Boxing up 2011

No matter how hard I try not to have a new year resolution,

 January is a month of reflection, evaluation,

and new goal setting.  Tomorrow I will

be presenting a project to my 

experimental art group

that will reflect 

new beginnings.

It is this 

Exploding Box

of 2011.

We will be using our 2011 calendar as a springboard.  All of us touch 

our calendars daily.  It is a part of our daily ritual. On it is recorded the events 

of our lives, births, deaths, appointments, lunches, dinners, 

entertainment,  all that we do on a daily basis.  Instead of 

tossing the calendar or putting it in a box and never 

looking at it, we will look at what we did, where

we went, who we saw. 

When the lid is taken off, 

three graduated sized

panels spring open.

This is how the panels look before they are glued together in the center.

I placed post-its on each panel for the 12 months.

The supplies for this box are:  scissors, pencil, pen, glue stick,

photos, 4 sheets of 12" x 12" scrapbook paper, though any 

heavy paper will work, and decorative tape.

For this sample box I decided not to do a year in retrospect.  Instead I used photos I took of 

a collage my son made on poster board when he was in elementary school.   

The collage told the story of  his life, his passions, interests, fears, goals at a 

young age but is was collecting dust and we did not have a good place for it.  

This little box was the  perfect solution to preserve his memories.

For the actual project tomorrow we will be using  2011 photos, words

 and memorabilia to tell the story of our year.  

I think it will be fun.