A Project Life… memory keeping!

Happy New Year!!  I’m so excited for 2012, and can’t wait to do the sessions I already have booked for this year!

In the last few weeks I’ve discovered Pinterest  have you discovered it yet?  OHHH…. MYYYYY…. GOSH!!  I was trying to describe it to a friend, and I said think of having all your gorgeous magazines in one place AND organized!  Swooooon.  I get lost there sometimes. 

At one point in my obsession browsing  I came across a pin about Project Life by Becky Higgins… so I jumped over there to see what that was all about.  It’s a wonderful scrapbooking  memory keeping product.  I scrapped for years (insert here before I became a Mom).  It combined two of my great loves photography, and crafts.  I was a Creative Memories girl for years, and I still have a closet full of their stuff in my basement. 

Then I was introduced to digital scrapbooking which I would do, but never print the pages, so I have them all in my computer.  I loved digital b/c you could customize the size of your images & embellishments… required less planning with the photo lab.

However, now I’m faced with having a ton of printed photos sitting in a closet in my basement in boxes.  Enter Project Life.  I can COMBINE the two!!  I’m beside myself excited. 

This is my first digital page using a Project Life layout… I’m waiting on the hybrid scrapbooking products for now.

Day 3: Christmas Tree

UPDATED List

I switched some of the items around… Those that have changed are highlighted in green… with a 4 year old in the house there is NO way I was going to have wrapped presents under the tree on the 4th!

1. Something Red 
2. A list
3. The Christmas tree
4. Holiday Greetings

5. Something warm and tasty
6. A candy cane (or many)
7. A wreath with a red bow
8. Stamped and addressed Christmas cards
9. Santa Claus
10. Away in a manger
11. Ribbons and bows
12. Something sticky
13. Reindeer
14. A decked hall
15. Silver bells
16. A hippopotamus
17. Under the mistletoe
18. A cup of cheer
19. Toys in every store
20. A winter wonderland
21. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
22. A Shining Star
23. Children Sleeping
24. Tree with wrapped presents underneath.
25. The number “25”

Day 2: A List

 

25 Days 1:Red

So today’s challenge was red… my day got away from me so I only got to take a few pics of one red wreath… I’m not loving this… I did some funky editing on it…

Tomorrow is ‘a list’… I’ve got this one covered as I have lists left & right… I may get a bit more creative though!

25 Day Project

I’ve attempted a 365 day photo project (where you take a photo a day for a year)… I think I made it to April (which is pretty good for me).

Anyway… over on pinterest (if you haven’t checked this site out yet… OH BE STILL MY HEART). It’s like having ALL your favorite lifestyle, homemaking, etc magazines, websites all in one place.  So fun!  You set up bulletin boards of your ‘favorite things’ by category.  I set up some for color the other day… for example, this is my ‘pink swoon’ board… such sweet bliss!

So I was on pinterest, and came across the 25 days of Christmas photo challenge… so for the first 25 days of December I’ll follow these guidelines, and post a photo here & on my FB page… Join  me if you want & upload your photo to my FB page… all 25 days, or just a few.

1. Something Red 
2. A list
3. The Christmas tree
4. Presents wrapped under the tree
5. Something warm and tasty
6. A candy cane (or many)
7. A wreath with a red bow
8. Stamped and addressed Christmas cards
9. Santa Claus
10. Away in a manger
11. Ribbons and bows
12. Something sticky
13. Reindeer
14. A decked hall
15. Silver bells
16. A hippopotamus
17. Under the mistletoe
18. A cup of cheer
19. Toys in every store
20. A winter wonderland
21. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
22. Holiday greetings
23. A shining star
24. Children, sleeping
25. The number “25”

On another note I had my first mini-session for Christmas this past weekend, and loved it!  More mini-sessions this weekend contact me for a slot!

Why I love what I do…

My goal in every session is to capture the subject…. not make the subject look like what I think he/she or they SHOULD look like.  That’s why I love my job!  I’ve had sessions on lots of different venues/locales, and I’ve loved them all.

This past Sunday I had the privilege of doing senior yearbook session with one of my best friends sons.  When I met my friend this young man was 2… as I’m gazing through my viewfinder at him during our session I can’t help but remember back to those pre-school pictures she showed me of him all those years ago… I turned to her and said “I can’t believe I’m taking his SENIOR pictures!”

Another thing that made this session unique is that sitting this guy in a meadow of wildflowers wouldn’t fly… he wanted graffiti! He took me to a skate park… I’ve never been in a skate park before in my life.  I was so excited.  I loved the idea of doing something urban, with gritty edits that I knew would just fit HIM! 

And a nice non-graffiti for Mom!

Don’t get me wrong I still love my meadows, and foliage, but it’s so much fun to do something different once in awhile!