A Day in the Life: This is Me Edition

A Day in the Life. This is Me Edition. Part of my 2012 Project Life.

Excited to play along with Ali Edwards and lots of others. Capturing a day in the life. I did Week in the Life last summer. Still need to complete that album. Got the inspiration for the Today badge + Hambly overlay from Ali. Also using the cute blue camera overlay is from Hambly. Love that one. The black Today badge below and the ME kraft tag above are from Ormolu.

Am finding lots of places for hidden journaling. Like under the Einstein's sleeve. I used a stamp from Studio Calico's Epic set. "The Rest of the Story" I just love that stamp. Brilliant!

I also am loving all the different products coming out for Project Life. The "Daily Routine" card is from Liz Tamanaha. You can get them here from Oscraps.  The Currents card is from Tina Aszmus. You can find them here. Lots of stamps from Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday. You can find them here. 

Fun to focus on my story and my routines. I am looking forward to doing this for my husband and daughter as well later in the year.

Here is the left side page. Had to include the tunes I am jamming to. And my favorite podcasts. The large "A Day in the Life" is from Ali. It's a free download too! Get is here.

Here is the right side. On the bottom row are a few "Tiny Templates" from Cathy Zielske at Designer Digitals. You can find them here. By the way, these rock!

I have also used Ali's template for A Day in the Life to create an 8.5x11 insert. I actually did two of these so they are back to back. Then I added the daily sheet as well.

Here is the full page again so you can see how it all looks together.

And here is a glimpse of the daily sheet that I added inside the insert. Just slid it in between the 8.5x11 photos.

So there it is! I am just adding this to my Project Life, which is just a compilation of whatever I am inspired to do. Not stressing about it, just adding photos and bits of pieces and stories. Having fun. You can check out my approach here.

Updated: Go here for the Rest of the Story.

December Daily Update

Still waiting on a few last items to put together my foundation pages. I ordered the December Daily kit from Bananafish Studio, and am so excited for it to arrive. I have quite a few pages ready to go, over the past few weeks I chose the papers I plan to use, gathered embellishments, stamped some numbers, etc. Here are a few shots of my project in the planning stages:

Choosing the papers. Definitely inspired by Elise Blaha with lots of patterned papers. I made mine 5x7 so they will be easy to make enlargements. Loved last year's 6x8 size too, especially after looking back at it.

Love the planning stages. So much fun.

Having fun gathering and stamping some numbers. The stamps are from the 7 gypsies Numero stamp set, the little cut out numbers are Teresa Collins, and the big number tags are 7 gypsies Paddington tags.

Remember I said I like storing little embellishments for projects in muffin tins? These are from Goodwill.

99 cents each!

More little items I might use. 



Stamping some tags is always fun. I love the imperfection of them! These are Ali Edwards Good Cheer stamps

Yay! I finally got my Technique Tuesday Studio AE stamp set in the mail, and I ordered the December Daily one with it. More numbers! Be still my heart! I love it!

Love December. Love December Daily. Even have our tree up; not decorated but loving having twinkle lights going on in the house. Really fun story about my daughter seeing the tree for the first time, but that's for another post.

Had to play with the new set! Love it!

How are your preparations coming along? While waiting I put the finishing touches on last year's--it was my first year and I got a late start. I think I started with the album about a week into December but had been using my phone to take photos and make notes of each day. So even if you are on the fence about it, it is still totally do-able. I did about 75% of it last year but had that last 25% unfinished. I just said "enough" and there are a few days missing. I'm still very happy with it, and it helps going into this year knowing that it is okay if I miss a few days. For me it is the whole project, missing days and all that tell the story and help capture bits of what makes December special.

If I don't have another post until after Thanksgiving, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! And have fun with your own preparations! Share a link if you would like!