Week In The Life 2011 | Bringing It All Together (with Video Overview)

dude. killer wrap up and post. and that last page is perfect for the end. love it.

Fab. You are the queen! Love the camera overlays and the stapled elements. Thanks for the inspiration to do this for the first time. Just love it. Hoping to have my finished album posted over the weekend!

Another winner, Ali! Just awesome! Thanks for sharing :)

This looks fantastic, love all the little embellishments

Wow! I'm still completing my album. I can only hope it turns out 1/2 as nice as yours!

I'd love to see more on your stamp organization! That little peek in the picture looks so interesting! Are they in binders? What are the stuck to? Would love to know more.

Your album looks amazing, as always! I'm so glad I decided to play along this year for the first time. Even though I'm not finished putting everything together, I love my WITL album already.

Thanks for sharing the video. It was great to hear your commentary along with seeing all the pages. You mentioned that you're not sure when you'll do this next. I'd love to see it in the fall of 2012. Waiting until spring 2013 seems like forever away!

amazing. always such an inspiration. Thank you for putting this post together!

seriously...you are a true inspiration! love this post and your thoughts!

and i so agree with you on the whole daily sheets. i started to re-type some of the stuff and then I thought "this is silly...you have photos and handwritten documentation. there is nothing better!"

thanks for this awesome journey and letting us play along:)

I did a sorta hybrid approach like you, but have also been wondering why I didn't go all digital with this massive project. I love the feel of "real" paper, but that can be added later as you've displayed a billion times. It's a learning experience and I'm glad it's something you can easily adapt to your "now" and change it another time.

I'm still really excited for the December Daily, that was my favorite project last year and I still pull it out to flip through it on a monthly basis.

Thanks so much for all of this! I really enjoyed it.

Love your album and thanks so much for sharing the video. Great to hear you're thinking behind how you put it all together. I'm almost finished with my album and hopefully this will give me the push to get it done this weekend :-)

Fantastic stuff here.

I loved your album this year! Often these week albums seem like so much work with taking photos, journaling, and then doing something crafty with all that STUFF but this seems like the perfect solution. I may have to try this next week actually.

Just curious, how many "Week in the Life" projects have you completed?

It looks terrific, Ali! I had the same thought last year about doing it digital this year, but in the end, I'm going to do the divided protector in the middle too. (I'm actually documenting this week.) I do think I may cram the small photos together (no border between) on their canvas for fewer cuts.

Regarding photo books, I am curious if anyone else has the same experience/feeling I have: I think they tend to be made from thinner paper, so the pages crinkle when you thumb through them and don't hold up as nicely as scrapbooks. I generally would rather have a digital layout in a protector. Am I missing something on this or are some better quality than others?

Ali, thank you for all your inspiration! I love my 2010 Week in the Life album and am looking forward to this one.

Ali, you are awesome. I love your album and how this all came together. Can't wait to get my hands on those little camera overlays - love em. I do have to agree with you and some of the others, this is a huge project and it takes a lot of time to assemble. At times I felt like I captured a week and lost the next two putting it all together. Still totally worth it. More than anything else, doing WITL made me realize that I am so very thankful for this life. Thank you, thank you.

It came out just delicious! Congratulations on adding yet another family treasure to your home. The kids and their kids are going to appreciate this so, so much.

Ali, I have loved watching your Week in the Life album come together these past few weeks. You have such amazing foresight when you embark on these projects, and it's always fun to watch them come together and see what you were talking about all along! I have never done a WITL album, but thanks to your inspiration, I did start a Project (Married) Life album a couple of months ago (starting on my wedding day, June 12th!) It has been such a blast so far.

My question is this: I love the look of the left side of your digital template, the tall bracket-ish-shaped photo space. I thought that would make a great page insert for the PL album, for a photo that deserved extra showcasing. But I didn't feel that it would be practical for me to purchase the entire set on Designer Digitals just to get that photo shape. Any suggestions? Would you ever consider making a set of photo templates like that, which would make great 8 1/2 x 11 inserts for PL, perhaps with more generalized text, or customizable text layers?

Love your work; thanks!

Its fabulous! I've been dying to see your finished product so that I could see what you did before I finished mine, and its awesome!! I love that you kept it simple!! I'm going to have a go at finishing mine this weekend. Thanks so much for this project. I can't wait for mine to be completed too.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I really look forward to seeing your creations. The video along with the photos and post. . .a total bonus! Your album is awesome...very inspiring...I still need to finish putting mine together and this is definitely the little push I think I needed. :)

Awesome Ali! Been wondering since I saw it before...did you do that foam heart yourself? I wouldn't put that past you. :)

Thank you so much for the video and all the pages, it was nice to hear your thoughts on your album. It looks great and simple and light which is just right for summertime. Love the color and design of the number papers you included in the pockets.

I have some pictures printed and thinking of doing some in collages. With the kids home still on break it's been too hard finding the time to finish it. Going to wait till they go back and sit and really enjoy putting it together.

Thank you also for the daily sheets, loved them and going to print out extras to include in my Project Life album from time to time.

By the way I noticed in the video it looks as though your wearing a thin sweater, how cold is it there? Also not to be weird but you have pretty hands. Thanks again for another amazing journey and precious album for my family.