I used my much anticipated quiet time this morning to finish up my Project Life Week 6.
I refuse to fall behind anytime before April.
On the left side - the boys playing and a journal card from Wendy about her experience at 5th grade camp. We don't have any photos of her experiences, so words will work. Brian working on his valentines and a photo of his valentines, a neighbor shoveling the driveway for me, a happy note from a friend and some bullet points about the week.
My friend think I'm a HOOT! And we haven't even met in real life yet.
On the right side, more inserts. I'm imagining quite a few of my weeks will have inserts of some form or another.
I included inserts to hold the day in the life photos I took on Wednesday.
After I took all the photos, I counted up the ones I most certainly wanted to use, and then went about trying to find the right format from there. I had too many photos for a baseball card sleeve, I didn't want to use a full 12 x 12 page of any sort.... I monkeyed with a few things before landing on a solution.
On the first slot, I put a 4 x 6 card that I created myself using some new alphabet stamps I got from Studio Calico, the closest paper that worked, and my .005 Pigma Microns to jot down the times of each photo and what was happening.
How I ended up doing my inserts is by cutting three F pages to the size I needed to hold all 25 photos and one journal card.
The first insert is a 4 x 6 and two 3 x 4's. The second insert is four 3 x 4's and the 3rd insert is six 3 x 4's.
I slid the white sheet of paper behind the last insert just so it's more visible where the inserts end and the next page begins.
I took one of those left/right brain tests yesterday and the results showed that I was 56% left and 44% right with my strongest trait being that I'm sequential, followed by the fact that I'm very linear. It shows here, I think. I struggle with it, and I embrace it - sometimes at the same time.
While taking my photos during the day, I concentrated on doing all horizontal shots because I knew I wanted them all facing the same way in the inserts. My left brain was strong that Wednesday. I don't often stress about this sort of thing - but I've been much more linear and sequential than usual lately. Ask my kids, it's driving them batty. Line up the books! Line up the shoes! Who hung their jacket on the wrong hook? Lay 'em straight I say!!
Besides my day in the life, it was a quiet week photography wise. My right page is my kids outside, Wendy's valentine project and a walk in the park with the 5 yr old.
It was a bit of a quiet week photo wise, not counting the day in the life photos. Somedays the only picture I took was my photo a day. Odd, I know.
Since I had extra spaces to play with, and since I didn't want another insert this week - I thought I'd play with the piece of Brian's school work I wanted to include. Originally an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, the part that I wanted to include was actually just over 6" x 8". Perfect! I cut it down to fit into the three slots as shown.
The worst part about winter is when the lights go out. *laugh*
A conversation with Wendy about how she thought she might want to be a cop when she grows up until I told her they see blood.
She quickly changed her mind.
And I put a tag in the one spot because that valentine seems to have wandered about the house - so when I find it, it'll pop right in here.
And now a new week
The sun is shining, and I got all sorts of happy mail today - 'tis gonna be a good one!
my heart started beating fast when i saw the note from me. i'm practically famous now! ;) and i would like some of that linear sequential business... i'm lacking there!
Posted by: jen t | February 14, 2012 at 04:22 PM
Exceptional cards. I am pretty much impressed viewing it.
Posted by: CV Format | February 17, 2012 at 04:35 AM
Love the box style album--I did a Google for it, but don't think it's easily available anymore. However--I think it would be fun to make using an American Crafts album for a base, adding bookboard for the sides and flaps...
Posted by: scamp (aka Shirley) | February 17, 2012 at 07:06 AM