To find out more info about Project 365, click here and here. If you're interested in doing your own P365, you'll also find some FREEBIES on BH's blog to download, print and cut out along with some instructions on how to manipulate them in Photoshop (if you have that & are into digital scrappin'). Be sure to check out her post from January 10th. Actually, if you have the time, I encourage reading all of her posts in January so far. There are some great photo taking ideas and some ideas of other items to use instead of the kit that she created. As of this post, there are currently 3 full NEW kits, and a couple of partial kits on eBay up for auction, so if you're feeling lucky and wanna give it a try to get one, then click here.
GOOD LUCK!!!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Project 365
As you all know I am an avid scrapbooker who, like many other scrapbookers out there, just doesn’t have enough time in my life right now to do as much scrapbooking as I’d like to. I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with Project 365. Just in case you’ve been hiding out in a cave-driven there by our current state of affairs-basically it’s Becky Higgins’ new perspective on documenting and preserving her family’s daily life. What you do is take a photo, journal a note, collect a piece of memorabilia, or whatever you want to do, for every day of the week, every month of the year, for an entire year. As you go along you take what you’ve gathered and arrange it in an album or book, and it becomes your family’s documented record of life for that given year. The concept is for EVERYONE to put to use: scrapbookers and non-scrapbookers alike.I’m very excited about this and have not jumped on the bandwagon yet myself for a reason. I tried to convince myself on New Year’s Day that I was going to take at least one photo every single day from that day on until Dec. 31st. About 4 or 5 days later, I miserably failed to keep up. (Which is why I say every year that I’m NOT going to make any resolutions for that year, b/c I can NEVER keep them up past the first week!) In reading more about Project 365, I realized that I could start at any time of the week, month or year. How cool is that??
2 years ago, I was a lucky winner of a birthday contest that Lisa Bearnson was doing on her blog. One of my prizes (out of the big box of goodies that she sent) was the All About Me album that she had previously sold on QVC that I wasn’t able to afford to purchase at that time.
I couldn’t wait to get it all put together and fill it out. 2 years later, I still have yet to put any pics, or journaling in it. At that time I was planning to use it as an album about my life at age 30 (seeing as how turning 30 is a major milestone in a woman’s life). Life on the other hand had other plans for my time. I was pregnant with Little Man and really tired those first 3 months, we had a LOT going on with our house making repairs, replacements, and upgrades, AND to top the year off, my DH made CPO (which put me in early labor & delivery). I never got around to completing that album. Now, when I look at it sitting on top of my album cube knowing it’s STILL empty, I don’t really like the way it makes me feel. I beat myself up inside for not being more organized with my time management over the last 2 years to not have it done. I SHOULD have already had it done by now. IT SHOULD’VE BEEN DONE ALREADY! I could probably try to go back and remember to the best of my ability (after having prego brain) and do it for that year, OR I could just jump right in where I am. (Something I’m learning from FlyLady.) So, here is my Project 365 plan:
Since my birthday is coming up in a few days, for me it’s the start of a brand new year, and technically it is. It’s the start of a new year of another age in my life. I plan to finally use that wonderful album from LB for my Project 365 and call it: “All About Me at 30+2”. I plan to have it stuffed to the max with as many notes, memorabilia, and pics, which by the way I will also start over with taking at least one pic a day as of Day 1-Saturday, the day after my birthday-all the way through January 30th of 2010. I’m very excited to be able to myself another chance to not only put that album to good use, but to also commit myself once again to daily photography & documentation. Most importantly, I’m excited to be able to give myself the wonderful gift of loving myself again by not beating myself up over what should’ve been. 2 years is way too long for an emotional self-beating, and it stops here this weekend!! As far as finding the time to work on my P365, I will also be scheduling it into my day as an important appointment that I must keep with myself, just like all of those other appointments we busy moms flit & flutter to on a daily basis.
I’m also expecting you wonderful people who read this blog to hold me accountable for keeping you updated on how my P365 is going by posting here more frequently than I have been in the past, & sharing some of those pics that will make it into my album. I also encourage you to consider starting your own P365. You can find more details about it this month on Becky Higgins’ blog (see the link on the right under “Friends & Faves”). Becky has also created a fabulous kit just for this specific purpose, as seen above, and unfortunately, it SOLD OUT, but you don’t have to necessarily use that specific kit to do your own. You can find some fabulous tips on Becky’s blog that some of her readers have provided (mostly in the comments section) on how they’ve created their own albums. Again, you can start at ANY time of the month or year, and you don’t even have to be a scrapbooker! We ALL take pictures, and now it’s time to actually do something with them. For those of you who don’t scrapbook, you too can do Project 365! Personally, I feel that it’s very important to leave a part of our legacy to our future generations and this is the absolute PERFECT way to do it.
Have a blessed day! :)
2 years ago, I was a lucky winner of a birthday contest that Lisa Bearnson was doing on her blog. One of my prizes (out of the big box of goodies that she sent) was the All About Me album that she had previously sold on QVC that I wasn’t able to afford to purchase at that time.
I couldn’t wait to get it all put together and fill it out. 2 years later, I still have yet to put any pics, or journaling in it. At that time I was planning to use it as an album about my life at age 30 (seeing as how turning 30 is a major milestone in a woman’s life). Life on the other hand had other plans for my time. I was pregnant with Little Man and really tired those first 3 months, we had a LOT going on with our house making repairs, replacements, and upgrades, AND to top the year off, my DH made CPO (which put me in early labor & delivery). I never got around to completing that album. Now, when I look at it sitting on top of my album cube knowing it’s STILL empty, I don’t really like the way it makes me feel. I beat myself up inside for not being more organized with my time management over the last 2 years to not have it done. I SHOULD have already had it done by now. IT SHOULD’VE BEEN DONE ALREADY! I could probably try to go back and remember to the best of my ability (after having prego brain) and do it for that year, OR I could just jump right in where I am. (Something I’m learning from FlyLady.) So, here is my Project 365 plan:Since my birthday is coming up in a few days, for me it’s the start of a brand new year, and technically it is. It’s the start of a new year of another age in my life. I plan to finally use that wonderful album from LB for my Project 365 and call it: “All About Me at 30+2”. I plan to have it stuffed to the max with as many notes, memorabilia, and pics, which by the way I will also start over with taking at least one pic a day as of Day 1-Saturday, the day after my birthday-all the way through January 30th of 2010. I’m very excited to be able to myself another chance to not only put that album to good use, but to also commit myself once again to daily photography & documentation. Most importantly, I’m excited to be able to give myself the wonderful gift of loving myself again by not beating myself up over what should’ve been. 2 years is way too long for an emotional self-beating, and it stops here this weekend!! As far as finding the time to work on my P365, I will also be scheduling it into my day as an important appointment that I must keep with myself, just like all of those other appointments we busy moms flit & flutter to on a daily basis.
I’m also expecting you wonderful people who read this blog to hold me accountable for keeping you updated on how my P365 is going by posting here more frequently than I have been in the past, & sharing some of those pics that will make it into my album. I also encourage you to consider starting your own P365. You can find more details about it this month on Becky Higgins’ blog (see the link on the right under “Friends & Faves”). Becky has also created a fabulous kit just for this specific purpose, as seen above, and unfortunately, it SOLD OUT, but you don’t have to necessarily use that specific kit to do your own. You can find some fabulous tips on Becky’s blog that some of her readers have provided (mostly in the comments section) on how they’ve created their own albums. Again, you can start at ANY time of the month or year, and you don’t even have to be a scrapbooker! We ALL take pictures, and now it’s time to actually do something with them. For those of you who don’t scrapbook, you too can do Project 365! Personally, I feel that it’s very important to leave a part of our legacy to our future generations and this is the absolute PERFECT way to do it.
Have a blessed day! :)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I have a confession to make.
::CAUTION:: LONG POST::
I have been absent from here for a reason. A lazy reason, I'm ashamed to say, but a reason. When I first set up this blog with the blogpak that I purchased, I had to get my hands a little dirty in some HTML. Now, if you know NOTHING about HTML, as I do, then it can be a little confusing and frustrating to figure out how to get a webpage to look EXACTLY the way you envisioned it in your head. Well, it was for me at least. I had to change the template, adjust the margins, column widths, and add & remove elements. Finally, after many, many, MANY hours of working on it, I finally got it to look as fabulous as it does! However, there was one small problem....the archives. I can't remember exactly what I'd done, or didn't do, but whenever I would make a new post from month to month, or even within that particular month, the archives section was not automatically updating as it was supposed to. I was having to go back in to my dashboard and MANUALLY update the archives with EVERY SINGLE post. Then after that was done, I had to adjust the collapsed months (the months that had more than 1 post for that month) to get it to just show the number of posts for that month and the name of the month. Needless to say, it was very tedious, time-consuming work that involved more HTML. So, for the past few months, I just didn't post at all. Even though I really wanted to quite a bit amidst the election, all of the holiday preparations, family visits, and starting a new job. I just didn't want to take the time to have to do al of that work. Lazy, yes?
So, today, as I ask for your forgiveness, I'm very excited to say that change has come to this here blog. (Did you think I was going to say America?) I went in on the dashboard (blogger's layout & settings) and added a new blog archives section and now I no longer have to update that manually myself. What does that mean?? That means that I will be blogging on a more regular basis from this day foreward. YAY!!! I noticed that it looks a little "off" because of the line break and "blog archives" title that show up after my tag button that I created that says the same thing, but you know what, if you can live with it, then so can I. It's just a minor detail in the overall appearance, and it's a small thing, and there's just no time in life to sweat the small stuff, right?
So, with that being said, check back on a regular basis for new posts, pics, and whatever else tickles my fancy. I'll be posting later tonight, or tomorrow about something that I'm going to be doing this year that has me very excited. There's actually 2 big things, so I'll share them one at a time. Yes, I will be back later with another post, I really will! I PROMISE!! Check back to see what it is.
Until then....ttfn~
:)
I have been absent from here for a reason. A lazy reason, I'm ashamed to say, but a reason. When I first set up this blog with the blogpak that I purchased, I had to get my hands a little dirty in some HTML. Now, if you know NOTHING about HTML, as I do, then it can be a little confusing and frustrating to figure out how to get a webpage to look EXACTLY the way you envisioned it in your head. Well, it was for me at least. I had to change the template, adjust the margins, column widths, and add & remove elements. Finally, after many, many, MANY hours of working on it, I finally got it to look as fabulous as it does! However, there was one small problem....the archives. I can't remember exactly what I'd done, or didn't do, but whenever I would make a new post from month to month, or even within that particular month, the archives section was not automatically updating as it was supposed to. I was having to go back in to my dashboard and MANUALLY update the archives with EVERY SINGLE post. Then after that was done, I had to adjust the collapsed months (the months that had more than 1 post for that month) to get it to just show the number of posts for that month and the name of the month. Needless to say, it was very tedious, time-consuming work that involved more HTML. So, for the past few months, I just didn't post at all. Even though I really wanted to quite a bit amidst the election, all of the holiday preparations, family visits, and starting a new job. I just didn't want to take the time to have to do al of that work. Lazy, yes?
So, today, as I ask for your forgiveness, I'm very excited to say that change has come to this here blog. (Did you think I was going to say America?) I went in on the dashboard (blogger's layout & settings) and added a new blog archives section and now I no longer have to update that manually myself. What does that mean?? That means that I will be blogging on a more regular basis from this day foreward. YAY!!! I noticed that it looks a little "off" because of the line break and "blog archives" title that show up after my tag button that I created that says the same thing, but you know what, if you can live with it, then so can I. It's just a minor detail in the overall appearance, and it's a small thing, and there's just no time in life to sweat the small stuff, right?
So, with that being said, check back on a regular basis for new posts, pics, and whatever else tickles my fancy. I'll be posting later tonight, or tomorrow about something that I'm going to be doing this year that has me very excited. There's actually 2 big things, so I'll share them one at a time. Yes, I will be back later with another post, I really will! I PROMISE!! Check back to see what it is.
Until then....ttfn~
:)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Halloween Week
Hope everyone had a Happy and SAFE Halloween! Our family had a wonderful week. Wednesday we went to the local mobile pumpkin patch and picked out some pumpkins. 
We chose 2 to carve and 2 really little ones for decoration. Thursday night we carved our pumpkins. It was the first time that DH or myself ever carved pumpkins. We did the basic simple triangular design for the faces of our jack-o-lanterns. 
There's only one pic, b/c the 2nd jack didn't get finished until the next day and I just haven't been able to get a pic of it or both of them together yet. Friday, I spent all day working on putting our costumes together. We were "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". 
Quite a bit has been going on since my last post, so I'll be posting updates later this coming week. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
We chose 2 to carve and 2 really little ones for decoration. Thursday night we carved our pumpkins. It was the first time that DH or myself ever carved pumpkins. We did the basic simple triangular design for the faces of our jack-o-lanterns. There's only one pic, b/c the 2nd jack didn't get finished until the next day and I just haven't been able to get a pic of it or both of them together yet. Friday, I spent all day working on putting our costumes together. We were "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". Quite a bit has been going on since my last post, so I'll be posting updates later this coming week. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!Wednesday, October 1, 2008
HERE I AM!!
I bet you thought that I was lost. I bet you thought that I had thrown in the towel on this blogging thing. I bet you thought that ....well, it doesn't really matter what you thought or what you bet....I'm here and I'm back baby! OH! I didn't realize how long it had been since I last posted, and for that I sincerely apologize. What has kept me away you're wondering??? Well let's see....umm.....family & friends & life. You know-those wonderful blessings from above.
Monday, August 11, 2008
did you know?
...that there is a way that I can reply directly back to you whenever you leave a gracious and wonderful comment? When setting up your Blogger profile, if you check the box that says "show my e-mail address" I will be able to send a reply back to the specific comment that you left directly to your e-mail address. You can choose which e-mail address you wish to use or you can set up one just for blogging, if you haven't already. I found this out while searching around the internet about this whole bloggin' experience and found this information here, who obtained it here who eventually obtained it from here . So, if you haven't already and you would like for me to send you a reply back to your comments (after all, blogging is just another form of communicating a 2-way conversation), then by all means PLEASE CHECK YOUR BOX! "Now we know!" "And knowing is half the battle." GO JOE!!
Friday, August 8, 2008
finally!
HERE IT IS! This is the most recent pic of our "Little Gifts from God" (the kids) taken after their church dedication on July 27th. More on that night later.
ggrrrrrr.....
I had a little technical difficulty in writing this post…a.k.a….I fell asleep with my hands on the keys before completing the post. I was all set to post a pic, but sleep deprivation and the hard fast work we did yesterday just invaded my brain & body and needless to say b&b lost the battle. I woke up this morning all revived and ready to post the pic. Then DH calls from work and needs to come pick up my camera to use for a retirement ceremony b/c the boat camera is MIA at the moment and the ceremony starts in half an hour (from the time he called). ACK! I don’t have the pic transferred to the computer yet! How am I going to get it posted up on the blog if I don’t have the card? I can’t. Sooooo…..unfortunately….and I sincerely apologize for this….you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for a recent pic. Good new is that he expects to come back home for the day after the ceremony, so I can post it then. In the meantime, I would like to keave you with something to tide you over… this pic was taken right after Little Man turned 6 mos. old, back in March while we were visiting family in NC.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
WHEEEW!!
After several days of playing around with PSE 6.0 and configuring html (never want to do that again unless I absolutely have to) and rearranging the layout....HERE IT IS!!! I gave up on trying to design my own elements and purchased this totally adorable blogpak from Shabby Miss Jenn Designs. So tell me...how does it look???
On another note, I know you're all just chomping at the bits and patiently waiting for some pics. Considering what time it is...I promise....I'll whet those appetites and post some pics later today. Really! I PROMISE I WILL!!
On another note, I know you're all just chomping at the bits and patiently waiting for some pics. Considering what time it is...I promise....I'll whet those appetites and post some pics later today. Really! I PROMISE I WILL!!
Monday, August 4, 2008
getting there....
Check out the changes and additions I've made. I am still working on it and will also be adding some pics real soon, so stay tuned...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Welcome One and All!!
OK!! I finally did it and took the plunge into the interesting and fascinating world of blogging. Why you may wonder? Because of the BLESSINGS of LIFE!! Because of the BUSYNESS of LIFE!! Because of the BEST (and worst) in LIFE!!! Mainly it's to keep all of our family and friends who seem to have forgotten how to use a phone (j/k), and who are so swamped with flooding inboxes with forwards instead of real actual written e-mails (and you know who you are) in the know on the what's-happenings & goings-on in the Garrett household on a pretty regular basis. I'm still learning my way around so bare with me, but come check us out often for updates, photos, and whatever else I decide to post on here.
Until then....
Until then....
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