Project 365

I took the plunge and decided to join the latest movement which is Project 365. The idea is to take a photo everyday of the year, and scrap it, with the end result showing a snapshot of your everyday life. The photo can be of whatever you like. It can be a person, an object, a sunset...anything that captures your fancy. Some people use this project to improve their camera skills, while others use it simply to document the everyday. I'm in the latter group, though I'm sure my photos will get better as I go along. Doing this for a whole year is ambitious. I already hummed and ha'ed long enough to start late (12 Jan instead of 1 Jan), but hopefully I can keep it going. Here are the 2 pages I've done already:


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My superpowers

I found an interesting journal prompt online the other day, and decided it was time I did a layout for my own album for a change:



The journalling can be read easier HERE.

More pages

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I always knew she was a winner...

After 4 days of being cooped in the house while Nana and I sewed, we let Brooke choose an activity we could all do together. She chose bowling. We had a great time, and somehow the LITTLEST team member won! Hahaha, what a hoot!

A happy girl...

A Year in Review

Sew....what's up?

I've just spent the last four days from breakfast to bedtime, sewing curtains for our new house, and if I never sew another curtain again it'll be too soon. Thank goodness DH put the call out to his Mum to fly up and give me a hand - she's a lifesaver, and a way better seamstress than me. Half of the curtains in the house were too short, so we had to add a band of material to the bottom (and add to the lining as well), while the other half were too long and we had to shorten them. Sounds easy huh. Well it wasn't awfully hard, it's just the sheer volume of them that we had to do. So...the end result is the house looks GREAT! I think I'll have to hide my mother in law's plane tickets somewhere, then she'll just have to stay here. Thanks to my Mum too for the loan of her sewing machine. Mine has something wrong with the tension, and I think I'm going to have to get it serviced.

During all of this DH put up shelves in the wardrobes and the girls played quite happily around us - sooooo well behaved. We told Brooke she could choose an activity today as a reward, and she immediately came up with bowling. Just as well it's an indoor activity since the weather today is miserable and wet. Not that we're complaining - we've just had a whole week of hot, humid weather, so this is a good cool down.

Did I mention in an earlier post that I'm getting all organised? I figured with the size of this place that I would need a schedule or management system to keep on top of the cleaning and all the other little things that go into running a home, without me having to clean all day every day. I found The FlyLady online (www.flylady.com) who has some great ideas and systems that I think would work for me, so I've been busy implementing them.

I made myself a home management binder, and in it I have my calendar, my daily routines and cleaning schedules, a monthly menu, everyone's phone numbers and contact info, important dates, and a host of cleaning tips and tricks that will help make my life easier. I'm sure I'll add to it as I go, but it's great to have everything I need in one place, and the systems I'm using are already making a difference in our home. I feel at peace. I've lost that "what have I forgotten to do" feeling. And I'm excited about it. I'm still working out the kinks - it's only been one week, and it takes 28 days for something to become a habit, but it's working so far. The monthly menu is fabulous. Previously, deciding what to have for dinner was always last minute, and a pain in the butt. Now I know in advance what we're eating, our diet is more varied, and I know we have the ingredients to make it. Sooooo easy, I don't know why I haven't done it before.

With all this organising and sewing, I haven't scrapped much, but did manage to finish this page the other day:



And this one just after Christmas:

Bring on the New Year

We had a lovely Christmas Day that mainly consisted of opening presents, having breakfast, opening more presents, then relaxing for the rest of the day while the girls played with their new treasures. Murphy's law states that no matter how flash the present, the kids will play with the box it came in more than the toy itself. How true we found that to be:



The girls got a lot of lovely gifts though. Brooke loved the letter writing box I made her. Inside the box is writing paper, envelopes, stamps, stick on address labels and a special Disney Princess pen.



Elisa got a double pram which she just loves:



Brooke got a baby capsule



And here is Elisa carrying around Brooke's new sleeping bag.



They of course got a lot of other things, but being the great photographer that I am, I didn't capture everything like I should have.