

Tuesday focus: family  |  I left super early this morning to go spend some time with my mother as I'm off but my SO isn't. I'm going to include a few stories based on her life to bring her into my WITL. I'm going to write about her broken rib (grabbed a photo of her special ribcage wrap thingy), her routine fostering a senior doggy (got a lot of super cute photos), the quick grocery haul we did together before lunch (I FOUND 2 POTS OF DIJON MUSTARD, PRAISE BE! - that's a whole story in itself since France is going through a massive Dijon mustard shortage since March-April so I can document about the reasons for this shortage as well), the cost of what we bought (reasons for the current inflation) and my commute to and from her home (cue the pandemic update since I'm still wearing FFP2/N95 masks on public transportation). Today was a day away that allowed to bring in a lot of current news updates on the war in Ukraine and the pandemic. It's now nearing 4PM and I think I'll contrast being away with the simplicity of home life tonight (we will probably stay in and chill with a movie or series).

I'm done! Whew! Super thrilled to be done with this project already.

Takeaways from this year's album:
-the 10x8 album from AE was pretty cool but it made the project more expensive with the big photos.
-I ordered 8x10 photos (prints were on sale) and the page protectors are about 1/4" bigger so the photos slide around. I'll have to go back and fix that.
-the album doesn't fit nice on my shelf with all my others. This I knew and figured that I'd be cool with it. Not sure now.
-working in batches was a good thing for me to finish things up. I put in all big photos, then went back and added smaller ones, then went back to journal, then back again to add embellishments from the kit
-I only got the main kit and the extra journal cards that had the 10x4 cards etc. I did not use any of the 4x6 or 3x4 pocket cards (none of the page protectors had pockets for 3x4) those will go into my PL stash.
-still like the project, I think that I prefer a 6x8 album
-I'm more motivated when this project comes up earlier in the calendar year. I get that I can pick any time but I enjoy the community feel.

I forced myself to work on this today. I just want to get it done. I’m happy to report 5/7 days are totally done and the last two are done (pictures and embellishments placed) except for the journaling! I plan to finish tomorrow. But you know how plans go… Lol.

Any one else make any progress lately?