Well I must say I have been most lucky this week with ADSR- I was able to make a page from my trip overseas with my Mum as a layout.

We spent a day touring the western front in Belgium. This photo was taken at Tyne Cot cemetary, which is the biggest Commonwealth cemetary on the western front.

Credits:

Bubble Scrap Design- Cappuccino

Randi Oh- Masks

natali- Smells of Summer

Font- Jellyka, Estrya's handwriting

It's official... I'm a huge slacker

Well, first I got behind on my layouts... and then I missed a day here and there... and then I started to be filled with guilt about my 365. So unfortunately, it had to go. I just could not prioritise it!

But during it all, I wondered why I was taking on yet ANOTHER project when I have so many unfinished ones of my own. SO I am going back and looking at my 'unfinished business' (d'oh, THAT'S what I should have named my blog) and hopefully having a weekly entry showing off my completed pages. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get a photobook or two printed throughout the year!

To start with, I have half scrapped my overseas trip I took with my Mum and daughter last year. I also need to finish my daughters naming album, my about me album, and so many many others....

So let's see how it goes. I will be watching and learning from all of you who are completing 365, and maybe next year it will be a better time for it. Until then... Let's wrap it up!

Week one layout

I am just so happy to have completed a layout for week one. i just love the little story this page tells for me. So often at home with the kids the days just fly and gel into each other, but here are just special little snippets of things that mattered each day. Officially hooked on Project 365!

Credits: Everything is from Sweet Digi Scraps at Gotta pixel

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The weekend

I'm not even sure what I am up to here! I have been very diligent in taking my photos- that is the easy part! I do have a good excuse that I have a beautiful new laptop to play on, and have yet to sort out all of my stuff. So I will add my images, and hopefully be organised enough to post mt first weeks layout! I was so excited to have accomplished something.

I am only adding yesterdays photo tonight. It has been UNBELIEVABLY hot here. over 40 yesterday and today with no end in sight. The poor kids. On the upside, the Wii has been getting quite a workout, as it lets ted at least move about with some purpose while staying cool inside. One of his favourite games is swordplay- he rushes at the TV and yells out 'You don't eat your peas cheese and toast' before knocking his opponent off the side and into the water! It is quite amusing, especially as his big tactic is just waving the remote around everywhere. he is getting quite good, and I have adopted his technique also (without the yelling- ted provides that for me) and have a score of 916. Almost pro!

Photos for days 2-4

I am finding that I grab my camera, head outside, all ready to take a photo, and I look around and... nothing. Totally devoid of inspiration. How do you pick one image to define your day? Even on a quiet day at home, which is what has been the case so far, each day is still full of so much activity. I find it so hard to get a photo of just one of the kids, because, well, they both were there, they played, but at the same time I can't have 365 photos of the two of them looking at the ground, the sky, ANYWHERE but my camera! So here are three more photos. Josie on the swings, and one of the photos I took to put on Teddy's blog header, for his own 365. You can check it out if you like, it's called 'No bad photos' The concept is to prove that every photo can tell a story of some sort, even if they are not especially good photos. And finally, for today, I have monkey girl crawling into the small space under the BBQ and chatting and singing away to all the bugs.

I am sure that I will only get better at this as the project evolves. I feel so much pressure to get it 'right' at this stage! I have no idea how you get it wrong... So for now, I suppose I just get used to the concept. Let it all sink in, and eventually, it will become a bit more natural. That's the theory, anyway!

New Blog

Well, I have managed to make a new blog background and to install it myself, although I am still confused about having the text overlap the paper so much. Sigh. I think I have more research to do.

But anyway, here today is the official unveiling of my Project 365 blog. It's quite exciting, really. I almost made it through the first day last year, and this year I am holding up well on day 3. If you can keep a new years 'thing' (I don't do resolutions) until easter, you have more chance of keeping them all year.

I have only included my day 1 picture here. It's Ted in his room. We spent all day swapping the kids' rooms over. Ted has outgrown the nursery and I just couldn't take down all the baby things that I put up when I was pregnant with him. So I can live in denial about my babies growing up for just a little bit longer!

Gift for my aunt

We went to Sydney to take the kids to the Wiggles just before Christmas. It was absolutely just so much fun! They had a ball. We met up with my sister and her kids, my little niece and nephew. Ted and his cousin ran riot around the entertainment centre as we waited for the show to start. Thankfully they got alot out of their systems. Poor Alex though was so tired, about half way through the opening act, he fell asleep! I can't imagine my kids doing that! Once Ted got over his disappointment that Greg wasn't there, he really got into it, especially when they sang all the older songs that he likes so much. All in all, a great day, and well worth the trip. Hopefully it will become an annual event for us.
While we were there, we stayed with my aunt. Well, sort of my aunt. Not really, actually. She was married to my uncle, but when they seperated and divorced, we all kept in contact with her, and 15 years down the track we all just hang out. As a thank you for letting us stay, I made her a scrapbook page and framed it, using a photo I had snapped of her and her grandson a fortnight before.
She just adored it. It was wonderful, so I hope to see it hanging up somewhere next time we visit. I always get a little bit nervous giving someone a gift like that- what if they don't want your artwork hanging up, you know? I framed it in a nice white frame with a large matt, and if I do say it, it looked really good.

Credits: Word art by Natali; mask from Youandi; Kit is A smile sweet as spring from cucciola designs