week in the life | beginnings

This Week in the Life project is being brought to you by all the fun little items in my stash. No new purchases were made to create the journal documenting a week of our {extra}ordinary life.

I believe that the mini album is from a travel themed line by Making Memories and the 6x6 paper pad was won on Christina's blog and is by Sassafrass. I don't know yet what my plan for the front cover will be, but I have some time to think about it.

I created some word art, similar to what you can find here, personalizing it with our names. Yes, I included Zach even though he's not here. I'm just not ready yet to let go. And no, his last name is not Wright, but he is part of the Wright family!

Each day of the week has an intro page designed with a page from the 6x6 paper pad and some stray letter stickers. I really tried to use up some leftovers and had to search for sets that had all the letters I needed!

I designed the journaling page, too, and made sure that there was room for a photo to peek out to the right of the daily intro page, which is blank...so there are lots of possibilities there. We did not see Zach on Sunday, but I was downloading and editing photos from the trip Mom and I took to the Chicago area to see him graduate from Navy Boot Camp, so his photo became the focus for Sunday.

He's already an E3 {due to his ASVAB scores and Physical Training scores} and has two service ribbons AND he'll be an E4 by November. As you might be able to tell, Zach had a hard time trying to be stern and military-like as I was asking for poses, but I am sure in time smiles in uniform will be rare.

I cut down a business card holder page protector and punched some new holes to fit into my 2-ring album. I had some letter sized photo paper on hand and decided to resize all my photos to 2x3.50, print them on one page, trim them and place them inside the slots - front and back.

Thinking that I may embellish further with some journaling on top of the page protector.

On an impromptu trip to Knoxville to exchange my MacBook Air for the new, upgraded version, the girls voted to eat at P.F. Chang's and we did not disagree! They loved it and eating with the kid-sized chop sticks was a huge highlight of their day. I added half of a Top Note die cut to reinforce the edge of the glassine bag where I punched the holes.

Hoping that I'll have some time today to get my journaling transferred into my album and begin making a few more decisions about the front cover, inside cover and how I want to tell our story. I don't have quite as many photos as I'd like, but may take some and add them in on appropriate days even though they weren't taken on that specific day. I don't have a problem with that at all...who will know a year from now? Just me {wink, wink}.

More to come tomorrow. How is your Week in the Life project progressing?