We now have 32 fantastic giant Polaroids for sale! All funds go to help make the 365 grateful film! If you’re interested please send me an email at hailey@365grateful.com.

The prints are $180 ea and are ready to hang art mounts. Please let me know if you would like to see more images from the range! These are limited edition prints!!!

Also last but certainly not least!

Do you feel like taking a moment and vote for our film in the Sunsuper Dream competition – HERE. We are in the top 10!! Every vote helps! VOTING ENDS TODAY!!!!

EDITED TO ADD:

We are a little excited about this and have been a tiny bit distracted working on things to do with this ENORMOUS project.

Hope you enjoy!!

Want to help fund this project? Or become an associate producer?? Check out this fun site we have listed our project with. It is called indiegogo!

Now back to our regular programming!

Here is a photo of our extremely cute Earnest. He has grown up too quick! This is a puppy photo of him we have just sold to a pet food company in the U.S. He is going to be famous!

I like this photo – I like the seagull’s skinny legs and littleness. Compared to the expanse of his surroundings, he is tiny!

I kind of feel like this bird. A couple of days ago we launched a new website and a few months ago we started serious work on our first documentary film. IT IS A HUGE PROJECT – not only is it a lot of work but actually kinda scary work!

You’re wondering and hoping it will work, hoping that people will connect with the content, hoping that you can still support your family and hoping that you actually can do what you set out to do!

So I looked at this little bird and then the other shots of him soaring into the sky and I felt inspired. He looked amazing as he took flight and did what he was made to do…

I think I might have been made to do this… (I hope that feeling is right!)

So without further delay I am happy to present the website for 365 Grateful – a documentary and project about gratefulness and how it affects happiness. My mother Toni Powell and I are directing and driving 365 Grateful, but we are all working on the project. Andrew designed the spiffy new site and our girls are always involved in their own way! I hope you come along with us for the ride!

This is the little video I created with the grateful moments over 30 days… Hope you enjoy! You can find the fun music here: The Bobby McGees.

My current 365 grateful project (shot on the iphone) is coming along well. I really enjoy doing this everyday and the iphone version is very easy, as I always have it handy!! You can check it out at our posterous site.

If you’re interested, I use the: Shake it photo app.

I was so thrilled at the pretty montage Andrew did for me that I asked him to make me one for the Polaroid version of 365 Grateful. You can see this below. So fun to see all these beautiful moments together. Really is amazing to think I have been going on this since 2008.

If you have done a grateful project I would LOVE to see links or hear your stories and adventures with this. It has made such an impression on me and hearing how others find it worthwhile would be lovely!

I was surprised last night to get an email from someone asking where I was and why was I not around when Notebook was featuring my work this week!!

Well after returning from the U.S I had a job down in NSW so was not really home. Notebook did not tell me there was going to be a little letter about the 365 grateful project!! (else I would have made sure the new site was working!! – eek!)

I haven’t seen the magazine in real life but here is the website letter from the editor. I am amazed!

In case you have found yourself at my blog after reading the Notebook letter please find more about the 365 project HERE or you can also view the WHOLE 365 GRATEFUL project here.

If you are still interested in more about my 365 grateful journey you can see my latest iPhone version on this site: http://365grateful.posterous.com/ This is a joint project with a beautiful unschooling Mama in the U.S.A.

For your chance to WIN a pack of gift cards made using images from the 365 Grateful project, leave a comment below saying what you’re grateful for! We will draw 5 winners and post them out to you on Monday the 5th July!!

There are 5 different images and on the back of each card a quote on gratefulness.

**************** COMPETITION OVER AND WINNERS NOTIFIED!!************

The EXTRA exciting part is I am doing this project with a wonderful photographer on the other side of the world!

Autumn Fawn is not only an amazing photographer also a gorgeous person. So go check out our combined blog for this project.

http://365grateful.posterous.com/

Here are some of my latest images…for the words to match check the blog.

I took a Polaroid every day of something I was grateful for.

Not only was it a fun photographic exercise, more importantly it has taught me to be grateful! To live more in the moment and to delight in what I have, rather then always wanting.  To see how clearly delightful my family are. To enjoy and remember the wonderful things my husband does for me. To see how powerful and amazing it is to view life from a more grateful and positive angle.

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!

NOT only this! I have had emails and messages and amazing conversations with people who have been inspired by me.

It is humbling and so so surprising.

I am grateful, I am so so grateful for all those who have shared a little about their own journey with being grateful. Thanks so much for your kind comments and emails and letters that have continued to inspire me and others.

IF you would like to download the 6 page NOTEBOOK article here is a PDF to download – 365 GRATEFUL article from Notebook magazine

Meanwhile here is the last few polaroids that end this project.

I get asked a lot if I am continuing the project.

Yes I will!

However due to the expense of polaroid I have had to use a more digital design of late. I do miss the precious vintagy feel of the polaroid film, it feels more special and memoryish. I am grateful I managed to fund a years worth of film! Will post up some shots from my new series one day soon.

Warmest and best yours gratefully

Hailey

Lately this project has been gaining a little bit of media attention and I thought I would share.

NOTEBOOK – magazine April issue has a wonderful 6 page spread on my project! Here is some of the pages!

They mention it here too:

http://www.homehints.com.au/notebook/in+this+issue/

I am sooo excited because I have an article in my most favourite magazine… FRANKIE. This magazine has been wonderful to find. Not only is it full of hilarious stories and great photos but it treats women as though they are intelligent! ABOUT TIME! I am very honored to be in it.

The story is on my GRATEFUL 365 days a year series I have been photographing for a few months now.

You can see the series so far… here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/poppysmiles/sets/72157604663676256/