the story of my life | capture your 365 | blog hop

I've always loved to look at our family photos. As a kid I remember my parents having a drawer full of envelopes filled up with photos from family vacations and other events. Later my mom's started to organize most of our photos and putting them into photo albums. I always loved going through the older photos and bringing back all the memories from my childhood, telling the stories behind those photos and sharing the joy and laughter with other family members.

Now I have a family on my own and it is me who tells the story of our everyday life, I'm the family storyteller. In 2009 I've started doing my project 365 - photo-a-day. I really loved the idea of capturing the little moments in everyday life. For putting the photos together I used a template by Ali Edwards and printed out the monthly reviews. Here is an example of the month of May.

My kids love to look at the album at all those photos and we always share some good laughs after bringing some of the situations and memories up.

For 2010 I've decided to go with a Project Life kit by Becky Higgings. I absolutely love the idea of this kit. The little pockets are perfect not just for the journal cards which are included in the kit but also for keeping small items like drawings, tickets etc stuff. Unfortunately life got quite busy last year with selling our house, moving across the country so I've not been able to put the album together yet. But I went strong with taking photos and didn't miss a day so now it is just a matter of time to finish this album. Hopefully I'll get to it soon.

For this year I originally decided not to continue with this project but soon I've started to miss capturing the little everyday things so I'm trying to get back on track with taking everyday photos. But this time I'm taking it easy. If I miss a day, it's no big deal for me. I don't stress if I don't take a photo on a certain day. I try to enjoy this process as much as I can and at the same time I'm also learning how my camera works so I can improve my photography skills.

I came across Capture your 365 site the other day and I immediately knew that's the right place to be. I love the supportive community there, all the ideas and advices people share there. Thanks to Katrina Kennedy I'm finally pushing myself to get better in taking photos and enjoying again this long time project.

 

Jill came with a great idea to do a blog hop about our projects to showcase all the possibilities about how this project can be done. And also to give some inspiration to others (sometimes the inspiration is so needed!). I still don't know how I will showcase/collect my photos for this year but for now I just made a little review of some of my favorite photos I took this year so far.

Here is a list of other participants of this blog hop so if you have time, you can take a little peek into their everyday lives as well.

 1. Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/

2. Gayle 

http://lifeonlilypadlane.blogspot.com/

3. Tracy 

http://www.tracyannelittle.com/

4. Anne 

http://limeblog.net

5. Sarah 

blog.three8sphotography.com

6. Sharon 

http://sharonlinnefaulk.com/photo

7. Michelle www.ourhereandnow.blogspot.com

8. Katrina http://captureyour365.com/category/blog/

9. Kathleen 

http://jkplusthree.blogspot.com/

10. Erika www.imhangingwithmypeeps.blogspot.com

11. Gabi http://gabirytirova.typepad.com  - YOU ARE HERE

12. Christi http://randomactsofchristi.blogspot.com/

13. Joey http://everydayimagination.blogspot.com/

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Enjoy and thank you for stopping by!