I've been working on putting my Week in the Life album together, slowly for sure. As a reminder, I documented one week in my life with photos and journaling back in July along with Ali Edwards and lots of other scrapbookers.
As I started laying out my album I decided to make 4 journaling cards for each day; one for each of the following:
- gratitude
- favorite moment
- overheard
- observations
I typed all of the journaling and cut the cards into the size I needed to fit into my page protector, which is a 9 pocket protector like a baseball card page protector. Once I had them all printed and cut I decided to sew a line on each journaling card as an accent. This required me to get out my sewing machine. I would consider myself a novice sewer. I have made a few aprons and one chef hat (I needed help with that!) and I once made myself a dress - a maternity dress. By the time I had it done I was far too pregnant to fit into it, but I did wear it home from the hospital.
Because of my lack of experience this is what typically happens when I start sewing:
That's the instruction manual that came with my machine, and it gets a lot of use. My struggle this particular day was the bobbin; for some reason I could not get it to work! I tried many times (see the pile of thread up inthe left hand corner of the picture?) and then I consulted my manual and eventually figured it out.
I got my sewing done as you can see in this photo. My goal wasn't to have perfect looking straight lines, I wanted them to look kind of messy. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! I decided to put the four journaling blocks all together in the same place for every day of the week. That could change as I continue to work on the book.
When I pulled one of the journaling blocks out of the page protector to sew on it I accidently pulled out the photo behind it and didn't realize it until I had done the sewing. So now this photo has the back side of my sewing efforts on it, which certainly wasn't my plan but I can live with it!
I will continue to share my album as I work on it . . . I hope to eventually get it done! I think once I get a plan in place it will go quickly, but as usual the plan it taking a while.
