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Week In The Life™ 2025 | Ali's Album Set Up/Design Formula

Thanks for all your support on our Week In The Life™ launch!

I had so much fun doing a Q+A on Instagram that I ended up getting my album all set up with a design formula using pieces from the collection.

During the week of June 2nd I’ll be using the notebook to capture my stories - it’ll be wonderfully messy + loose + something I can keep close by as I go about my everyday life. After that I’ll print out my photos and figure out what words I want to add into the album. They will be stored together when I’m all done!

As with all our projects, there isn’t a right or a wrong way to approach this. It really depends on your own season of life and what makes sense and sounds enjoyable to you. The notebook might feel just right this year or you might want to go all in and do both or you might want to use your stash! It’s always less about the products and more about the storytelling - our goal is simply to create products that can be story sparks and homes for your memory keeping adventures.

More to come as we get closer to the documenting week! If you’d like to see what past completed projects check out our archives here.

Here's a flip through of my whole album that's ready for words and photos:

And here are the individual images of Monday (all the other days will follow the same design formula):

You can see my title page at the top of this post that uses a pattern paper with a cut out journal card on top. I also added the 2025 sticker from the sticker sheet in the Main Kit.

On the back of that page I'll be adding a reason why and I've attached one of the 1/2 circles with a paper clip to remind myself to use that when I work on that page.

From there each day will begin with a transparency. I cut down the 10x8 transparencies to fit into the 6x8 album (I'm saving the extras and may use them in the album when I'm putting it all together).

The next page in my formula is the 4x4 card (Main Kit) added into the album using a 4x4 page attacher.

Any place you see white or cream in this album is a space that will be a home for photos or words after the documenting week. Next up is a 3-pocket page protector with the Monday card and the vellum pocket and scalloped card (Main Kit).

On the back of that page protector I'm including the plastic quote (love how it peeks up out of the top of the page protector) and the "life in numbers" oval from the By The Numbers kit. The watercolor scallop 4x6 card is from the paper pack.

I decided to stitch the scalloped number 3x8 card to the days of the week pattern paper. I did this for each day of the week.

Next I've got a 2x2 page protector that's holding 1/2 circles, 2x2 cards from the paper pack, and some of the chipboard pieces from the Main Kit.

And then I've got the scalloped color blocked page next. I'm excited to see what I end up adding on here - this would be a fun place for stamping or adding numbers/things counted or more photos.