Day In The Life™ 2016 | Mark Your Calendar For March 29th
One of the projects I plan to continue this year is Day In The Life™.
One single day of in-depth documentation, Day In The Life™ is an awesome opportunity to record your right now - from the time you wake up until the time your head hits the pillow. What do you do, where do you go, who do you see, what's important to you, what are you eating, what are you saying, etc?
My completed Day In The Life™ projects have come together in a variety of different ways including monthly in Project Life®(did this for about six months in 2014), in minibooks, on traditional layouts, etc. For this next one I'm planning to use pocket pages and most likely include it as an insert in my Project Life® album.
This year I'm hoping to do quarterly Day In The Life™ projects - with the first date scheduled for Tuesday, March 29th (other dates throughout the year will be announced as we get closer to them).
What I love about Day In The Life™:
- The invitation to use my "big" camera for the day. It's simply a fun photo project that encourages taking more photos than I usually do on any given day and I always end up with some photos I really love that tell the story of my life right now.
- It tells the complete story of just one day. In Project Life® I'm most often aiming for an overview of the week so I don't capture all the details of every single day (that would be way too much). Day In The Life™ gives me the chance to capture more of a single day: routines, things said, how much time I spend doing this or that, etc.
There's nothing you need to sign up for - just mark your calendar and I'll post more ideas as we get closer to the actual day in March.
Check out my archive of past Day In The Life™ documentation here. I also have a Day In The Life™ Mini Class available as well if you are interested in learning more about how I've approached this project in the past and seeing the step-by-step for a simple 4x4 album.
DAY IN THE LIFE™ MINI KIT
To help you with your intentional storytelling for Day In The Life™ I've put together a small kit of supplies that is available now:
In addition to the 3x4 & 4x6 cards and the chipboard circles, this kit includes something that I'm super excited about - a rolling time stamp. This is a product I've wanted to find/offer/create for a very long time and I'm super excited to have it to use to document the times of day for this and other memory keeping projects:
Here's a short video overview of what's included in the Day In The Life™ Mini Kit:
We will be offering a digital version of this set with the cards + circles at the beginning of March.
WEEK IN THE LIFE™ | COMING SOON
I also want to let you know that the pre-order for the 2016 Week In The Life™ kit will be coming soon. I'll be documenting my week in May 2016. More details to come.
I bought the kit in about 2.2 seconds of seeing this blog post go up. haha! Love the stamp! And everything else in the kit of course!!
Me too! Even before seeing the video -- and I've never done Day in the Life before -- I love the stamp too! I think it's the lawyer in me and keeping track of billable hours for 32 years!
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Thank you Ali! So much to look forward too :)
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Hi Ali - Love the kit! Any chance the cards can be made available digitally if we buy the kit? I like both sides of the cards and it would be great to be able to print the opposite side.
We will be offering a digital set of the cards as well - most likely at the beginning of March (it will be a separate purchase).
Great! That was my question as well :)
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Oh my gosh, the stamp is RAD & of course the mini kit is perfect, I had to buy two! Im excited for your pocket page/quarterly plan! Im totally onboard with this!
Pocket page/quarterly plan?!?!?
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Bought the kit! So excited to do this project again this year.
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Got it! Thanks Ali. Am looking forward to it. Michelle t
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Headed over to pick mine up. Can't wait to document one day in 2016 (or many "one days" in 2016 as the case may be). Thanks Ali!
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aaa-oo! got the kit...some other stuff too! woot woot!
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bought the kit too. Love the stamp. That will be a great addition to my stamp collection. yeah.
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I'm curious about what stamp you used for the large time stamps in you photo. Something from your kit?
Hi - those are a number stamp: http://aliedwards.com/shop/stamp-sets/3x4-numbers-stamp
Ali do you know if it will be restocked soon? And do you know if you'll migrate the 4x4 template from DD to your shop if we wanted to do that format?
oh my gosh I love your 404 errors!!! even though i'm sad the link didnt' work - this always makes me giggle!! ;) @aliedwards
That is hilarious.
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That stamp!!!!
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This looks so great. Any idea how the international shipping rate would work, as I'm thinking that the rolling stamp might add weight to the parcel?
Hi Lize - you'll have to put it in your cart to get an idea of what the shipping is for you based on where you live.
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Really love the kit and snagged one for myself (must.have.the.stamp)! And I super pleased about the day you picked because it's my birthday! This will be fun!
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Not sure if I will do Day in the Life, but grabbed the kit for the stamp. Like that style for the date!
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I too bought it for the stamp.
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I have been wanting a time stamp for so long--soooo excited!
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Love May for WITL. First because I love spring and then because this is the month of my birthday.
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Everytime I decide I want something it's sold out so this time I bought it right away!!!
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Ordered! Loved the kit and YES to the stamp. Love how easy it is to order from your shop - so slick!
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Super excited about the time stamp!! Super!! That's the ONE reason I bought the kit. I LOVE your stamps! Can't wait for this project!
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LOVE this!! I do mostly digital, any chance you would make some digital files of the stamp?!? That would be awesome! So excited to participate.
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That stamp! Absolutely LOVE it!
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That stamp!! Ordered as sson as I read this post.
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Ali how will you document this day in the life? Eg what size album and will you be posting it on the blog? I love seeing what you do, I find I need that as inspiration to commit. Also will you bring back the stamp set with the large numbers in it and the AM and PM. I wish I had bought that one. Thanks!
I'll be doing it in divided page protectors and adding it to PL this time (either multiple 6x8's or a cut down 12x12 or something along those lines). I'll be sharing the process here on my blog. I think we are re-ordering that stamp set - waiting on confirmation (it usually takes a couple months).
Thanks Ali and I meant to say thanks for making shipping so reasonable too!
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you had me at rolling time stamp...LOVE it!
I can see this being a fav of mine too.
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