Yesterday there were a lot of posts about Ali Edward’s One Little Word concept. You choose one word and focus on that in all aspects of your life over the coming year. As I read what people had chosen and why this one word kept popping up in my head. So my One Little Word for the year is…
Be can be the prompt many things, I’ve found a few pieces of word art that can act as prompts. (Each are linked to the source)
So that’s my one little word.
Shanna xx
Firstly happy new year to everyone.
This year I decided to do Project Life again. I did it in 2009 and only missed a few days (I still haven’t printed out most of it but I have it documented). Don’t know what Project Life is this video explains it.
I was planning on doing it again in 2010 but a few weeks into the month and I broke my wrist and spent six weeks in plaster then another couple months not really being able to grip a camera.
As a digital scrapbooker I used the kit created by Weeds and Wildflowers but honestly having to still make a decision what to use was driving me crazy. This year Becky Higgins launched Digital Project Life. As I live in the UK the Shutterfly option would work out pretty expensive so I made the decision to use the digital kits from Jessica Sprague. After a few weeks of trying to make a decision which kit to get I decided on the Cobalt Edition. I choose this edition as I like the journaling cards the best and since the project is all about the pictures and journaling this seemed to be the best option.
I also got the templates so I don’t have to figure out how to arrange the pictures. It’s all about making life easy right?
Hopefully this should give me a good jumpstart and make it easy to complete the pages weekly.
Also in my efforts to document the year I got a few apps from iTunes to use on my iPhone (which I’ve had for a few weeks and love).
The first is Memento it allows me to document the details of little moments I want to remember on the go. I get to add tags and photos to help back up the memories. It also pulls in my Facebook status updates.
The second is Photo 365 which is basically a calendar which you can attach pictures to for everyday of the year.
The final thing I got to help me document the year is a new camera. A Fujifilm Finepix HS20EXR.
I’ve had Fujifilm Bridge cameras for a few years this one takes 16MP pictures and has 30x Optical Zoom. It also takes RAW pictures. You manually have to adjust the zoom with the ring at the front. I only got it yesterday but I’m loving it already (I ordered it from Amazon on Friday morning it was delivered at 9am on Saturday – got to love living in the same town as an Amazon depots.). It’s the next step up to DSLR (which still scare me) and my sister’s best friend asked me to photograph her wedding in April so hopefully I should have learnt how to use it by then.
Last year in this post I had two goals blog more and keep fit.
The blogging regularly lasted well until May we’ll try again this year.
The second goal was to keep fit. I was doing ok with the keeping fit until I got sick and then I didn’t have the energy to do it and stopped. In the middle of the year Claire and I started doing Zumba on the Wii but that only lasted a few months as both of us got busy. But I’m going to try again.
If you’ve stuck this far, I hope that 2012 is happy and healthy for you.
Shanna xx
My goal was to by the end of 2011 finish my Year In Review pages. Now I have. So here is the rest of the year in review.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Shanna xx
One of the lists is the Best Christmas Gifts I’ve ever received.
A lot of times you don’t remember what you got for Christmas years later but I do have one Christmas present that sticks out.
In 2008 I received the only existing bound copy of a book I wrote when I was eighteen. It was and is still the coolest thing ever.
The other best gift I received was one I received yesterday. I got a Kipling bag. I have been coveting one of these for years but could never justify paying out the price. But yesterday my mum and stepdad got me one for Christmas. I love it!
What was your best Christmas gift?
Hope you had a great day.
Shanna.
So early this morning I logged onto www.noradsanta.org and have been tracking Santa. Watching as he preps and is now flying around world. I’ve taken a few screen shots.
Apparently Santa likes to play Basketball and watch the elves skate before he departs.
Then he has breakfast and preps the sleigh
Then he finally takes off
And he quickly delivers presents.
It’s now 1.24pm UK time and he is currently in Papua New Guinea and has delivered 13,600,344 presents.
I think he has a few to go before he gets here.
Happy Christmas Eve to everyone.
Shanna.
