I've been plugging away at my December Project Life pages since we returned in the middle of January. I finished them about a week ago, but getting the photos taken and resized has taken me awhile as well. With two trips to Chicago, a wedding, a birthday, and three Christmas celebrations, there was a lot to document. I ended up with fourteen pages so I'll be spreading them across a couple of blog posts. There were just too many this month to take all the photos and cards out of the pockets to photograph, but I did my best to avoid as much glare as possible.
This year I didn't do a Christmas Journal, but decided to put those pages into the Project Life album. I die cut the gold numbers with my Silhouette as well as the Hello, December. Along with gold, I embellished many of the cards with my Wink of Stella glitter pen, but it doesn't show up very well in the photos. I also used some Cathy Zielski "Tiny Templates" on this page. Nearly every year in my Christmas Journal, I document new ornament purchases, and some of the decorations around the house. I wanted to be sure to document Miriam's ornament exchange as well.
Here you can catch a glimpse of the glitter pen on the elf's hat, and the beautiful metallic paper for the title.
Every year I create a set of photo calendars with a template from Paislee Press to give to friends and family, and I always like to take photos of the Christmas decorations around town. The last two photos are of Caleb and his Polar Express train that Grandpa sent to go around his Christmas tree. It was a HUGE hit! The photo template on this page is from Ali Edwards.
I recently found these Becky Higgins pocket pages at Michaels. They are a bit smaller and just perfect for documenting Caleb's trip to visit Santa while I was in Chicago the first week in December.
The back side of that page documents traveling during the holidays (and my extra day in Chicago thanks to a cancelled flight), as well as my love for wrapping and decorating packages. For the first time ever, I actually had the time to use my Pinterest boards for some inspiration in the packaging department.
Although I made about 25 Christmas cards this year, most of our friends and family got a photo card. I didn't expect us to all be together again in December so when Sarah and her family were here in August I scheduled a family portrait. It's not the greatest, but with two toddlers the photographer did a great job of getting us in and out of the studio quickly before either one lost interest. I always save the postage from the international cards I get. I love to see the variety and this year there were several very lovely ones of the Madonna and child.
The next several pages document the wedding, so I'll save those for the next post!
