Week in the Life : Sunday Photos + Words

week in the life : marbles by you.


week in the life : my closet by you.


week in the life : chris' closet by you.


week in the life : hello sunday by you.


week in the life : a bit of work by you.


week in the life : marbles all day by you.


week in the life : more marble maze by you.


week in the life : hot chocolate again by you.


week in the life : pumpkin muffins before by you.


week in the life : pumpkin muffins after by you.


week in the life : simon growth by you.


10.05.08 Sunday
- Simon up at 6:30am. I was up at 7:30am. He put on his own sweats, socks, and long-sleeved t-shirt. Watching Higgly Town Heros on Chris’ computer.
- Make coffee.
- Getting excited about putting this album together.
- Check email. Watch Meet The Press. Check out the paper.
- Talk to Chris on the phone.
- BLT for breakfast. Simon had apples + bacon.
- Listen to Dave Matthews and work on CK column.
- I love that I can google something like “song from Flash of Genius trailer” and find out in two seconds that it is “Where are you Going?” from Dave Matthews.
- Simon is calling me “Tarzan Who Doesn’t Say Too Much” today. And calling himself “Tarzan Who Is Very Strong.”
- Leftover pasta for lunch.
- Hot chocolate for dessert.
- Look through baby clothes and start sorting by size.
- Work on CK column again.
- Make pumpkin muffins.
- Fold laundry.
- Measured Simon on the wall. He’s two inches taller than May of this year.
- Leftover chicken noodle soup for dinner.
- Watch 60 Minutes.
- Work on column a bit more.
- Simon and I to bed to read.


Dottedline


I am hoping to work on my album today to be able to show you a completed spread by tomorrow morning. One thing I would love to do is have people upload their completed projects to the Flickr group as you complete them.


Also, feel free to email me images (completed pages only please) as I would like to show some of them here on my blog as well for variations on the creative process.


Thanks for all the kind words throughout the comments from this past week. I am so glad to read so many people enjoying the process and just going with it! Have a great Monday!


Dottedline


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  1. Holly T says…
    10/06/2008

    Great pics...great idea. Last fall, I took a creativity class at Big Picture Scrapbooking and ended up taking a bunch of pictures of things in my life that I normally didn't take pics of. I think I may do an mini-album withe those pictures. And since it is fall again, and you have inspired me to take more pictures of things....I will lots of fall pictures from 2 years in a row. This could be a great tradition...seeing how my family changes, year to year...on fall season to the next. And I do think fall is the time of year that the most changes occur. Different grade in school, lots of fall sports, etc. so it works out pretty well for us.
    Thanks for inspiring.
    Holly

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  2. Cheryl says…
    10/06/2008

    Can we have your pumpkin muffin recipe?

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  3. Kylie says…
    10/06/2008

    Thank you so much for your suggestion Ali :) I can't wait to put this project together, and this time I am going to stop worrying about it being "perfect". Thats the reason I never finish any other scrapbook pages/books. I am just going to put this one together, otherwise it will never get done and one day when I am gone my children will wonder why I took 200 photos of the laundry and the dishes!
    Kylie :)

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  4. susie l. says…
    10/06/2008

    We have a door arch that we measure our daughter on. We have 9.5 years of measurements and she won't let us paint over it!!!!!!!! I really need to scrapbook that. We also love pumpkin muffins with walnuts and golden raisins (soak them in orange juice first).

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  5. Katie says…
    10/06/2008

    Well I am so excited to make an album! But most of the shots I have are so dark. I live in the woods and what with all this dark and rain we had last week....ugh! Times like this I wish for a better camera. But such is life. I have had fun anyway!
    Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
    Happy Monday!

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  6. Tina Stryde says…
    10/06/2008

    Ali,
    Just a quick note to let you know how much I've enjoyed the last week...thank you so much for your inspiration yet again! I did get a little tired near the end of the week but I persisted and am so glad I did...now I just hope I can find the time to complete the project...taking the photos was the easy part!

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  7. jessica says…
    10/06/2008

    Hi, I am new to this. What is the best way to capture a completed page? Do you scan it, or do you take a photo and then crop/edit it?
    thanks!
    jessica

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  8. Susan says…
    10/06/2008

    Ali,
    thanks so much for hosting this and holding our hands through the entire process. It felt really odd at the beginning of last week, taking pictures of everyday moments that I would have never thought to capture before this. By the end of the week, it felt perfectly natural, and today Im also feeling a little lost without my camera.
    Im excited to move to the next phase of the project, but I already know its changed the way I think about capturing our life. I know I'll look at those everyday moments differently from now on...so thank you!

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  9. ali.a. says…
    10/06/2008

    Thank you for allowing us a little peek into your life! I so looked forward to your pictures everyday and they inspired me to remember to take all kinds of pictures... I discovered that the small things, like toys and cups of cocoa are what makes up our daily life and makes it meaningful!!

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  10. cindy wieme says…
    10/06/2008

    Hi...I just love doing this project.
    Thank You very much!
    Cindy

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  11. Candi says…
    10/06/2008

    Simon must be a Backyardigans fan?? My kids are Tarzans a lot!
    Thanks for the fun week, can't wait to see your finished pages and get started on my own!

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  12. Elizabeth says…
    10/06/2008

    Thank You so very much Ali. I sincerely mean this. I had tons of fun taking photos all week. It was a really eye opener, especially going through them and to see all that I took, I love all the pics. I miss my camera today too! This is a great idea, and I can't wait to develop them and get started. You are a true inspiration and a "Gem" for letting us into your home and life.

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  13. Lisa says…
    10/06/2008

    I can't BELIEVE I got through the whole week! I just took photos whenever I could and wrote a sentence here and there. It happened to be my daughter's birthday on Sunday, so it was a great week to document! Yippee!

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  14. Bethany says…
    10/06/2008

    I've loved doing this project. The week was actually very "atypical" because of a home emergency, but I'm really glad to have documented this challenging time in our lives. I don't know how much of it I would have captured otherwise...
    Anyway, thanks for the inspiration. And I'm also wondering--would you share the pumpkin muffin recipe? They look amazing! (And one more request on top of all those above can't hurt.) :)

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  15. Teresa says…
    10/06/2008

    Hi Ali,
    I really love the idea of an album for 1 week. I just started school and I am sooo busy. I started to work on taking pictures and journaling, but I realized today that I completely forgot to work on the album for about 4 days (no fotos, no journaling). Do you think a page without fotos would work, too?
    Love your daily pics.

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  16. Ali says…
    10/06/2008

    Hey guys - that pumpkin recipe can be found here (I find a lot at allrecipes.com): http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Muffins-II/Detail.aspx

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  17. carolkola says…
    10/06/2008

    Hi Ali,
    The divided page protectors seem so hard to find. I called Scrapworks corporate office today, and if I heard them correctly they said they have discontinued the Anthologie line and the page protectors. I am so bummed!

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  18. emilie says…
    10/06/2008

    i want to say THANK YOU. you motivate me to get off my pregnant bum and do this... tomorrow is my last day to collect all info and i am so excited. i do have one question, i am ALMOST 34 wks prego, i want to be in my pix but i'm huge... and... i feel unpleasing to the eye... should i include myself? just wondering... thank you for the inspiration

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  19. jennyg says…
    10/06/2008

    Divided Baseball Card page protectors: I found them at my local Office Depot and they were the Office Depot brand. Hope this helps.

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  20. Helen says…
    10/06/2008

    Gotta try Dunkin Donuts Pumpkin muffins, HIGHLY recommended...
    SECONDLY,HOT MAMA! Hope you feel as good as you look. You must be wearing your regular jeans.

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  21. AnneS. says…
    10/06/2008

    Thanks for helping us through the week with all your photos and inspiration! I just finished looking at all my pictures. I deleted a few blurry ones but am ready to print them and get started on the album. This will probably be the hardest part for me so I decided to go with a "recipe" of sorts. Maybe it will help others who are stuck on this part. My album recipe is from a Simple Scrapbooks special issue called, "Album Shortcuts." Each two page spread has a collage of photos and a journaling block which I thought would be perfect for each day. The pictures are different sizes and fit together for an 8 x 8 album. I haven't done tons of albums so I thought this would give me a good starting place. I didn't want to bogged down on the layouts---I wanted to make sure I could actually finish this since I had such a great time documenting our week!

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  22. julie says…
    10/06/2008

    could you give us the recipe for those yummy looking pumpkin muffins?? my son LOVES pumpkin anything. ;)

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  23. Catherine at Design Editor says…
    10/06/2008

    Look at you with the wooden hangers! =)

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  24. gloriaRose says…
    10/06/2008

    Could I please get your pumpkin muffin recipe?
    They look so yummy.
    I want one.
    Thanks,
    ~G

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  25. Alli says…
    10/06/2008

    you picked a hectic week for me so I have decided to let it span over the two weeks of school holidays and just accept that I am missing days of photos.
    I'm gathering though, sorting out a format and size I want

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