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Simple pages today. We went to Abby’s preschool sing-a-long program. I cut out a few more trees from the same old scrap of patterned paper.

On the back I cut out a piece from the program.

Kate and I made apple chips.  Yum.

Busy day so I’m keeping it simple.

I’m back!  The girls were very intent on their morning sticker project (thank you Target!) so I worked on December Daily at the kitchen island.  Nice to have some group craft time.  🙂  First up, day 10.

On Saturday, I didn’t take very many pictures at all.  Here’s one of Kate playing in the backyard while Michael worked on cleaning up.  Santa told us to clean up the backyard before Christmas; I wonder what he has planned?  🙂  Michael and I went out on a fabulous date, but I deliberately chose not to bring the camera.  Sometimes you just need to be present in the moment, know what I mean?  It was glorious.

Since day 10 uses a transparency as a base, I thought I would show you what it looked like with day 11 in place as well.  Have I mentioned that I love transparencies?  Just a few times?  lol.

Here’s the back of day 10.  Just a piece of patterned paper to cover the back of the photo and a small journaling block.  The journaling block has Christmas trees on the back that you can see through on the other side.  <3

And then onto day 11!  We went to see the Zilker Tree.  I miss the Trail of Lights, but Kate was amazed at the tree.  Her whole face lit up as we walked towards it.

I had a lot of fun playing with the bokeh.  I considered correcting the color in these shots, but I kind of like that Kate has the color from the lights reflected in her face.  Something different.  That and when I tried to correct the white balance, it looked all wonky.  Let’s just go with it being a deliberate choice, m’kay? Thanks.  🙂

Love these.  🙂

We also decorated gingerbread houses with Kate’s cousins, so I added another page to get in some more pictures.  These are just simple collages taped back to back.  I added a fabric tag for a little somethin’ somethin’.

And there you have it!

 

I took last night off from December Daily.  I just wasn’t feeling inspired, know what I mean?  I’m sure I’ll get caught up today or tomorrow.  🙂

Fun at Safari Champ.

We had a fun crafty playdate this morning, but sadly I took almost no pictures. Eh.

Another simple page as I had to work tonight. Added a bit of washi tape and some letter stickers and called it good. 🙂

We went shopping that evening and almost finished our Christmas shopping. Exciting! We also bought Kate the Little People nativity set and it was a huge hit. So glad we got it. After Kate went to bed, Michael and I started in on the wrapping while we watched Dexter.

This is another super simple page. I actually tried to use a little journaling sticker that I have from a million years ago, but the ink got all smudgy so I just wrote directly on the background paper.

I just realized that I forgot to ink the edges of these pages. Fear not, I shall do it tomorrow. On that note, I am somewhat shocked, but very happy, that I have managed to keep up this far! I’m 1/3 of the way through y’all!

We had a lot of fun on the 7th! First, Kate made this page for December Daily while I worked on day 6. I love having her do this project with me. 🙂

I just realized that this picture is sideways. Tilt your head a bit, okay? Thanks.

Here are some pictures of Kate doing stickers. I went ahead and put the number 7 on the back since I didn’t want to add anything to her page.

Then we made wrapping paper! It was so much fun. I just taped down some butcher paper and let Kate go to town with the paint. It made a huge mess, but at the end Kate turned to me with a huge smile and said, “Mama, I’m happy.”. ::melt::

I put the photos back to back with these pictures from us picking out our Christmas tree. There was some crap along the left side of the pictures, so I added some washi tape and some letter stickers. I think it turned out pretty cool.

This picture was my favorite.

And here’s the backside. I actually made this page on Sunday in preparation for whenever we got a tree. I cut strips of ribbon to make the tree and then stitched along the edges. I stitched another piece of paper to the back to hide the stitching. It was a lot of fun!

This is a huge long post and should probably have been done with the real camera/ my computer, but I’m tired so iPhone it is. 🙂 Michael and I pretty much finished our Christmas shopping tonight and we had a wrap-a-thon/ Dexter viewing tonight. Go us! 🙂

Kate decided that the baby du jour would be her octopus.  She even buckled in his little tentacles.  I thought that I might die from the cuteness.  🙂

I used some more washi tape.  I lurve it.  Seriously, it’s the bomb.

 

 

And here’s the back.  The girls took out the tubs and crawled inside the cabinet.  They thought it was *hilarious* and to be fair so did I.  

 

The littles decided not to nap this afternoon so today’s page is a little plain (and an iPhone photo). Don’t judge me. 🙂

I made 2 collages and adhered them to another transparency. I typed the journaling directly onto the photo before I printed it as an experiment. I have to say that I’m not thrilled with how it turned out, but I deliberately take risks with December Daily so I’m not too bothered by it. I added a rubbon number 5 and called it a day.

All of the girls took great naps today ::bliss:: so I had time to work on day 4 this afternoon.

I scaled down 4 pictures to fit on one 4×6 photo and put 3 of them on the front of the page.  We went over to see my grandparents on Sunday and Kate got a new ornament.  Mimi was totally awesome about helping me stage a photo opp of Kate hanging the ornament on their tree.  Thanks Mimi!

I matted the pictures on a strip of patterned paper and added a bit of ribbon.  I found these chipboard glittery stars and I added a Thicker “4” and a title and called it a day.  🙂

The back is simple, just the remaining photo and a bit of journaling.  Love keeping the backs simple.

I love that I’ve roped so many people into doing this with me!  I can’t wait to see everyone’s books in person.  🙂