Project Life

Have you heard of Project Life?  Or Project 365?  It consists of taking a picture every day for a year of your every day life.  You can start it on January 1st, the beginning of a new year, or on your birthday, or just whenever you want to.  And whether it's a picture of a meal you've eaten or the price of gas or a special occasion or a holiday, anything is fair game when it comes to taking  the photographs.  It's all about your life in a year.  I've seen blogs where people post a picture a day and then there are kits out there to make a scrapbook out of all the pictures and journal about them.  

I've known about it for a few years now and always thought it would be a fun thing to do, except that I felt like my life is too boring for it.  But this year, I decided that one of my New Years Resolutions would be to just go ahead and do it, boring or not,  beginning on my  56th birthday. (I really would like Sean Michael to do it also when he turns 16 in September.....we'll see how that turns out....)  Luckily there was a scrapbooking show on HSN in March and they had the Project Life album kits for a really great price and I ordered a couple, which also helped galvanize me into starting it.

So,  on April 24, 2013, I began the project.  I had gone to the zoo with Janie and she took my picture at the Sea Otter exhibit, and I took a few of the giraffes. Since then, I have taken a picture almost every day (there has been a day here or there that was missed, but for the most part I have been very consistent) of whatever suits my fancy of whats happening.  It's interesting too that I have had things to take pictures of almost everyday, and actually more than one picture at that.  Here are just a few:

My sunglasses collection that I just took yesterday:

My porch that I finished this weekend:

My mom and Nicole and Sean Michael on Mother's Day:

Sean Michael in an iris bed at a rest stop the Saturday before Mother's Day:

And a Mother's Day card from Beau:

Now I haven't actually printed out the pictures yet because my phone needs to have an upgrade (which everytime I try it just won't do it, so I have to transfer the pics to the computer to a memory card), but eventually I will get all that done I hope.  My laptop has seemed to have died, and my craftroom is a disaster area after the basement flood so I can't quite get to that computer yet (well, if I would get in there and clean up I could. lol), but hope will prevail!  In the meantime, when I take pictures with my phone (which is what I have been using for this project), I then go into the notes section and put in the day and what I took a picture of, so that when I do put it all in the album, I will be able to remember what day and what pic, etc.

Anyways,  I'm almost a month into Project 365 and really enjoying it, boring life or not.  Of course in the end I may be the only one who ever looks at it and cares, but maybe 30 years from now someone will find it and think "What a cool thing to do!"  Or not.  I suppose as long as I enjoy it, that's all that counts.

So if you see me with my phone in hand, ready to take a picture, smile for me. We're creating memories and history.