Project Life - February Cover Page

I have made my February cover page. My father's birthday is January 31st which we celebrated on February 1st so I will add those photos to February's week 1 pages :) I did use a photo from the celebration for my February cover - I tried to take myself out of the photo but it didn't fit well with the way I wanted the page so I am in there :)

February Cover Page - Celebrating Dad's Birthday with all the Grandkids!

Peace & Scrappiness!,
Randi

Project Life - January 29th

We had a great day at the Adventure Aquarium with Jenn, Matt, AJ and Logan! The weather was just right for the few outside 'events' that were open and everything indoors was terrific. It was so much fun to watch you and AJ run from place to place and oooh and aaaaah. I think I enjoyed that the most!

Here are 3 pages of wonderful, happy, fun, joyous, memorable, documented moments of photos from January 29th - the last day I will be documenting January 2012. :)

The Adventure Aquarium - January 29th, 2012
Page 1

Page 2

Page 3 - The Animals - and Mighty Mike!

I do not believe I will have many photos for the first week of February. Sigh. I always say that and usually end up having too many. This time... I just might be right ;)

Peace & Scrappiness,

Randi

Project Life Week 4

It's funny when I look at my photos -- my subject of choice is definitely my Sonshine :) Here are my week 4 pages.

Week 4 - Page 1

Week 4 - Page 2

I did manage more photos than I thought and again ended up with 2 pages :) We went to the Aquarium on Sunday and think this week coming up is going to be full of photos -- I LOVE scrapping this way -- and think I'll add an "aquarium section" to this book. I am still confused about the month thing! IF you are reading this... since it is now February and I still have the 29th, 30th, and 31st to document would that be 1 page and then start February. Oi, am I even making sense? Anywho... thanks for sharing in our daily lives. There are NO ORDINARY MOMENTS.

Peace and Scrappiness!,
Randi

Project Life Week 3

It's been a looooong week. As you will see in my pages I had a treatment and recovery takes some time. Then I caught the sickies from my boys. It's been fun :)

I am posting week 3's pages late even though I had them all done. I took 56 photos this week! I always take a lot... except for the week coming up... I may fall short. Somehow I managed to goof up the dates on some of my pages but I have corrected them. I also realized I am doing 2 pages for each week instead of 1! I jumped into this project hard and fast without really doing any 'research'. What I do love about this project is that anything goes. Perhaps next week I will have 1 page for the week. Now I am wondering how to do week 5 - with January having 3 days and going right into February - (29th, 30th & 31st) I'm doing a cover page for each month so where will this fit in? ;o ... sigh, I am confused yet again! I'll figure it out when I get there.

I've been working and learning my SLR camera. I love it. I especially love taking macro photos. In doing some pricing for lenses I was completely floored and there is NO way I am spending $500+ for 1 lens (not to mention the other one I would like is over $1k). There is a new camera on the market. Jimmy has a background in photography (he really could go pro - just has no interest) and neither do I! Soooo, we are selling the SLR (giving Jake our point and shoot) and have purchased the new Canon SX40 HS. It's coming home tonight :) I am very happy to have made this decision. I'll be able to shoot photos pretty much the same (from what I've seen online, specifically YouTube and other reviews by photographers  - all who seem very impressed). I will not have to purchase any lenses to take macro or zoom -- the specs are powerful and I cannot wait to start shooting with it! Obviously, if I were going to become a pro photographer I would keep my SLR and purchase lenses. I have no desire whatsoever. My only desire is to take great photos for memory keeping (and of the insects and flowers I love to photograph) - and now I will also have a video camera (stereo!) built in. This will be great when Jake starts Tae Kwon Do and softball.

Here it is in all it's glory ::

sweet, eh? 

Here are my pages from Week 3 ::

Week 3- Page 1

Week 3 - Page 2

Peace & Scrappiness :)

Project Life Week 2

I am thoroughly enjoying this project! I prepare the pages during the week and add photos as I take them. I have another project and that is to really learn how to use my DSLR. It's so much easier to walk around with a point and shoot (and throw it in my purse!) but the photos are really not the same. I'll get there. One of Jimmy's majors was photography and let me tell you - WOW - can he take a good photo! Since I am the 'official' memory keeper I take the day-to-day pictures. Anyhow, it's fun and I am thrilled I challenged myself to do this. I know it's 'only' week 2 but, I shall succeed and have a big ass book at the end of the year. weeeee!

Week 2 - Page 1

Week 2 - Page 2

Peace & Scrappiness :) 

Project Life Week 1

I do realize that it is the second week of Project Life (or whatever you may choose to call it) so saying I am completing my goals may be a bit too much. I am keeping up and I love how the system works! It's fun and easy and I cannot wait to have a full book to look back on the year. It's so nice to scrap some of the thousands of photographs I take every year... especially every day life.

I successfully changed the header image here for my blog. Yay, me :)

Here are the Cover Page, The January Cover Page and week 1 in photos (and journaling) that I've completed.

Week 1 - Page 1

Week 1 - Page 2

Peace & Scrapiness!