A time to reflect, as one year ends and another begins
I've been spending some of my holiday season scrapbooking and it's been so good to get back into the creative mode. The fun thing I tried out recently was listening to podcasts from paperclipping.com, specifically one with Stacy Julian and Becky Higgins (http://www.paperclipping.com/2010/12/15/prt049-all-twelve-months/). It was really inspirational and kept me motivated as I worked.

Along with listening to the podcast, I have been thinking about my processes with scrapbooking. I'm not sure my "system" (if I could call it that) is working for me so I'm taking this time to re-evaluate to make sure I'm doing something that works for me.

I revisited the book "The Big Picture" by Stacy Julian. I came across a picture of her "highlights" page that she puts in her Christmas Exchange album (pg 12). It looks like a two page layout of 12" by 12" pages with a variety of pictures and small tags titling each picture as a summary of the year. I wondered if I could do that too.

What would I choose to highlight for 2010?

I looked back through my 2010 photos and started writing some notes of the major things that happened for me this year. I realized that since I started Project 365, I have photos to go along with those events I would want to document for this year. There are things like WeightWatchers training, brunches with my girlfriend, Sunday dinners with my family, my first year as a Board Member of a group in Vancouver. Each of these events are times when I would not normally take pictures but because of my picture of the day project, I pushed myself to take a picture. When I look back to the time before I started Project 365 it seems so much is missing. I am so thankful for doing Project 365. At least I know this part of my "system" is working for me.