Day 365

This morning, Paul was taking a shower and thought it would be fun to put his little handprints all over the inside of the shower door. I thought it made for a great picture for the last day of 2009.

And this picture brings us to the end of 2009. I have to say that I didn't quite do what I intended at the beginning with this project, but I do feel like doing the blog has helped me with improving my photography skills. I found myself looking for things to do just so I could take a picture. I also found myself up at night trying to find something worthwhile to take a picture of for the day.

I'm thrilled to have made it all the way through the year with this daily picture blog. I'm also really looking forward to 2010 because I'm planning to go a different direction and I'm pretty excited (and nervous) about starting tomorrow.

Day 211

I've raided about all aspects of my beading stash to work on a new project. I have a vision, so we'll see how it goes. I got all these pieces out and was playing around and thought I'd just take a picture for fun. I really, really love that I'm planning around the Fluorite I've been collecting for years.

Day 198

I am just about finished with my project for The Beader's Muse contest. All I have left to do is assemble it, get pictures, and fill out the application. I think I'm going to make it. I just hope it all goes together how I'm thinking. I'm not comfortable with having to make last minute changes, but we'll see how it goes.

Day 193

I'm working on packing up tonight for our trip back home tomorrow evening. Before I started gathering up my beading stuff, I thought I'd take a picture of the setup I enjoyed while on our trip (complete with my Kleenex box and snack). I was able to take over a desk and just leave my stuff on it to work on as I was able. The boys were actually quite good about leaving my project alone.

It's been nice to no only get a break from the routine of life, but to also be able to dedicate some time to making jewelry. The only project I worked on was for the contest that ends in just a few short days. I'm not as far as I hoped, but I'm making good progress.

Now to get back to packing.

Day 123

I have been fascinated by those fixed cameras that take a picture every single day. I would seriously love to figure out how to rig something up like that myself. For now, I thought I'd try to tackle a project that didn't require special equipment and set-up.

For nearly a month now I have been trying to take a picture just about every day of the leaves growing on the Maple tree in our back yard. I wasn't sure when to end this little project, so today's the day.

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Day 23 (today)

Day 106

Paul comes home with a preschool project of some sort nearly every single class day. There's just no way we're going to be able to keep all of these projects, and often they end up so well loved that they're not quite the same as when they first came home.

I've taken to trying to snap a picture of his projects as a way of keeping them without having to find a place to store them. I haven't been as good about it as I could be, but I'm working on it. Today he brought home this cute little boat, and he's super excited to try it out tonight in the bath.