1 Second Everyday: 2018.

So, last year I decided to give 1 Second Everyday another attempt after giving it up halfway through 2017. You can see the result above. I wish I could say that I managed to complete the full year this time around, but sadly there are many days missing. However, unlike in 2017 I did add some clips every month so I did make some progress!

In 2018 the main reason why I ended up skipping days was that I didn't have anything to film, especially not on workdays during the winter months. Sometimes I forced myself to film something but I ended up with some really dark ugly videos, which made me feel uninspired to keep up with the project. I still have my old iPhone 6 which isn't nearly as sensitive to light as the newer models. This wasn't as much of a problem in 2017 (back then there were other reasons that got in the way of the project) because I still lived in the city and it was easier to find a variety of things to film even on dark winter days, such as my scenic walk to work. Now I drive to work so it's the same boring view every morning/afternoon. I do prefer the freedom that comes with living in a house but I can't deny that my life was more aesthetically pleasing when I lived in a coastal city.

Nevertheless, I am going to give 1SE another go in 2019. My main motivation is, of course, that I have a baby now, and being able to document her development this year not only through photos but also through videos, albeit short ones, is going to be so much fun. I can imagine what a treasure this year's video will become a year from now! It's now the 22nd of January and so far I haven't skipped a single day. Some days I have even added two clips! I think I might struggle to keep up with this project once I return to work in August, but I guess I can always force my fiancé to record videos of Cleo during his subsequent paternity leave ;)

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If you want to try this project yourself you can find details about the 1SE app here. I added some free music to the video through the iMovie app.

Project Life: Kiev 2018.

As I mentioned in my previous entry I went on a trip to the Ukraine in April 2018. This past week or so I used nap time to finally document the trip and today I'm sharing the completed pages!

Project Life: April 2018.

Today I'm sharing my April Project Life pages. In the beginning of this month winter finally ended and spring started with full force. It was so refreshing to have colourful things to photograph outside again after so many months of grey! Actually these aren't all of my April pages because I travelled to the Ukraine this month and I haven't even started working on the pages documenting this trip yet. Thus, I will be sharing the rest of April later!

Project Life: February 2018.

So I'd say it's about time I share some more of my 2018 Project Life pages, don't you think? Until now I've shared January, March, May and June and I decided that I will share the rest of the months in order, so that means February is first up...

Around here: 34 weeks pregnant.

To be honest I always expected that I would post regular updates on social media if I ever got pregnant, so it has surprised me a bit that I haven't really felt motivated to do so. I think it has to do with my not knowing what the purpose of my social media presence really is, aside from sharing my Project Life pages that is, and also with the fact that I have really struggled to find the time for my old hobbies since we moved to our house a year ago. With that said, I thought it would be fun to post a little update now that I am so close to the end of this pregnancy.

Infertility: Lucky Number 5.

Since I tend to assume that everyone who finds their way to this little blog gets here through my Instagram account, I haven't gotten around to sharing this announcement here earlier. If you do follow me on Instagram this is very old news, but in case you don't I figured it's high time I posted this here as well.

Project Life: May 2018.

Today I thought I'd share my May pages. If anyone's keeping track I now have February, April, July and August left to finish before I am up to date. I hope I can get at least some of those months fully completed soon. The May pages are definitely my favourite 2018 pages so far. I put them together rather quickly and stuck to a few rather basic products. The journalling took the longest, but that is usually the case for me, not because I don't know what to write but because I always end up with a lot that I want to document and it takes time for me to structure each month's stories.

Project Life: March 2018.

Since I've been catching up with a month here and a month there this year I will be sharing my pages a bit out of order. These are the pages I made documenting March. Might be inspiring if you too have fallen behind and still have winter days left to document. And hey, if you can do Christmas in July you can totally do March in August ;)

Project Life: June 2018 + my catch up formula.

I just finished my pages documenting June 2018. It's the first entire month I've finished documenting since January. Because I have a system for documenting my life that lets me catch up fairly quickly once I set my mind to it (read more about it at the end of this entry) I can let myself fall quite far behind. That's not to say I haven't felt guilty for being so behind this year... I've felt especially guilty about not sharing any pages on Instagram or here on this blog for so long. I feel like so many people I used to look to for inspiration have stopped sharing their memory keeping projects this year and it becomes a vicious circle that makes me feel less inspired to share mine, too. But, at least in my case it's not a conscious decision to stop sharing as much as lack of time and I intend to improve, starting with my June pages :)

Project Life: January 2018.

To my great relief I finally finished my January pages tonight. I struggled with these because like I've mentioned on Instagram, I don't really think I've taken a single good photo so far this year. We have been blessed with quite mild winters these past few years so I've been fine with them, however this year has served as a reminder of why I hate winter. January was still not so bad because I was still blissfully unaware that winter was just starting, so you can imagine how little inspiration I feel to document February and March that have just been more of the same. I'm so over the cold and the snow but there's still no end in sight.