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Monday, March 5, 2012

Project 52: Week 07 | My Choice

Let's take a look at Aliyah's current obsession for Week 07 of Project 52. For the past couple of weeks, Aliyah loves anything that has an alligator on it. This little guy gets walked around our apartment many, many times, and it is one of the cutest things I've seen. Then there's the fact that whenever I sit down with Aliyah at her little table to work on teaching her numbers and letters, she insists that I draw an alligator in between our learning sessions. We have scores of paper that have alligators sprinkled among the alphabet. You would think I'd be really good at drawing these creatures by now, right? Nope, I'm not. I thought about taking a photo of these drawings for this week's photo, but to be honest, I'm a little embarrassed that my ability to draw an alligator isn't better, especially after all my "practice". But it makes Aliyah happy, and really, that's all that matters. To top off Aliyah's alligator partiality, we have the alligator song, which also happens to be the "quote" I used for this week's photo. This song was one of those spur-of-moment-mom songs that I made up and for some reason it stuck. It's requested at every bath and at the end of the song, we have to make her bath alligators kiss each other. As silly as these little stories are, I love it. She's my little sweetheart and if drawing weird looking alligators and making up songs with actions is what she wants, well then that's what I'll give her.

Week 08 | Mar 2-Mar 8: PANORAMA

And here's the link to everyone's photos via Pinterest.

Join us! If you want to link up your photos, I've created a pin board on Pinterest. Click here to view it. This board is a community board. All you need to do to join is email me (martapeters@gmail.com) or leave a comment on the blog letting me know the your Pinterest profile name. Once I have you entered you're free to submit your photos to that board.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Project 52: Week 06 | Yellow

I'm no morning person. In fact, I'm the exact opposite. Even though I would much rather sleep in every day of the week, I love to have the sun shining on me in the morning. Sebastian, on the other hand is a true morning person, yet can't stand to have the sun beams on him when he gets out of bed.

While I may never be a morning person, I can't deny that when I'm in the middle of getting things ready for the day, there is a sense of ambition. Of potential in what may come with the new day. Not every day is as accomplished as I'd like, but it's nice to know that every morning I can get up and start with a clean slate and be inspired about the possibilities a new day holds. It's all about the possibilities.

Ready for Week 07? I'm letting me and you loose this week by having each of us pick whatever word or subject we want for the photo. So go wild. :)

Week 07 | Feb 24-Mar 1: YOUR CHOICE

And here's the link to everyone's photos via Pinterest.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Project 52: Week 05 {Wooden}

I'm double-posting today since I was a week behind on Project 52. So if you're confused, I hope that explains it a bit. :)

Week 05's word that was Wooden. Again, I apologize for not posting this on my blog last week. I will say that it's awesome that people are putting their creative efforts into this project. I can only image how neat it will be to look back on 52 photos from so many individuals at the end of the year and see what came of it. I predict lots of beautiful photography if the Pinterest board so far is any indication of what the future might hold.

For this week's word I took a photo of these little figurines that I received as a gift from my sweet Mother-In-Law. They are originally from Germany and I am so honored to have them as part of my home decor. I absolutely love family heirlooms and items that have history to them. I have no idea why, but to me I find such a mystique and intrigue when I know that a piece has been around for many years.

And now, on to Week 06! This week's word:

Week 06 | Feb 17-Feb 23: YELLOW

And to recap, Week 05's word, so that anyone that I confused can catch up again:

Week 05 | Feb 10-Feb16: WOODEN

And here's the link to everyone's photos via Pinterest.

Project 52: Week 04 {Wash}

Yikes! I apologize I am so behind on Project 52. Here's my photo for Week 04. This quote above explains my cleaning habits almost to a T. I usually get these frenzied moments of cleaning once every week and then slowly, our place become more and more messy as the week goes on. And then the cycle repeats and I get this sudden moment of cleaning inspiration and do one big clean. But! There is hope for me yet! Following the advice of my wise mother, I'm trying to do just a little bit every night, even when I absolutely dread it. Some nights I fail, and some nights I succeed.

And since I'm a week behind, Week 05's word is Wooden. I thought I was being clever by posting it on the Pinterest board into at the top even though I hadn't actually taken my photo yet, but it was brought to my attention that people actually read my blog to see the new word. Oops. I feel terrible about that, and it is my promise that it won't happen again. :)

So, Week 05's word..(And I'm double-posting, so Week 06's word will also be posted today too.)

Week 05 | Feb 10-Feb16: WOODEN

And here's the link to everyone's photos via Pinterest.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Project 52: Week 03

Well, here's my photo for this week. Everyday this week, I looked around and all I could see were circles, and I thought to myself, this will be easy. But as the psychological theory goes, the more choices we are given, the more inhibited we become to make a confident one. So, in the end, I decided to just capture the first thing that caught my eye with circles. It happened to be this Atlas. While probably about 20 years old, this book is still full of intriguing information about the earth's formation, stars, topography, weather cycles and more. It was Sebastian's when he was younger and he said he used to love to drink in the information within this book.

On a more exciting note, Week Three of Project 52 brought in some new members! It's always exciting to see new people ask to join up in on the Pinterest board. We even have a new contributor, Jessica, from Ireland. Check out her three photos a day project here. I know, she's ambitious. So far she's succeeded in posting her three shots everyday.

I have to say, this project has been even more inspiring than I imagined. I love seeing the great shots that come in little by little. And since everyone has a different perspective on the same word, every shot is different. I love it! Wait, I said that already didn't I? :)

And so, we begin Week 04.

Week 03 | Feb 3-Feb 9: WASH

And here's the link to everyone's photos via Pinterest.