Last year I got to a point where I was really annoyed that I was taking all these photos of my kids with my phone (conveniently, because I always have it on me) and doing nothing with the photos. (sound familiar?!) My kids would sit four hours scrolling through all the photos and movies that we took during the year enjoying them and reliving them. I remember doing the same thing, although my mom was super great about getting those 3.5×5’s into photo albums so my sister’s and I COULD look through them when she was at her wit’s end during the day!
I had started my real life project earlier in 2013 determined to get something out of the photos when my sister, reading through the posts, challenged me to put a book together of the entire year from the blog posts for my kids, a yearbook in some way. Because I am already taking the time to blog, what an easy way to relive the year week by week and see what has happened during the year and get a book out of it! I only was able to get through 18 weeks, but I am in “progress not perfection” mode these days (thanks to some wonderful posts I have been reading about goal setting by Lara Casey)!!
Are you up to join me for the challenge?? Maybe you don’t want have the time to get into photoshop and play around, maybe you just instagram, tweet, or Facebook it so that at the end of the year you can gather all your hashtags and go through them. Or you could even go one step further and PRINT them for am album!! I am planning on using instagram with my photos with a the hashtag of #federfamily52weeks and then putting it together in an 8×8 book form at the end of the year. Whatever it is, let’s get those photos off our phones and do something with them so in the future our kids can have a tangible thing to hold and page through.
In the coming weeks, I am working on trying to put an action together in photoshop to get the workflow to be faster. If I can accomplish this, I will post it to share!
So for all of you who follow my personal life, here it is, raw and in full form for my own personal project of 52 weeks!
Week one highlights::
Trip to Mill City, two days back to school, two days off of school! Record lows, two weddings, como zoo trip, making lots and lots of crafts and projects, being inside… A LOT!
Hey Karen,
I think this is great. Have you ever used Dropbox? I love it. When I take a picture with my phone, I can open the app and it automatically downloads it. Then I can access it on my computer, and even share the file with others. So easy.