So last year I tried to do Project 365 where you take a photo a day and capture your life in daily photos. Well, I think I made it through the first month and then lost interest in it. I just don't find my daily life that interesting I guess. So I was thinking I would like to start a new project in 2010. I may finish it and I may not but hey, who's to say I can't start it?
So as I was sitting here thinking about it this morning, I came up with a few ideas and I'm not sure which one I want to do...here's what I came up with so far...
365 People In Troy Montana ... This one sounds so intriguing (and most tempting) to me. I would love to make up a little survey for each person to fill out and take a few pics of them working, hanging out, hobbying, whatever. Then I would create a page about each person using their photos and the information I got from them in their survey and conversation. Why do I want to do this one? Because I think there are a lot of very interesting people in this small town and after living here for 10 years I still don't feel like I know many people. Why do I think it might not work out? I'm pretty shy, believe it or not. I don't talk to strangers very easily and if I am going to do this project I want to be able to capture their true personalities and quirks. Beyond that, would 365 people actually let me follow them around and capture them on camera and tell me about themselves? I think it would make a fabulous scrapbook that I could read over and over. Therefore, it's #1 on my list of what I would really like to do...now to see if I have the guts to do it. Any volunteers to get me started? LOL!
365 Places in Troy MT ... This could be a lot of fun and a little less invasive than my first option. I'm thinking about capturing the obvious places in Troy and then working out from there to capture some of the not so obvious places. This could be homes, businesses, nature spots, ball fields, you name it....just whatever I am in the mood to shoot each day.
365 Things In My Home ... yes, there are many more than that lingering around the house but I was thinking this could be a fun way to just capture the things that surround us and the why of it all.
365 Projects in 2010 ... It's a lofty goal but I'm thinking it would be fun to see if I could actually finish 365 projects in a year. Sure there will be days when I don't do anything but then there are times when I complete a few a day. This could be anything from home improvement projects, cards, scrapbook pages, knitting projects, beading projects, painting projects, photo projects. I think it could be done but the question is, do I want to document it all?
365 Photos of My Children ... Probably very easy to do for me but wouldn't it be fun to open a book and have it be nothing but photos of your children ... the hard part? I would put it off until the end of the year and then try to choose my favorite 365 and would probably give up because I would be doing it all at once and it would be overwhelming and then I would be trying to be a good mom and make it fair so they all had the same amount of face time in the book. Hmmmm, maybe not as fun as I originally thought. LOL!
365 Meals ... I thought about doing this last year but then didn't shoot some of my less exciting meals. This could be a good project for my health because there's no way I'd want to document me eating a bowl of fudge for dinner. LOL! I think it would be fun to add recipes and have the pics to go with them. On the other hand, I have been working on a fun recipe book project for a couple of years now and it's still not done...so maybe I shouldn't start another!
365 Best Parts Of The Day ... Every night at dinner we ask our kids what the best part of their day was and as everyone shares, we get to have a little conversation about just the good things. I was thinking it would be fun to give each of the girls a book with all of their Best Parts of the Day at the end of the year. It would be a fun read I think.
365 Worst Parts Of The Day ... As you can imagine, this is just the opposite. We do this at dinner time too. Most of the time it's that they have to eat Gravy or that they know they have to do the dishes after dinner but it's always a good time to let them vent a little about what went wrong in their day. We usually get some good laughs and I'm thinking that a book capturing all the bad stuff would be funny to look back on in a year! LOL!
365 Quotes ... I love a good quote as anyone that is my FB friend will tell you. I find myself randomly adding them to my FB wall all the time. I also have a book that is full of random quotes I've found in the past few years. So maybe this project isn't really necessary for me since I pretty much already do this.
So that's what I have on my mind for my 2010 project. Now cross your fingers that I have the guts to do my first choice because that is the one I'd really love to do. I just need to seriously get some guts and go for it. I think the end result would be fabulous to read ... maybe I'll start with the survey and maybe someone will read this and volunteer to be a part of my project...who knows. I'm excited about it but a little scared. I guess that's what makes the best projects though...it wouldn't be worth it if it didn't make your stomach twist a little, right?