A Week in the Life :: Saturday and some thoughts on bringing it all together

The weekend is here...hang on a minute, it's nearly halfway done :-(

Today actually seemed quite long for a weekend-day. Probably because I've been awake since 7am and the baby slept all night! WOOP! I got 8 hours uninterrupted sleep last night. That is cause for a HUGE celebration in this house!

Here's how Saturday has looked...

G dragged out the mini trampoline which baby took an almost instant liking to... 

I had a bit of time to myself before G headed out for football. Updated some Week in the Life stuff (sorting photos into folders for each day, deleting duplicates etc)...

Plus I made quite a simple front cover window title page for what will become my Week in the Life album...

We spent some time watching birds playing in the garden...

I refilled my home-made baby wipes spray...

We spent some time in the warm sunshine in the back garden...

the dog was in heaven...

I've been taking an Instax every day for this project (to go in the album) and lined up all the photos so far and took a photo...

Chopping apples to make an apple pie...

:: As for album progress :: 

I've got each days photos to be printed down to around 30. 

I need to have a play around with my album and see how many photos I think I can fit in for each day. 

The album is 8x8 and I am allocating 4 pages for each day. I've also been working on each day's title photograph. I edited a photo for each day so far to show the day name as well. Here's an example...

I'm planning to print this photo 6x4 or 5x7 for each day and have that on a page with the instax shot (if it'll fit) and possibly some notes. Then the next 2 pages will be mosaic type style of mini photos from the day (this is where I need to work out how many I can fit in depending on orientation. I'm also wondering if I can crop them all to square shape?). I'm not 100% sure about the 4th page yet. I'm guessing I'm going to need more room for notes and maybe a couple more highlighted photos (but printed small rather than 6x4).

This could all change, of course, once I have the images printed in front of me!

I'm hoping to get the photos sorted and printed during the week and then *fingers crossed* start scrapping them next weekend. I'm excited to see how this is all going to come together as an album :-)

You can see all my Week in the Life posts here and learn more about the project at Ali Edwards website here.