Well, finally, I've gotten to the current year. January found us in Wilmette with Sarah and Adam, and then quickly after our return, on our way to Florida with my mother-in-law's van.
Last year, all my title cards were created with Papertrey Ink's Monthly Moment dies and stamps. For 2015, I switched to the Paislee Press Calendar Title cards, and I like them very much. I wish the family photo on the card showed up better on the layout. It's one of my favorites. The journaling card and the filler card are both from Papertrey's Monthly Moments Journal Collection, and the mittens were punched with a punch I bought so long ago, I have no memory of where I purchased it.
Adam thought we ought to take Caleb on a "bean hunt," so we headed to Millennial Park for the morning. Sarah thought it was way too cold, but she was a good sport, and I appreciated the opportunity for some good family photos. Caleb was fascinated with the ice skaters on the level below. This was also the weekend of Sarah's official start as Acting Associate Pastor for the Winnetka Congregational Church.
I decided at the beginning of the year, to do another Capture Your 365, but this time soley with my iPhone. I've kept it up for 4 1/2 months now, and have learned to use quite a few of the apps I had already downloaded to my phone. When I looked at them for January, I realized they painted a pretty good picture of my life: family, travel, and some of my volunteer commitments. This is the first page of them. The photos of the beautiful pottery are from the Cameros Collection on view at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY. It's one of our favorite museums, and we stop there whenever we go through Corning.
I created the filler card with some patterned paper from MME, and some stamps from My Favorite Things and Live, Love, Life by Papertrey. The die is an old Spellbinders: Label II.
The filler card here was created with some Avery Elle paper, "Sorbet," and a wood veneer from Ali Edwards. The photo of Ella and me has to be one of the very few selfies I've ever taken that I liked enough to print! I was babysitting, and the mirror over Matt and Betsy's couch proved to be a great way to get a photo without the iPhone showing.
I was sick the whole trip to Florida. We managed to get to an Antique Auto Museum in Tallahassee (photo on the Instagram page), and drove out to St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge. When we finally arrived at Fort Myer's Beach, I basically vegged out the whole five days. Not many photos to show for it.
