Merry Christmas Eve

Off to make some memories on the slopes with my family. First time in ten years all three of us (sisters) have been together for Christmas. Special times indeed.

I've been dreaming of a White Christmas...and it looks as though (judging from pics I took yesterday) that I am sure to have one. Here's hoping y'all get the Christmas you've dreamed of-whether it contains snow or not.

 Pics are SOOC taken through the window of the van driving up the mountain.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

December Daily #21

Ok, since I'm sans scrapping supplies,  I will just be posting some pics of the memory making going on whilst away from my scrappin' stash.
Today, to bide the time in the car, Ethan (aka "Boo") decided to play on my iPad and create with the app Doodle Buddy. I just love his creations and these will most certainly find a place in my December Daily as well as printed and hung on our walls at home!
Now, if I can just figure out how to get pics from my iPad and posted here on my blog-lol.






Ok...that was easy enough.: Here we go:
Snowboarding already!? This dudes got skillz! :-)

 This one is entitled, "Scared Santa" (Note his wide open big blue eyes!)

Loving the chairlifts in the background on this one.

 I guess on the first pic I got the screen shot but you get the idea of a snowboarder with the chair lift in the background. Gnarly dude!

And I am loving the stick people riding on the chair lift. Can't tell if they are riding up or down the mountain, can you? ;-)

 And this one...well this one...melts this momma's heart!

Happy December Day #22 everyone!

Day Nineteen

Playing a bit of catch up...hope to post an update on previous day pages by tomorrow. I've been trying to savor the time spent with family while compiling my Dec daily. Sometime the savoring has overridden the compilation...and that's ok.


Here's Day 19:
Our church sermon today was awesome as was the music! Phillip spoke a great message on "The Peace of Christmas." It was a sermon in a series he has been speaking entitled "I'll Be Healed For Christmas."
All about the hurt and sadness many people face during the holidays. All about forgiveness and healing.
Good stuff.

 I took apart a Maya Road envelope so that I could stitch the "Church" onto it and punch holes. Then I trimmed part of my church bulletin down to fit inside it.

 The left side of the page was something that had been in the creative works for a few weeks. I was playing with my Martha Stewart snowflake punches and thought it would be fun to use the negative of the punches also to make larger snowflakes. I actually had started to layout a Christmas card design of "quilted" snowflakes (since the hexagon sharped snowflakes look so much like a traditional quilt pattern) but haven't quite found the time for that yet. Anyway, when I then saw Ali post a page a few days ago, I decided to add it into my DD instead. (I still plan to make the card too).

 Photo taken at church was with my iPhone so it was definitely a bit grainy-tried to edit it in iPhoto but it didn't help much. I still like the feel of it anyways.

 I changed out the plain twine for some MS baker's twine to pull some red into the right side of the page.

 Back side of envelope with Maya Mist, stitching and handwritten sentiments.

Onward to Day 20! Thanks for looking!

December Daily Update

Playing a bit of catch up as it seems the holiday season always goes.  My youngest son, Ethan,made up his Santa list. The little pic at the bottom isn't actually a self portrait with Santa but with Harry Potter. Yes, Harry is still a prominent fixture in our house again this year-especially after viewing Part 1 of #7 last Fri. The other portion of my day 5 was a small collection of pictures of our local Christmas parade, of which my eldest, Ian played in the band. (Drums).

Here is a retake of my Day 6 as I finished the pages at night and the lighting conditions were less than optimum.

 Still love that I was able to incorporate the package of my newest favorite Christmas tradition: Dove Peppermint bark Promises!!

The paper on the left side was a free download off of eighteentwentyfive's blog. I love

it wanted to be sure it ended up in my album. Still need to complete the rest of Day 9's layout. Getting there.

Day 10 (left side) is a photographed image of an art project that Ethan made last week. Handprint Christmas tree. I love it and it is already hanging up in our house. Will definitely be cherishing that little piece for years to come.

More to follow! Thanks for looking.

December Daily Day 8

So, this is half of my Day 8. Still need to add journaling and a few pics (These will go on back size of enlarged photo, I think.

I stitched to size a page protector to house my KI lace paper and then stickled the #8. Decided to use this for Day 8 as I wanted a number that "mirrored nicely on the back side and obviously. 8 does the trick!

The chipboard was painted and then inked with Cats Eye. Added AC thicker snowflake and some cute lace trim to left side (Click on pic to enlarge this) and called it done.

My dear friend, Lexi, had this little gal show up on her doorstep the other day. I took back to our house yesterday in the attempt to help her find a home! I've shown her to my neighbor's and my cousin (Both who may want a dog in the future, but may not be ready yet). We can't keep her as we all ready have two big dogs and one medium, plus a cat. I pray she finds a home for the Holidays!

Dec Daily #7

So today I came across this picture from my DH's past, and one thing I wanted to put into my album this year were some stories from the past to compare to some stories from today to.
I actually don't have a pic of my boys on Santa's lap crying.
Why is it you ask?
Because this momma used to work in a retail setting and the last place I wanted to be during the holidays was at the mall, with swarms of other stressed out parents and little kiddos who THINK they want to sit on Santa's lap, until the hour or so later they actually get to climb up on his lap and they chicken out! Now, that's not to say we don't get our picture taken with Santa, it's just that my boys are definitely old enough now to decide if and when they want to! No drama. No stress.

I had saved my Starbucks bag for this DD album, but found it was too large for the album. So, I scanned it and fit it down to size and printed onto white cardstock. Added a sweet ribbon below (mostly to cover up uneven border during printing-but also adding to the theme of "Stories are GIFTS." A few little pearl blings and it's good to go.

 I thinkI am going to journal a bit more about the stories I want to tell this holiday season and slip it between the back of the photo and in front of the next page. TFL!

Today's Promise

Brought to you by : Dove.

My newest Christmas tradition. Grabbing a box (or two!) of these:

 and opening up one each day to reveal a little "Promise" message. Like one's own little advent calendar/fortune cookie all wrapped up into one small decadent indulgence! I'm sooo loving this new little tradition. Each daily dose of inspiration and reflection. Please Dove, don't stop making these little morsels of chocolate + peppermint goodness!


So, I have saved the daily "Promise Messages" and placed them in this little envelope. I will save the remaining wrappers for another repurposing later in my DD.

This clearly needed to become a part of this year's December Daily, so I took it upon myself to once again "repurpose" packaging. (I think it was too pretty not to!) Please note white balance and lighting are obviously off on these pics but since it's nighttime-it's the best I could do with what light I did have.

Ok, so I brought another lamp over to my scrapping station and the light is a little better now.

Joy. Dove. Love.


Looking forward to tomorrow's "Promise Message. Maybe if I just hold off til 12:01AM, I can have it tomorrow! ;-)