Thinking about Project 365...

[Starlite9711]

I really want to do this too, but I am so terrible with follow through...I skip one day and then I quit. The thing for me too was transferring, editing, uploading... I can;t wait to see everyones, I will think about it this week, and probably decide to give it a go!

[DebbieHodge]

I love seeing what many have done and hearing ideas about how you're thinking about proceeding.

For the last two years I've kept a "photo-a-day" blog using the Typepad calendar layout/feature. I do not take a photo EVERY day. But I take photos many days and knowing that I'm doing this prompts me to take a lot of photos I might not. I've got to keep it manageable, though. I don't always keep it up on a daily basis, but often get the photos uploaded and notes in at the end of a month.

What I've found to be most important to me is not that I take a photo every day but that I take many photos each month AND even more that I make notes/journal . . . as near the time the photo was taken as possible. My kids LOVE going through this blog and reading the trivial notes I made -- these end up being wonderful memory triggers for them.

I've become really motivated to maintain this blog because it's my roadmap to the albums I want to make --- it reminds me what layouts I want to do. Also, I often go back and upload any layouts I do to the photo entry.

[Amy L]

Debbie, I like your "almost" a photo-a-day. I think I could handle that. I did a photo-a-day for 2 months in 2008. My problem is that I work all day and don't get out of my office. It was hard sometimes on those days to find something to photograph. But I love taking pics most days and will see how many days in 2009 I can do it.

[cedarhil]

I love your pages too Paula! i wondered about making it easier on myself to handle the photos AFTER they were taken. This is more of a problem for me. I like the idea of a template, but a blog entry would be faster and easier for me. Livejournal and Typepad blogging platforms can be printed directly to A Blurb book. Has anyone considered this?

[earlofoxford]

I had Blurb "slurp" my blog because I'm considering giving it up, and I hated to lose the two years worth of writing and pictures. It slurps the text, but not the photos, so I was pretty bummed. I want to have my blog in book form, but I don't really want to go back to link up the photos. Argh! Maybe I'll just keep the blog and use it as a journal for the 365 project.

[DebbieHodge]

Originally Posted by cedarhil

I love your pages too Paula! i wondered about making it easier on myself to handle the photos AFTER they were taken. This is more of a problem for me. I like the idea of a template, but a blog entry would be faster and easier for me. Livejournal and Typepad blogging platforms can be printed directly to A Blurb book. Has anyone considered this?

I did try it a while ago with not-great results --- but I think they'd improved. HOWEVER, my photos-a-day are all in their respective month/year directories and named Dec01 Dec02 etc . . . with the thought of making pages or albums or something and finding them easily --- esp since the blog ver is low res.

[Chris]

I did take heaps of photos last year and did a lot of journaling, but I never thought about the "a whole month on a double spread" kind of thing. Thank you Paula, yours are super and so inspiring!
Laura, you have a neat blog, and thanks for the prompts tip!

[katrinak]

Midway through this year I simply uploaded my photos of the day to Shutterfly and loaded them into an 8x8 book. No scrapping, no text, just photos. It is one of my favorite books and I'll do the same for the second half of the year.

Here's the first book

[Chris]

I didn't notice I was on page two here - almost missed the posts!

Debbie I love the way you have your photo-a-day (almost) set up, it's fun to click the calendar date for the entry, and you have some wonderful photos!

Sorry about your slurping Blurb Linda!

[kristig]

I love all these ideas!

I've been doing a Photo-A-Day project this year and it has been a great way to keep me attached to my camera. Some days I take tons of pictures and some days one or two (some I've "borrowed" photos from other days )

I've just used a calendar template to quickly get the photos on a LO as they get uploaded to my computer:

http://www.designerdigitals.com/digi...=83690&cat=500

[earlofoxford]

Becky Higgins had an interesting idea on her blog regarding the 365 project. She's beginning hers today since the new year begins this week. Just a thought. I've already taken a picture today, so if I decide to start it with today, I'm good!

[AllynD]

I may try this, but I would be happier if I could just stay on a diet for 365 days in a row!

[Mozer]

I'm a 365 drop-out. I've tried more than a couple years in a row. My problem isn't taking the photos---it's taking the time to upload, edit, resize, publish etc. Then I ran into file storage problems---so I gave up. Now that I see these templates "maybe" I'll try again....

[Chris]

Katrina, your book is fab! I wanted to write something nice but lost my password somewhere! I'm always removing them from my computer when we travel and place them somewhere safe!

[anke]

i think I will try with the templates this year. I really like the idea, I do want to have some journaling to add also, or else it won't make much sense later on I think.

[dorah]

I agree with you, Anke, it will need a little journaling to make any sense later. I was thinking of adding little journaling strips like Mel did in her December daily pages. They were just enough to tell you what was going on but not so much as to overwhelm the photos.

[Mary Rogers]

btt - question is it leap year? if so I think this should be referred to as the 366 project, lol....

[katie pertiet]

last year was a leap year--we're clear this year!

[geekscrapper]

For the record, I'm in! I just now saw this, thank God I took pictures yesterday or I'd already be behind, LOL!

I'll post my photos at Flickr and my LOs here most likely. Gotta go back and look at the templates mentioned...

[Chris]

Originally Posted by geekscrapper

For the record, I'm in! I just now saw this, thank God I took pictures yesterday or I'd already be behind, LOL!

I'll post my photos at Flickr and my LOs here most likely. Gotta go back and look at the templates mentioned...

Oh boy! You would have been behind, not just today, but the whole year!!

One way around it if you're using the photos as activities of the day and not a POTD thing, theoretically, you could go to the fridge today and take a photo of your last night's leftovers and put that in a layout for yesterday's activity!

[MeEmMom]

I love this idea and I am trying to do it -- day 2 done!!! However, I know myself well enough to know that I probably will miss a day here and there, so I think instead of a weekly spread, I will try what Paula did and make a 2 page monthly spread. Then if I miss a day, I can fill it with an embellishment or paper. I think it will also work well with my chronological scraping...I can introduce each month with an overview and then have pages for each of the events that I want more detailed.

[geekscrapper]

That is very true! I just like to start things on day 1 - it's my rampant perfectionism rearing its ugly head, so I'm glad I could do it "right" at the beginning, LOL!