project 365 - part 2 of 4

Yes, I realize part 2 of 4 of my Project 365 should have come after JUNE was over, not July, but here are my pictures-of-the-day for April, May, June, and July! Cousins, grandparents, weddings, crafting, music, books, beaches, backyards, playgrounds, playdates...oh my we have fun.  What a wonderful life.

Want to start your own Project 365?  You don't have to wait until January!  Why don't you start taking a picture each day today?

last week, in pictures

 We had SO much fun last week!

Visiting Opal's gymnastic class

Playing in the water with Bernie & Sha Sha

 

Picking peonies

Playing with Lily

 Celebrating Jamie's birthday

Painting with Lily

 Did most of the paint end up on the paper or on the babies?

Babysitting Bernie

Playing in the park with Alys

Lunch and playtime with Emmy and our PEPS friends!

project 365 - part 1 of 4

I may have fallen of the Project 365 bandwagon in 2012, but I hit the ground running in 2013!  (So what is Project 365 anyway? It's the challenge to take a photo every day for the entire year.  I love remembering all that we did!) Now that a quarter of the year has passed, I can safely say that I'm "doing" Project 365 this year.  Here are the first three months, ALL (well, 98%) from my phone camera this time and using various filters from Instagram, Aviary, and Vintique!

The "Project 365" iPhone app helps me keep them all organized and gave me the images above (I added a different month name and the colored borders over at PicMonkey because the originals weren't quite cute enough).


You don't have to start this endeavor in January.  Why don't you start yours today? 

last week, in instagrams

 

 monday : walk around greenlake w/ alli.  so glad she's home!!

tues : grumpy

 weds : walk at matthew's beach/burke gilman trail

weds night : sushi date (finally!)

 thursday : sunshine love

 friday : makin' faces

 sunday : back to the gym (climb faster!)

my amazing sister

 Let's talk some more about my talented sister Emily (remember this and this?)  Being one of the best aunties in the world and a budding photographer, she came over to take some newborn photos of my wee one.  And THEN she went and made the cutest birth announcement for us!  Here it is:

omg!  How cute is that! And how clever that she made the top and bottom panels match the fabrics in his quilt!  People, this lady does all kinds of custom invitations, announcements, etc etc.  Why don't you go check out her Etsy shop right now?

Here are some of the other photos...I couldn't resist showing off more of my little Henry...even though he is so much bigger than this now! (tear)

 loooove this one.  this is what he looks like generally from 6-8pm. yikes!

 

isn't he just a dainty little man?

this week in pictures

It was a VERY busy, but good, week!  

Highlights:

 saturday: breakfast at randy's

 sunday: pie crust

 monday: class poll: boy or girl?

 tuesday: my newest read

 wednesday: dreaming of maui

 thursday: our ultrasound! my class was right--it's a BOY!

friday: my revived jade saying, "spring is coming"

blog makeover

Do you like my new banner? Oh thanks, I made it myself, with the help of 2 of my favorite (free!) online tools:

Flickr

and

Big Huge Labs

I'm sure you all know about Flickr, the online photo sharing/management site. I dump all of my photos there (OK, actually I upgraded to the pro version because you can get unlimited storage of photos and videos).

Big Huge Labs can link to Flickr to create lots of cool projects with your photos. My favorite tool is the mosaic maker. I use it all. the. time. Simply put the photos you want to appear in the mosaic in a Flickr set, select the size/type of mosaic you want (number of rows, number of photos in each row, etc.), plug in the link to your Flickr set, and SHAZAM! You have a photo mosaic that can be saved as a jpeg file on your computer. Or send it to facebook. Or email it to 50 of your best friends. You get the idea!

Here, I just made another one. I shall call it "Snopacalypse 2012" because that is the theme in the local news right now and the reason I have time to sit here and blog about it.

Happy Snow Day, Seattleites!

2011 in review

It started one year ago--my resolution to take a picture each day during the year of 2011. I thought, as with all resolutions, it would get abandoned around valentine's day, but I managed to hang on...a photo a day for the whole year! Presenting ... my finished Project 365! Here are some favs:
1. 1.1.11, 2. 1.7.11, 3. 1.12.11, 4. 1.19, 5. 2.5.11, 6. 2.8.11, 7. 2.18.11, 8. 3.2.11, 9. 3.13.11, 10. 4.8.11, 11. 4.15.11, 12. 4.17.11, 13. 4.23.11, 14. 5.14.11, 15. 5.29.11, 16. 5.30.11, 17. 6.8.11, 18. 6.21.11, 19. 6.25.11, 20. 6.28.11, 21. 7.4.11, 22. Wheat (3), 23. 8.2.11, 24. 8.12.11, 25. 8.18.11, 26. 8.20.11, 27. 8.29.11, 28. 9.24.11, 29. 10.3.11, 30. 10.8.11, 31. 10.22.11, 32. 11.17.11, 33. 11.25.11, 34. 12.4.11, 35. 12.6.11, 36. 12.24.11

... see the whole shebang over at my flickr page!

So there it is--2011: the good (fun times with friends! trip to europe! and wait...is that a baby shot???) the bad (yes, I did take several shots of my laptop screen while doing homework), and the boring (did I really take a picture of my mac n cheese?).

Don't you want get started on your own Project 365 for 2012? Well what are you waiting for??? Go get started!