Life is in the Details

Photos on the 25th already!!

I can't believe that tomorrow is the 25th again. I think with my Week in the Life photos a couple weeks ago, it seems like I  must have taken the 25th ones already, but tomorrow is the day! I actually plan to spend the day at home, in the rain, scrapbooking. When you are a scrapbooker, you look forward to rainy days! 

I definitely want to finish up my Week in the Life Album.  It's pretty close to being done, so that shouldn't be too hard, and maybe even catch up on my Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life class. I will post pictures.  

I also want to head over to Lowe's this weekend for paint chips! For my bedroom, and for my laundry room. It's time to get the ball rolling on that list!  And carpet coming soon! Maybe I'll give that to myself for Christmas. 

Photos on the 25th tomorrow

 

Hopefully I'll remember my camera tomorrow unlike the past couple months where I have just been distracted or unprepared. 

There has actually been a sign on the local elementary school for the past few weeks saying that Picture Day is on September 25th, so I've had a reminder literally spelled out for me as I drive past on my way to work! I want to remember to get a picture of that sign tomorrow too. 

I've actually been sort of distracted this week anyway, with this huge economic bailout in the country. The President just finished his address to the nation. It's a bit unsettling. I have resisted checking my 401k or my Sharebuilder account. I'm going to just ignore them for a while and check again when I'm feeling a bit better about the state of our financial markets. McCain has suspended his campaign, and has suggested postponing the debate set for Friday. Obama and McCain have made a joint statement for partisan politics to be put aside and a solution reached. (Which unfortunately still seem like a political move on both their parts)

It's a nerve-wracking time in our country. Fred says not to worry, and that in the long term this will just be a blip on the radar. I hope he's right! 

  

And  to end on a positive note, since I hate to be a bummer. George emailed me the other day looking for some cookies to serve at his debate party on Friday, and I directed him to Elenis cookies. Aren't they adorable? These cookie images are the happiest things about politics that I've seen in a while. I have never purchased cookies from this company, just admired them from afar and looked to them for creative inspiration when I was decorating cakes and cookies a lot a few years back. But he actually went into NY and bought them! I told him to save me one! Just so cute!

Photos on the 25th

Here is this month's mosaic! I was very distracted yesterday taking my pictures because I finally received Ali Edwards' new book Sharing Your Story: Recording Life's Details with Minibooks and I couldn't wait to dig in to the book! But I still had the lens I had rented for the baby's first days in the hospital, so I felt obliged to put down the book, and take some pictures.  I didn't take pictures at work yesterday, but I got some in at lunchtime, and then after work.  And I had to include the first day of the Democratic National Convention with Michelle Obama being the main speech of the evening.  I still don't know who I'll vote for but her speech was fantastic.  I really like her.  Tonight I'm watching Hillary, right at this moment actually. It looks like she's getting behind Barack Obama. But I'll have to watch further to see if she actually means it. I keep thinking she'll get into that voting booth behind the curtain and either vote for McCain, or write in her own name!! (kidding... I think)

I also have been doing lots of scrapbooking, I made a minibook for Katie's first day, and another one about what I did this Summer. I am planning to go to Kim's this weekend, so I'm going to try to remember to take picture's of Katie's album, since I didn't have time before I left to the hospital to give it to her . So I'll post pictures after this weekend of that.  And hopefully I'll get the Summer album pictures uploaded tomorrow. 

Tomorrow is also Jason's birthday!! So Happy Birthday to Jay! 

Oh and I'll leave you with this cute picture of my niece.  This is her way of communicating to the paparazzi (me) that she has had enough! 

Pictures on the 25th

Time for pictures again tomorrow! I can't believe I'm already 5 months into this project! Amazing!

It actually seems like since Katie was born on Wednesday, all I've been doing is taking pictures!! I took 300+ on Wednesday, then another 150 or so on Thursday. I had rented an awesome camera lens a Nikon 17-55 f2.8, to be sure I could get some great pictures at the hospital. And make sure that every picture isn't at the 50 mm fixed distance. It was very nice to have such a great lens. Hopefully someday I can just purchase it!

But since then, I've been taking lots of random pictures since I had this fun lens to play with until this upcoming Tuesday! Which includes my picture day tomorrow. You'd think with all this picture taking I'd be able to include a picture with this entry, but I just don't have the energy to open Photoshop to resize the picture. I apologize. More pictures coming soon!

Reminder!

Pictures on the 25th tomorrow.  You can read about this everyday pictures project I have been working on here.

I have to work, but only until noon, so hopefully I'll find some fun things to do tomorrow!

A little behind.

My photos on the 25th started out as a scrapbooking project.  I had intended to take the pictures and then scrapbook the photos into a calendar as suggested by Shimelle, who is teaching the class.  I bought the calendar and fully intended to scrap the photos, but then April was over, May was over, and Summer was here.  I was spending more and more time outside on weekends and didn't feel like going up to my scrap room after work to work on the calendar. 

A few weeks ago, I started thinking about scrapping the photos digitally and making a digital album for the entire year of all the photos taken on the 25th.  I thought if I used a template in Photoshop, it would be simple to add the photos to each month and just adjust the journaling and some of the embellishments to add some variety. 

At first I thought I would use the Ali Edwards template on Shutterfly, that I have been wanting to try.  And I started putting the photos into the Shutterfly website, but the album template didn't have the ability to change the titles on the pages, or other elements that didn't lend itself to a year long everyday type album.  So although I fully intend to finish doing that album with other everyday photos that I take, I decided to look for another template that could work in Photoshop, that I could modify more easily.  I actually emailed Ali Edwards to find out if she already had another template on the market that would be more suitable for a year long, monthly album.  She said that she had posted a template to Designer Digitals for a photo book that might work for me. It displays 10 photos per layout. 

I bought the template, which is intended for a Today You book.  I think this book would make a great gift for someone that you love, parent, spouse or child.  But I just wanted it for the template (photo layout) and since it is a Photoshop layout, I could remove the elements that didn't work for my album, which was something I couldn't do with the Shutterfly album.

So this is my first April layout.  As I said I'm a little bit behind, but now that I have the book templates, I hope to be caught up before July 25th.

This layout uses a few different Designer Digital kits: Today You book by Ali Edwards, Dated Journalers2 , Title + Jouraling Blocks No.1 , Checklists No.1 , Everyday Hand Drawn Brushes , Weathered Neutrals Paper , and Pina Paper Pack .

Again I am wishing that I had that Wacom tablet so that I could make my own brushes, like the cool ones that Ali Edwards makes, if I get it before the end of this project, maybe I'll add in my own handwriting!

I will post the other layouts for May and June as I finish them.

Pictures on the 25th

I'm a few days late with pictures this month.  I have been very busy at work, and I've been mulling over whether or not to add another puppy to my furry family, and ultimately decided against it.  But it's been sort of stressful the last few days thinking about what to do. 

Today I have been sucked in by the Hallmark Channel.  I watched two episodes of Little House on the Prairie, and two American Girl movies and now another movie about a kid who was abandoned by his mother and has pretended to be deaf all his life.  Drama all around, and I love it! I think it's time to start being productive though, at least try!

So here are the pictures from the 25th.  I think tomorrow I'm going to try to start doing the scrapbooking layouts for this monthly picture collection that was the real intention of this project from the start. I bought a Making Memories calendar to put the layouts in, and it's sitting upstairs collecting dust, so it's time to start scrapping the pictures I've taken.

Here are my Pictures on the 25th from June!

   

Pictures taken.

I just finished my pictures on the 25th, I'll post them tomorrow.  Too sleepy right now. Too many games of Facebook Scramble played this evening. Good night.

Photos on the 25th.

I started doing an online class last month where we are to take photos on the 25th of each month for a year to get an idea of really what our everyday life is like.  It's just an arbitrary day to pick, but because of that it makes it more authentic.  Although I have considered doing special stuff on the 25th to make myself seem more interesting. lol So far that hasn't happened though, and yesterday I was home almost the whole day.  Mostly on the computer, and then I went over to Whole Foods, but I was just home, had lunch outside. Ana is really into birds this year so we went to a wild bird store for seed and suet cakes.  This is a really normal day for me, so I guess it's working. I am documenting my everyday life.   So these are a few from yesterday.  I should have really taken a picture of myself, but I never got around to it.  I have to make a point to do that next month. 

Last night I got an email from George saying that he was having a bbq tomorrow afternoon, today, for Memorial Day.  I'd really love to go because I'm sure it would be very fun, but I'm just not sure I am up for the drive, since I was just about 5 minutes away from there on Saturday when I went to the park.  It's still early but I'll have to decide soon. What a gorgeous day though, it certainly is a perfect day for a bbq! At the very least I should be outside today, so that's what I'm going to go do now.