summer in the life :: a complete look

I began this mini-album adventure by making one for myself. Then, write.click.scrapbook. {I'm a member of their Design Team} was celebrating their one-year blogaversary and several of us contributed items for giveaways...yep, I made another mini. A new bloggy friend saw the mini, so I made one for her and shipped it away to its new home.

As I was reading Ali Edwards' blog one day, I saw that she was asking for people who were interested in guest hosting for her Summer in the Life series. I submitted my mini-album and much to my surprise, Ali selected the project to appear on her blog. Ummm, yes, you could say that I was REALLY, REALLY excited about that bit of news! You can read my guest post on Ali's blog here. {Sidenote: You can actually do a search for Monika Wright---say what?---on Ali's blog and there are two entries for me. She featured one of my 2009 December Daily pages too!}

That opportunity led me to finally list items in my Etsy shop {you can find those 3" book binder rings there} that had been opened for a year with not a thing for sale. So, you guessed it. I listed Summer in the Life mini-albums, along with other items, in my Etsy shop. Some very lovely people who were my very first Etsy customers have become repeat customers in the just under 5 months, and over 125 sales, later.

And now they are blog readers, too. {You know who you are. Thanks for everything!}

This lovely lady, and blogger, was my very first Etsy customer. And, I say proudly, a repeat customer.  A repeat customer that has allowed me to create custom artwork for her boys and as Christmas gifts for friends. She is also a blog reader, which makes me happy.

When I was asked to join the write.click.scrapbook. team, I did not have a public blog. I resisted. I was a frequent contributor of projects to their Flickr gallery, so why blog?

Wait, did I just say that? Whodathunk?

So began iloveitallwithmonikawright.blogspot.com. Long may she live.

Whew, history lesson out of the way. Now, on to the mini-album. The pages below are presented in the same order as they appear in the mini-album. Click on the images and they will open in a new window.

Listed below are posts where I've discussed the details of my Summer in the Life mini-album process, the page design and how-to's. If you'd like to see more details in the photos, just click on them and they will open in a new window.

• Summer in the Life
• Summer in the Life
• Summer in the Life, an upate

Here are the tabs I designed for you as well as the links to download for yourself. As always, you can also find them in the sidebar.

play | laugh | splash

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chill

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