Texturize Photo Giveaway

Kate at Chronicals of a Country Girl blog is giving away a beautiful photograph of your choice. Check them out here. My wonderful friend Debra has one of Kate's beautiful photos at her home and I would really, really love to win one for myself.

Diva Dinner

Has it really been two weeks since I blogged? Well, please accept my apologies for not updating sooner. I've been so busy with my 365 project and getting the pictures Photoshoped, printed, organized and put into my binder.

However, tonight I took a break from Project 365 to have dinner with my Darling Diva friends. It was our Valentine's celebration. Complete with the most beautiful Valentine's from Chere. And fabulous cupcakes from Pam. It's so great having a friend who makes the best cakes and cupcakes.

Dinner and the company were wonderful. Here is a little photo of all us, even Baby Diva, Ava. This will be my Project 365 photo entry for today. Thanks for the fun and friendship.

Project 365

For the last few weeks I’ve been busily working on Becky Higgins’ Project 365. While reading various blogs I came across some comments about how excited people were about Project 365. So, I quickly jumped over to Becky’s blog and read up on the project. Basically, you take a photo a day and journal about it. Because all the kits sold out instantaneously, I got to reading about other approaches to this project. There are some awesome ideas out there that lead me to developing my own approach.

For my project 365 I will be doing the following:

We R Memory Keepers 12 x 12 binder This was ordered from Ritz Camera.com
We R Memory Keepers 12 x 12 6 up 4 x 6 photo pages. These came from Scrapbook.com
Downloaded the jpg files from Becky Higgins' Blog and have printed some of those onto matte photo paper
I’m having a blast making my own journaling cards and week of cards using Photoshop Elements 7

Since I am still waiting for the binder to arrive, I have not actually started scrapping the project. I’ve been taking my photos and writing about the day in a little notebook that I carry with me all the time. It’s been great fun trying to figure out what I will take a photo of each day. Becky has said not to stress about taking a photo every single day, but to capture something for each day. It can be receipt from shopping, or a past picture of a memory you may have had that day. There was a day last week that I couldn’t think of anything to take a photo of so I’ll be putting my favorite quote onto a 4 x 6 card and slipping that into the photo pocket for that day. The entire concept is to capture something from everyday life each day for one year. This won’t replace my actual scrapping of layouts, cards etc., just an additional little project. Once it is set up it will be completely manageable if I set aside time to print my photos once a week and jot the journaling down daily.

Down below are some photos of Maggie Holmes’ Project 365 to give you an idea of how it is set up. You can also check out Becky Higgins' blog for more ideas.


One more point of reference will be the January issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine which also has a list of 365 ideas for photography. Does this sound like a project you would like to do sometime?

Quote of the Day: "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." ~Unknown