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some xmas pics

Gracie took this one of me at the Hometown Holiday Parade in Owatonna, MN. pretty good actually

Me and Pita waiting for the parade to start. She kept saying she was cold and then wanted to sit on the cold curb. I said, "Gracer, your butt will be cold if you sit down on that frozen curb." but she did it anyway. LOL

She was so excited when the parade started. She kept saying, "Look at that Auntie Jen!" "Take a picture of that Auntie Jen" "Auntie Jen there's Santa!" It was awesome.

Mrs. Claus

Jacob wearing Jayde's stocking hat. He was so cute. I mean still is cute but I am referring to this picture. Notice the fat sausage fingers. Just like his daddy.

December Daily Day 7

 

I absolutely love these two pages. Just love them. I used a full 6x8 page horizontally (I love switching it up between vertical and horizontal. Some pictures are just better one way or the other plus it keeps me moving the book around instead of just paging though.) The second page is just a journalling page.

used some letter stickers and some rob-ons here for the title. I have a small red border around it...because I didn't cut this page just right so one side was slightly smaller and showed the red paper from the previous page...so I just trimmed the other side a bit and gave it a little red border.

the journalling for this page.

the second set from day 7.

DAy 7 is a big circle cutout from I believe some Girls Paperie Christmas paper...don't quote me on that and a journalling block that I cut in half.

I have my journalling on the left and Michelle's journalling will go on the right. So often I find myself writing down all of my thoughts...well this page is meant to have her thoughts as well.

 
 
 
 

 
 

December Daily Day 6

 
Day 6 is only two pages and I don't have a transparency in between them today. Just didn't feel like it would fit. So I did two pages, one with the main picture and the other with the journalling and a smaller picture.

I love this ornament so it got front and center today. I probably should have left off the green border but it needed something otherwise the bear was getting lost and I wanted it to be christmas-y. If you have a suggestion for something else...post it. I can still change it. I liked adding the to: from: sticker because it was a gift to me. thought that was good.

Details on the second page. It looks a bit crazy...so I might change it. It doesn't look like it connects with the first page which it really it shouldn't because there are two different stories there but it still looks disjointed...have to work on that one. 
 

December Daily Day 5

The first little page is the back of the previous journalling from day 4. I kind of liked just using that instead of a full paged transparency. Thought it fit well with the large 6x8 page of our family.

Here's a full look at our family picture from Budd's tree farm. top to bottom left to right: Mom, Guy, Chris, Dad, Nick, Michelle and Gracie, Kimmie, Jack, me and Jayde.

 

second set of pages. The left-hand side shows some pictures of hunting for a tree and hauling it to get shaken (they do that to get loose branches, needles and snow off. It's pretty slick.)

The right-hand side is a single 4x6 page that I created using two different pictures. One of a landscape shot of the tree farm and one of a tree close up. I typed up the text in the sky. Got the idea from the tree farm's website. :) I added a page turner as well.

left to right and top to bottom: 1.tree we looked at buying. didn't have a tag on it. dang it. 2. mom, dad and Gracie checking out a tree. 3. Jayde and Dad hauling down our Harbal tree to pay. 4. Mom, Dad and Gracie waiting in line.

A close up of the journalling page.

The next set of pages. The reason I did two sets of pages was I had two stories to tell. The first story was about looking for a tree and how it was a tradition with our family and the second was how much Jack enjoyed searching for and cutting down trees. I had to do both. I just had to. So this day has a lot of pages.

close up of the left page.  I added some word stickers on the page turner and their names on the bottom in the snow.

the second page just has a large tree with "cutting down our tree" in white rub-ons. It's on a transparency. the white you see is the next page's journalling.

the third set of pages with journalling.

close up of the second page. I almost just blew up the picture on the left but I wanted to show all three. one of both kids running around like crazy people, jack checking out thetree and gracie looking cold.

That's all for day 5. I kept the samepaper going throughout because I wanted some kind of continuity.

 

December Daily Day 4

Day 4 has several pages because several things happened that day. I have a hard time choosing one particular thing to talk about. I like to post several things from the day.

So the first day starts with this little notepad "day 4" sheet.

That folds over to show the first part of day 4. Breakfast.

I'm really loving using a collage of 2x3 prints on these 6x8 pages. I'm not doing 8x8 pages this year. I find that I have to try and "fill" the page whereas this is a nice smaller size. Although I do make different sized pages as well.

 
 

Here's the full 2-pager with the journalling on the left hand side....If you look closely I made a mistake. I forgot to punch the holes before I wrote it out so some letters are cut off but you can see enough of them to know what I'm trying to say. :) If you'd like me to type up the writing in this post, just say so. I can read it farely well myself. :)

Part two of day 4. The Dunnell House collage of pictures on the left. I had to add this page because I love Christmas-y decor and this old historic home never lets me down with each of it's room's prepared in the holiday spirit. THe right hand side has another smaller journally block.

 

 

December Daily Day 3

First set of pages. I did several because I had a lot of pictures I wanted to show. I couldn't choose just one. LOL

Page one with two pictures of driving home in 1/4-1/2 mile visibility...and Jayde playing in the snow.

The journalling is on a little piece of cardstock I cut out with "brr" being a little page turner. Behind it is a snowflake transparency with blizzard on it.

Jayde playing in the snow. i loved this picture because of the snow I caught in the camera. I think it is cool. Jayde's making a snow angel in the front yard.

The backside of snow angel picture was just some from the roadways. I couldn't not put them in. Figured I had to show some of the snow we got and the rural countryside.

December Daily Day 2

Day 2. There are a couple of pages. This is the first. I changed the orientation to horizontal because it better fitted the pictures plus I figure if I have to keep moving the book I'm more likely to actually look at it...well when I say me I mean whoever looks at it. LOL

"Owatonna Lighted Holiday Parade" left to right: Jayde and Gracie, Michelle and Gracie, me and Gracie, Gracie looking excitedly at the lights in the parade, a lawnmower with santa and a reindeer and Michelle and Gracie waiting like bums on the street for the parade to start.

Second set of pages for day 2.

This is the backside of the transparency that has the big 2 on it. it is a gold-lettered transparency that I liked because it looked elegant and had christmas carol words on it like "Joy" and "Noel"

I used a caroler picture on the left for journalling because it was the back of the directors cloak. I thought that would be a fun way to incorporate journalling. I put the picture of Michelle and Gracie on the left because they were watching the carolers...Michelle looks happy and crazy doesn't...because she was cold as evidenced by her very red nose.

 

December Daily Day 1

cover page

First page.

Picture page. All of my favorite decorations in mom's house. Some new some old some that have sentimental value. All of these pictures are 2x3's so they retained the original image that I took.

December Daily Book Cover

This is my book for December Daily this year. I was going to go with just using 3 rings but I love using books so much I went back to my usual. This year I used a 3-ring board book from Maya Road. I used their project for my Halloween book and I loved the results so much I thought I'd stick with Maya Road.

It is an 8x8 board book that I've painted with Christmas red paint from Making memories. I did two coats then sprayed some glimmer mist on it then did a coat of mod podge to seal it.

You can kind of see the glimmer mist here.

Then i used a Maya Road snowflake and painted that twice with red as well and embellished with some lettering and some red stickles on the ends of the flakes. The gems around the flake are Heidi Swapp. Then I put on the rub ons from Making memories and finished with the 2010 in a silver paint pen.

Xmas December Daily - 12/1-12/4

Christmas 2010.

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