One Litte Word

Ali Edwards is someone I really admire.  I want to be her sometimes.  Ok, that sounds a little creepy. 
But she is definitely a massive inspiration.  I love how she makes every day life meaningful.  I love how she leads through example, and encourages you to see the stories which threads your life together.  I love how she then ties it all together with creativity.   

Today I discovered she is running a year-long workshop around her One Little Word tradition.
I've been following this since I chose my word "foundation" in 2008.
This was followed by "build" in 2009.  And this year my word was "action".
I do believe in some way, the intention when choosing a word at the start of the year has propelled my life in subtle ways I may not even be aware of; so the thought of a workshop which gently brings this back into your consciousness every month could be an extraordinarily powerful thing.

I haven't completely decided on my word for 2011 yet, although I have a shortlist; but there's not even a moments hesitation before I sign up for this.

image from Big Picture Scrpbooking

Days 4 & 5

I am having a lot of fun so far with my December Daily album and finding a lot of inspiration from Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas prompts and Ali Edward's December Daily Flickr pool. 

I have to say the Picture the Holidays class hasn't really got me yet, although I have utilised the daily prompts in Days 1-4.

How are you getting on?

Day 3 - December Daily

Day 2 - December Daily

Day 1 - December Daily

Okay, so it was a little more complicated than I thought, trying to take and incorporate, ingredients from 3 classes into one!

My main dilemma is where (and how) to tell the story.
My eventual aim is to get the pages printed into a photobook, so it will be something I want to show others.  As a result, I don't want the journalling to be too personal.  Equally I will want to look back through it 10, 15, 20 years from now, and remember what I was feeling.  It's a tough line to tread! 

In the end I did most of my journalling off line and print, and used the prompt from Picture the Holidays to write the couple of lines I did.