Project Life/Project 12/Project 365 monthly thread for FEBRUARY 2011

[pjlla]

Here is our monthly chit-chat thread for everyone and anyone doing any sort of monthly/yearly ongoing album for 2011.

Wow.... I can't believe January is already HISTORY! Onward into February!

I know for many of you, the first few days of this month will be BLIZZARD pictures! Stay warm and stay safe! For everyone else, here are a few ideas to get you started for February......

February is American Heart Month, Black History Month, National Cherry Month, National Grapefruit Month, and National Canned Food month. SURELY you can come up with some ideas for photos from all of that!

Take a picture of a loved one who has overcome or is living with heart disease. Take a minute to journal why they are important in your life. (And don't forget, "Wear Red" day is coming up.)

Take a photo of an African-American that you know... yourself, your family, your neighbor, your friend. Just journal who they are and their "history" with you.

National Cherry month makes me think of cherry pie, cherry cheesecake, and cherry blossoms.... anyhow, you get the idea!!

Charge up those camera batteries and get going!................P

 

[MarieS]

Great ideas! I have already taken some pix of the snow coming down.

 

[pjlla]

I was bound and determined that February would have MORE than just snow pictures.... but honestly, it is snowing like C*R*A*Z*Y out there right now! How can I NOT take a picture of it??

DS's birthday Lego kit finally arrived yesterday, so yesterday's photo was of him with the box...and there will definitely be a picture taken today of the work in progress and the finished item. Even if I choose not to use them for the monthly collage, I still want to take them. Someday I will do a big LEGO scrapbook for him!

What is everyone else doing??....P

 

[wdwmickey]

I took pictures of the temperature on the TV screen yesterday and today. It's crazy cold here! I also took some snow pics yesterday. Oldest DD's birthday is next week so I'll have lots of picture ops then.

 

[pjlla]

Well.... anyone get a picture of Punxatawny Phil yesterday? I totally forgot it was Groundhog's day! I was too preoccupied with the snowstorm. I got a picture of DS with his fully completed Lego Fire Brigade set! He spent all day on it (other than when he was helping me shovel ).

Today I got a picture of DS at his last snowboarding lesson. I take SO MANY photos of DD swimming... it's nice to have plenty of things to photograph that involve DS!

Where is everyone??....................P

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

here, took pics of DD shoveling the ice rink out of our driveway today.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

I can't believe January is over, either!!

I'm caught up til this past Sunday (when this week started) for journaling and in the album. I have pics from all of this week--just going to do the journaling this weekend!!

Thanks for all of the awesome ideas!! They really help!

 

[pjlla]

How is it going with everyone?? I'm not sure what today's picture will be for me. Maybe some pictures of me scrapping during tonight's online crop! I'm SO excited about it!

Come talk to me! I want to know how everyone is doing with this project!........P

 

[wdwmickey]

I printed "Phil" from the yahoo site. My mom grew up in Punxsy so Phil is kind of a big deal to her--I can never forget Yesterday's pic was DD1 shoveling the driveway (journalling will be she did it before I asked!), today will probably be the crop. I

I need to print pictures for the last 2 weeks and get them in the album this weekend.

 

[pjlla]

How's it going for everyone?? Just checking in here. This thread has been pretty quiet. I hope that means that everyone is out there living life, taking photos, and scrapping! ..................P

 

[wdwmickey]

I'm all caught up through Feb 4 the pictures & journalling are in my album

I took lots of snow pictures today!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

ugh........ that's all I have to say about the month of February.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

I'm back to the "caught up" place again--thru yesterday. I have my pic taken for yesterday, so we're doing good there! DH is really trying to help out and remind me to take the pics, so that's helping!

Buffy, I hope you're feeling better!!

 

[pjlla]

Okay folks.... first of all, a big to those of you who are doing reasonably well keeping up with this project.

And a for those of you who are struggling with it, for one reason or another.

IMHO, I think it would be better to have SOME pictures to represent each month, then to give up because the challenge of a daily photo is too much! Take the pressure off yourself and don't give up if you aren't taking a daily photo.

I don't think I got a photo taken yesterday, but I'm not too worried about it. We didn't do anything to celebrate the Superbowl, we didn't go anywhere because of the ice. I suppose I could have taken a picture of DD doing home work or DS COMPLAINING about doing homework, or of myself at my scrapping table, but I didn't. oh well. Not sure what today's picture will be, but I won't lament about it for now.

Come on in and share how you are doing! Are you getting a picture every day? If so, how are you remembering to keep up? If not, is it bothering you?

I must admit, I had fully intended to get my January collage done this weekend..... but I'm planning to do it digitally and I didn't get much computer time this weekend (sharing it with the kids who were doing homework), so I'll try to get to it tonight or tomorrow. It shouldn't take more than an hour once I get a chance to sit down and get started. I will share it once it is done!

I'm at work today.... I'll try and hop on again later today!.................P

 

[Pixieflip]

Still hanging on and trying to keep up. I'm doing this digitally and of course, my computer has been in the shop for over two weeks. So, whenever I get it back, look out! I'm working on this!

 

[pjlla]

Here is my completed January! Once I got going, it really took less than an hour for this whole thing, including changing the calendar color twice! The blue border on the photos doesn't exactly match the blue font on the calendar, but since they were made in two different programs, it was hard.... but they are close.

As you can see, my January calendar has many blanks....(and some really dark photos) but I'm okay with that. And some days I had two photos.... but again, for me, this is about documenting LIFE. And I did that pretty well. I am aiming for MORE photos for February, but I'm not off to a very good start in that department!!

In working on this, I realize if I DO have a month where I take more photos, I will probably have to break this up into two collages.... not sure how I will work in the calendar in that case, but I won't worry about it yet.

I hope everyone is keeping up with this project!! Come chat and let me know how it's going!!.........P

ETA: I was looking at my collage once I got it posted here and realized that I included two photos of one event (one that I didn't mean to add) and one photo from February.... ooops... I had to go back and edit the collage and re-print it. But you get the idea anyhow, right??

 

[pjlla]

Okay..... so according to my bizarre calendar, today is "Toothache Day"....not exactly a photo-op in the making!!

Tomorrow is Umbrella day! Anyone expecting rain? Do you have a special umbrella you like? Maybe a Disney umbrella? Take a photo of it and journal about it! Was it a gift? Maybe you bought it during an especially rainy trip to WDW??

Anyhow..... coming up we have

2/11 Make a Friend day

2/12 Lincoln's birthday

2/14 Clean out your Computer day (oh yeah... that is Valentine's day too!!)

2/15 National Gumdrop day

2/16 Do a Grouch a Favor day!!

2/17 Random Acts of Kindness day

2/19 Chocolate Mint day (sounds like my kind of holiday!)

2/20 Cherry pie day

2/20 Love your Pet day!

Do any of those inspire you to take a photo?? Let's keep this project going!!!!................P

 

[pjlla]

Heeellloooo??? (cricket, cricket) Anyone home??? Where did you all disappear to???.................P

 

[tefrench]

Hello, I'm new to this thread, but am doing Project 365 on shuttercal. I'm kind of stuck for ideas...this month is seeming to be blah.

Thanks for the thread!

 

[pjlla]

Hello, I'm new to this thread, but am doing Project 365 on shuttercal. I'm kind of stuck for ideas...this month is seeming to be blah.

Thanks for the thread!

Welcome! The "party" here has been a bit quiet lately. Not sure where everyone is hiding!

I'm not familiar with shuttercal. Is it a digital workshop??

Anyhow..... well, yesterday's POTD was going to be of DD at her high school states swim meet. But I realized when I got there that I had the camera, but the memory card was in the computer at home... So I ended up taking a photo of the meet sweatshirt and her ribbons when we got home. Better than nothing. Swim on the schedule again today...........P