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RUKristin of The Awesome Ladies Project & I co-hosted a 7 day photo challenge last month and it was so much fun. The ladies who took part shared a bunch of AMAZING photos. Here’s my 7 photos and the prompts.

Day 1 – Black and White

Day 2 – Silhouette

Day 3 – Rule of Thirds

Day 4 – Selfie

Day 5 – Texture

Day 6 – Nature

Day 7 – Perspective

This month I’m doing a selfie a day challenge which you can follow along with over on my Insta and join in using #2020SeptSelfies.

The amazing RUKristin of The Awesome Ladies Project & I are cohosting a 7 day photo challenge.

Its called 7 Photos, 7 Stories and it’s an intensive online ‘bootcamp/challenge’ where over the course of a week you’ll get all the tools you need to take seven amazing photos that will each tell a story all on their own.
By the end of the 7 days you’ll learn:

• How to use photography prompts to help you tell a specific story
• How to use whatever camera you have to get great results
• How to decide when a photo is good enough for your story
• How to take photographs of yourself (selfies) to help tell your story
• And how to see the story through the lens before you take the shot

Sound good?
Click here to get all the details and grab your spot.

I am so excited and hope you join us xx

What is the 100 Happy Days project? It’s a photo project that challenges you to post something that makes you happy, daily, for 100 days.

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Yeah it’s nearly the end of January but lots happened in December and blogging got away from me.

If you follow my other blog, you’d have read about my mum. If you don’t TLDR – mum passed away on December 6th after a long 8 year battle with Ovarian Cancer. So yeah. I made a promise to myself at the end of the year that I would create more and not wallow as it’s what Mum would want me to do.

One of my craft goals for 2020 is to do more photo challenges. I picked 3(!!!) to start of the month and have managed to keep up with them even if I’m not sharing them on Insta I’ll be sharing them here at the end of the month.

What else are my plans for 2020?

• Daily Pages, as inspired by Kristin and the Awesome Ladies
• continuing my Book of Me
• taking part in The Reset Girl Summer & Winter events
• continue to work in my TRG playbook

Welcome, welcome friends. Here we are nearly to the end of February and I am yet to post.

The holidays are over and the kids are back at school. My baby is in kindergarten so I have 3 whole days a week with no kiddos!!
One is hoping that this is going to help the creative juices flow a bit more in 2019.

What am I planning for 2019? So far – lots!!

• Creating monthly pages in my 6×8 album that are just my stories. At this stage I’ll be using the Awesome Ladies Project monthly Lens prompts, with the occasional Day In the Life and Week in the Life spreads. It’ll evolve as it goes.
• Working on the girls’ Project Life albums monthly. Now that they are growing up I want to rethink how I do these albums. Do I still want to do an album each? Who knows? We’ll see how it goes.
• Morning pages. Now we’re in a good school routine I’m hoping to get back into creating something quick of a morning.
  If not morning pages I’ll pop something in my little quote book I started.
• 30 Days of Lists.
• Kellie is planning on doing 3 rounds of 31 things in 31 days. Looking forward to that.
• 100 Day Project. Not sure what I want to do. Throwing round the idea of giving myself a weekly theme.
• 100 Happy Days. I didn’t do this last year but I really want to do it this year. I think it is something I need to do even if just for myself.
• Working through some classes at Big Picture and Simple Scrapper.
• Photographing projects and sharing them here cause I have been so bad at that.

Who knows what else. We’ll see what the year brings. What are your plans for 2019?

Well another year is nearly over again and it’s time for a bit of a recap of 2018.

I managed to complete a few card classes from my local card class.

I finished my Awesome Ladies Project for 2018 – Book of Me.

I’ve completed a plan for my December album for this year. Now to actually create the pages.

I did all 3 seasons of 30 Lists.

Morning pages were a thing. I plan on getting back to doing them in 2019 as I really love the little creative burst first thing in the morning.

The blog is getting a makeover. Hopefully it will be done by NYE

What does 2019 bring?

More Awesome Ladies Project. More handmade cards. Catch up on the girls’ albums

Happy New Year! Time for a quick look back at my goals for last year and forward to my plans for 2018

2017 started out ok and I got a fair bit of creating done, then it just petered off and I hardly created anything in the second half of the year. Makes me sad cause I love creating.

In 2017 my plans were….

• create a photo book of our holiday using the Project Life app and most likely printing it through Snapfish. Nope didn’t happen. On my list of things to do, eventually but not digitally anymore as my eldest wants to help me create that scrapbook
  so yay a joint project.  
• finish our 2016 Journal Your Christmas pages. Keeping it very simple this year so I get it done. This is kind of done. I did a few pages before we went away on holiday and I plan to add a spread showcasing the best bits of our holiday and Christmas day.
• create a year of me album – not sure what it will include as yet but it’s my Awesome Ladies Project for the year Managed to get a couple of months of the Awesome Ladies Project done and the majority of 100 Days of Me. This is a project I can go back to whenever though as I made a ton of notes each month
• keep up to date with the girls albums. Simplify this year. Use up the supplies I have. Print photos and journal each month. Get it done, not perfect. Well….. I’ll be honest. There is nothing in the girls’ albums for 2017. Some of it is planned digitally but none made it to albums. Adding it to my catch up pile.
• Day in the Life & Week in the Life. Thinking of doing these digitally and printing them. I did this for Day in the Life in 2016 and it worked well so I might try it for Week in the Life too. I actually did this one and completed it. And it’s in my Year of Me album.
• possibly other projects that I have on the backburner or that spark my interest. Made a few cards and got into a few other non paper crafting things like loom banding and crochet over winter though.

Onto 2018….

• Book of Me at Awesome Ladies
• Journal Your Christmas 2017. Taking Shimelle’s advice from 2017 and only creating for the days that speak to me. Also keeping it simple. Maybe ask Miss K to create a couple of pages for me.
• Do a few more pages in our wedding album. It will get complete one year. No major rush on this one
• The girls’ PL albums. Make a date each month to create their pages digitally.
• Holiday album
• anything else that takes my fancy.

How did you go in 2017? Have any crafting plans for 2018?

I’ve always admired zentangles but I didn’t realise how easy they could be. Ok maybe not easy (cause some of them are damn hard) but doable! I’ve been doing the Zen Art Challenge for a couple of months now and really loving it. Miss K even wants to learn! Here’s my tangles from January and February

I may have started an Instagram account for this blog. Would love it if you popped on over and said hello

https://www.instagram.com/nightwolf_scraps/

This month is Craft month at Spotlight and as part of that they brought Becky Higgins & Lizzy Kartchner over to Australia for a tour. Becky came to my local store and I was lucky enough to grab a ticket for mum & I.

We all got a Make & Take pack containing a few 6×8 plastics and some cards from the newly released Better Together by Amy Tan.

I learned so much and after chatting with Becky I’ve got to learn to hand off the camera and get myself into the kids’ albums and maybe even an album of my own (but more about that later)

Becky signed a canvas for me (well all of us if we wanted one)