I apparently am crazy.  Really. But I got a new prop on Friday and just fell in love… with a little toy called Danbo:

Admit it, she’s pretty darn cute.

For those of you who have never heard of Danbo, I originally heard of her a few weeks ago on Flickr.  I was surfing Explore and saw one and thought she was adorable, and decided to find out more.  She’s from the manga series Yotsuba&!, which features a little green haired girl by the same name.  At one point in the series, a different character, a girl named Miura, decides to make a robot costume out of cardboard boxes and Yotsuba is led to believe that it’s a real robot.

Anyway, as soon as I held my Danbo in my hand, a bunch of picture ideas popped into my head. I realized that if I went with every single shot I wanted to do, my project 365 would be completely overtaken with Danbo shots.  I debated doing a project 52 (1 shot a week for 52 weeks) but, well, I kind of want to do more.

I’m relaxing the 365 rules this time. With my personal project 365, the goal is to take a project every day, but with this project I’m just going to post 365 pictures of Danbo, the day they are taken doesn’t matter.  So, for example, I went out for a teacher workshop on Saturday and took 4 pictures, so I’m going to make each picture an “adventure” and post them on separate days.

We’ll see how long it takes me to get burned out but for right now I’m REALLY excited about this project!

day one – After a long journey over an entire ocean, Danbo arrives at last!  (On the left you can see the cardboard box that she arrived in.)

day two – Danbo goes to her first educator’s worksheet and meets a strange object.

day three – Is this a beach?  Danbo stumbles into a plant pot and gets confused by all the sand.

Stay tuned… for more adventures of Danbo!

Related posts:

1. 365 Days of Danbo: On hold. So last week I felt frustrated with Danbo.  This week…...
2. 365 Days of Danbo: love and time out. Okay I’ll admit it.  I got jealous.  Super jealous.  Danbo...
3. 365 Days of Danbo: the seriously extended edition  So there were more than the usual week’s worth of...
4. 365 Days of Danbo: sigh. I’ll admit it – I’m tired of Danbo. It’s hard...
5. 365 Days of Danbo: the I hate titles edition Seriously, I hate coming up with titles for blog posts. ...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.