Scrapping from the Heart

I really want to write more blog posts. I don't always want this to be a place for sharing my December Daily. So I've been pretty productive lately, thanks to my mother-in-law helping out around the house. :) So I'm finally mostly caught up with this year's Project Life album. And for the first time in a WHILE, I got last week's spread all done by Tuesday, and I'd like to share it. Here's a look at Week Nineteen: This was Mother's Day week, and I felt so special and so loved. Left:  That glare is driving me crazy! Right:  As an insert, I added a long journaler from Ali Edwards to record the story of Mother's Day. I slipped my cards behind that. Once you flip the insert over: I still have so much momentum from National Scrapbook Day, and I hope it stays!

 Another great December. Another fun album, I just love this project! Here are the rest of my pages for December Daily 2013: Day Twenty-Two  Today we baked cookies. :) Left: Right: Day Twenty-Three  One page spread about the love teachers get this time of year. Day Twenty-Four  We spent Christmas Eve at Trevor's aunt and uncle's house. We made it home early so Trevor could build some of Taylor's toys and have everything ready for Christmas Day. I started the spread with a cut page protector: and the back: What the spread looks like in the album: Right: Day Twenty-Five We spent the morning at home, taking our time with opening up presents and having breakfast. That evening we went to Trevor's dad's house. Left: Right: Sequins and stars are just floating around in the page protector, love that! On the back of the 6x8 photo: Taylor's favorite gift by far, his bowling set from Pop Pop. Add...

 Today was a busy day, but a joyful one. When Taylor woke up, he discovered Elfie by a box with a note asking him to donate some old toys. It took some convincing but he did put some toys in the box. :) Then we dropped Taylor off at Trevor's uncle's and Trevor and I went to my job's Christmas party. After that, we went to go see the Hunger Games, great movie! Came back home and rented Grown Ups 2, that one was ok. Then we went to a pub near our house. It was nice having time to ourselves and going on a date. We need to do that more often!! Here 's the spread for day Twenty-One: Left:  I owe this inspiration to Ali Edwards Day Nine post. I love what she did with the starbursts, sequins, and enamel dots (all from the SC kit), so I recreated that look on my spread. Right: I included a gift card holder from the Pub because I loved the Christmas sentiment. And that "Good Cheer" is from a digital file I cut with my silhouette.

Today my boy was sick. :( Not too happy about him being sick for Christmas, so I decided to take him to the Dr. on my lunch break to get him on antibiotics ASAP. He had a nasty cough, sounded like croup or somethung, but can you believe Dr. said his lungs were fine. He had a double ear infection! The cough and runny nose was just drainage.  I couldn't believe it because he was not complaining about ear pain. But thankfully I got him on those much needed antiobiotics. Here's the spread:  Left:  Journal card with gold "20" chip, the backside of that silhouette-cut present, and some gold thickers and a gold star on a piece of patterned paper that came with the SC kit. Right: It amazes me how fast things change. How fast visits at the doctor change. Taylor is such a big boy now, and it's truly amazing. That arrow label was in a printable file that was included with the SC kit and I added another gold star.

 Day nineteen was all about the presents. There is a lot under our tree, and that's because our wonderful family sent us some from Florida. Here's the spread: Left:  I had to show a picture of one of my presents to Trevor because it was wrapped so pretty. And I love that Joy card from the Studio Calico kit, fit on this page perfectly. :) On the back of the Hambly overlay from yesterday, I adhered more enamel dots and a tree chipboard sticker. Right: A digital file of a present cut with my silhouette (from the SC kit), a photo of our tree that I added a digital overlay by Ali Edwards before printing and a 4x6 card from the SC kit that I journaled on.

 And just like that....all caught up! :D I decided to go with another single page for day eighteen. And I'm pretty proud of myself, I got a little crafty with this one. Although I wish I had a sewing machine!! I gave out nail polishes to my co-workers today and they loved it.  I had this old Hambly transparency with green circles and I wanted to combine it with one of the page protectors that I cut in half. I covered the adhesive that I used to combine the two with a white ribbon with silver thread that came with the Studio Calico kit. In the circles I added some enamel dots and a chipboard sticker. Here's a better look at the transparency:   And a look at yesterday and today's layouts in the album:   I just realized I forgot my gold "18" chip. I'm gonna go add that. :)

 One page for day seventeen... The Mega Millions jackpot is huge right now! $636,000,000, and Trevor came home with 100 quick picks. I loved that so I included it in my album. It made a nice Christmas wish.