{i love you more than...}

this is SUCH a cute idea! i found the blog love you more than blank this morning and was instantly smitten. i love this blog and the whole idea behind it. i haven't had a chance to read all of the sentiments yet, but i will be thinking about mine and adding it sometime this week. you can email them here with your fill in the blank valentine sentiment. if you send one in, let me know so i can look for it!

{first week of 365}

i decided that i would try to create a mosaic every week to document my progress on my 365 project here on my regular blog. so this is my first mosaic i have ever made and i am quite proud of myself. actually it wasn't that hard, i used bighugelabs' flickrtoys to create it. it's so easy and fun! anyway, i hope to do this every week here.

{new art project}

so one of my goals for this year is to try new art projects. i came across this project idea on emily falconbridge's blog, here. she is a very talented scrapbooker and artist that i came across a few months ago during one of my blog surfing expeditions.

anyway, the idea is that you answer a question about yourself every week for an entire year. emily is posting the questions and the goal is to answer the question in a mini art journal format of some sort. i decided that i would use playing cards as my medium for this art project. i made a mini album a few months ago during the art class that i was taking and loved working on something so small. it was such a different experience from working on my larger scrapbook pages.

so the first prompt was the question: "what are your wishes for 2009?" and here is my first card for this project...




i am very excited about this project. jackie and courtney are also partaking in this project, which i am also very excited about. you can check out more from this project on the flickr group site: 52Q: a year of mini art journaling

{new photo project}

well with a new year comes lots of new things. for me, this year, i wanted to attempt another 365 photo project, or a photo a day for a year. i tried this last year as some of you may remember, but it landed me in failure. last year i attempted a self portrait a day, that didn't work for me. this year, i am going for more of a slice of everyday life approach, with just a highlight photo from each day to sum up the activities of the day. now, i know some of you are skeptical that i will stick with this, but, i am going to give it my best shot and hope for success! i think that my new approach to this project will help a lot because i am not limiting myself to a certain type of photo.

so, i will be posting the daily photos on my photo blog, which has gone unloved for quite some time now. you can check it out here...

steph's photo blog

you can also check out my pictures on flickr...

steph's flickr

and i also convinced courtney to join in this project with me. you can see her pictures on flickr also...

courtney's flickr

so hop on over to flickr or the blog and check it out! leave a comment or two, enjoy the photos! (courtney has a few funny ones!) wish me luck...

{favorite links of 2008}

these are a few of my favorite things... :)

these are blogs i frequent or links to things that interest me, just thought i would share the things that have kept me busy this last year.

first of all, places i go for inspiration...

a beautiful mess
tara whitney
ali edwards
design*sponge
today's creative blog
crafty carnival
two peas in a bucket
splitcoast stampers
flickr
allsorts

secondly, people i know...

shawn
jay and jackie
courtney
alex and megan
andrew and sarah vonfrank
sharon

lastly, things that help keep me organized and productive (at least in theory)...

unclutterer
zen habits
creative organizing
flylady

and i guess that's it for now, i find new things all the time and i will try to post fun things here more often to share with you. i hope you will take some time to check something out from this list and maybe find something that interests you. have fun!