On one of my many visits to Facebook at the beginning of the year, I saw a post from a friend asking if anyone would like to join her on a new challenge: to take one photo a day, every day, for the entire year. I instantly responded that I would be willing to take this challenge on without hesitation. I've already done this all of December 2010 for my December Daily 2010 project (which I may share when I find the time to do so), why not keep it going. So far, so good. I have actually managed to take many photos per day, every day, since the beginning of this year.
Being a scrapbooker, I can't stop at just taking photos. I need to record and display them in some way. That's when I found Becky Higgins Project Life kit. This is not the traditional scrapbooking technique I am accustomed to, but I really love it. It is the perfect way to get the photos displayed with journaling to go with each one without taking a ton of time (an amount that I don't really have).
I have been taking a photo a day of my everyday life. So far, it includes people, everyday items and nature. It includes my life. I have always been good at recording the bigger occasions like birthdays, vacations, etc., but I have yet to have a record of my everyday life. I am hoping one day a family member generations down the road will come across this record and learn a little more about me than they would from the bigger occasion records. It's something I wish I had for so many of my own family members from generations past.
This is one of the reasons I started this blog. I wanted to record/journal everday life even if I don't get the chance to record it "every day." For the purpose of keeping my posts from being an eye sore, I plan to just post one photo per week on this little 'ole blog I've started. If anyone would like to join me on this challenge, it's not too late.
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