A Day In The Life Pie Chart

In creating today's layout, I first had to work out a little word problem, much like those you dreaded in math class back in elementary school.

If a complete circle represents an entire day, 24 hours, then how many degrees equals one hour?  Answer: 15 degrees.

(See kids, you do make use of that math education later on in life...and I even used one of your old protractors to measure my triangular pieces of patterned paper.)

I figured this would be a fun overview of my 12 year old's daily life, so I wanted the chart to give a fairly accurate representation of a typical day during the school year. Activities such as eating, sleeping, and swimming were each given a different colorful patterned paper, and the amount of time spent doing each was approximated and translated into pieces of the pie. Since sleeping and school were huge portions, I grouped them together and overlapped their pieces with my photo.

 

In keeping with the clean bright colors of this page, I decided to use pen-stitching in place of inked edges to accentuate the various paper pieces.

Most of the papers used on this layout are features of Scraptastic's Hall Pass kit, but you might recognize a few papers from the last two month's kits. Scraps from Just Beachy and The Story Begins were included to give me a good mix of bright colors and patterns. I love how great the woodgrain paper looks behind those word bubbles.

What do you think of this trend? Have you incorporated a pie chart on a scrapbook page of your own? Do you have plans to try it yourself?