This is my anticipated A Week In The Life view for 2012.
When I find a great idea, it doesn't often change over the years. Proof of it's brilliance :) I'm so glad to have found Ali Edwards, years ago, who seems to be filled with brilliant, do-able and repeat-able projects. Her A Week In The Life is the pinnacle of those projects.
As with all great projects, it can be made as complicated or as simple as we choose. Me? I opt for simple, every time.
Last year, my third effort, I messed up. With all the crazy that was going on in our lives at the time, I was all over the place buying paper supplies as well as digital templates. I was taking photos and recording ideas and taking in everything around me. I was completely overwhelmed. The project was no longer do-able. It was a disaster.
I loved my first project. I loved my second project. I just couldn't do the third justice and, you know, that's okay. Sometimes timing is not ideal or just plain bad. In my case, timing couldn't have been worse: July 25 - 31, 2011 was stressful, frantic, complicated and full. I was paralyzed by circumstance and unable to be fully engaged or honest in the telling of my week.
This year, I plan to make things a bit less complicated and a lot more transparent for myself and the kids and make my A Week In the Life not just a simple extension of my Project Life. The tools I've learned in the first few months of Project Life will certainly make A Week In the Life more full and enjoyable but I want it to be a complete project contained unto itself. I'm not quite sure how, but who knows? That is where, I suppose, the creativity part comes in!
The dates chosen this year are April 23rd to 29th - coming up quick, just over a month away! Almost exactly four years exactly since my first project. I've learned that the dates don't matter too much as every week comes with it's own set of challenges, so being out-of-town or at a celebration or embracing the joy of a simple week, won't effect the purpose of the exercise.
In the next month I will have to answer the big questions:
- Will the project be traditional, hybrid or digital?
- Once that's determined, will it be 8.5x11 or 12x12?
- Once that's determined, combined with the style, will it be digitally produced and bound into a book or added into a scrapbook?
- Will a kit (paper or digi) be purchased? If so, which one?
- Will AE come out with more templates? Should I buy new ones or use the ones I have already in my collection?
A lot will depend on:
- Where will I be?
- How awesome/tempting are the new templates going to be?
- What time is available to mess around with all of the fun variables?
Whatever is decided, I'm relieved that in eight short, but full, months, I feel confident I can participate fully again.
What about you? Are you participating in the A Week In The Life project? Is this in addition to or in combination with Project Life? Are you making a digital album - printed and put in a sleeved album or bound?
