Quick item of business: Our randomly selected winner of the FREE digital Project Life book is … Joanne Villet (United Kingdom)!

And … Rebecca Foxworth (California)! You, my dear, are the one who has inspired many to try the picture-a-day concept specifically for these last 12 weeks of 2010. So YOU are getting a free 2nd copy of your digital Project Life book as well!

Both of you shoot an email to projectlife@beckyhiggins.com and we’ll hook you up.

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Traditions have been on my mind. Little traditions that document life and preserve personal history and family history. Like getting each of our kids’ handprints on a canvas every time they turn a year older. (We just had 2 birthdays last month.)

I’ve talked about these canvas handprints before – here and here. But I don’t think I ever mentioned how I identify each of the handprints, telling how old the child was and when we did each respective handprint. So here’s a look at the backs of those canvases. Just used a skinny Sharpie marker for the labeling.

Here’s Crew’s entire collection as well:

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Another “small” thing I did recently is have Claire write the entire alphabet together on one piece of paper. I love seeing the whole alphabet together and of course I’m a sucker for my kids’ handwriting. Perfect combination. Porter did this when he was about this same age (you can see it displayed in our play room in this post). I’ll try to remember to have Crew do this in a few years too, when he’s about 5 and learning to write. So I guess this has become another tradition of sorts.

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How about you? What’s one little tradition you do — as a family or as an individual — that has to do with documenting life and preserving your story in some way?