Week In the Life Mini Album - Getting Ready

I know you probably think of me as a jewelry designer and teacher, but I also have other things I like to do.  So I've been sharing things like my art journal and nature journal here on Fridays.I'm excited about a project I'll be doing next week!  It's called Week In The Life and you can read more about it over here on Ali Edwards's website.We so often miss all the everyday parts of our lives.  So Week In The Life is a way of capturing a week in your life, right now, how it is.How this started for me:I am a long time scrapbooker.  (I started in 4th grade!!!  Those scrapbooks weren't what we think of scrapbooking now, but I did gather memorabilia and photos and put them in albums.)  I kind of stopped for several years.  But then I found out about pocket pages and I've been obsessed with pocket page scrapping this year.So when I was recently in a Goodwill store and they were having a 50% off sale, I found a few albums.  I found this 4" x 6" mini album for $0.97!And I got it for half off...so less than 50 cents!I got it even though I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it.  I've been pocket page scrapping and this doesn't have pocket pages.Then I found out about WITL by Ali Edwards and knew it would be perfect!  I didn't really even read the cover when I bought it, but isn't it perfect?Here's a video of me flipping through the album showing you what I added for this project:Next week is a weird week for me.  Well, weird in a way, but not so abnormal, either really, so at first I thought it was a bad week to do the Week In The Life project, but I decided to go for it anyway.Since I'm kind of obsessed with pocket page scrapbooking and have a lot of Project Life cards, I added some into my mini album.  As I showed you in my art journal, I love different sizes in my books.  I find it inspires me much more to see the different sizes and patterns.I love that this album has pockets in the front and back.  I have some extra cards there now, but I can collect my memorabilia in them as I go through my week.My Plan:1.  My album is a blank canvas ready to go.  As I showed you in the video, I plan to use the 4" x 6" cards as dividers for each day and I have now stamped each day on them (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)  I plan to document my day as I go through it and keep my album with me, almost like you might a journal or something similar so I can write down everything that I do.Ali has some really helpful downloadable PDFs to help you keep track of what you do all day for a week, which I thought of using, but I think I'll just go ahead and put stuff right in the album as I go.2.  I'm going to collect receipts and stuff along the way.  I'm planning on just adhering it right in my album each night so it's easier to keep straight, but that may change.  Typically I like to see an entire layout before I commit to adhering things down, but I think I want to take this project more like a smash book or something.  I want to get the stuff in there as quickly as possible.3.  After the week is over, I'll get the photos printed and I'll add them in the book by punching holes in them and making them their own pages.  I will probably adhere them back to back so there aren't blank sides to them or I might add some to patterned paper or journaling cards so the backs aren't blank.4.  Then I'll embellish and it will be done.  I'm trying to just give myself only an additional week to complete it.  I've said it here and in the video, so hopefully I'll be done and be able to show you how it went.I'm curious, do I have any scrapbookers here?  Is anyone else doing WITL?UPDATE:  See my completed album here.  (It turned out quite differently than I intended.)