Challenge Number 3

Last year I hardly made any scrap book pages and I took far fewer photos.  In fact I took less photos last year than at any time since I had bought my first digital camera about 11 years ago.  What's almost worse is I did nothing with the photos I did take.  I ended up getting some prints of photos I had taken between June and December last year in the week before Christmas and I still haven't integrated any of these photos into my file system.

Much of this was because of the problems I have with my hands, I simply couldn't hold my dslr camera and my phone takes awful photos unless the light is really good.  I do have a small point and shoot camera but it is just so slow to take a photo that I found myself missing most of the shots I wanted.

In some ways being part of things rather than being the observer behind the lens was quite nice but the fact that so many memories have not been captured bugged me.  As a result I have bought myself a Nikon 1 camera and I love it.  It is so small and light but so much better than my wee point and shoot.  I am still working out what it can do but so far so good.

My third challenge for myself this year is to take more photos, capture more memories and get more stories recorded on pages.  I think that my scrapbook style is changing but I am not sure in what way yet.  I am finding myself drawn to things I have previously ignored and moving away from things I previously liked.  I know I need to get creating pages to work out what I am comfortable with and that is part of this third challenge.  I am between feeling anxious and curious about my way forward but I cannot put it off any longer.  The last 6 months of last year saw me scrapping only at crops and not always at that.  One crop I simply took my knitting and another I was so busy organising and selling my dear friend Heather's scrap stuff, I barely had time to think, let alone scrap.

I also barely looked at UKS, which was once a daily must, so I am aiming to be more active on there as well.  I seem to be a bad luck charm for any team I am in as they always break up a few months later.  I have put myself forward to join a new team so fingers crossed this one works out.  I find being in a team encourages me to scrap more to gain points and join in with the different challenges.  I am part of a scrap a sketch group where a sketch is uploaded on the 5th of each month and the participants have till the 4th of the next month to make and upload their pages.  I chose December's sketch and this is the page I made using it . . .

I also uploaded a page I had made at the last crop I was at using some very sparkly and pretty ancient Bo Bunny papers.

I find it almost impossible to get a straight photo of a scrapbook page from above, as you see.  I do need to find the best spot to take photos of pages as I am hoping to have many more to show over the year.  For now I am off to clear my craft desk ready for the next page.