Did you notice a new little addition to my side bar?? ————————————>

This year at SSD several of them are participating in the Project 365 photo-a-day challenge. The basic idea is to take a picture a day, and make a little caption for each days picture, with something you learned, something that happened, or just anything that you feel is significant.  Ideally at the end of the year you’ll have a years worth of pictures and stories to look back on.  I love this idea, since like I’ve expressed recently, I’ve really been wanting to capture the moments better…. so I’m really going to try to pull this puppy off!!!

In true Shawna style, right before the clock struck 12 on the night of January 1st here, I took my first picture   Since then I’ve done pretty well, I’ve only had to "fudge" one photo, and you’ll never know which one!  I did my very best to make sure to capture something that really signified the day before, so now I am up to 12 pictures, each with a little bit of a story behind it.  Already I’m having fun look back through them, and I’m totally excited about having a years worth of memories when this is all said and done!!!

After weighing my options, I decided Flickr was my best choice for setting up a gallery for this, because I can really quickly and easily upload and type up a little story… I figure knowing me, the easier it is to do, the more likely I am to keep it up!  But, I went searching online, and was able to find a plugin for my blog, that puts my pictures over there in my side bar, so that when ever you come to my bloggy you can see what I’ve added recently to my flickr 365 album. Also! if any of them look intriguing to you, all you have to do is click the thumbnail and it will take you right to the photo and journaling so you can see what was going on in my little head when I took the pic.

Sometimes I’ll share a photo here just because I adore it so much, but definitely keep an eye up there in the top left of my blog for more!

I thought for now, I’d share my picture and story from yesterday – it’s a cute one!

January 12, 2009:

Here’s another adorably cute picture from our night:

Keep an eye out for more 365 highlights!  Oh and if you haven’t done this yet, I whole heartedly recommend it!  I’m having so much fun, and hey no one said you have to start at the very very beginning of the year to do it, just start taking pictures and chronicling your memories!  You won’t regret it!