Ready Set Shoot! Happy New Year!

Have fun celebrating tonight, but don't forget to take a picture tomorrow. As you save your pictures either on your hard drive or to a service, be sure to date them as you go, that way you can print them off and have a reference for order.
Also, I need to have some input for our kick off party. I haven't heard from anyone yet. Please let me know as soon as possible!--c

Kick off Dates

Here are the dates I have so far: Jan 8, 10 or 23. Who likes what? I would be happy to host you all at my house (you will have to excuse the kids)Or I was even thinking we could all have a local party?

Sample Layout

Here is the sample layout and list of supplies. They are all CTMH, but you can use anything you have. The most important part is to have 5 4x6 cards cut for each week, these will be your journaling spots. Then of course your 7 4x6 photos will help to over two 12x12 pages. I used pocket pages but you can adhere your 4x6's to plain white 12x12 cardstock for the same effect.

Animal cookies paper
Photo Storage Pages
Dutch Blue Ink
Notice the Details (Dec. 09 Stamp of the month, still available for 3 days!)

Let me know if you have any questions.

7 Days and Counting

I wanted to make sure you were all on top of this PROJECT 365 before we hit day one! I chose this picture of Gigi to kick things off because it fits the theme of a pro-365, "Marvelously Ordinary" ( as one of my CTMH stamps reads). We want to capture the everyday of our lives, because each year that goes by, we ask, "where did it go?" Here are a few recommendations to make this process as painless as possible.

1) Get your camera ready: Make sure you have your batteries charged and memory card blank. I would even check into purchasing a small portable camera for your purse, I know WalMart has some for $50-$100. This makes it easy for you to know that only p-365 pix are on that particular camera and memory card. No chance of your hubby or kids erasing pix you haven't downloaded yet.

2) Make time for yourself: This is one of the aspects of this project that appealed to me most. Mark your calendar for about 20 minutes one day a week. This should be enough to complete the basic layout (I will be setting up images later) and complete your weekly journaling. This is your quiet time to devote to the hobby you love, and preserving the memories we so easily forget year to year. Pick a day that you know will usually be free, so that means Wed, Sat, and Sun, and Fri, are probably going to be a poor choice!

3) Pick a theme: You may want to go and purchase a stack of coordinating papers, and pick an album. 12x12 format is going to be the most effective for this project. I plan on using different papers to express the season, mood, or holidays of each page, but whatever appeals to you is what I recommend. This is about having fun. Don't let it become a chore, if simple is going to get you through this, go for it!

4) Attend our Kick Off Party! : I am still working on the date, I am hoping to get some input from all of you and then we can select a date. I would also like to do some quarterly meetings and then of course an end of year party where we all show off our books!

Plese let me know if you have viewed this and then give me lots of feedback!

Happy Scrapping!