creativitE by Erin Bassett

Catching up on Project 365

My goal for this weekend was to catch up on my Project 365 as best as I could.  I hadn't done any journaling since May & I needed to upload a few months worth of my daily photos to Costco so I can add them to my album (hopefully) this week.  

Here's some of my completed pages..well, some are missing a photo/journaling.  -Just for the record, I'm not stressing when I miss days because I can always fill those in with photos of objects around the house, mail, and other ephemera.  And I'm not stressed about getting behind because recording even half the year is better than not recording any of it & I'm pretty confident that I'll finish this year anyways.

(Click on the photos to see them larger)

                           

I'm caught up on my Project 365

Before my surgery I printed out a bunch of my 365 photos but never got around to sticking them in my album or doing the journaling...so the other day I had Costco print out my next batch of photos & today I got caught up.  I still have a few photos & journaling that I need to take/write & stick in, but there aren't very many of them. 

Feel free check out my updated pages here.  Since I've been so bad lately with adding my daily pictures daily I've decided to only have the finished (or nearly finished) pages online & to remove the individual shots.  I just don't have the umph right now to post pix daily....and I'm ok with that.  :D  There's no stress in creativity IMO! 

Now, even though I won't be posting ALL my daily shots, I'm sure every now & again I'll post some that may be of interest....and this may be one of them....well, at least to those who know me IRL LOL.  That's me two days after surgery...I just got done walking with my PT and had sat for the 1st time.  I know my friends & family that live far away are wanting to see the pig-tails, so I thought I'd humiliate myself & share it with the world.  (Oh my word, what am I thinking showing everyone these....those meds must be getting to my common sense!!  -Just out of surgery, no make-up, pig-tails!  Ugh!!)

Project 365 continued

This past weekend I worked on my Project 365 album...here's my newest pages  (sorry the pix aren't the best quality...it was overcast when I took them):

 

 

 

 

I put hearts under the day of the week letters for February.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a close up:  

<------- this is how I'm including movie tickets.

Also, just a reminder that you can see all my "almost daily" 365 pix here.

Q & A

I've had a handful of questions asked lately & thought I'd answer them here since my back is hurting & I don't feel like getting up to upload my 365 pix & pix of some cards I made today. 

First off, had couple of questions about the comment section of my blog.  A few people wanted to know how I got people's pix to show up there.  I'm beta testing a new Typepad feature that allows blog readers to connect with each other better through blogs.  You can read more info about it here & see a little overview video there too.  You can build a blog reader profile by signing up there as well...and it works with Typepad, Moveable Type, Word Press, Blogger, and Tumblr.  -But don't feel like you HAVE to sign up for it...you can still leave me "anonymous" comments if you like.

Secondly, a lot of people want a 365 kit and unfortunately they are sold out for now (word is that they are ordering more & may have more available at some point).  But there are other alternatives to using this specific kit...even FREE alternatives!  -What can be better than that!  Here's a digi freebie...or you can download & print the very same ones that come in the CK 365 kit here.  I'm sure you could google some other digi kits or search on the message boards at 2Ps for more options.

Some of you have noticed that with my 365 pix I'm not picky with them being technically perfect.  (Thanks for applauding me on that!)  With this project I'm trying to tell the story of our year and I'm trying to not stress myself out by HAVING to take the PERFECT photo.  Truthfully, I'm only taking one or two shots at a time....and sometimes only one or two shots a day period.  It's pretty freeing just click quickly and see what happens.

Oh, and if you haven't seen Marley & Me yet, do....it's a good one.  We just went yesterday & I bawled through most of it and then when we got home I hugged my dog really good.

365 Pages

I put together some of my 365 pages last week, but kept forgetting to post them here....so here they are:

 

   

That's all the pages I have done for now....bu you can still check out the photos I'm taking daily here.

BTW, I did add a few stamps that are not in the kit.  The "To Do" stamp is from Purple Onion, and the arrow stamp is from Autumn Leaves.  There's also some MAMBI bling around the temperature on last week's photo telling how warm it was here in CA.

Valentine's Card Swap

This afternoon I'm getting together with some ladies from church to exchange cards for a swap we do about once a quarter or so.  We're also going to make some more....should be fun.

Anyways, this is my card for the swap!  It's totally based on one that Pine did not too long ago, but with Stamp'n Up stamps...since that's what I have a ton of. 

 

Well, gotta jet....my muffins are done baking!  (Made them this time with less sugar & no frosting...so they're muffins.)

Edited to add: I've updated my 365 pix & will continue to do so through out the year, but I probably wont post them through out my blog all year (that might be boring)...so if you're interested in them look in the album over there.  <--------  Thanks!

11/365 - The waiting moon

After seeing Patter's moon the other day I knew I wanted to try to take a moon shot too for one of my 365 photos.  --Driving home from San Clemente yesterday I saw some great shots....the moon was huge & so bright.....but we were driving & wanted to get home so I missed those shots & forgot about the moon by the time I got home.  But this morning when I went out on our balcony there was the moon waiting for me to take it's photo!  -So I snapped up a bunch!  You're gorgeous moon!!

My 365 kit is shipping

Woo-hoo, (supposedly) my project 365 kit is shipping and should be here in CA today....at least that's what the email I got said....it even had a tracking # on it, so that makes me think it really is.  -But, until it's in my hot little hands, I'm not gonna believe it LOL! 

I'm so bummed that SO many people who wanted this kit have had SO many problems ordering &/or confirming that they are getting the kit.  I also feel sad for Becky to have a project that she designed have so many ordering problems & her not have any real control over fixing the ordering issues.

<-------------Anyways, I updated my 365 photos.

You can't see it super well, but there was an "X" in the sky the other morning when I went to take our dog out potty.

5/365

I haven't taken today's photo yet (this photo is from the 2nd)...but I've decided that I'll *try* to post my 365 photos here on my blog...there's now a photo album over there on the left.

BTW, this soup recipe is adapted from this one that was published in the Jan/Feb '09 issue of Clean Eating Magazine...it's pretty yummy!!

Words and Pictures

My word for 2009 is TRUST.  There are a lot of thing that I have to trust the Lord with this year and while I'm looking forward to seeing what He does, I know that it will take a lot of trust.

Did you see the top 2008 photos...it's amazing what a click of a button can capture!!  Makes me really excited about doing the 365 project which I am collecting photos & ephemera for while I wait for the kit to arrive.

 <------- That's my 1/1 photo...taken with my cell phone.