It Is Done

I finally completed Project Life 2012.

When I am actually working on it I enjoy it.

The other 320 days of the year it hangs over my head like a pendulum blade...

When December started I had completed book one, January through July.

 

In the last 2 months I have worked to do book two.

I cant move on until it is done. but it is done.

Most of my photos are vertical and for the last three years most of the kit is orientated in the horizontal format.

 I have bought a lot of pages that allow for my preferred vertical pictures.

I end up using very little of the kit for that reason.

But I will do it again in 2014, which can now start...

 

Life Journal

This is a journal I challenged myself to in January of 2012.

The goal was to have an entry each month. 

 

A title page.

Answers to this 'Currently' prompt.

A favorite photo from the month.

 A self portrait.

Finally anything that marked a highlight of that month.

It took very little time each month, but the overall effect is quite satisfying.

I put to use a Rebecca Sower journal I  have been holding on to.

I was so proud of letting myself use it.

At the end of the year I did a 'Reflect" section...

which included mini booklets of things from the year.

Things I created...

This journal tells a personal story of the year one month at a time.

I decided not to do the same thing thing year.

I put together these pages with the thought of doing an art journal page each month. 

Haven't started in it, though. Seems this thing keeps getting all up in my grill...

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude III

More pages from my 30 Day Photo Challenge which I bound into journal form.

Part two is here. Old above is for old friendships, over 30 years...

Hands and words. What else is there?

Prompts are from PositvelyPresent.

Technology. Hehe, a picture of me taking a picture of me on my phone. Neato.

That elastic card came right out of mother's sewing case. Sort of a big deal for me to use it like that. Trying to live life and use the good stuff.

My husband is my best friend. I really just comprehended that.

You'd probably figured that out for yourself a long time ago.

Not me.

Everyday is a new beginning.

18 Cakes

It took 18 years for me to make this album.

It is my daughter's story of birthday cakes over the years until this one, her 18th birthday.

I will share a few pages here.

I used all the invitations that I found in a box I moved out of mother's house.

I also found a note mother left me. She knew I would be the last person to go through her things.

I have cried, smiled, laughed, cried...

That's what it's like to raise a healthy child that lives to celebrate all these birthdays.

I realize I am lucky.

Yet, there are clouds that pass over and tell me she is leaving.

And I grieve that.

And everything is going like it's supposed to.

And I celebrate that.

Suz said she has room in her heart for sadness, its the depression that she doesn't want to fall into to. I get that.

And, so, there is happiness and there is sadness, like most beautiful stories...