Catching up on what I haven't posted

I have had a lovely few days completing a load of pages for design team work - which of course means I cannot share those pages yet. However, I do have others I can share.

I have finished October and November pages for my year book and have reached the conclusion I am never ever doing it again. I have tried making real albums of the year, I have tried a photo a day, I have tried weekly ages and monthly pages, both paper and digital versions, and I am now accepting of the fact that if I don't record our year it doesn't matter. It really doesn't. Maybe if I say it often enough I will start to believe it. And not get all OCD about it.

 

I think one of the reasons I became disenchanted this year was because I thought I had hit on a system that worked - using my insta photo app to take a picture very day which recorded the date and weather and place. Good plan (apart from the fact I kept forgetting) However, they then changed the app and it no longer does the nice insta pictures I love.  It has meant that since the end of August I have not been able to update my phone. I updated my iPad and noticed the new app and thankfully hadn't done the phone. So my poor phone has been limping along for almost four months with no update. Once I have taken my picture on December 31st I will then update and will lose my nice instapics for ever. The new app does not work the same and the pictures and frames look horrible.

Anyway

I have the October and November pages done

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have this page to share made for a minimalist challenge at FTLOPP - I don't really do minimalist but I didn't know how to record our visit to 9/11. I didn't feel it wanted to be a pretty, dynamic page, so it kind of worked.

 

 

Today I am thankful that

• I am almost at the end of a year-long project
• my belated Christmas present from Nigel - a special bible for illustrating - a new project ... like I need a new hobby
• a wonderfully relaxed Christmas break
• making a kitchen calendar with some of our photos from this year

 

 

 

Comments

[Barb inAK]

The daily photo, monthly pages, A Week in the Life, December Daily, and all those projects are something I've never been good at completing. I was trying so hard at Capture Your 365 this year. I started it one other year and couldn't get through the year. I tried it again this year, and started failing around May! LOL!! I just can't take the pressure of trying to take a prompted photo every day. It was a ton of stress. I suppose I was making it too hard, but I think I like a more relaxed approach to photography. :-D :-D :-D

I would love to see how your illustrated Bible progresses. I have several friends who have been working on their projects for a while.