Nathalie's Project 365

Our days, our lives

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scrapbooking tends to be about the milestones and celebrations of life rather than the day-to-day realities. Sure the especially good times are fun to remember and document but what does the house look like without the streamers and balloons? What do we wear on lazy Sunday mornings? What does the kitchen look like during the stay-at-home mom's equivalent of rush hour?

 "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

Project 365 is my way of appreciating, and taking note, of those days.

 

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scrapbooking tends to be about the milestones and celebrations of life rather than the day-to-day realities. Sure the especially good times are fun to remember and document but what does the house look like without the streamers and balloons? What do we wear on lazy Sunday mornings? What does the kitchen look like during the stay-at-home mom's equivalent of rush hour?

 "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

Project 365 is my way of appreciating, and taking note, of those days.

 

Project 365, take two

 

A few years ago when I first learned about Becky Higgins’ Project 365, I started this blog to keep track of things until the kit arrived. Then I abandoned both the blog and the project. Two kids later, I’m back for Project 365, take two. Even though it’s only the beginning of the second month, I’m certain I’ll finish this because it’s already under my skin, in my heart and as much a habit as taking out my contacts and making the bed.

I haven’t quite decided how I’m going to share the pages, only that I’d like to since I so enjoy looking at what other people have done. It is so interesting to me how we can all take this one kit with the exact same contents and make such different things with them, so uniquely our own.

I love, love, love it.

One of the things I especially love is the community created around it!

I’ll update with links to what others are doing, inspiration, picture of the day and journaling ideas as regularly as it occurs to me. The more feedback I get, the more likely I am to keep on posting!

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february 8

 

This picture probably doesn't really need a caption, right? As Matt was showing me where he thought our sewer was backed up--causing my relaxing shower to turn into something so vile I won't say more than that about i--Sam decided he would take this opportunity to start eating fistfuls of dirt.  

february 7

Our friend Paul came over to help with what Matt called a "smorgasbord of trim: crown molding, chair rails and baseboards." Thanks, Paul!

Project nearly 365

Project 365 is supposed to be one of those things were you don't feel behind because you work on it in bite-sized pieces and keep it really simple. And yet, here I am in early February already behind by about a month.

I tend to be one of those "procrastination by perfection" people. So with the whole kit ordering debacle, what was supposed to be a simple but extraordinarily meaningful project morphed into this whole mess of details and figuring out how to approximate the kit I've never seen in person. Without a proper system in place, I didn't feel like I could get started.

I've been diligent about taking my pictures--most days--but terrible about journaling. I have my planner and my personal journal but nothing dedicated to the project. This small thing was a huge issue for me. It's partly why I decided to do the blog in addition to the scrapbook, to have a place to journal in the present moment instead of reflecting back on the photos when I finally got them printed. I think retrospection has its benefits but this project calls for more immediate "this is who I am right now" documentation.

Soooo...all that is to say I finally got my pictures ordered from Snapfish last week and am eagerly waiting for that package to arrive. Meanwhile, I am going to get started posting again from today on with possible flashbacks. The only thing I can guarantee you is that I will most likely start and stall, start and stall but I will finish this project even if I have to rename it to something like "Project nearly 365."

Status update

No, it's not a mistake. I really posted a bunch of blank entries. Think of them as placeholders. I've been faithfully taking pictures for Project 365 nearly every day. Already, I love the reminder this project gives me to delight in the ordinary moments.

I figure I still have 335 days before I'm "behind" on the project. I also think it's fair that it took awhile to think through how I'm going to go about putting this together between the journaling, organizing etc. There was a part of me still waiting to hear about the original kit before really getting into it on my own. I continue to be amazed at some of the bitterness and drama playing out in the comments sections of the 365 blogs.It's about the project, not the kit. It's about documenting the days of our lives, while we are ENJOYING being ALIVE. It is NOT about the ribbons, the stamps and color coordinating kits.

Day 22

Day 21

Day 20

Day 19

Day 18