week in the life... Wednesday to Friday

I really enjoyed this project, tweaked massively to fit what I felt like doing. I didn't take loads and loads of photos. In fact, I took less photos than on an average day (but ensured I took photos every day). On Monday night, it became clear to me that what I wanted was to capture the essence of each day. I wanted a lot of white, a few photos and a little bit of text. So that's what I did.

Hope you enjoyed you're week in the life, if you're doing it, and mine too :)

Here are my Monday and Tuesday of this project.

week in the life... Tuesday

I photographed more on Tuesday compared to Monday. I went running but that photo didn't make it to the final selection. I photographed one of my favourite Oxford building, but that also stayed out, I wanted the layout to be all about little snippets of my life. I learned something this Tuesday regarding my style for week in the life - I have an impressionistic approach to documenting; while I love writing, I don't particularly enjoy long texts of journaling. I'm ok with that. When I look back on this project, I'm sure I'll get as much out of my approach to it as I will from the photos and little bit of journaling. 

a week in the life... Monday

Monday is done. I took less photos than I hoped for and of those few, I only liked two. I'm happy with the small (very small!) selection though. Although the "rules" say one should focus on documenting during the week and putting the pages together later, I didn't. I wanted to know what this project looked like in my head and the best way to see it would be to do it. So I did. I'm so glad I did and I'm so very happy with the white space and the overall simplicity of the layout. The big news of yesterday - we have a moving in date, at last!

Are you doing week in the life? Do you have any idea of what your final pages or collection of photos will look like together? I'm enjoying seeing the different approaches around the web.

a week in the life... of Joey

Having thought about it for a while, I decided this morning to embark on the little adventure of documenting a week in my life more thoroughly. This week, to be precise. A week in the life is all about capturing the every day - my kind of thing - in a detailed way; it was created by Ali Edwards and you can read more about it here. At the moment, a lot is changing around here and it will be good to have a small record of how things used to be.  

My aim is to keep it simple. I will have photos and a bit of journalling. All of it will be part of my Project Life album. As I only decided this morning that I'd be doing this, I don't really have a plan and I'm ok with that. I just want to take photos, write a little bit about my days this week and enjoy the journey.

Let the documenting begin :)

project life :: title page

I love Project Life.

I love writing. I love photography. And I love documenting life. It made sense I combined all of this into a project - Project Life. 

For the last few weeks, I have been selecting photos which best tell the story of my week, printing them, arranging them in the pockets and writing my thoughts about what's been happening. I'm loving it! And what a great feeling it is to look back through the weeks and see it all there. Amazing! My favourite spreads so far are Mum and Dad's birthdays, in February and January.

I'm still trying to work out my system for doing this. So far, it's free style; whenever whatever & smile! I've spent far too much time on pinterest soaking up inspiration, I've drooled over a number of supplies until I settled for a number of absolute favourites, and then I found my style. It's mine and it works for me. It's simple and it works for me. I love it and it works for me.

I have been hummimg and hawing about sharing my project life pages here. Ultimately, project life is a personal thing which has photos of my family and friends, as well as random thoughts on my days and how I feel about things that happen to me. Do I want to show all of that? In addition, sharing the weekly spreads involves completing them to a time frame and photographing them as well (which kinda equals pressure!). As much as I love reading about it on other blogs, I'm still not sure of an approach which would work for me. 

While I decide on that, I'm sharing my album title page. It's a work in progress and I plan to change the top left yellow card with my favourite photo of myself taken by June this year. I will then place a flair button with my one little word for 2013, change on top of that photo (from here). Can't wait! The main photo is Porto this January. True love! True blue skies!

Do you do any documenting of any sort? Would you like to read more about what I do and how I do it? Let me know :)

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Project Life is a product and documenting system created by Becky Higgins which is designed to make memory-keeping effortless and simple.

Supplies for the title page: Seafoam core kit, design A page protectors, Project life binder Cherry, corner punch. I print my photos at home, on a Canon Pixma iP4950 using original Canon ink. I use gloss photo paper of different brands but always heavy (at the moment I'm using HP 250g); I prefer gloss paper as the colours are much more vibrant. Ormolu's flair button.