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Week in the Life 2011: Days Two through Five

Well, I started out the week well with posts and then completely disappeared.  Here are a few of the Instagram shots I'll use for one side of each day's section -- you can see what a down-to-earth week we're having, but of course that's part of the point of this project!

Fixing waffles for my daughter's breakfast

Arts and crafts at the library every Tuesday in the summer

Our betta fish, Swimmy

Little girly's ice cream sundae

Pretty scrapbooking embellishments in my $2 garage sale find -- love it

The children's play place doesn't allow shoes, hence the sock feet.

Day One: Week in the Life | Documenting

I'm going to do part of the "putting together" process while the week is going on (since I'm on vacation) and will do part of it at a later time when I get the 12x12 pages and prints made up.

I am loving Cathy Zielske's template (link in previous entry) for using camera pictures (I'm using the ones from my iPod Touch; the camera in it is probably similar to the previous version of the iPhone.)  She used free fonts (Honey Script and DejaVu-Sans) for the title, so I was able to download them and modify it. 

And We're Off! | Documenting a Week in the Life | Day One

I'm on vacation this week, which will make it easier to participate in Ali Edwards' Week in the Life scrapbooking project.  I was delighted to see that Big Picture Classes is offering a free "classroom" for the project -- it will be fun to see what others are doing.  The pictures above were taken with the iPod Touch camera using the Instagram app and then turned into a collage in Picasa.  I may or may not use the pictures this way when I actually compile it next week, but it's a good way to have something to post here.  [Edited to add: I succombed to tempation and decided to purchase Cathy Zielske's cool template to do this project with and now I'm excited.  It's got 12 slots for Instagram-type phone/ipod photos and small spots for journaling underneath.  I figure I'll have that be one page and do a page protector for the other.  The page protector can house additional journaling plus some 4x6 photos.  Perfect.  Simple.  No stress.]