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This is what I did today...
I wrapped my 24 books for our Christmas tradition of unwrapping a different Christmas story each night in December leading up to Christmas. If you don't remember, I posted about this tradition in our family last year. You can read about it here. It is hard to believe that Monday is December 1st already. The countdown begins.
Both yesterday and today we awoke to a blanket of snow covering the ground. There are two boys here that are thrilled to see the white stuff; their mama, not so much.
When Ali first shared her December Daily album last year, I desperately wanted to do it, but time got the best of me. This year I was determined to not let the time slip away. Despite the fact that my 365 +1 photo album to the right is not updated (Typepad takes forever to load the photos and I just don't have a lot of spare time right now), I have continued to take a photo each day this year. For me, the December Daily album is a perfect culmination to this last month of taking photos in 2008. I really want to savor these last moments of us as a family of four.
So last week, my friend Joanne and I met at our LSS to set up the framework for our albums. I finally finished mine over the weekend; I now know I am the world's slowest scrapbooker. I cannot wait to see Joann's completed album.
I won't bore you with photos of each day, but here are a few. I am really looking forward to just adding a photo and journaling each day leading up to Christmas.
I loved being able to print out elements from Karla's amazing Christmas Magic Digital kit like I did on this page.
Thanks for letting me share.
After a reminder by the sweet, and fabulously talented, Sasha, I finally took an updated mirror belly shot.
All digital elements by Karla Dudley for After Five Designs
I haven't been doing a ton of crafting lately as my life has been consumed in readying our home and family for a new little person soon to join us. Luke is currently working on going on the potty and making the transition to a big boy bed. Sean has a new room complete with a new bed, dresser and nightstand. He loves it.
I have all the boys' clothes organized and the clothes that no longer fit have been put into bins for storage. That always seems like such a big job, at least for me. We had the rugs cleaned and our laundry room floor tiled. The other monumental task I am working on is getting my photos updated. I am still about a year and a half behind in editing my photos and having them developed. Even though, I scrapbook, I like to put my photos in traditional albums. I am determined to get this done and I vow to keep up with it each month from here on out. I am also trying to get lots of holiday stuff done this month so that I can try to take it a little easy in December; believe me, I know how crazy that sounds. It will never happen, but I can at least give it a shot, right? My due date is January 9th...less than 2 months away and there is still so much that needs to get done!!!!!
As for crafting, I made this bib for Marta's sweet baby boy.
I also made her some burp cloths, but apparently didn't take any photos of them, though I am certain I did. Oh well. I did manage to decorate this little moleskin journal for her to keep in her purse.
This was the 'baby boy' card I made for Marta. I have seen different versions of it on the web both in fabric and paper form. I made my banner from fabric and this seems to be new favorite card of choice.
I made this one for a boy's birthday party that Sean was invited to. I Iove how it can be adapted to a boy or girl just by fabric choice.
Here are two other cards I made in a hurry for other birthday parties that Sean attended. They are a mini card that use the Maya Road chipboard numbers. So easy.
I'm sure you are all familiar with the amazing, Miss Karla Dudley. Talk about a multi-talented woman; Karla is a scrapbook artist, bookmaker, photographer extraordinaire, momma and now a digital designer. I have always been in awe of Karla's work, so when she contacted me to see if I would join her design team, I nearly fell out of my chair. How lucky I am I? I get to work with Karla's amazing digital creations. Each week, Karla creates digital collections for After Five Designs. While I am by no means a digital expert, I am loving the opportunity to play with these awesome kits as well as learn more about the art of digital scrapbooking. So, if you haven't checked out After Five Designs, treat yourself and if you haven't yet bookmarked Karla's blog, you must. It is filled to the brim with inspiration.
Here are some of the layouts I created using Karla's kits:
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 |
