catching up

I had decided I wanted to make some type of monthly "tradition" to track Matilda's first year.

I thought about buying those stickers that say "1 month" "2 months" etc and then taking a picture of her wearing one on her shirt each month - and, well, we're coming up on 3 months and I don't have the stickers. I also thought about making a little sign or something that we could make each month - good idea, but again, coming up on month 3 and nothing yet! SO. I decided to make up my own thing, and make a collage of sorts - with a couple pictures of her, her "stats" of the month and a list of things that are characteristic of her at that time. So - I am catching up.

(*click on the pictures to make them big enough to read the writing*)

First is her birth announcement (picture by me, and put together beautifully by my dearest friend Audrey)

Then month 1:

And month 2:

and now I am caught up and will post the rest of the months as they happen. I love catching up.

creativity in the night

i have always loved & appreciated the arts
and any avenue of creative expression
music, dance, photography, writing, drawing

i think it is so neat to be able to see someones creativity & views through one of those avenues.

i find that when there is too much pressure to be creative, or to produce something great, the magic can be lost in the creative. i love writing (as you can probably tell from how much i write on & on...) but if i feel like i have to blog about something, or have to write because its been too long... then it feels contrived & not natural.
i love singing, but whenever i enrolled in a competition i felt like my passion was sucked out because i wasn't just doing it because i enjoyed it.
i love photography, but i have decided not to pursue it on any kind of serious level because i put too much pressure on myself.

being creative is the most fun when you are given a lot of space to be creative!

i was reading about this guy, Nick Risinger, that is the creator of the year-long photographic project dubbed the Photopic Sky Survey - meant to reveal the entire night sky as if it rivalled the brightness of day.  In a year he stitched together 37,440 exposures (pictures he took, all over the world) to create a picture of the entire night sky. AMAZING.

he quit his job to pursue this creative project. and the result is gorgeous.
stars we would likely never see, and colours that look too interesting to believe that it's in the sky every night & we miss it due to light pollution, location (to some extent) and forgetting to stop & look up.

check out his website: http://skysurvey.org

here is a picture, if you go on his website you can zoom in on different portions. amazing.