All the joy! I LOVE how this spread has come together. 

Today is all about our church family service. It is something that we do really well. There is an energy and enthusiasm around the place on this day that is unique to the community service. The kids from church and the programs that we facilitate throughout the week come together to perform and run the sercice. It is VERY cute! There is then a celebration- crafts, food, jumping castle, games... it's lots of fun.

​Today's layout is all Ali's kit with the little exception of the numeral 4 which comes from Heidi Swapp's Documenting December kit and the 'celebrate the season' stamp. I cut down some of the 6x8 pages into 2x2 squares and also got into the packaging box and cut that down too! :) I played for a little while with the layout to get it to how I wanted it. I stamped 2 of the Messy Circle stamps on white cardstock and adhered them to the typed paper. The green stickers are placed off of centre on the red paper. 

How is your project going?

Day 3 was started at 11:10pm and completed by 11:30pm last night. A simple collection of photos from our day, not at all Christmas themed. That's completely ok by me. 
This day has highlighted some tyical Saturday things for our family- Toby in the garden, planting out our beds for the Summer. Watering the garden as the kids play. At the moment, Tilly is trying to master some gymnastics on the swing set and Sam is very keen to follow daddy around with the watering. I went on a photo shoot too so the kids watched a movie with Toby in the heat of the day. Some sport and a drink on the street with our neighbours is also part of our new normal around here.

Why hello there! It must be December because I have logged onto the blog again. ;) I'm not sure that I'll be blogging all of my December days. I'm posting regularly on Instagram as @beckholdermemorykeeping, so feel free to follow me there! 
This year has kept me busy with photography and teaching and sadly, not much Project Life... but as always, December Daily MUST happen! I LOVE this project and am committed to doing it again... for the 8th time. :) Just check out that bunch of albums!

I gathered with my favourite local memory keepers in November to put together our albums and have an afternoon of playing. By the end of our time together I was feeling excited for the season to begin.
My page protectors were in place, the cards from the Ali Edwards Main Kit and numbers from my stash had been slot in roughly where they would be used.
My front page and opening thoughts page were also complete...

And here were are... all of a sudden it's December 2! Here are my pages so far.

Thanks for following along. You may see me here later but absolutely on instagram! x

What an AMAZING experience was tonight?! I was lucky enough to win entry for Toby and I to attend a 5 course degustation menu with matched wines at a Press Club Pop Up Project at Eastland.. one of 20 our of 9000 entries!!!
​The food was outstanding and it is safe to say it was one of the most enjoyable nights of my life. 

It's now late Sunday night here which means that the collecting for WITL is officially over. Now comes the part where I upload to dropbox so that I can create a photobook with it all! We'll see how long that takes.  ;) 
Rather than break it down day by day, I thought that I would just post my favourite photos from Thursday to Sunday here. 

If you're still going with your documenting, enjoy! I have loved capturing photos of my family like I do for so many other families. Once more, some of these photos are some new favourites. 
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Hi all! Just checking in to say that I'm still on. Lard the WITL train documenting, however I am a few days behind in posting pics. Too many late nights and a day of work later, this lady is going to bed with plans to enjoy some time on this project over the weekend.
Enjoy the final 2 days.

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This morning the kids and I ventured to the zoo with some friends of ours. I met Kelly through the Project Life Australia Facebook group and we have become real-life friends! Tilly and her youngest, W are a similar age and get along well, so it works when we all get together! It was fun to break our Wednesday routine (sorry playgroup!) with a trip out. Faves from today...

Day 2 and I am loving this process. It is 10:16pm and my youngest has only JUST gone to sleep so today will be only pics. These are from my real camera. A few from my phone are still there. :)

If I can, I will be posting some of my favourite photos from the day here each night. 
Something that I have liked about my approach so far this year is to not try to take in every little portion of the day, but rather to capture things that I can tell stories about that are common to us now. 

Monday was... a quiet morning at home cleaning and the kids helping and playing so well together, taking Tilly to kinder in the downpour, a planned GP visit for me, more play after kinder before an 'in-front-of-the-TV-kid-dinner', bath, late Toby home, sleepy drive for Sam, omelette dinner for Toby and pimped-porridge' for me. Lots of stolen moments in front of the computer screen too as me Beck Holder Photography website update post went up.

Here are some of today's favourites...

Hello... do you remember me? Well done if you've found me here. It's been pretty quiet over here! 
I have been filling my days with the kids and our home. Tilly is in kinder this year and Sam is 2. My photography business has been growing and I have also returned to work as a primary teacher one day a week, teaching Art!  All of this has left little room for my other passion of memory keeping, particularly Project Life. The passion IS there though and I continue to chip off bits and pieces as I can. My struggle is getting to the editing of my personal photos on the computer and then getting the photos printed in store. It was wonderful to see Becky Higgins again a few weeks back and to be reminded that there are seasons in life and that it will be there when I can pick it up properly again. 

With this in mind, and with some thoughts about the Project Life App, I have decided to attempt to document a week in our life starting tomorrow. My plan has grown and changed somewhat, but the guts of it is this...

• I will use my iphone and SLR to take photos.​
• SLR photos that I wish to use will be edited on my computer and then uploaded to drop box.
• I will use the Project Life App to create daily spreads for each day. 
• The final product will be made into a photobook.
• I may stamp and handwrite onto the book once it is printed.

I originally thought that I would use the 6x8 'pages' in the app but found that I can not have a book printed in that portrait orientation, so I will use the square templates and create an 8x8 book.

Those are my rough plans thus far. You may see me again this week, or you may not. ;) If you are taking part in WITL, I wish you all the best and a happy time collecting memories of your life right now. 

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