A Week In The Life

July 26, 2011 | Category: 2011 Pages, Album Projects, Week in the Life

So I have officially decided Sunday night that I will jump into the wagon and participate in A Week in the Life. Ali Edwards is doing it this week, and a whole bunch of scrappers so what better way than to tag along and get some inspiration from them too.

At SSD, Traci Reed has a whole bundle of AWITL products called 10,080 minutes which you can use and the forum has its own threads where you can share pages and talk about AWITL.

As for me, I have an idea which things to document – the PDF file Ali on her blog shared was great on tips.

So here is how I am doing collecting everything. I originally intended it to be all photos from my iPhone but decided last minute Monday that I want to have pictures from my camera too. I am already a pretty heavy document-er – I use IG (iPhone app), Twitter and blog a lot so what I needed was a way to make sure I collect them all. Enter Momento. It’s an iphone app that lets you document life and sync feeds too – which you can export. I syndicated my IG feed, twitter and personal blog feed to it & make one liner comments all throughout the day (Eg: 8AM My nose is itchy :P) and before I sleep, I run an export which allows it to be downloaded from my iTunes library. (I haven’t downloaded my Momento export feeds & pictures for yesterday).

I also take screenshots of relevant current events (news) or witty tweets (I would be documenting tweets). I have a spread in my planner where I have a timeline what happens. It’s very random and usually my handwriting is haphazard. Ill figure it out when I sit down to assemble the album.

What I document:
1. Food
2. News
3. Self-Portraits – no matter how ugly I feel I am these days :P
4. Clothes we wear
5. Routine
6. Around the house
7. Weather
8. Places We go (which is pretty much house + church + my parents’ house + kids’ school)

Can’t wait how this looks like in the end!