a week in MY life…final thoughts

So I finally put it all together. I so glad I participated in this project last minute.

I didn’t do it full throttle…but I’m happy with the results and I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Even those of you out there who aren’t ‘scrapbookers’. I know this will be a cherished look into our life in a few years.

I’ve already shared Sunday-Tuesday, so here is Wednesday – Saturday.

I stuck with my goal and didn’t spend any money on putting this together. (Well, of course I paid for picture printing, which ended up being less than $20)

Most of the journaling cards are October Afternoon…different lines. I didn’t worry about coordinating the whole project, just facing pages. The “Day” number stickers are Little Yellow Bicycle.

These journaling cards are actually from Cosmo Cricket…trimmed down from a full sheet of add-ons. Can’t remember which line. The day sticker here is 7Gypsies.

The day stickers is from the same pack of Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard stickers (their travel line from last year) and I through in a shipping tag or two to mix it up.

The circle chipboard is also Little Yellow Bicycle. The April calendar is Jenni Bowlin.

You can see that I slowed down on picture taking the last few days.

  The back of the last page so I would have something pretty to look at in my album. This is all just going to slip into my 2010 album, in between other layouts.

Final Thoughts…

*If I do this again…well, WHEN I do this again…I will probably buy a separate album to start keeping them in to make it easy to compare year to year. I don’t know if I’ll do it in 2011, but I’ll do it again for sure.

*I wish I had labeled some of the pictures with text in Photoshop. I still may go back and create journaling strips to go on some of the pictures that might need further explanation.

*I wish I had taken more pictures of US…the people in the week.

*Camera phone pictures are better than nothing. And since I was printing them smaller, you can’t even tell.

*I ‘cheated’ and through in some pictures I had already taken. Like the train picture. I didn’t take it when Sam and I were tootling around looking at trains…I had taken it sometime last year. Sssh…don’t tell. :)

*Next time around I want to include more time line/detailed journaling. Check out Autumn and Ali’s links below to see what I’m thinking about.

*Next time I’d like to mix up the divided protectors to be able to include different orientation of photos. Forcing myself to stay vertical was hard sometimes. Then again, I love how it turned out.

*I’m sure I’ll think of more things I’d like to do differently…overall this was an amazing project!

 

Check out some other versions of this project as seen through the eyes of:

Autumn

Ali

Christine

 

Want to share your vision of a week in the life? Link up here and we’ll come check it out!

Thanks for joining me on this journey…

Kristen