Projects.

Finishing up a color mini book for my little man, starting a memorial album about my uncle for my aunt, and lots of photo stuff. I want to upload to scrapbookpictures.com, back them up to my external hard drives and sort all my printed photos, ala Photo Freedom. :D

oh ali, you've inspired me so much this year! I read about the 365 project on your site right before the new year and decided i wanted to do it so for the last 108 days I've been:
taking daily photos of my son
taking daily photos of stuff around me
and I've started a year-long atc project with photos of my son from this year.
and to top it all off, with 11 other women, i started creativeTherapy so i can create freely and therapeutically every week.
it's really with all the inspiration from you so i cannot thank you enough.

Top of the list: Planting flowers outside with my two little ones ;-) We love sunshine!

I gave Project 365 a shot last year and ran out of steam in March so when you blogged about taking everyday moments I recommitted to a photo a day this year. I want to thank you for the inspiration...I started blogging so I would have somewhere to put each photo and added a paragraph of commentary. And the writing part has taken me to places I never imagined I would go. And guess what? It's April and I'm still going.
So while your project 365 may have stalled, you can be proud of providing the inspiration for so many of us getting out and getting creative every single day. Thanks again!

I want to personally thank you for suggesting the "365 project". I have only missed two days this year and it has brought a new spark to my days. Everyone emails me or asks what the POTD (photo of the day) is. My kids beg to be POTD. Thanks so much for the fun and inspiring idea.

Ok, what's on my list.... hmm, first I need to find my little list notebook! It seriously has disappeared---probably during spring break & all the extra company we've enjoyed... So, on my mental list, I need to edit the photos I took today at the Woodburn Wooden Shoe tulip gardens (go see them!! preferably when it's not raining...but even still, the color was amazing this morning!), then work on my pastel on canvas, start a 2nd one from the tulip pics (too damp to paint there this morning...), make chili tonight, finish digging out my scrap area, start scrapping again, update my daily journal, & maybe take a nap... dang nasty cold is really making it hard to cross anything off my list!

Umm, I am having back surgery on Teusday. I have a six page list of stuff to do when I recover. I have almost two months of bed rest so I am ready.
First though is to enjoy a nice long Spring walk.
Brenda

hee hee- lost the list??
Been there done that- usually happens when I go to the grocery store so I come out spending double what I woulda if I had the list. Then I get home and realize as I am putting up the groceries I forgot the main thing we needed. Isn't it ironic?!
Now I keep 1 journal in my purse at ALL times. I can make list, jot down funny things that happen or my tinies say. Write or sketch idies while sitting in carline at school.
I have several that are full of great everyday tidbits of our life in my own handwriting- great for ripping out and adding to a layout.
Hey! I just thought about a great layout for a trip to the store.
Good Luck finding that book.

i am constantly writing things down that i would like to get accomplished. big things that i would like to do in the next few years or things as small as putting away dishes.
your comment about having more then 1 notebook for lists and wish u had only 1.... on Scrap In Style is having a "Sisiversary" in June. One of the fashionistas has a class that shows u how to make a notebook just for that. If u are on SIStv her name is Ashley Wren...very cool person!

i just completed a found scrapbook. i went out of town for the weekend and took only my adhesive, scissors, and fave journaling pen and came home with a mini book of someone very special...grandma (for my two year old daughter). on my list...take pics of this book and post on my blog. also, created "found" typography with sidewalk chalk. have yet to post that one as well:)

While I don't often post here, I do read....I just had to respond to this. Recently I participated in Project Yellow that Anna Carson (http://annacpics.blogspot.com/) started. She just wrapped it up today, but is starting something new on Sunday. It was interesting to look for yellow in my life!

Super inspired lately...too many projects to list just like you...number one this weekend is finally creating my scrapbook space with a road trip to Ikea...I can't wait...

I'm definitely a "list maker" but at this point in my life... if it's not written down, I forget about it.
My current project is waiting patiently for our contractor to finish my DREAM craft room! In the meantime, I've been doing some mini books & a few LO's here & there.
In lieu of doing another garage sale, I've been having a LOT of luck selling things on craigslist.com. :-)
Have a great week!

Oh yay, a fellow multi-list person! After recently realizing that so many scattered to-do lists were actually hindering me instead of helping me (because, wow, it's amazing the places those little pieces of paper get tucked), I found some great advice in the Time section of Stephanie Denton's book, "The Organized Life". The one thing that really stood out was this: having one notebook for a "master to-do list", and a planner to schedule your days. So I've been using my planner (moleskine - love it!), and a clipboard for my general to-do list (which allows me to tuck in pieces of mail and such to get to later)...and am loving it. Definitely helping me feel less scatter-brained, and that's always good, right?
Look forward to seeing how your newest projects turn out...happy Wednesday! =)

ali
it is so funny you mention book(s) of list. i was just thinking tonight while i was at a committment that i need to center all my thoughts, ongoing committments, future project plans, decor ideas into one spot. but i seem to never get to it.
me too...dropped the ball on 365...life is so intensely busy that that was the thing that had to go.
but things replaced that as well.
main project is the photo freedom goals. so happily turned on by what sj shares. it has been an awesome turn in my life art.
do you have turns in your creative endeavors? it actually sounds like you are going through one right now.
soooooo looking forward to a newsletter.
have you thought about an online class of your autism fundraising class?

I have notebooks everywhere in my house, my purse, my desk at work... I just tidied my scrap room and found at least 4 notebooks just like yours - with a few pages filled here and there. And for some reason, I can't be bothered to start at the beginning of the book - I just start writing wherever. Not sure why? I've always been a list maker, too.
Anyway, right now I'm in an organizing phase, so once that's done I'll probably start on a project I'm doing for my Dad's 60th birthday. It will be an album of family photos and letters from his eight children and fifteen grandchildren. His birthday isn't until December, but I am a terrible procrastinator so I thought I'd better start early!

Ah, so I am not the lone multi list maker, multi journal writer....Certainly we all have similar personalities and live our lives similarly. We are all probably busy, productive and doing all while trying to live and BE in the moment. That is why we write it down and move on......sometimes that place IS a napkin or the back of some junk mail......no wonder we have lists everywhere!
I feel relieved tho to know I am not alone, not the only one doing this...finding little journals partially used up. Lists upon lists all over the place.
If/WHEN you come up with the best plan, fill us all in, sounds like we could all use a little stramlining help!
Thank you Ali for always being an inspiration, for always inspiring and encouraging us to live our lives to the best!
Blessings!
Sherry

me too...plenty of projects! My current one.....well, I have a new graqnddaughter and so I pulled out all the sweet baby clothes that I saved from my son. I am creating a small book with pictures of him wearing these clothes and tellign the story so my DIL will understand why these were special to me.

I was also working on the 365 day project and unexpectedly fell to pieces on it this week. It made me feel better that you lost track also! I did take some cool pictures that I wouldn't have otherwise so thanks for the idea!

My current project is creating a blog. It has been fun experimenting, playing, changing things up. It has a way to go, but it's a beginning. My to do project theme is: "being comfortable with imperfection". Basically, I will be creating 2 projects a week, it doesn't matter the size of the project as long as I stick to my theme goal. The blog is my first goal to being comfortable with imperfection. Not an easy thing. :)
Tina

Mini album for a dear friends soon to be one year old daughter!! I love having one thing in mind and going with it.
I love your LOVE album in the recent CK magazine. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Stacey

Lists - yes! Projects to finish - yes! And I guess I always will have that's just me.
I started a photo a day project in April 2007. It was a challenge and I did miss some. I was in sight of the finish line when on March 22, I left my camera in a restaurant and when we went back to get it it had been stolen. I was really angry - not so much about the camera but the 20 days I had on it! I have got over it and decided to extend the project. Although it's hard making yourself take the shots, looking back on a year in pictures is wonderful. Friends and family love it too.

hmmmm
my current project
is EVERYTHING!
creating with everything around me, just opening up and wachting where my hands and my mind go when I let go and stop thinking about it.
was so nice to see you last week Ali-girl!

I have my list in my head so of course I always forget things. Right now I have no specific things to do, except housework, I just keep doing projets for the LSS I work at.

I keep lists...one at work in a notebook, one in the car (but that one gets done the day I do errands) and one by my craft area of pages I am going to do. I lost my list in the craft area and when I did a new one, I saw my perspective change on what I wanted to accomplish. THAT alone made me feel like I had done something!