Project 365

Yipee - it's the new year! Rather than setting out a list of resolutions that may or may not be kept, I've decided to try ONE major goal for this year. It's called Project 365. It's taking one photo each and every day of the year. The goal is to see your life in a different way and a new perspective. The upside will be to record life's every day comforts that we take for granted, as well as the ones more memorable, and maybe just help me broaden how I see my "own little Idaho." It will definitely make me a better photographer and push my creativity to it's limits.


Why do it? Well, imagine being able to look back on any given day in the year and see what I was doing - or just remembering that fabulous winter day hiking while we're waiting out a hurricane in the summer... I'll be able to recall who I've met, or what I've learned, what I had for dinner last week, or just a funny moment lost in my vast brain files of memory.


I'm not the only crazy to take on this challenge, oh no, I'm not THAT clever... If you want to join in the fun, you can check out the Flickr 365-1 group pool (479 members and rising) and sign up to stay motivated, or just look through all those participating and showing their photos. Either way, it will be a fun and interesting project! Won't you join me in this challenge? I think it would be great fun to share our pictures with each other!


I'm hoping that I'll be able to create at least one scrapbook page a week documenting the highlight photos and that way, I'll at least keep up with my scrapbooking instead of always being behind.

And so, I'm off to upload my first photo - you can follow my Project 365 photos by clicking

www.flickr.com Have a blessed day!

Good Bye 2008!

A year that has caused so many people in this country heartache, pain, fear and unexpected change. That was 2008. Some will look upon it favorably - the ones who won an election, won the lottery, or just plain won in some form or fashion. History has been made, once again. Although I probably won't make this blog about politics, I have to say that I'm worried about the incoming administration's policies and what it means to America. Having said that, I think it's really cool and, well, way overdue for an African-American to be elected President. I wish him the best of luck and hope he proves his naysayers (myself included) wrong. But just in case things go south, I've discovered a little clock that will give me some hope from time to time... maybe you'll keep it too... Search for the Obama Clock... I sure hope the government is keeping track on where the bail-out money is truly going because it appears to have already been funneled to those who don't need it. Then again, they haven't been able to manage Social Security right, what makes us think they'll get the bail-out right? Or any other governement run program for that matter? Ah well, don't get me started on politics yet - It's only the first hours of the new year!


2009 will be a year of major change for this country and for so many of us. I know we personally have a future in store like no other we imagined. I'm hoping we can get through it with grace. I hope to look back a year from now and say "it wasn't so bad!" All prayers of support for us and our situation (and for our many friends as well) are most welcome.


We're going to have a little bit of everything here on the blog - lots of interesting trivia, videos of our ballistic science projects, homeschooling info, recipes, make-up reviews and tutorials, music recommendations and reviews , digital scrapbooking and other cool things to do besides sit and watch tv! I hope you'll check in from time to time to see what we're doing! I'm hoping that this will be our "family blog" with contributions from the Big Cheese and also the Kid. If you have any special requests or something you'd like to see on here, drop us a line!

Best wishes to each and every one of you and your loved ones that 2009 will be an uplifing and faith-building, propsperous journey.

Blessings,

Stacey