The list in November was similar to this; November 2012 in Photos across the top and the numbers 1 through 30 on a sort of postcard looking picture. I thought it looked kind of neat, but I mostly forwarded it because it said to do so on the bottom.
Two of my friends posted pictures on November 1st and tagged me on them. I found the pictures on the second of November and thought I'd better get on with it. November first was something that begins with "C" and all three of us took a picture of one of our cats...
By mid November several mutual friends were admiring the pictures and another friend suggested that it would be neat to set up a facebook page to group all the pictures. So I set it up. (Along about that time I discovered that the Albums were not working properly on the group pages and that only a few of us could get pictures to post in the albums...) The page grew a bit, and, after a bit of a struggle, I figured a work around so I could move the member's pictures into the albums if they couldn't do it themselves, and by the end of the month, facebook fixed the albums - at least, they suddenly started working properly for me.
I am enjoying the project immensely. By the end of November we had about 12 of us in the group and it was decided that we would make a list for December. A pile of topics were sent to me by private message, I wrote them on pieces of paper, put them in a bowl and pulled them (mostly) at random, and wrote them on a calendar. Eventually I found a photo I liked, and using MS Paint, I created the list above.
By the end of December we had about 30 people in the group with roughly 12 photos going into each album daily.
People post when they want - I try to remember to get the next day's album ready in the morning, as we are in quite different time zones, and I LOVE to see the photos and the interpretations of the topics. Between Christmas and New Years Eve I started talking about January, and people were enthused. I had changed the name of the page from November in Photos to December in Photos and I decided that changing it each month would be cumbersome - so I changed it one last time to its 'permanent' (for now, anyway) name of This Month in Photos.
I put together the January list in much the same way as I did the December list - and I managed to accidentally repeat one of the topics. Darn! However, there are lots of ways to interpret the topics and we definitely encourage people to think outside the box.
Oh, I have to mention something else. This is absolutely for fun! So there are NO rules. You interpret the topic the way you wish. If this means you use a photo you took in 1996 - so be it. If you share a photo from facebook, I don't care. (If you put something on facebook that you didn't want to have shared, what were you thinking? There is a share button under it all!) Personally, I like to use a picture that I have taken today - but that is only me. (It REALLY makes me think!)
Here's January's list:
I think the writing might be too small to see, but January 1st is Resolutions.
And that's where the topic of this blog begins. One of my friends shared an idea that some nameless person had - I thought it was brilliant - get a jar, write positive things that happen to you on slips of paper and put those slips of paper of wonderful things in the jar (daily, weekly, monthly - none of that was specified). Open it on December 31, 2013, take them out and read them. Enjoy a fun and positive evening. I thought that was brilliant... but one of the other ladies already had her photo up - and, alas, she had her bottle with a tag that read, "Open on December 31st!" Hmmm. I had to come up with something else.
Between Christmas and New Years, my daughter and I were talking about Resolutions. She had heard an idea regarding a bottle and notes. Hers worked in a slightly different way. The person that she read about had decided that he would do 52 tasks. One per week in 2013. The one that she cited was, "I will teach my grandmother to receive and send an email, because I said I would." So we discussed that. Each item would have to be a task that was short enough to be accomplished in a week. "I will get my masters in Nuclear Physics, because I said I would." just wouldn't work. (Same with, "I will become fluent in Romanian, because I said I would.")
I said I thought it was a neat idea, and that I would think about the 52 things that I could put in a bottle. Okay, here is where the perfectionism kicks in. She and I finished our conversation and I spent the next 3 hours working on this!
I opened Open Office, and I created a landscape oriented page with a table - two columns. The first column I numbered. (Well, it wouldn't do to NOT have 52 of them, would it!?)
Then I hunted through the fonts to find my FAVOURITE. (Fortunately, I had done this before, so I had narrowed it down.) Segoe script would do fine.
I decided I didn't need it say, "because I said I would." I felt that was a given...
So I created a document with 52 THINGS on it. Some of them are chores. Some are treats. Some of them will be fun. Some of them are habits that I'd like to start, and I figure I could do them for a week. Some of them require an action every day of a week and some are just once sometime in that week.
I needed to add things to the Sheltered Cove Quilt Co. website, so I wrote that one down and I kept it out... It seemed like a good idea to simply start with that one.
Now, where to put them. Hmmmm. It had to be the PERFECT jar - right?
I knew exactly which jar I wanted, unfortunately I don't own THAT jar... so the next best was a bottle I bought at a Bulk Barn in Ottawa for tea. I never drank the tea, but the bottle was in the cupboard. I emptied it, washed it out and dried it.
I carefully cut my document up into strips. If I had realized that I had had coloured paper in the guest room, I would have used that to print it, but I found that afterwards; so, too bad. I folded each strip twice and put them all in the jar, except for the one numbered "21. Add one finished item to the webpage every day this week." That one I left out.
I had to take a picture of my bottle to add it to "This Month in Photos" - but it needed something... I found a piece of leftover binding in the drawer of the sewing machine table, brought it upstairs and made a bow. Voila! My bottle of resolutions. Here's the picture:
("21. Add one finished item to the webpage every day this week." is what is on the paper on top of it.)
I have added about 20 items to the webpage - 12 things on the Quilts for Sale page and several on my gallery, and my Quilts in Progress. When Alison was over today, I took 7 pictures of things she is making to add them to her Quilts in Progress page, and I have thought of some of Mandy's quilts to add.... So I successfully completed the first week's mission.
Today is the first day of the second week. Guess what today's strip of paper said.
"10. Make a blog entry every day this week."
This is the first one. I hope you enjoyed it!
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