Alright ... week 1 was pretty eventful for us. Apart from the usual excitement of the New Year, our nephew Didi got engaged. Big do and lots of photos taken so week 1 had to have an insert.
Quick aside: as I'm doing 2 pages per week, I've decided that any inserts into a week will be smaller in width than the actual photo pocket pages. I'm using Design A for each 2 week spread. There are other configurations available but I'm going with this one. I'm thinking of using other configurations for other projects ... hmmmm ... crossing fingers that I shall be able to get round to everything I have planned.
Right back to week 1.
Each week will have a "title page". These come as part of the core kit for you to identify the week if you want to (PL is designed to be totally flexible to be what you want it to be ... so experiment and enjoy ... I am!). On my title pages, I've decided to stamp the dates of the week - my weeks run from Sundays (which happened to be 1 Jan 2012) through to Saturdays. I've also decided to indicate the week number and will be using a Typo alpha stamp to stamp "wk" (I guess that'll be some sort of continuity through the entire year though honestly, I'm just really going with the flow as to what makes me happy at that moment ... I'm guessing that should really be the whole point right?).
This page also shows some fireworks we watched while ringing in the New Year with our friends. We also attended a Misteri Jam 12 concert - Jangan Takut Hantu (Don't be scared of ghosts) - which was held on 1 Jan in the evening at Fort Canning Park (yes, our 1 Jan was a very very busy day!). A first for me attending this kind of event and I actually had a really good time. Thank goodness it didn't rain!! I saved the ticket stub and put that in one of the 3x4 slots (note to self ... must keep more bits and bobs to put into the pockets).
The page also has a picture of Didi's cake for Mariam (overflow from the insert ... there were too many yummy photos!) and a photo of another nephew, Yusri with his girlfriend Farah. Just love this photo of the 2 of them!
The right hand page has some photos of Ismon's birthday celebrations. It was his birthday on the 7th. We also went to Arab Street on the 6th to get his birthday pressie (I got him fishing gear so we had to go shopping together otherwise I would have undoubtably bought the wrong stuff!). We stopped in at Fika - a halal Swedish restaurant/cafe - and had some of their yummy cakes!
The last photo is of our Silat kids (Adam's silat team). We had a performance on the 8th for one of our Silat team member's sisters' weddings (sorry about the mouth-full ... both her elder sisters got married on the same day and we were invited to perform). So on the 7th we spent the afternoon and evening rehersing for the performance.
Each week, I'll also be doing a week at a glance slot basically to summerize what's happened during the week. I read it being recommended by another Project Lifer on her blog ... will update here if I can find where I saw that.
Then the insert ... both sides of the insert are basically photos of Didi, Mariam and their various gifts to one another. The insert is a Design G from the Project Life selection. It's a 10x12 size and the photo configuration allows for vertical 4x6 photos too.
Some of the products that I've used in the 4 pages include my Shiny Date Stamper, Versafine Onyx Black ink cube, Typo alpha stamps, AC Thickers (Lullaby), 7 Gypsies label stickers (Romantique), 7 Gypsies Fill in the Blank stickers, Uniball Signo pens (white & gold), AC Precision pens and Sharpie markers. I love the white star and heart clips that I've put on Didi and Mariam's photos but for the life of me, I can't remember where they're from.
That's about it for today. Will hopefully get to do catch up again tomorrow. Till text time ... Peace!
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