Project 365 Day 38 - February 7th

All day I had contemplated what I was going to do for today's photo.  I had no ideas floating in my head whatsoever.  My hubby had to go to work this evening to take care of a few things, and right after he left he told me to wait about 30 minutes then to go out on our balcony and look at the moon.

I was so excited when I realized how clear and bright it was tonight, not to mention it was a full moon.  Since I knew I'd need my tripod in order to get a clear shot, I had to wait another hour until it was high enough that I could see if from the ground over the surrounding buildings and trees.

After about 35 minutes outside and 30+ shots later, I finally narrowed it down to two shots.

Project 365 Day 37 - February 6th

I'm not perfect, nor do I claim to be.  And I'm not always great at handling rough situations with my kids.  Today was one of those days.  My daughter has had major attitude issues for several days, and I reached my breaking point when she got home from school this afternoon.  After more than an hour of her arguing and screaming about anything and everything, I needed a break.

I am a former smoker... most of the time that is.  On occasion, while around a certain group of friends or when I'm overly stressed, I'll give in and have a cigarette.  This was one of those occasions.  I stepped out onto our patio to submit to this bad habit.  Along the way, I decided I'd use this moment as inspiration for today's photo.  I have to admit - it worked great!  I ended up smoking less than half of the cigarette because I was more focused on trying to get a cool shot.

Project 365 Day 36 - February 5th

I decided to do my first Pinterest activity of the week for breakfast this morning.  I opted to make a syrup rather than a glaze as the recipe called for.  In the process, I became enthralled by the rolling bubbles in the pot.  LOL  What can I say, I'm still a kid at heart in many ways.

Project 365 Day 35 - February 4th

I figured that we're just over a month into this year's Project 365 and I have not yet posted (or shot) a self-portrait.  I absolutely detest being in front of the camera.  It's not that I'm not photogenic, but I would just rather be on the other side of the camera.

I figured if I was going to do a self-portrait, I'd do it in a way that resembles me in the best possible way - behind the camera.

Project 365 Day 34 - February 3rd

In addition to this Project 365 Challenge for 2012, I'm also participating in a 52 Weeks of Pinterest Challenge.  I am totally addicted to Pinterest.  It is probably the best website ever invented, especially for those of us who blog.  It is a great way to get your blog out there on the web and promote it for free simply by "Pinning" the photos you post to your own Pinterest page.  From there, others can repin and so on and so on.

The main reason I love Pinterest is because it gives me inspiration for crafts, decorating, recipes, and many other areas in my life that I enjoy.  The problem I have run into with the challenge so far is that in an attempt to save money, which is very tight right now (and that's putting it nicely), has been to use recipes or crochet projects.  I am determined to break out of that shell over the next few weeks.

This is my collection of magazines, and this is how I'm going to change up my Pinterest Challenge.  There are so many awesome things I've come across that can be done with magazines so that you can recycle them in a fun way.  I really need to go through my magazines, pull out the things from them that I want to keep, then either file them or scan them.  Starting that is going to happen this weekend... since I still can't get up on my foot for long, it's something productive that I can do to occupy my time. 

Project 365 Day 33 - February 2nd

Several days ago, my husband introduced our 3-year old to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".  Keiran (my son) absolutely loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but didn't understand the reference his daddy kept making whenever we'd serve up his favorite sandwich.

For those of you who may not know what I'm talking about (I didn't know about it before Tony showed Keiran either so don't feel bad), you can find it here.  Well, needless to say that ever since Keiran saw the video, it has been used all over the house.  As a matter of fact, anytime I ask my son what he wants to eat now, his response is usually "It's peanut butter jelly time!" with as much excitement as he can muster up.  LOL  It's kind of funny, cute, and annoying all at the same time.

My photo is such because when I gave Keiran his requested sandwich at lunch time today, he begged me to "take a pitcher of my sammich, mama".  My son has the biggest blue puppy dog eyes and knows how to work them to his advantage whenever he really wants something.

Project 365 Day 32 - February 1st

I can't believe it's February already - where did January go!?!  I'm thrilled to have made it a month into the challenge without any problems so far, and without suffering from lack of inspiration too often.

We had quite a bit of rain today, which left the possibilities for shooting something outside from our balcony slightly limited.  As the rain poured off the roof at the corner of our patio, I looked down to a view that reminded me of being behind a waterfall.  I grabbed my camera and snapped away.  I wish I'd had better luck with the water being in focus, but I'm content with how the shot turned out.