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apparently my creativity hasbeen lost, along with my voice.

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laughter and love

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Many hours this weekend spent in conversation with family I love!

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-Say "Ahh"-

Have a wicked sore throat today. Losing my voice from it and everything. Hoping Chloraseptic works with it's numbing powers, we'll see. So far all it's done is turn my tongue a sickly shade of yellow.

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Turkey's Point of View

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a mother's hands

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Negative Space

(that is the shadow of my hand taking a picture of the shadow my camera and tripod cast on the carpet)

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best socks ever. Thank you Costco!

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mmm, gotta love the turkey cranberry sandwiches the day after a delicious Thanksgiving meal!

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Too much to take in! With a busy day of preparing dinner for neighbors, a meeting I didn't want to go to this morning, the getting ready for the house inspection and now the bug's clutch went out. It's just too much for my brain!

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preparing for delicious dinner (and sweet potato cheesecake) tomorrow!

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well, that's the face I made when I realized I almost finished the day without doing my daily portrait. And I was going to show off my new haircut too.

And yes, it's a little out of focus. I'm still trying to figure out how to focus on the place I'll be when using the timer. Not quite got that down yet...

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Who I actually am

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Who I wish I was.

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not how I imagined it turning out. I'd planned on doing another take, but didn't get around to it, so this is what I have to post for day 3.

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Story of my life. With three kids, one in school, one in half day kindergarten and one at home, I find I'm almost always on my way to or from the school to get or deliver someone.

The Project

Since starting my journey to a healthy body I joined a group called Sparkpeople Shutterbugs. It ties a love of photography into the desire to adapt a healthy lifestyle and view of food. One member of this group proposed the challenge of taking a daily picture of one subject for 365 days. That's right, a full year of one subject.

I'm hoping that I will learn a thing or two about my camera, photography in general and perhaps even myself in this time. While you are free to choose ANY subject to photograph the original project was started as self portraits. I've followed suit in choose myself as my subject for a few reasons. One, I have access to myself every day, so finding my subject shouldn't be too hard. Another reason is to document this journey I've started. It's interesting to see myself from the perspective others see me, I'm hoping to get used to my own skin, get comfortable with it, proud of it even!

Along with this commitment of a picture a day I've added a personal goal to this project. It is my desire to read through the bible in the next year. As I struggle with making time for devotions, I'm hoping to connect the thing I love and am committed to to something so much greater than myself.

So here's to the start of a 'new year,' a new project and a time of learning. Hope you stop by to join me for the ride once in a while.

~Shawna