Happy Monday! I hope you had a great day yesterday to start off a wonderful year. We had another day of incredibly mild weather but they say the cold will arrive soon, so my husband put out the "snow sticks" to mark our drive and path before it's too late!
As you may know if you are a regular reader, I am fascinated by numbers and patterns and I couldn't resist pointing out that today's date is 1-2-12 or "one-two-one-two." If you say that out loud and use a sort of Lawrence Welk intonation "a one and a two and a one and a two" it definitely seems like the sound of a new beginning. (If you are too young to know who Lawrence Welk was, other than the Fred Armisen - Saturday Night Live version, here is a LINK to the Wikipedia article about him).
The photo at the top of this post is my first for "Project 365" (it just occurred to me that this is leap year so I suppose that should be "Project 366!"). Our son and his girlfriend made gingerbread cookies and decorated them using the food markers that I wrote about last year in THIS POST.
/I decorated heart shaped cookies after learning about the food coloring markers from a friend. I used Cricut cuts as stencils for most of the designs.
This is what happens when two recent college graduates let their imaginations take over the cookie decorating - no stencils here!
Current events commentary and some semi-self portrait cookies...
Teeny tiny ants (!)...
Tributes to some favorite artists (Warhol, Magritte, Mondrian)...
Cookies with QR codes?...
The rabbit with the handlebar mustache is made from the legs of a gingerbread girl that fell apart in the baking stage. The hummingbird and the heart in a star are a couple of my favorites...
So - we had some fun on New Year's Day and spent a lovely evening with our neighbors making homemade pizza and indulging in Christmas candy!
Back to the 1-2-12... A lot of people have said that they think the Project 365 (or 6) concept sounds great but it is just too overwhelming. Another idea that I have seen may be more manageable. It is the 12-12-12 project. Take twelve photos on the twelfth of each month in 2012 and make 12 double page layouts with the photos for an annual album. Anyone want to try that one instead?
I am still planning to try to do the daily photos and I think I'll set up a separate blog just for the photos. I'll post the layouts I do with the photos both here and on that blog.
Today we have to take down the tree at the museum - the exhibit is over. Our trees here at home will stay up a while longer (the live one will go out this weekend). Do you let Christmas linger or are you a "put it all away by the New Year" person?
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