SEPTEMBER TWELFTH EVE..

and I am so looking forward to this month!

I feel like I've taken the last 5 months off. Running, scrambling, chasing, calling, flying, answering, asking, etc. Life is CRAZY. But it's my life.

And while I may not be up-to-date with scrapped "twelve" pages...I do have the pictures. I have the proof that I was there, and the pages will come together soon.

If you haven't seen THIS TUTORIAL from my friend, and fellow Twelver, you should check it out! Cathy makes the process so easy. Making a grid in Photoshop/PSE is a piece of cake! And the twelve-photo-grid she demonstrates is IDEAL for you-know-what!

Hmmmm...wonder why she chose twelve!?!?

Anyway - I promise to dive back into communicating, blogging, scrapping and sharing pages. Because that finishes the process!

I love weekend twelfths...not because they are really different. But because they show a different side of life. A different speed and pace of "normal".

What will yours look like? Here's a hunch of what my pictures will include...

- how many sixteen year olds are sitting around the breakfast table?
- who wanted blueberry, who wanted plain?
- orange juice or cran-raspberry juice
- showers or bath
- shampoo or conditioner
- how's the bathroom look "after" the preparation
- when did the other family members appear
- who sat where in the family van
- when we show up at the barn, who is early - who is late
- what time did the dirt and fencing arrive
- shovels or rakes
- seeds or plants
- water or Gatorade
- how long does it really take, according to my watch, to build 20 lamb pens
- just how dirty are FFA kids after said pens are built
- what did the car thermometer read at the end of the work day
- what condition was the kitchen in, after being gone all day long
- how early was bedtime, after a long-hot-and-sweaty-work day

I hope that gives you a few ideas of how we do this around here! If it moves, breathes, laughs or is related to you...SHOOT IT.

There is time to decide/edit later! Today we shoot, tomorrow we edit.

Prove you were here...it's your life. Don't be afraid to show the normal, the routine, the untidy, the spontaneous!

PEACE!

July twelfth is upon us...

which means we're officially into the second half of 2009!

That's just sounds plain CRAZY! Only five more twelfths this year! EEK!

You know the concept - twelve pictures OF your life, the twelfth OF the month!

You know the routine - pictures of everyone, everything and everywhere you go on the twelfth!

You know the outcome - we scrapbook the resulting twelve pictures!

You also know my pattern - a day late and a month behind...but I'm working on it!

The list of participants continues to grow - I LOVE IT! Pages continue to get done, and I see them popping up everywhere! In galleries, on blogs, in contests and in magazines. I LOVE IT even more!

I am trying desparately to get the flickr.com gallery working seemlessly. If you'd like to be able to upload your finished "12-of-12" page to the official gallery, CLICK HERE to join the group. Then you can upload your own page, whenever it is done, and you won't be waiting for me to post it here. {I think I've proven that I'm not always punctual with that system!}

Here is what the gallery currently has to offer, from the last month or so:

Joining flickr.com takes only a few seconds, and I think will provide us with a great avenue to share, and look, and comment, and praise all of the resulting "twelfth" pages! I hope you'll agree!

I'm processing my own pictures from last Sunday - and need to edit them down to a manageable twelve. Then - it's time to scrap!

Any questions, comments or suggestions - feel free to leave a comment here or email me directly! Let's have FUN this month!

PEACE!