Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it: PIECES OF JOY IS COMING Are you ready for Pieces Of Joy? Each day next week Ali will be sharing her response to the daily prompts in the Pieces of Joy notebook. This project is a great opportunity for quick and simple documenting at its best! Ali’s got a blog post up with the prompt details, links to past Pieces Of Life projects so you can see what ..read more

Quick reminder that you are invited to join Ali next week as she embarks on the next chapter in our Pieces Of Life project: Pieces of Joy.  Past Pieces Of Life themes:  Pieces Of Me Pieces Of Home Pieces Of The Past Pieces Of Play Each Pieces Of Life project consists of seven storytelling prompts - one for each day over the course of the week. Ali has been using notebooks to document these stories but you can choose your own adventure and simply share these prompts on Instagram, in a traditional scrapbook, in pocket pages, or even in a ..read more

Hello ,story crafting friends! It's Laura Wonsik here and I'm excited to share my completed 2024 Week in the Life album along with a few thoughts about my experience this year. This was my 8th year completing this project and if you catched the Instagram Live where I chatted with Ali, you might remember me sharing how much more relaxed I have become about this project than when I started. The chronology isn't perfect and not every story is told- imperfect and messy just like my life. One thing that I find very helpful in pulling together large project albums like this is having a repeated fo ..read more

I gave myself permission not to come back to my desk last night (Sunday) in order to simply enjoy the end of my weekend/week.  Sunday was what I hoped it would be: a day spent doing some of the things I love best including puttering around the house, being outside, connecting, reading, napping, and spending time with Aaron.  Here's a look at some pieces of my Sunday:  Sunday started early for me and Betty with a drive to Mt. Pisgah to meet some friends at 8am for a long walk in a local park where the dogs can be off leash if they can be easily recalled (lucky fo ..read more

Here's a look at my calm, easy, late-to-wake-up, pet snuggling, rainy, dog-walking, plant-digging, book-reading, green loving, laundry switching Saturday.  ..read more

Friday started when I woke up and immediately ran through the list of all the things on my mental list for today. Anyone else do that?  I also had a bunch of eyes on me.  Keeping my glasses clean is an ongoing battle.  Finishing up a bit of reading on the way to bagels. First up was taking Anna and her friend Libby to their Friday morning bagel gathering. They started doing this at the beginning of the year and it’s been such a fun tradition. And they let me hang out and listen to their conversations about sports and school and the weekend. It makes me so happy to know ..read more

Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it: WEEK IN THE LIFE 2024 IS HERE Monday we kicked-off our community documenting week for 2024 Week In The Life™. All this week Ali's been sharing her words + photos over on the blog. We've also had several live chats over on Instagram. Find them here. Ali will continue to share her daily posts, through the end of the documenting week and then wil ..read more

Thursday was a pretty quiet day overall which is representative of lots of days in this particular season of life.  Today I'm giving thanks for this very ordinary day working from home and getting Anna where she needed to go. I don't long for anything different.  We woke up to rain which is just fine with me for a couple days. It means I can wait a bit longer to turn on the sprinklers and all the things that are growing will be super happy to have a good long drink.  I got a note from someone on IG yesterday reaching out to make sure everything was okay because my eyes looked ..read more

Walking into the bathroom first thing and finding both cats on the counter is definitely worth a photo. Ernie (the one on the left) is an only-drink-from-running-water cat. Actually he really only drinks from faucets. We tried one of those cat fountains and he wasn't into that either. Sam (the one on the right - he's the one who is always in his basket in my office) has recently decided that he wants to drink only very fresh water also but he prefers it in a small dish.  I took a shower first thing today and brought my phone in with me to listen to a podcast. I decided to try a new ..read more

Today I'm sharing a look at Week 15 in my Project Life album for 2024.  I had lots of photos for this particular week because I took Anna to a big volleyball tournament in Reno. I added a full 9x12 page protector as an insert to hold those photos/stories.  For this one I mainly used pieces from the April Stories By The Month kit.  Let's dive into my process video:  Here's a look at the spread:  For this week I decided to use the vellum frames (and one paper version of the same design) from the April SBTM kit to hold some of my photos. I cropped them in Pho ..read more