Welcome.
You have come to a place that i hope becomes very inspirational for you.
i have lots of fun things in store for us,
and i hope to learn just as much from you as you do from me.
I came up with the idea for Overlooked when I was thinking about those everday things that we use, touch, or do everyday. They are so obvious that you don't even think twice about them, much less take a picture of them and scrapbook them. They deserve a page protector too!
I also am intrigued by how fast things change. How when you take a slice of life, and look back at it, things can be so very different. Like Ferris Bueller says: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. I want to preserve those things. They reflect who I was, what I was doing, what was going on during that particular time in my life.
So to start our journey...this is how it goes.
On January 7th, I will post Subject One.
You will have a week to SNAP a picture of Subject One, and post it here.
On January 14th, I will post the journaling ideas, prompts, suggestions for you to JOT down regarding Subject One.
On January 21st, I would love to see the layouts created from the combination of your picture and your writing.
Throughout the month, I will have different inspirational things happening. Whether its a picture, a song, an idea, a recipe, a joke. So always feel free to give the blog a click and see if anything is going on or anything new is here.
I chose to make this an every three week challenge broken into an every week item. There are so many amazing challenges going on, not to mention children, husbands, wives, jobs, laundry, cooking, excercising, email, dishes, and PTA.
There are no winners, no losers here at Overlooked. I will however of course play games and give out goodies from time to time to keep it fun and to keep you on your toes. But I WILL NOT be picking favorites. I don't have the heart to do that, and I know how it feels to work hard and feel inadequate. So I will take no part in it!
Call me Stuart Smalley, but we are all good enough, smart enough, and creative enough.
So leave me a note and say Hi, and let me know that you are excited and interested and eager to get your "overlooked" on.....
Until January 7th...
aw
Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Interesting! I might just have to do this! :)
Sounds like lots of fun!
bring it on baby bring it on!!!
LPMKATE
looking forward to it!
hello love!
Sounds like fun! Such a creative concept!
completely brilliant.
Dude, you're awesome. I am so excited especially since my scrapping desire and creativity have been at all time lows for months upon months. I love your assignments and 3-week schedule and can't wait to follow along. For reals. xo
Ok...you KNOW I'm there.
Calendar is marked.
Blog is bookmarked.
Love you.
{raising hand} I have a question about the part where you wrote about 'we all have things- not to mention husbands, kids, wives, laundry, exercise, PTA'...
I guess my question is, have I been out of the loop? Cause I don't recall the last time I actually "exercised". Now I'm feeling all frumpy!!
You know I'm kidding, aw.
It's cause I love you to bits. And this place is already making me happy and excited and I do the same thing as you! I look at pictures of mine and squint to see stuff in the backgrounds. I do it to other peoples' pics too. I try to see what your house looks like and what kind of ketchup you use.
Love this blog and your ideas so much.
And I am so with you on life. I've been trying to live 'intentionally' for a few years now. It makes a big difference in how I 'see the small stuff'.
Merry Christmas eve. =)
Oh yeah.
One more thing.
That part about the "no posers"...I personally think you should invite posers here.
This is what they need.
=)
Change and a new way of seeing things.
And then they won't be posers anymore!
i lub you AW.
can't wait.
this is sooooo cool!
just like you.
xo
how fun!
oh yeah.
yep.
love the pacing...I think I might actually get to it!
Looking forward to Jan 7th!
YAY!!!!!!!
WHOOO HOOOO!!!!
dude....this looks so awesome!!!
thanks ashers for always kickin' it up a notch :)
xoxoxoxo
gi
I ADORE this idea Ash. Count me in. :)
hi hi HI!
been on the fence ... and well, today i am
jumping OVER it!
you are so REAL. and so witty. love that.
this will be FANTASTIC!
Sounds like fun! I need a whole month to finish a layout like that and get the pic developed. Love the time line. Can't wait to see the first prompt. :)
52@can't wait -
love you my friend
Court
let's DO it!!
xoxo ~gloria
This just MAKES my 2008 dearie.
i am UBER excited!!! woohoo! ;D
Ooohh! I can't wait! Bring it, Sister!
I am totally there, plus this will force me to learn how to post stuff on-line...can't wait...am also thinking of doing 52 projects as well...Can't wait for a creative new year!!! Thanks Ashley!
Ash I love this!!!! Sounds so perfect....can't wait to get started :D
sounds so so fuN!
count me in ash!
t
This sounds very interesting. I can't wait to start participating!
super pumped about this!
Ah you are choice. i made my family have the christmas fam photo infront of the car so in 20 years we can laugh at it. i am in. sa weet
Oooooo I'm gonna love this, that's for sure!
I can't wait to start this and get some stuff done!!
This has my attention, I can't wait till the 7th. Thank you for taking the time to inspire us all.
i
can
not
wait!
eeeeeee... (silly squealing like a girl)
yes yes yes excited...
dee
Oh what a fabulous idea, we get to be nosey, share our stuff, and hopefully this will get me to scrapping again. Great idea.
How FUN is this going to be! Can't wait!
This sounds like so much fun! I'm looking forward to seeing what subject one is... Great idea!
I LOVE THIS IDEA!!! THANKS FOR DOING THIS!! AND THANKS FOR LETTING US ALL FEEL ADEQUATE AND NOT DOING THE FAVORITES THING...SO HAPPY!!!
Super excited!!
ooh this sounds like my cuppa tea. :)thanks.
this sounds like a fantastic way to be challenged & inspired :-)
Very good idea... thanks for thinking of it. I am looking forward to trying it.
ooowwww!!! Sounds heaps fun. I'm in 4 sure. Fab concept!
this sounds like such fun! can't wait! bookmarking it now. :)
beautiful idea!
looking forward to it!
thanks for doing this.
You are madame idol (smile). I love ya woman and can't wait to see what you inspire everyone to come up with.
you have my full attention...
so excited to get started with this!
you know i'm in.... ;)
xxxe
ummm...yes...:o)
This sounds like so much fun. Can't wait to check it out and play along.
I love this idea! I'm going to try to play, too!
I will definitely drop by and try to play along as much as I can. Just wanted to add that I love the fact that you don't pick "winners."
i adore you.
you shall rocketh the overlooked.
i know it.
i loveth youeth.
xo
me-eth.
SO my kind of thing
this sounds SO stinkin' fun! can't wait!
this so so stinkin' COOL! can't wait!
Sounds fun!
Gonna bookmark and check back! This sound "VEDY interesting"!
I'm in - this sounds great!
Sweet...can't wait to get started, and I promise to fight the urge to "clean-it-up" for the camera! I'm dragging my daughter along for the ride..she'll have major changes this year (collegebound in fall'08) and it will be cool to see it documented. ThAnX!!!!
Edie...and, hopefully, Kelsey
I'm so stoked!!! I just bookmarked you and I can't wait to get started!
what a fantastic idea, hopefully focussing on one thing will help me to embracemy life and the little things....we all try to do too much all at once everyday and it is so tiring,,,im hoping this will suit me to a T...bring it on, i have you bloglined and cant wait!!
i love the way you wrote this out. :) the whole idea.
Gotcha bookmarked...
Count me in too.
hi girl!
sounds SOOOOOO
exciting!
sounds great I'll be checking in for sure.
coooool
this sounds so awesome.. can't wait.
Love this idea & love the time frame! This is do-able! Thanks for letting me join in.
I'm in - sounds like a great idea!
ooooo fun!! i would have totally missed this if now for miss elise! i'm excited to see what you have in store for us! :)
this is awesome Ashley!!! can't wait 'til the 7th!!
I am thinking about doing this challenge, sounds like a neat idea & a little less time consuming then some of the others! AWesome idea! :)
This sounds like fun, I need to get back into scraping. I will mark the dates on my calender to remind me. Sorry, NO memory left. Now if I only had a 2008 calender.
is it the 7th yet?!
You've been bookmarked! So excited to add this to my little list of creative challenges this year. Thanks!
love this...can't wait!
i am so excited!
dear BB (book buddy),
please share all beautiful-inspirational-fun-creative-amazing-endeavors with BB#2 :) :)
thank you,
love amy.
Count me in ...this looks like fun.
Okay, I am SO ready! I used Elise Blaha's tutorial to create the cover for this album's project & I did an introduction page as to what it's about. Check it out here:
http://www.doublehdesign.blogspot.com/2008/01/details-of-my-life.html
Cool, cool, cool!
Love your banner almost as much as the concept itself.
I LOVE this idea! Can't wait to see what you have in mind!
Sounds Great, I'll give it a bash
I would love to jump in and do this also! Count me in if you would. :)
What a fab idea. Would love to join in too. x
Looking forward to this
Will check back on the 7th and give it a go, take care till then
brilliant idea cant wait to join in
val
Super keen to take part, this sounds like alot of fun
What a great idea:) I am going to give this a go and can't wait for this to start.
Sounds great, definitely going to give it a go!
Sounds fun, would love to have a go.
seReally looking forward to this!
this looks fab looking forward to starting
i am excited.
I love the sound of this
I am in love. in love with the distance between the thought/the shot/ the ramblings/and the scrap. I am in love.
LOVE this idea!!! I hope to play along!
This looks interesting - might have to give it a go :)!!
Really looking forward to giving this a go. Thanks forthe inspiration. Anita x
Sounds interesting, count me in!
I wanna play too:)
i would love to be part of this - not least to push me to start developing my terrible photo skills! pls count me in!
sounds great - count me in :)
count me in, too, please - looking forward to it!
Great challenge..will be a great way to start off the 2008!
Looks like it could be fun
Sounds like a great idea! Might help with my photography!
Count me in too please! M xxx
can't wait!!
Ok this is sounding exactly like something I was going to try and create myself....seems like this might be taking the hard(ish) work out of it. Must remember to check in tomorrow
awesome, innovative idea. im in!
so excited
After doing a book recently sbout my "Gladrags" and being unable to remember certain details, might have to do this challenge, because in another 20 years my memory will be even worse!!!!!
Great idea
Can't wait to get started...came across this today and it sounds like fun!
This sounds super fun! I can't wait to try it! I like the fact that you aren't picking favorites. I'm with you on that. How do you decide what's "best" when it comes to art and creativity? Thanks for starting this blog!
Your bookmarked just waiting for tomorrow! :)
Sounds like fun! I'm in!
Sounds so cool, def looking forward to it.
Just heard about this tonight - in the 11th hour so to speak! Sounds really cool and I plan to check in!
Thanks for being respectful of not only the time issue (every 3 weeks) but also the 'favorites' issue!
It's ALL good! :)
Jan
It's 7th already!
wink*
Lucy
I may givi it a try... it sounds fun!!
I'm in! Sounds fun!
Great idea!!! I'm so glad I found this place!
this sounds amazing and i can't wait to play!!
This sounds motivating and fun!
Pip
Love the idea. I am going to give it a try. Thinking about the fact that I don't have the time for anything more, but I should do more fun-things this year anyway.
Rianne
WOW! This is great, Ashley!!!
sounds like a neat idea.
I've never been good at any of these scrapbokoing things that have a weekly commitment....but I'm hoping that this one could be different - something that I will definitely stick with. Help me!
This is going to be stinkin' cool! Love your ideas and looking forward to playing along. :)
Just found this and it looks great. Will do my best to keep up!
you've inspired me! I snapped a photo of my mug straight away -kk
sounds great, i'm in!
dude- i'm comment 142-thinking mugs- but a little late - will be checkin out and feelin' it with y'all
it sounds so awesome ... can i join in ??
i love your writing and the idea behind this blog. looking forward to stopping by often.
a very cool idea!
Just posted mine, very excited about the writing prompts! One of my goals this year is to do a Book of Me that isn't just I was born, I grew, I'm getting older LOL!
This looks perfect to get me started! Thank you for doing this!
I'm late to the party, but so want to join in! Love this idea!
hi ashley, this is really neat~count me in! my photo is up now. I love your multi-dimensional and phased approach and that we have loads of time to complete projects. i just started a similar project on my own blog (photos only though)...great minds think alike ;) thanks & i look forward to connecting & sharing with you and the group. kelley
I am late but i wanna join in
Plastic
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