My small-step-challenge

This time I want to follow my own challenge. The first part is about two things: an empty sink and 7 smash pages in 13 days. Every day.
And here we go.

Oh, so many things I'd just love to do:

• purse organiser - it's like a small purse but with pockets outwards

• stool covers - just to do smth with all the old clothes I can't throw away

• baby carrier (rucksack)

• cover for a feeding chair

• some toy for a baby with buttons and laces - do they really like them or it's just for mommies?

• auxanometer (height meter)

• family look

• ornaments for the NY tree

• PL album on rings (2015)

• journaling cards for quick scrapbooking

• pattern from a file (2015)

• zone cleaning list/journal

• new bag

• recipe book

and more:
○ 07.15 write a short story for my baby and illustrate it

One PL

One month I had too many things to show. After some time in Photoshop I knew I couldn't arrange it to my satisfaction. So...
• I converted everything to black and white
• printed twice - one copy is to be cut into separate photos, the second one is to be marked
• red mark is for the ones that are for sure and the way they are now;
green and violet are for me and my husband (so I don't forget to include at least few of those)
• the cut pieces are to be aranged according to date and theme (or to be excluded)
• I took a picture of the final result and used it for reference
• voila!

p.s. for journaling I made plain printed text (1, 2) and a flip pocket (3)

6 months PL in a week

I've been a bit behind with my PL and it bugged me (I prefer doing it by months rather than by weeks). I took some time and followed one idea: better done than perfect. Fifteen minutes a day and in a week I had everything ready for printing. Now I want to share some steps that helped me or "that's how I do it":

• first thing is my journal - I record main events of my life into my phone (free programme "Memoires" allows me to add photos to my entries), into a copy-book for DIY projects or just to Word file. I do this because it's hard to recall everything some time after even with all the photos.

• I have all my photos in separate folders by months (2015.05MAY, 2015.06JUN, 2015.07JUL) so it's easy to sort

• I sit down with the journal and think which events I have photos of, which events I should add photos of or find pictures in the Internet (movie poster or a photo of a new fav toy), which photos are just too adorable to leave out. I have a baby and this part of the project is the hardest.

• I copy all needed photos into a separate folder and start arranging and processing them in Photoshop (I have a very old version and it's more than enough) using previously done layouts of page protectors I have

• I save the result as .tiff with layers and .jpg and leave it for now

• next time I review .jpg and deside if I like it the way it is (I've made a limit of 3 reviews in order not to make it an endless process), then I make changes or export photos into (10,2*15,2cm; 300dpi) files I'll send for printing

• and start working on the next month folder...

15 minutes a day and some limits make PL easy and interesting