Week in the Life: Day 1 #weekinthelife

I started a day early – on Sunday, since I like Sunday to be the first day of the week, plus Phill will be gone for several days this week and I wanted to include him in the photos. I was so excited to get going!

Sunday was a slow day as we’d been out late and Emily as a cold. But we all loved sitting in the sun

Quote of the Day

Tackle Daddy down!

Favourite Photo

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!

Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life!

Melissa

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My not so Secret Indulgence

Just having a cuppa and enjoying the Mentalist with Phill reminded me of this layout I created documenting my favourite indulgence while living in Kalgoorlie:

Secret Indulgence - Scrapbookgraphics.com Gallery

Credits: Scrapbookgraphics Spirit of Comfort Collaboration, Font Weathered In-between by Fontogie

Melissa

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The Todd Shot - Ian style

After listening to the Digi Show: Katie's Little Sweatshop and reading all the Todd shot comments - I had to share the only photo of the food at our wedding. I think Ian did a pretty good Todd shot! :)

Don't understand the Todd Shot, Peppermint explains.

Do you have a fun family photo tradition? Sadly the only one I see around here is sticking your tongue out at the camera, not so creative!

Love the Digi Show!

Melissa

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Tips for Week in the Life

I'm putting together my Week in the Life album right now.
I’m using this outline of what to do from Ali:

• Photos will be taken on our Sanyo Xacti – as our camera died in the move to Perth
• Photos will be processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• Journalling will come from my Memory Logbook
• Stuff of life will be stored in my Kikki-K magazine holder
• I’m going to photo pages digitally and then combine that with the paper stuff I’ve collected during the week.
• When I come to create the album, I’m thinking of creating a home made 8x8 album with my Bind-it-all haul
• Pop memorabilia onto the facing pages or just create a page with it!
• Have fun with the Cuttlebug my friend is lending me (thanks!)
• I’m going to get this album completed by August 31 (Having a dealine helps!)

Want to go more digi? Check out Jen’s digital tips for week in the life.
I’ve recently realised that square photo spots in templates don’t work for me, so I’ve shopping my stash to find some  with more traditional shape photos. I’m planning for4-6 photos a day. Honestly, I can’t see myself taking lots of photos this week – but let’s just see how we go! I’ll be back with the templates in another post soon!
I’ve not yet decided on which kit to use, but I’m thinking of going with one of the huge collab kits available for the Digi Game subscribers.



You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!
Have you got plans in place for next week?

Melissa
PS want to get a hold of those kits?

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Personalities Layout Published

I was so excited to be asked that my Personalities layout be published in The Artisan Notebook for July. Check it out!

 

 

 

I’ve got to say this encouraged me to keep submitting to magazines – if you want to know which calls are coming up check out the Getting Published forum at Scrapbookgraphics

Have you ever been published?

Melissa

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Daddy Away: Scrapbook page

The Log your Memory Week #29 Challenge was to take a look at your vacation from a different angle.

A bit of a different take on the time while Phill was unexpectedly sent to Argentina for a couple of weeks. It was 4 days notice, so not long to prepare an 18 month old for time away from her beloved Daddy. We did have lots of fun together in the shade of the fig tree at the bottom of the garden. These are photos from those days.

One Little Bird Paradise Found Talefeather

Emily and Mummy were blessed to have some time together alone, while Daddy was in Argentina. Emily asked me to take photos for Daddy.

Melissa

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Organising my Life without gadgets: a video blog

I've had an Outlook syncing gadget since back in 2003 when I bought my Dell Axim. In this video I share with you how I've coped without my smart gadgets for over six months now.

How I manage my life now my smart gadgets are dead!

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In this post I mention:

• My old O2 Atom Exec phone
• My older Dell Axim X30
• Sticky notes
• Memory Logbook
• Spirax notepad
• Kikki K picnic notebook
• Shimelle’s planning for blogger’s video is part of the Beyond Blogging for Scrapbookers Class
• Paperclipping Roundtable Episode about Big Projects

What gadgets do you use in your life? How would you survive with out them?

Melissa

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