I initially got the idea to start taking monthly self portraits from my good friend Gail - she started the project herself in 2010, and when she blogged about her entire year of self portraits, I was hooked. I thought about how awesome it would be to go back and look at each month of photos, and remember what your life was like over the past year. So I decided to start right then in there, making 2011 my first year of self portraits.
Some months were tougher than others....I'll be honest, sometimes the end of the month would be creeping closer and closer and I'd think - "what the heck did I even do this month, besides sit at my desk and work??" I always managed to pull it off (although some times a few days late), but I'm so glad I did. As I made the photo compilation below, I couldn't even remember what my self portrait was in the first half of the year. It was SO fun going back and looking through all the photos, it reminds me how much I've done in the last year.
Here are all of my self portraits from 2011, in order, left to right:)
January: A Month Full of Baby
February: Cooking Escapades
March: Energized in the City
April: Living in Chaos
June: Summer Love
July: Stressed Yet Happy
August: California Love
September: Getting Back Into It
October: The Hair Gods Answered My Prayers
November: Christmas Love
December: A Trifecta of Loves
I loved looking back at each of my photos, I think everyone should do this project for themselves! Especially moms who NEVER have photos of them alone. It's a fun way to reminisce on the past year:) I'll be posting my January self portrait soon!
(Disclaimer - my October portrait (bottom left) was taken by my sister. Not sure why, but it totally slipped my mind that in a SELF portrait I had to take the photo MYSELF. I'm pretty sure Addy was screaming and it was time for a nap or something, so we snapped them really quickly:) Woops!)
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