Week in the Life

I decided to participate in Week in the Life this year. I’ve admired it before and never participated. I decided this was the right time to do it. I bought a binder, some baseball protector pages and a set of 4×6 protector pages. My layout design was to use one of each daily: the 4×6 as a header & text (I recorded text using the Daily Sheets here) and then a page of wallet-sized prints through the day.  I used a mix of photos from my phone and from my Kodak EasyShare M1063. I actually ran this Saturday to Saturday, so I have 8 days.

Thoughts: I enjoyed doing it. It’s a little harder than Project 365.  I could tell I started burning out on it after a few days, my photo numbers went way down, as they did any time I worked a double or worked at Grind.

Below are the results.

2010 Weekly Calendar

So, I mentioned this paper project I’d been working on. And that I’d finished it. Well, here’s details.

I’m a little obsessive about how I like my planners. I like them small, but with room to write. I like the week to start on a Monday. I like them to be pretty. I like them kinda plain so I can modify them how I want to. This makes it tricky to buy one off the shelf. So I made one.

Ingredients: wheat thins box, 3×5 unlined index cards, 4×6 lined index cards, binder rings.

Fonts: Lumos, MarkerFinePoint-Plain

I have been seriously inspired by Elise’s small books. I wish I could scrapbook, but I don’t quite have the eye for it. I like clean lines too much I think.

Anyway, I wanted to do a wedding one, but let’s face it, I suck and will not wanna look back at it (scrapbook anniversay present for Alex anyone? Never look at it).

But I realized something cool I would like to look at: my finished Project 365 through Momentile. I won’t have all 365 pictures because, well, I’m human and forgot days (and was out of touch for 3 days on our honeymoon).

CVS charges $0.15 per print. Same for Kodak. Snapfish is $0.08 + s&h. So for, let’s say, 360 pictures (likely less) at $0.15 plus supplies and creativity and time… we’re looking between $50 and $75 likely. I can buy a Blurb book for a comparable price. I’m downloading the software. My handwriting for captions would be cool, but not the make or break (I don’t think). If I like it, the price is similar & would already be bound (cool). So yup.

Long time…

It’s been a long time since updates. I’m sorry! We finally got internet a week or so ago and I’m uploading all my craft projects and going to try to update both here & at Ravelry. I promise! First up, I give you my paper craft projects (there are from BEFORE we moved into our apartment, so… late May or early June?)
Using links/ideas from this post I came up with:

So, I have 2 or 3 notebooks from past semesters that have about 1/4 to 1/2 of the paper used in them. Does anyone have any suggestions for repurposing them or the unused paper inside? I tried searching crafster.org and generally just searching, but “notebook” wants to pull computer notebooks. *glare*

So, anyone? Ideas of specific projects? General projects? Places to look?

ideas:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=242907.0

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=197535.0

http://shala-beads.livejournal.com/152004.html#cutid1

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=225243.0

*tutorial* http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=15338.0;topicseen