Photo a day

WOW!  I am so pleased to have finished this year long project.  Before I have done scrapbooking projects that last a year, but they are not everyday, and it is possible to ‘catch-up’ when you have the time.  With this one it is important to take a photo each day.  I have to admit to missing quite a few days over the winter, especially when I have been working.  And there have been a few days when I have cheated and taken the photo the day after!

So how do I feel about the photos now?  I went back through them and found quite a few that I consider ‘good’.  But a lot of the time I was simply taking a photo to get one taken.  I don’t think it has improved my photography technically (although I did get to grips with my macro lens a bit quicker than I would have done).  but it maybe has improved the variety of photos I have taken, and now I have loads more photos of everyday things.

I decided not to print them all out and scrap them all.  They are recorded on this blog.  But I wnated to do something with them, so I printed out about 30 of the best as 2” squares and made this DLO:

March 24th

Well, this is it – the last of my 365 photos, my photo per day for the year I was 50!  Tomorrow is my 51st birthday.  So a bit of a celebration going on, not least because I have completed this project!  I have missed several days, but am pleased to have finished.  I made these cup cakes to take into work and to my sewing class tomorrow:

I’ll be back in a few days time to review my photo a day project, but suffice to say, I am very pleased not to have to post tomorrow!!!

Tuesday March 23rd

Another foggy day!  We have had lots of foggy days recently.  Must be the change in temperature.

Monday March 22nd

Bit of a cheat here, cos I have just taken the photo now!  Long story, but last night I took the dog for a walk, just round the block – 30 mins at the most – just as Maurice was going to play squash and Lucy going to work (her new job as a barmaid over on the other side of town).  But when I got back home (7.20pm) I realised that I had picked up the wrong keys!  I had the car key in my pocket not the front door key!  What to do?  I didn’t have my phone on me, but that might not have been any help as Maurice probably didn’t have his phone with him either (he didn’t).  I decided to walk to Lucy’s pub, and get her keys, but when I got to the end of the road, I decided it was too far and then I would have to walk back!  So I thought I would walk to my brother’s house.  It takes about 40 minutes.  As I drew close to his house I chickened out of knocking on his door, I was a bit embarrassed, and me and Merlin were very wet!  And anyway there was nothing else he could do!  I decided to walk back home by which time Maurice should be home soon.  So I arrived back home at 9pm and had to wait about 10 mins for Maurice!  I walked for over 2 hours…… I reckon I deserved my glass of wine!

Sunday 21st March

Hmmm, it’s supposed to be the first day of spring!  Well, I guess it is quite nice and sunny out there today!  None of the trees up the road are in flower yet, but I did notice the buds this morning.  I think they will be out soon.

 

Continuing  things I love in my house, we have plate racks in the hall and dining room.  Here’s a view of some of the plates in the hall:

I love that big plate, that’s the plate we always use at Christmas for the turkey!  Next to that is a portmerion plate, then a couple of plates that MIL has given me. The blue one has fishes on it and was bought from a market in Portugal, next to that is a plate we bought back from Poland.  The last one is another one from MIL.

Saturday 20th March

I really am on the home straight with this 365 POTD project now!  Can you tell how much I am dying to finish now!!!

Anyway, I spent a good long time doing LOM stuff yesterday afternoon, then was inspired to scrap these photos from 1997.  I did it for Shimelle’s challenge for Friday on her ‘Something from Nothing’ class.  I used old paper scraps, cardstock scraps, ribbon scraps, metal (eyelets and brads).  It took me ages to die cut the title and the tags and flowers!  But I am so happy with how it all came together!

The funny thing is – these photos were taken in the back garden, and all those daffodils have disappeared now!  I wonder where they all went? 

Friday 19th March

I am loving Shimelle’s new class!  Here’s some LOs I have done in my ‘Celebrate Life’ minibook:

Photos of Nicholas and Lucy from the early 1990s!

I love how these pages have turned out!  I found the pictures while sorting for my LOM class!