WITL 2024 Share Thread

I'm going to live vicariously through y'all. I might do it in a few weeks, just in my Project Life album.
I bought the digital Daily scrapbook kit and a few of the shop items from the WITL collection.

I'm loving all the prep but I just don't have the capacity to do this right now.

I have ideas for how I would put it in my album -- one column per day. So I'd need to go through my page protectors and see what works. Maybe the one with squares. Or maybe 4X6s.

I am here to cheer you on!!

WHAT is here?!

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to do it or not. I may start doing it then fizzle out because I'm really good at that. If I do it I have some digitals from years past (2016 & 2021 I believe) and I think I have a couple of pieces here and there that I can use from random other kits & companies. I have a list of what I'd like to document and was planning on setting a timer to take a photo in the morning/afternoon/evening at the same time each day, I just need to figure out what times I want to capture.

I am in! I was originally planning to do a week in May instead but then that wasn’t great so yesterday I decided to just do next week with everyone as I had fun being part of it with the community the last two years. Yesterday I sort of put my album together - I’m using all the things from this year’s release as I really loved it. I’m going to try and do a little more planning today. But really I’m just going to document and photograph the heck out of the week and then do the bulk of putting the album together later.
My insta is scrapping_my_week but I don’t know how much, if any, WITL I will share there. I share my weekly PL pages but if anything, I’ll probably only share select pages of WITL. I might post if a couple of my last year’s pages to get in the spirit.

I'm in! I'll be using this year's kit but I haven't got anything ready. I just received my replacement album in the mail a couple of days ago. I'm just going to make an effort to take lots of photos throughout the week and I have asked my kids to send me as much of their photos from the week as they can. I'm hoping to have a section from their perspective, fingers crossed! It's going to be a different week because my kid's school flooded last week so they are being moved to a new location that we haven't been told about yet so it'll be an interesting snippet of our life!

Week in the life (WITL) - google those words with “Ali edwards” and you’ll find a few thousand YouTube videos about the project 🤗

Already started documenting this morning. So excited!!

By the way does anyone remember the website that can give you your local headlines?

I did finally find it this morning. Googling WITL came up with a radio station. Googling "WITL kit" brought up some AE images.

I documented last week since that was a "typical" week for me. I am using 2023 WITL and older kit pieces. I FOUND my WITL journal and used it daily-I will buy that again (hopefully in a sale). The journal won't be in my album, but I used it more for the words I recorded.

I did plan out my album. I liked Linda's scavenger hunt photo ideas. I had the WITL big pieces, the night/day/am/pm/morning/evening and the plastic phrases from WITL 2022 kit Around the House/Home Life/Loving/Documenting/Current Routine so I was actively trying to take a pic that would reflect and use one of these phrases.

My list looks like this:
Word of the Day (4x4 Vellum piece)
Outfit of the Day
Scavenger Hunt Pic
Screenshot of email headers (just 3 for the week, personal, work, and volunteer email accounts)
Weather screenshot
Screenshot of daily Wordle and Connection game results (will probably merge this all into one digital page)
Daily Fact/Feelings Card
Daily 4x6 Card WITL (2023 kit) that has 2x2 grid I printed small 2x2 pics on my Epson Picturemate PM 400 for this
Dow Jones closing number daily
I also scanned my monthly planner for April and will include that.

New ideas for me I've stitched, with embroidery floss, on 2 6X8 pictures so far. I will look thru my pics to see if any others would work for stitching.

I spent Thursday driving all over the state of Ohio and I think I will make a digital page of my route via Google maps.

I want to consider printing a few pics in black & white.

My husband's office space (our former garage) is currently being renovated, and I'm happy I took pics all week long, that will be a good progress photo page.

I use Persnickety Prints for print most pics. I make albums on PP labelled 3x4, 4x6 and 6x8 and upload as the week went on. I have Sunday thru Wednesday uploaded to PP already.

I find I don't take enough pictures. It's kind of hard to pictures at work in a hospital.

Oh! I will have one cool layout, I need to find a Now/Then card. I dispensed a Covid vaccine, with a brand name on it last week. I have a pic from 2020, with the first Covid vaccine, when it was still in the "experimental drug" phase.

OK - I love that someone else is combining weeks .  I was struggling to decide on last week or this week bc last week had a lot of special milestones that would be fun to capture, but then the week was so busy I struggled to document the mundane parts .  And, I retired April 1, but my youngest is a senior in HS, so NOTHING is normal or typical right now.

All to say,  I am planning to combine last week and this week into my WITL.  I actually wrote about it in my Reason Why this morning.  I reminded myself that what ever I do this week is great because it's my rules and my week.  I love how others capture so many details, repeat elements daily, etc, but I am likely to not remember to do all of that and that is OK!

I have this year's main and mini kits already organized into the album and then I added a couple of creative ideas I saw others do like a check list for each day. 

I have a daily list of potential photos on a digital sticky on my phone as a prompt, but may just use photos from last week as filler - we will see how this works.

lg I would love to see how you combine your weeks together as inspiration .

I also rarely complete this album.  I think this is year 4 or 5 and I rarely get it all done, but am still grateful for capturing something .

Anyway, mom thanks for this thread - going to bookmark for inspiration this week.

I'm in! Bought all the things from this year's release, I keep a very small stash of WITL products. I'll also be documenting this week, I like the energy that comes from other documenting, I'm kind of scared to try it a different week.

This isn't an ideal week but looking back, none of our spring weeks are ideal. 2 kids in same sport but different teams, gross Minnesota weather means all the games get rescheduled now. Games almost every night of the week, practices, competitive dance, plus a weekend trip to visit colleges. It's crazy, but that's just life right now.

My album is set up, but I'm ok deviating from it. This is the first year I'm figuring out a formula before documenting. I have notes and checklists of what to take. Doing my journaling in the notebook. Trying to really focus on the relationships in my life using the mini kit.

This will also be my first-year printing everything at home. I splurged on a really nice printer and have really been enjoying printing from home.

I also am sharing a page a day from my 2023 WITL on my Instagram - my last page of each day (except the first day where I shared the back of my title page).

http://instagram.com/p/C6EKmxpL5E3

I was a little worried after yesterday, I wasn’t sure how many photos I’d taken vs how many would be usable. But scrolling through, I have at least 25 that I like.
I’ve heard others say they take 80-100 everyday? That would give plenty of choices but I’ll be happy with what I captured.
And I know it’s not a competition, I just want to make sure I have enough material to work with.
I also didn’t do any extensive journaling last night but jotted down some quick thoughts. I might regret that, so I’ll make time today to write more.

I'm in and late to the party (my MO apparently). I forgot yesterday was the 22nd. I'm using the 6x8 album with both the main and the mini kit. I have a few of the embellishments but I'm most excited about using the days of the week transparencies.

I didn't take photos yesterday, but I was on a deep dive on YT looking at MS excercise videos so I figure a few screenshots and some journaling will work. So far today I've taken AM routine shots which include the addition of getting up in the morning to get the bird set before I leave for the day. As boring as any routine sounds I love thinking about it and capturing everything in a photo.