I first heard of
A Week In The Life from a tweet that came from Ali Edwards:
@aliedwards: The Basics of Documenting A Week In Your Life
http://bit.ly/d7ZMeuI didn't originally plan on participating in this, but when I was reviewing tweets for my post,
The Retweetables: Inspired to scrap, I decided to give it a try. I gave myself two practice days (April 17-18, 2010) and then began an eventful week.
I took the girls to the
zoo, roller skated to Michael Jackson's
Thriller, experimented with
eco-friendly glue, turned 32, photographed a mouse alive and dead, celebrated
Earth Day, wrote an
article and blog posts, had a kid free weekend, visited my
alma mater, cleaned my front porch, organized my closet and ran in my first
5K. I'm always a busy body, but this week (plus two days) was like no other!
The album I created is totally old school where I just took everything and threw it together. It is
perfectly imperfect scraps of my week with photos taken from my Blackberry (well, the cell phone thing isn't old school). I printed off tweets, added my to do lists, used rough drafts as background paper and doodled like I would if I was talking on the phone.
This turned into a piece of me. This album was me and I want it to be something that my girls can learn from as they grow older and share with their own children one day. I used stickers with inspirational words and quotes. I jotted down little secrets of life and pieces of knowledge that I hope my girls will learn from and utilize in their daily lives. I can only imagine what they will think of Twitter and blog posts thirty years from now.
I love the look of a messy old school scrapbook with doodles and scraps of life. This project showed me that I lead an interesting life at times and I'm glad I was able to document my tweets and blog posts.
To view the entire scrapbook, go to my
Flickr page and see all 17 pages of scraps.
