Katie the Scrapbook Lady

117 days and counting

We are already 117 days into the calendar year and I’m happy to report that not only am I keeping up with my iPhone photo of the day project, but I’m truly enjoying it! On the one hand, they are kind of lousy little phone pictures (when it comes to resolution), but on the other hand, as a collective whole they are one of the best representations of my everyday life I have ever produced. It’s easy and fun to take a photo a day now that I gave myself permission to just use my phone for this project. While none of these are masterpieces, I have some definite favorites so far.

 

116:366 spring feet - capri pants, sandals, and painted toenails all mean it's getting warm around here

 

86:366 St. George. I still am always amazed that there’s a place in Utah where palm trees grow!

 

74:366 Pi Day 3.14 I love it when I remember to do cool stuff like buy a pie on Pi day!

 

75:366 a note from my son This one makes me giggle. We had a light switch that got a little off-kilter. The switch part was sticking out too far from the plate. My son kept mentioning that this needed to be fixed and I told him I would talk to Dad about it. It got brought up a couple of times over the course of about 10 days but we were always too busy to do anything about it. One morning when I woke up, I saw this handwritten note from my son. I guess he decided we needed something to get us going on this. If you knew how much he dislikes writing, you would understand that this must have gotten to a pretty serious status in his mind. That Saturday, he got to help repair it and I could tell he was relieved. I still smile when I see this photo.

 

I’m excited to keep going with this project and I can’t wait until I have a full year of phone photos to look back on!

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The only thing I'm caught up on

I was thinking about how I'm behind on every single project and responsibility in my life right now and it was making me feel sort of depressed. I'm having such a hard time keeping up on everything lately, especially with being sick for close to 3 weeks at the end of January/first part of February and then taking a vacation to California. Let's just say that I have stacks everywhere that need dealing with - both in the physical form on my desk, and in the virtual form on my computer.

Then, I felt a real sense of accomplishment and happiness because I have been able to keep up with one thing - my iPhone photo a day project! I've taken a picture every day since December 1st and even if I get behind in posting them to Flickr, it's still easy to get caught up. I love this little app and I am very happy with the easy approach I'm taking with this project. I'm also capturing some fun memories and getting better at using my iPhone camera. I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorites so far from February:

A yummy baked potato with lots of green onions. I do love to take pictures of food and my iPhone makes it so easy. I edited this photo with the automatic setting in the Snapseed app.

 

I usually don't let my gas tank get so close to empty, but when I looked at the gauge one morning (thanks to the gas warning light) I realized how symbolic it was of how I was feeling in the middle of being sick. I was running on empty as well. Not the highest quality picture, but rich in meaning.

 

I'm having so much fun with the instagram app and I thought this picture taken through a window at the airport turned out kind of cool.

 

Nothing too exciting in this one, just some dishtowels I folded on laundry day. I would have never taken a picture of dishtowels or laundry without a project like this. My mom will also be pleased to know that I finally bought some new dishtowels (Target) as I've had a rather pathetic collection for many years.

 

My hubby was out of town so I pardoned myself from cooking (any excuse will do) and took the kids out to dinner. I edited this photo with the camera+ app which has some really cool features. It might be my new favorite photo app.

 

So even though the hampers are full, the mail is unopened, and everything else is piling up, I'm caught up on something. I'll pat myself on the back for that!

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