I have heard and read many times you should scrapbook your everyday life as well as all those events, vacations and gatherings. When I hear this I think “how boring, I don’t do anything special”. When you think about it, you have about 16 hours in a day, IF you are lucky enough to get 8 hours of sleep a night. One way to do this would be to do a 3 x 3 box across the top, and bottom of a 2 page layout. That would give you 16 blocks in which to put photos, using the center for more detail. You might have to get some help with the picture taking (great time to show your oved one what you do all day) or use the timer setting on your phone.
Do you do specific things on specific days? Depending on your age, you remember the dishtowels our grandmother’s had that had every day of the week. You could put 7 boxes across the middle of the page and title each box for the day of the week and put a picture of what it is you do. Here are some ideas for days of the week photos:
- Sunday – church, football, or whatever consumes your Sundays
- Monday – laundry… you can take a picture of the dirty mountain of laundry or the basket of folded clothes. You could even add a bit extra by mounting the photo on a 6″ x 3″ piece of cardstock folded in half. Inside you might put if kids do their own laundry or if you have a special sock sorter 🙂
- Tuesday – do I dare say ironing these days? Not this girl, so what do you do on Tuesday, perhaps you vaccume the house after a busy weekend.
- Wedensday – grocery shopping, take a picture of your favorite grocery isle.
- Thursday – Do people still dust regularly? maybe this is something you have one of the kids do… take their picture doing it.
- Friday – If you are lucky, Friday is date night. Take a picture on your next date. What else do you do on Friday so you have your weekend free?
- Saturday – hopefully you are not stuck doing housework, but the kids have Saturday morning chores. If you have several children, get a picture of all of them working and put together as a book for this block.
Now that I have shared this idea with you, I am going to have to do a page like this myself. Since my husband and I live with my daughter and her family, I may have to get a bit creative…. check back often to see what I may have come up with!
What are your daily/weekly things you do? Leave a comment below and share with us!