the documented life project- weekly challenge 2

Welcome to Week 2 of The Documented Life Project!

January 5 Challenge - Say Cheese! This week's challenge is to incorporate a selfie into your planner.

This can be done as simply as snapping a photo with your phone, printing it out and adding it to your planner. Dont' want to add your sweet face to your planner? No worries! Consider using words to describe yourself and add those to your planner instead. Not into the selfie scene? Remember! This challenge is totally optional! Feel free to skip right over it and wait for next week's challenge! In addition, if you are participating in One Little Word and would like to share that in your selfie or on your page, then add that in as well.

I am in full "use what I have mode" this year- especially since I am in the middle of big move. I am purging big time and finding that while I don't really WANT to use up this old stuff, it always turns out ok in the end.

Having made up my mind to be faithful to this "green goal" I set for myself, I grabbed some old patterned paper and my sewing machine. I stitched some of that paper to a gelli print that used as a tip-in in my planner.

I listed some of the things I AM on some vintage ledger paper and tacked that to the bottom of my photo. A reminder to myself that I wear a lot of hats and that is a tough job in itself. I need to be kind to myself when I feel I am losing ground. I just layered up from there, adding a painted deli paper monogram and some painted greens from the woods behind my house. And I added my One Little Word for the year. LOVE. My word could have been a million things this year. I wanted to use LET GO. But I chose LOVE instead. I want to LOVE where I am have been. LOVE where I am going and most importantly, I want to LET GO WITH LOVE.

I can choose to be happy. I can choose to embrace the future. I can choose to LOVE what is in front of me. I welcome 2014 with LOVE. Looking forward to your interpretations of this week's challenge and can't wait to meet you back here next week! 

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Comments

[Victoria S]

Hi Rae,
I loved your 21 Secrets class, which brought me to The Documented Life Project.
I have never sewn on paper before, and you are the expert.
Anything I should keep in mind?
Do you use a different needle than sewing on fabric?
Good luck with the move!
I found the Iphone Moving App really helpful in keeping track of what was in boxes.
Let us know if you decide to sell any of your stash:)

[Michelle]

Rae, your page is BEAUTIFUL! I love all the layers, and I love your handwriting too! Very inspiring! Thanks!

[Lorraine]

I can only imagine how luscious this book is going to be when its finished! I'll never forget its birth, sitting around a table in the carribbean . . . sharing laughter, tears and dreams!

[Rae Missigman]

Hi Victoria -
Thanks for the kind words! I am happy to hear that you enjoyed the 21 Secrets class. I had a lot of fun creating that one. You are correct - I LOVE sewing on paper. It adds something that no other layering effect can add. I am TERRIBLE about following sewing rules. Let me be honest. I am self taught and NEVER probably do what I SHOULD on the sewing machine. I gamble - that is what I do. I think I actually have a denim needle in my machine at all times so I can sew on thick canvas and stuff. I am sure it creates a larger hole in paper than I need but I find it a royal pain to change the needle so I don't . Unless I break it. Which I have done MANY times. I am so glad you told me about the moving app - LOVE it! thank you! Hope you will stop by again- have fun with the Documented Life Project. I am truly loving it myself! xo Rae

[Rae Missigman]

Thanks Michelle - That is so funny you mention my handwriting because I am forever complaining about not liking it. Do any of us really like out own handwriting? I wonder. Can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for stopping by!

[Rae Missigman]

And all thanks to your beautiful artistic idea Lorraine. I love this book so much, but I love you more! I wonder if my book will close at the end of the year - lol! Will yours? Hugs!