Project 365

Whaat? You’re sure you’re going to do this? – said a voice inside of my head when the idea first came to me. You work 9 – 5 everyday (which, is a blessing - I know. Believe me, I know, I’ve had my share of time when my working hours varied from 9 – 5pm to 9 – 2am; including weekends. With the latter being far more often that it can be considered a routine and the first an exception that justified for a celebration). You have a baby to take care of, a husband that also need your attention and a house to clean up. When will you ever find the time? You barely have time to sleep. Hah - you’ll never make it! – said the voice pessimistically.

“Hush! I’ll never know until I give it a try. So give it a rest, you helpless pessimist!” I scolded and the voice grew silent, chastened.

So that’s how I found myself starting to work on this project. The idea is to take at least a picture everyday & scrap it. Which means by the end of the year I should end up with a 365-pages album. OK, that might be too overwhelming, so I decided to take it down a notch – scratch that – a few notches.

I committed to scrap everyday. I won’t even push myself to finish one layout every night. I’ll just scrap as often as possible and hope that by the end of the year, the number of pages wouldn’t be too far from 365. And I won’t be limiting myself to pictures, at times when I don’t have good pictures or just haven’t got the time to print the good ones, I’ll look for quotes, thoughts….. anything that inspires me on that particular day. I might even use digi layouts from time to time.

And last but not least – I won’t even think of matching colors for the entire album. It’s 365 pages, ladies. If I insist on having matched colours and patterns from cover to cover – there’s only two possibilites:
1. The album will be in one color – and I can tell you from the get go that it will be chocolate – my favourite color. I know I should say brown, but chocolate is far more romantic, isn’t it?Ooh, I sound so much like Anne from the Green Gables.
2. Or…. I would find myself in a padded cell, holding strips of papers all around me and screaming “Oh no, they don’t match, they just don’t match!” Uh-uh, definitely not good for my soul! So let’s not do that.

And another note to self, I won’t push myself to create a masterpiece (yeah right, like any that I’ve done was ever even close to that… LOL). I will accept that just like my real life – which has good and bad days, my album is bound to have some ‘wow – pages’, ‘so-so pages’ and even ‘yucks – what the hell were you thinking?- pages’. Hopefully, the last one won’t be too many… LOL.

So now I’m crossing my fingers and… scrap scrap scrap. I’ll come back to post some of the pages I’ve finished.