Week In The Life | Share The Love
Hey guys - plans for 2011's Week In The Life project are underway. It's just about a month away from the start - July 25th through July 31st.
I'm working on new digital layered template sets (both 8.5x11 and 12x12) and I'm thinking about what I want my focus to be this year. The focus is always words + photos + a bit of stuff from life, but I think I might want to try to do even more writing this year.
Don't let the fact that I just wrote MORE WRITING scare you off. That's what I want to do...there's so many different ways to approach this project and whatever way you decide to do it will be the right way for you at this point in time.
This project can be done digitally or with all traditional supplies or with a mix of both. For the last few years I've been doing a mix of both and that's what I'll be doing again this year in an 8.5 x 11 format. I'll be sharing tutorials and such as we get closer - don't worry about any of that right now.
For now, just get it on your calendar and maybe start thinking about whether there's something different you'd like to incorporate this time if you're a veteran of the project.
If you're new to Week In The Life I highly recommend checking out all that I've written about it in the past few years. Check out the main page here.
As I prepare I wanted to invite you to share about the project on your blogs. Below you'll find new banners for 2011. Please link to http://aliedwards.com/2010/01/week-in-the-life.html (it's already included in the code listed below):
PLEASE NOTE | If you are having a problem posting the banner to your site, try manually entering the code vs. copying and pasting. There seems to be an issue with the quote marks and how they appear here.
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I will be joining this year! This will be my second time participating. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!!
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I came across WITL too late last year to do it "in real time" but did do it instead last July as our "Summer" version. Then, I did it again this past May as our "Spring/School" version since my daughter was just finishing up 8th grade and getting ready to go to high school. I enjoyed doing WITL even more so the second time around because I knew what to do and focused less on the mechanics (don't forget the camera...save the ephemera...write down our activites and feelings, etc.) and more on just having fun documenting our daily details.
I don't plan to actually DO WITL in July but will do it in the Fall, probably in October so that it will include her first high school activities and experiences. But, I will follow along in July though because I so Ali's inspiration and gentle encouragement. Even if you only snap 2 or 3 photos a day and add a couple sentences of journaling each day, it's an easy and fun way to scrapbook the little things our lives are made up of. I say, if you can't do it the exact week that Ali does it, choose a week that works for you and follow along on her blog in the meantime for ideas and inspiration.
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I did Week In the Life last year. I like the idea of documenting summer but at our house life isn't that much different (camp instead of school). We're on vacation the week befor you start, so I'm thinking to start mid-week and include a few days of vacation as well as a few days of normal life.
Question - if I start a few days early will I miss anything new or important?
Nope :) - you won't miss anything. If you look back on past years, during the week of the project I just share my words and photos each day (so they begin on Tuesday).
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Can't wait to do WIL again! I did it for the first time last year and it was a lot of work, but so worth it as I look back now at how much our lives have changed in just a year. One suggestion--since so many of us like using the baseball card type page protectors, some .pdf files with phrases or journaling prompts on them would be great... I'm thinking of something along the lines of Project Life journaling cards, but with an "Ali" twist!
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This will be my second year and loved participating last year. Looking forward to July and thanks for this great project.
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New ones, I should add...I used the ones from last year (the smaller ones and the 4x6) and would like to include them again this year.
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Hi Ali
I participated last year and I can't wait to begin next month ...
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[...] *these bangles featured by Delighted Momma… *And maybe a tote bag like the this one from Sweet Paul. *Socumenting a week in our lives just for us. For inspiration and info on how to do this, there’s no better source than Ali Edwards. [...]
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I think the issue with the quotes might be because they both appear to be "opening" quotes so the code doesn't know where to BEGIN the command - just where to END it. I changed them before posting and it worked great.
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@Ali -- I picked up the badge to stick on my blog, but I'd *REALLY* like to have hi-res versions to use on my digital scrapbook pages. Any chance you'd offer those?
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I've always wanted to do this but never had the guts (or equipment) to! I cannot be more excited to say that this year I am joining this project too!!!
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Finally got the gadget to work with Blogger!!! Yes!!! Happy WITL'er!!
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[...] I want to share my Week In The Life project that I did along with WITL founder and leader, Ali Edwards. For those unfamiliar with this project, you document everything you do over the course of a week. [...]
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