A New Beginning

On this blog, I first did the Project 365- mostly successful. Then I had these grand ideas of what I was going to do with my photoblog last year, with all sorts of topics- yea it failed. But this year, this year I am going to do a 365 Journal. It will involve pictures- but I don't want to take pictures just to take pictures but I want to document the little everyday things.

Over on my main blog, I do tell my story and things in my life- but the little things, that are important to me but don't always make great blog fodder- that is what I am going to document here.

So really this is totally selfish and all for me-though I am sure my mom and MIL will love it. So this is the start of my 365 Journal all for me.

Jan 1, 2012

Eric and I actually stayed up till midnight- well past it. We had spent the afternoon and evening at Scandia with the kids, they loved it.

We put them to bed, then watched some classics- I picked Legally Blonde, he picked I-Spy. We were still watching I-spy when we heard some fireworks- it was midnight. We paused the show to give a quick toast and kiss then finished the show.

At our late night made me grateful for 11:00 church-- though hard on Ryder- who feel asleep and slept almost all of nursery in one of the nursery leaders arms. He woke up and freaked out though- momentarily unsure of where he was.

The New Look for 2011

Okay, obviously I am not doing a 365 this year. But I do have some ideas for what I would like to do with this blog. I need to do something to get me to shoot just for me, not for pictures of my kids or my clients, but just to get out of the box a bit. So my goal is to do these three things almost every week. I say almost, because if I don't want to, then I simply won't--I don't want it to be about a have to, but something I am doing because I enjoy it.

Monday- This will be the day I do one of two things, I will either post a picture to link up with the iHeartfaces contest.


Or I will link up with my good bloggy friend Oswald Cuties with her Monday Mugs



Wednesday-Fix it For Me--this is a new feature I will be starting (hmm me thinks I need a button for this). This is where I will show a picture I took SOOC (Straight out of camera) and also the final finished shot.. and the best part- I will show you how I got there! Also, if you (any one that reads this blog) has a picture that they would like me to fix up-you can mail the full size image to me at FIX@emmymom2.com and I will again show the before and after and tell you what I did, and then I will email you back the fixed up image that you can use however you want. Sounds cool right?

Thursday- I will be participating with Beth from I Should be Folding Laundry. She has a weekly meme called You Capture.

And to quote her words from her blog "To encourage those of you interested to pick up your cameras and try something new or just pick them up at all and snap a shot here or there. And not only that, but to see what others were doing with their camera and gaining inspiration from them." She names off a theme and you are supposed to capture a picture that fits that theme that week. So no digging through the archives but getting out and shooting something new.


So that is my plan. So no pressure to do something every day, no pressure to even stick with my three days, just for fun and just as life allows me.

And of course I will always be adding new posts at my main blog found here.