Take 12 in 2012 - January

The first month of “Take 12 in 2012 is officially in the books.  And let me tell you that it ended up being quite a bit harder than I thought it would be. 

I started off on a good note, taking pictures of our morning routine.  And I even took my DSLR to work with me - because I had every intention of going outside at lunch and snapping some pictures.  Umm… yeah, that didn’t happen.  Not by choosing per se, but because we were working on a presentation and worked through lunch.  So by the time I got home, I had to be a little creative to come up with the remaining pictures I needed.  And don’t tell anyone that I actually snapped the last one today (although I did think of it yesterday).



I won’t go into all of the details for each photo, but there are a couple that I ended up really liking.

• End of the middle row – I found this cool weather app for my iPad.  And I thought it would be kind of cool to capture what the weather forecast is on the 12th day of each month.
• My Kindle start up page – not a great picture, but thought this would be a great way to keep track of what books I’ve currently got in the hopper, as well as keep track of how many I have read from month to month.
• My Bare Escentuals – I’m not a complete makeup junkie, but I do like a little variety.  So I though it would be fun to capture what combination I choose for the 12th day of each month.
• And lastly, current gas prices is an easy one.  This is the picture that I had to snap today since the gas station wasn’t on my path home last night.

It took me quite a while to figure out how to get a collage of all of my photos.  I was trying a bunch of different things, not successfully getting what I wanted.  Until I did a Bing search for “4x6 Photo Collage Maker”.  One of the results was an eHow article on how to create one in Picasa.  Ding, ding, ding!  Super easy and it gave me exactly what I wanted.  Just a little note though – ignore where the article says to use your photo editing software to resize it to 4x6.  When I printed the resized version, the pictures ended up blurry.  Not sure what the deal is there, but my original from Picasa printed perfectly.  And I love how it looks in my Project Life album.  Now that I know about this cool Picasa trick, I may just find myself playing around with collages more often.