Week in the Life 2024

This year was extremely light on photos, mainly cause I forgot it was WitL until late on the Monday. Some things I can go back and grab a pic of later but, honestly, I’m not overly worried.

Monday
Slept in. Usual pay week Monday. Organise our budget, menu plan and do the grocery list. Had some self care time for me. Caught up on some TV. Did slow cooked honey soy brisket for tea.

Tuesday
Just pottering around home doing housework. Watched this week’s episode of WWE Raw. K had a doctors appointment in the afternoon, then went to her bestie’s place for a sleepover. Treated A and we got school shop pizza for tea then her choice for dessert.

Wednesday
Payday. Up early to take Paisley, Rhino, Deer, Giraffe, Monkey & Chimp to Just Cats as they are all graduating foster care. Breezer got a vaccination booster. Came home with a bunch of freebies thanks to one of the other foster carers. New cat tree which out kitties love. Grabbed some stuff at Officeworks for organising the bedroom. Home and did the online grocery shop and paid bills.
Picked up K then went down to the Launchpad to see the coordinator of Seagulls to Chips about a few things. Apricot chicken for tea then a quite evening watching craft videos. Signed up for a Art Therapy certificate course.

Thursday
ANZAC Day. Watched lots of ANZAC Day events on TV. Did laundry. Cleaned the lounge room. Overall it was a pretty quiet day. We had Chicken Kyiv and pasta for tea, and the kids had dino nuggets.

Friday
Quiet morning pottering around home. Went to a meeting for one of my web clients. Picked up our Woolies order. Put money in the bank for work. Ordered a Hubbl. Had an afternoon nap. Made beef schnitzels for tea then hot fudge and caramel sauce to go on ice cream for dessert.
Worked on a bunch of stuff for my blogs before heading to bed.

Saturday
Up early for a Saturday and headed into Launceston. Grabbed our fortnightly veggies, then went to Kmart and did some shopping. Grabbed Maccas for lunch then headed to Hillwood to visit Dad.
Did a bunch of cleaning. Started on the sun room and did all the litter trays. Folded all the kids clean clothes. Spent the evening pottering in the bedroom.
Chicken tacos for tea.

Sunday
Big cleaning day and getting ready for back to school tomorrow.
Stripped all the bed, washed sheets and remade beds. Took K out so she could go hang out with E. Did a bunch of washing. Quick clean of the dining room. Folded more clean washing. Made sure bags, clothes and lunch boxes are ready for tomorrow, as Term 2 starts tomorrow.
Had a variety tea – pancakes for A, sushi for K and leftover brisket for J & I.
Watched the last of the videos for the ALP Creative Intensive Organisation course. J had his weekly Sunday gaming session (playing Traveller RPG at the moment) so I did some art and set up my planner for the week and prepped my May pages.
Bed at a reasonable time so we can all get up early tomorrow.

Month in Review – February 2024

Welcome to my second monthly review for 2024. You can find previous monthly reviews here.

Latest posts

  • 100 Day Project
  • 100 Day Project Day 1-10
  • Awesome Ladies Book of Me 2024

Progress on yearly projects

  • Junk Journal January – was set aside for the month
  • Currently Lists – still going
  • Memory Planner – Digital plans for Feb done. February monthlies done
  • ALP Stuff – Book of Me, catching up on classes as part of 100 Day project

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

  • Lots of art journal videos
  • Awesome Ladies Class videos

What I’ve bought

  • More stickers from Temu
  • More storage for my washi

Monthly favourite products

Stamperia Lady Vagabond collection goodies, gifted by my MIL

Upcoming events

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the  monthly review tag

Awesome Ladies Book of Me 2024

I love my Books of Me. I get to tell my stories not just my stories as part of a family, as a mum etc etc.

This year I’m trying a different format – it’s a bound mini book I bought as part of a journaling set (I only wanted the washi and all the goodies, the book was a bonus).

After taking part in the Book of Me Bootcamp I’ve managed to get my theme picked, cover and name pages done, as well as a couple of extra bits from bootcamp.

The theme I’m going with for this book is vintage and steam-punk. I’m a bit of a vintage style bender at the moment and I’m loving it.

Month in Review–January 2024

I’m bringing back my monthly reviews.

Welcome to my crafty month in review.
Each month I’ll be sharing what I’ve posted here, progress on yearly projects, what crafty things I’ve been consuming, any new crafty supplies I’ve bought, and my favourite product of the month. I may even add a head’s up about any workshops or classes that will be happening.
So onto January

Latest posts

Progress on my current and yearly projects

  • Junk Journal January – about half done. Didn’t keep up with it daily but batch created on weekends.
  • Currently Lists – This year I’m doing them in the DayOne app, so far I’m keeping up.
  • Memory Planner – Digital plans for January done. January monthly pages done.
  • Awesome Ladies Project Stuff – Book of Me for 2024 started (I’ll be back to share that this week.)

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

What’s new in the Craft Room

  • Lots of goodies from Temu, mainly stickers, washi & storage
  • Hubby bought me a WRMK Shotbox for my birthday. Can’t wait to use it and get better pics for the socials and my blog

Monthly favourite products

We R Memory Keepers Shotbox product photo

2024 in my Memory Planner

Last year was a bit of a failure for my memory planner. I’ve got all my digital plans done in Photoshop, journaling done in Day One but next to nothing done in the actual book.

This year I have a bit of a plan:

  • Monthly accountability in the Stop the Blur Facebook group I run. Someone suggested it and I’m like yes I need this too. Hoping having a group will keep us all up to date. If you are interested in joining us and a fan of the Heidi Swapp Stop the Blur classes/kits and the Storyline Chapters products, jump on over.
  • Monthly Journaling Club. Another bit of accountability. My Abiding Journal over on her Patreon, is running a free monthly journaling club. Learn more about it here. Hoping it will help with my monthly spreads.
  • Continue doing my digital page plans in Photoshop and journaling in Day One.
  • Accountability here. Sharing my monthly and weekly pages here with you all.

So essentially more accountability this year. I really hope it will keep me on track.

I’m not sure if I will continue subbing to Heidi’s stop the Blur kits when my 12 month sub finishes. The exchange rate is a pain and, honestly I have hardly used any of the stuff I have. I’ll keep doing the monthly classes though as I love the techniques and ideas she shares as well as the monthly printable. Maybe 2024 is my year to use my stash!

Week in the Life 2023

This week just gone I’ve been taking part in Ali Edwards Week in the Life project. This year I gave myself much more grace and less pressure to take photos and document everything. I journaled each day in my DayOne  journal I have set up for Week in the Life as well as using Ali’s Digital Journal in GoodNotes.

I was planning to do this year totally digital and print it out but then I decided to use one of my blank Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters books as it will sit perfectly with my memory planner books. I’ll print out the pages I want from the digital journal, stick them in and embellish.

Once I’m done I’ll be back to update this post with my album gallery.