As I have been enjoying A Year of Mornings, it has inspired me to seek to take daily photos of my own life. The everyday things that don't usually seem important enough to capture on camera, but are important because all of those little things together make up the beautiful fabric of our days.
This morning as I was reading Kim's blog, she mentioned that she was doing Project 365. I jumped over there to see what it was and I was immediately thrilled by this project. The basic premise is take a daily photo of your life in 2009 (with leeway for also memorabilia in lieu of a photo) combined with a bit of journaling all tucked into easy page protectors throughout the year. No adhesives, no major page layouts, no time consuming scrapbooking...just simple photos with simple captions. A year in the life of your family.
And this really pairs well with my word...awareness. This project will cause me to really see meaningful aspects of our daily lives and to take it all in. I love these really inspiring ideas of what to look for as I am living my life quietly at home.
So even if you don't have "the kit", it's still totally inspiring to begin taking daily photos and tucking them into a folder in your computer called "365". And I can only imagine that this will lift our hearts and minds to greater levels of gratitude for all the goodness we have. So much daily goodness. Like warm fires and cozy knitting on the 1st day of a new year!
Here's to our seeing the goodness and capturing it!
10 comments:
oh SO fun - so glad you're doing this project too! Yes - the same thing happened to me... $0 - and a receipt. So hopefully it will work out... I know they were having troubles being slammed with orders according to Becky Higgins' blog. (o; Looking forward to the whole thing - more fun with friends!
I'm looking forward to this project, too! What a great snapshot of a family it will be at the end of a year. :)
I was tempted by the kit but decided against it - looking forward to seeing more of your daily details tho'. You are so right in this is the stuff you cherish later.
great idea... I have a couple of hour to take my first picture...
I have been checking my bloglines umpteen times today, wishing someone would post to their blog! So happy when I saw you did. I love this idea, and have been thinking about doing something like this over the past few days. I am going to try to do it!
Best wishes with your project Aimee. I thought you might be heading in this direction when you mentioned A Year of Mornings. I joined the 365 Flickr group last year, but I petered out in March or April... :( I've learned that an every day kind of commitment like that is a bit challenging for me. But I loved the photos I took and I think it will go SO well with your word of the year! It also provides great fodder for blog photos!! :)
Best wishes for a happy new year!
love, love, love this idea! Unfortunately, they're sold out...but it does give me time to think through whether I can actually commit to it or not!
Thanks for sharing, and enjoy it!!
That sounds so inspiring! I don't think I can commit, but may take some here and there and journal with them when I do. I hope you'll post some of them from time to time to keep us updated.
Shannon
What a brilliant idea! Love how simple it is.
Aimee, you are always a nice breath of fresh air for me. I always feel encouraged and inspired by your thinking and writing and way of living. I'm very slowly catching up on blogs, and I haven't replied here yet because there's so much I want to say-- I want to comment on every post! Instead, I'll just say in this one post how much I've liked reading here again. I wish I could answer some of your fun questions below, but I don't have time. My online time is very limited... Don't want to tie up my mom's phone line!
(This sounds like an email more than a comment, so I suppose I should end it now.) :-)
Blessings to you, Aimee,
Susan
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