WITL - Ali Edwards

This week for 7 days I am participating in doing the "Week in the Life" (WITL) along with the creator Ali Edwards and many more people around the world. The idea is it's a snapshot of how you live your lives right here, right now and doing it annually gives you a sense of change from one year to the next. Here's a couple of my pages from last years WITL.

Gardening in Pots

A little trip to Bunnings today around lunch time (go the sausage sizzle...) we bought 3 new timber pots and some pretty flowers. This afternoon we planted them while my sister Lisa took some photos of us.

Coffee morning

Thought I had better post a picture with me in it as well from our coffee morning.

New necklace

On Friday a delivery man arrived at my front door with my necklace that I had ordered from American from a company called {simple starfish} which had recently been featured on The Lettered Cottage. Given that I am doing "Project 365" this year I thought the necklace was rather appropriate. It says "capture life" and has a little camera attached to it. It's nice receiving little gifts in the mail even if I did buy it myself. Click on the photo to view the necklace up close.

Old Family Slides

Back when I was young, slides were a big part of family life and we always looked forward to the slide projector coming out for those family nights of viewing with it being perched on top of the ironing board with a couple of encyclopedia's to prop it up at the front. I can even hear the whirring noise of the projector just thinking about it. Last year I bought a slide converter and gave it to my mum to convert some of our old slides at her leisure. She's converted a few and my sisters and I love looking at them (and laughing) at how we were back then and remembering those moments. Here's 2 slides of me which have been converted to digital format however, I'm yet to fix them up in photoshop to get rid of the dust/dirt marks as these slides are over 40 years old but you get the idea of this cute little kid (ha....no really it's me).

The first slide is of me sitting in front of our garden on the footpath. My mum loves gardening and back then all the mums in the neighbourhood had beautiful flower beds. The second picture is of me at Bribie Island with a plastic poodle which I don't remember but I think the photo is very cute. It's fun to travel back in time and look at my childhood. Our kids are going to have oodles of pictures to look back on complete with those stories which have been journalled.