Document your life...

At the end of the day scrapbooking is all about documenting your life - the big events, the special moments but also about recording and preserving the little things that make you, who you are. How wonderful would it be to have a record of some of the little things that happened in your ancestors lives? What they liked, where they went and how they feel about life in general.

The good news is you can provide exactly that.. whether as a legacy for your children or grand children to know more about you in years to come, or just so you can look back yourself in the months and years to come.

One of the perfect ways to kick this off is to take more pictures - and lots of scrapbookers are embracing a year long project to take a photo a day. Embarking on a 365 is a big commitment, but it's great fun and once you get into the swing of things (and especially once the weather improves and the days get longer) it becomes much easier! The most important thing to remember is to take your camera EVERYWHERE! You never know when something might grab you!

On any one day you might like to document the significant, the mundane, or just a random snapshot of life. I'm now two weeks into mine (I started on the 1st Jan but there is no reason you shouldn't start right now!) and for now i'm blogging about them and uploading to my online gallery, but i've also already scrapbooked several of them and plan to do a 'Month in Review' page every month. It's wondeful having a nice big pile of new pictures to scrapbook!

If you'd like to see more of my photos you can visit my Flickr gallery. If you are undertaking a photo or scrapbooking challenge or are thinking of starting a 365, leave us a comment below for us to take a look at how you're getting on!