The Start of Project 365

When I decided to join Project 365 I intended to post my pictures and layouts on Crafter's Boutique (my Scrapbooking Blog), but the more I think about the spirit of the project; the more I think that this would be perfect to post on Borrowed Moments.

The idea of the project is to chronicle a year in our life with 365 photographs taken once a day. It is hard to sum up our daily lives with one picture. It is even harder to put the summation of that life into a few sentences.

One of the first questions I had when reading about Project 365, was what my personal reasons would be for taking part. The answer was two-fold. I am hoping to improve my skill as a photographer and a storyteller. My scrapbooks always seem to be lacking when it comes to the journaling and capturing the emotional message of the pictures. Let's hope that project 365 will help me to grow in this area.

This will be a learning process and I can't wait to share it with all of the others who have decided to take the same journey.

Leave Bree and I comments and/or links to let us know how your Project 365 is going for you.

My attempt at Project 365

Project 365 has taken over the net for the last week and everybody is jumping on the bandwagon--yours truly included. I just got a Canon Rebel XTi as an anniversary present, so I saw this as a perfect opportunity to sharpen my picture taking skills. Let's hope that I can stick with it and complete the entire year.

I didn't think to post the pictures daily with the story behind them, so I will catch up tonight with both pictures.

I decided to start my album on January 1 which as everyone knows is a US holiday. My husband was home from work for the day and the kids decided to take advantage of this and climbed into bed with him. I thought it was too sweet not to click a photo.

My picture for Day 2 represents our anniversary trip to Walt Disney World. Pulling out our "disney clothes" and starting to pack them makes the trip seem real. This is when I finally start getting excited that we are going to my favorite place and staying at my favorite resort.

We had originally planned to go on this trip in December, but because of budget constraints we pushed it back several week. The budget is still out of balance and yet we are still going. Sitting in the room at Disney broke is a whole lot better than sitting at home broke!