January 3 Crazy Number of Frames

I love the frames tumbling down and the one word theme is great. Loving your photo too

@KarenB Thank you This layout was one of those that I could imagine perfectly nearly immediately and then went searching for this template which I remembered. Then the challenges began. I had three different photo shoots of all five of my words until I was happy with the way they looked and they fit into the frames. During the last one, I moved plants, mini-albums, a rainbow spinner, and our wifi extender from a table. I tried standing on the sofa to get a wider perspective. That worked well and I took all the photos, climbed down and stuck my hand onto one of the pachypodium spines (sort of like a cactus). No real injury but I jumped and knocked the plant to the floor spilling dirt over a pile of magazines and the rug. No wonder finishing it took me three days. Hah!

Oh I love the colors here - great layout! Love the b&w photos with the pops of color too. Your backstory of making this page is hilarious... this one took me awhile too... Do you have a word selected and are just waiting for the physical word to arrive or are you still selecting?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this backstory is just awesome! I am a lover of OLW also, and I have been unable to move from VISION for years....

@norton94 Thank you for laughing with me about my creation story. Not there is a title for the layout about it. Sometimes a title comes and I have to make the layout. Sometimes that leads me in really strange places. It won't work for Day 5 which is where I am now nor day 6 (I have an idea for that one). I think it's too long for day 7 and I also have the idea to do a title page for a travel album and the series of photos I want to use just came to mind as I was typing. That means that instead of looking through a three week vacation's worth of photos, I only will focus on one subject from that vacation.Thanks so much for your comment, you saved me lots of time.

No I don't even have my word narrowed down yet. I was thinking I wanted something that encourages me to select the most important things for my focus. I actually thought of curate and less. Curate sounds a bit stuffy and less is negative...and then Ali selected less so I started having second thoughts about rejecting it and about selecting it. Do you have a word?

@AnneofAlamo Thanks. i'm relatively new here and hadn't seen much in the way of stories like this in comments so wasn't sure....I'm glad I shared because it is so funny. If VISION still has something to teach/change you, keep at it! Maybe I should consider that for 2020.

I love the alpha you used, love your story that you told. But if it were me, I'd include that side story somewhere onto your page. Years from now, you will laugh and remember. And good luck with your OLW for 2020.

You know, I saw this layout when skimming through the challenge thread and sort of vaguely thought to myself "hey, that woman looks like [you!]" but it did not occur to me to slow down and actually see if it *was* you. This is before I knew you were doing MOC. This is a great layout, both visually and in terms of storytelling!

@BLKinOR What about "Focus"? I did that one year, but didn't really follow through with any of the assignment... so I stopped doing OLW. Maybe My word should have been quitter? LOL

@mcurtt Thanks. I'm thinking the back story might become part of a layout on it's own about my first experiences with MOC. If not this month, maybe I can work it into next month's LOAD (if I survive). While the story I wrote above might be the best so far, I seem to be collecting stories about my journey through MOC. For day 5 I set out to scrap a photo from our 2012 wedding which I had not yet used on a layout. I just couldn't make the size of the photo work so I ditched it without considering a change in the size of the canvas. I still don't know if that would have been acceptable and I didn't want to repeat something if it wasn't, I was also a bit frustrated. I then chose the first square photo I found which was a square photo which turned out to be a scanned image of a photo from 1968. Who knows how few megapixels are in that one? Didn't realize at that moment that my ex-husband was in the front row of our high school marching band. When I did, I tried to make my grid lines just a bit thicker and mostly hide him behind one. Hiding him behind a grid line amused both my DH and me this afternoon since at every event with the now grown children ex-husband arranges to be present in any photo I take and never offers to exchange places with me or take any photos himself. There that one is written down also.