A Linky Party Invitation: Show Us Your April!

Do you have any plans for May 1?

Well, you do now.  I'm inviting you to my first-ever linky party!  

That's right! I am co-hosting "Show Us Your April" with my friend, Claire, from a little CLAIREification, who is one of my Favorite -- yes, she deserves a capital "F" -- bloggers. Not only do I love her blog, she is truly one of the most "giving" bloggers out there...Claire has helped me out many a time in my short blogging career, and I am so grateful to her.

OMG!! I just realized that next week 

is my one-year blogging anniversary!

Oh, sorry, yes, the party. The idea behind "Show Us Your April" is for you to create a photo diary by taking a picture a day for the month of April...and then, join us to link up on May 1. 

Here's what happened. I challenged myself to take a photo a day for the month of February, and had so much fun with it! My post ended up getting some great response (which actually made it even more fun, in hindsight, heh heh!).  Claire thought it was kind of a cool thing to do, and wanted to give it a try. Then, we put our bloggy heads together, and thought that YOU might want to take the photo diary challenge, too! And just like that, a Linky Party was born.

Before you say, "I can't possibly think of something interesting to photograph every day for a month," let me say this... 

Puh-leeze...half my photos were of snow last month. 

Seriously, the important thing to remember is that it is usually the little moments that tell the biggest stories. You don't need to have a snapshot of you and the President having lunch at the White House in order for your diary to be interesting. 

Um, then, again, if you do have lunch at the White House, I'd say you'd have a pretty good chance of being featured.



Here are some ideas to get you started:

You can do what I did -- make it a diary of what you do or see each day.

OR...you can...

Photograph the birds or budding plants in your yard for the month...

Take pictures of what you ate for 30 days ...

Photograph the progress of a project you are working on each day...

Do a round-up of photos from your April blog posts...

Take snapshots of your kids...or your pets...

You get the "picture." 

Be creative...and Show Us Your April in any way you choose.

It really is fun to see what photo opportunity will present itself on a given day. And, it will. You just need to have your eyes wide open...

...and your camera with you.

Yeah, don't forget to take your camera everywhere. 

You'll see..every day there is something worth photographing.

OK...
Ready...Set...(photo) Shoot!