Days 25 - 29 ...

... firstly a catch up with day 23, journalling behind the card

Day 25 - Xmas Day! There's 4 pages to this entry - a photo on the LHS and acetate on RHS

Back of acetate LHS

RHS - more photos

Day 26 - Boxing Day - again multiple pages

LHS

Page Protector front

Back

Day 27 - our new Wii!

Day 28 - Thank you list

Day 29 - Journalling about how we are usually in Torquay, but how we spent our time at home instead

More to come!

Happy 2009...

... a bit belated, but New Year was followed by DD1's 6th birthday, so it's been a bit hectic! So with a new year comes new resolutions and new challenges.

My crafting resolution was NOT commit to any more challenges, but one of my UKS team mates mentioned 12 months ... 12 projects and thought it would be a good addition to my existing challenges. I'm planning on taking a weekly photo of the girls and then doing a month in review LO for each of them. But my main goal for 2009 is to complete the following projects:

- The girls A-Z albums (I'm about half way through)
- Scrap Your Day (I'm 3 months behind!)
- Capturing Time
- Everyone has a Story

Shimelle has also started a weekly challenge thread on UKS - 'Scrap Like You Mean It', so I'm hoping to play along with that as and when the challenges appeal.

But firstly my Xmas Journal needs to be finished! I've done a few more pages which I shall hopefully upload tomorrow.

Days 18 - 24

.. so I'm about a week behind, but have the next few pages planned.

Day 18 - The Gingerbread House Day 19 - Shimelle's prompt - Letter to Santa

Day 20 - Girl's Party Night

LHS

RHS

Day 21 - Silly Hat Photos

Day 22 - Shimelle's Prompt - Unexpected. This is a Xmas card I received from a friend I haven't heard of in a couple of years, so was really pleased to get her card.

Day 23 - To Do

Day 24 - Christmas Eve

LHS

RHS

I have now run out of 'e's in the MM Tiny Alphas, so having to alter 'c's!

A Happy New Year to you all, may it be healthy and prosperous!

Days 15 - 17

... so I'm falling behind. I did these pages on Friday and haven't done anymore since. As we're off to Torquay tomorrow for Xmas, I'm going to try and get some more pages done tonight, so that I'm not too behind when we get back next Saturday (had contemplated taking scrapping studd with me, but doubt I will).

Day 15 - Shimelle's prompt - Guests. This short page documents how we aren't staying in Torquay for New Year as well as Xmas as has been the case for the past few years. Instead we will be back home and spending the evening with friends. Day 16 - Shimelle's prompt - Grateful. I'm going to add some more journalling to this page.

Day 17 - The girl's school/nursery Xmas parties
Front page

Back page

So that may be it now for a week. I wish you all a very glorious and merry Christmas. xxx

Days 9 - 14 ...

.. so I seem to be doing my pages in batches, which is actually working out quite well because it means that on days where there is nothing specific going on I can do whatever one of Shimelle's prompt takes my fancy. Excuse the flash on the photos.

Day 9 - Shimelle - wrapping paper (journalling in tag) Day 10 - Twas the night before Xmas - The School Play (DD1)
LHS

RHS

Day 11 - Shimelle - Traditions

Day 12 - still to be completed

Day 13 - I dream of a real tree

LHS

RHS

Day 14 - Family lunch

So I'm pretty much up to date. It's definitely been made easier with having premade pages this year, I can get a page done in 10 mins sometimes!

Days 6, 7 and 8 ...

So I've caught up to date (apart from todays).

Day 6 - A memory from spending Xmas in Canada in 1977 (I loved that outfit!) Day 7 - My shopping list, what's been bought and what's still to buy

Day 8 - Xmas sights. There's not much sign of Xmas in our house yet, so I've used some photos from flickr of typical Xmas images to me. I shall add some more photos to the reverse of the page protector that I'm going to take myself.

The countdown has begun ...

So I've made a start on my Xmas Journal. I'm not up to date, but I'm not worried about it!! I'm doing a combination of Ali Edwards' Daily Dairy and Shimelle's Journal Your Xmas. I'm using a Making Memories 6x9 album.

Day 1 - My Manifesto - which basically says to enjoy the journalling process in order to achieve a record of family memories. This is in a divided page protector. Reverse side - documents the UKS advent swap that I'm taking part in which a picture of my yummy parcel I received.

Day 2 - The Weather, which fitted Shimelle's prompt perfectly as some parts of the country did have snow, and we almost did - a 5 minute flurry!

Day 3 - Xmas Cards. Have used the reversed of Day 2 plus and envelope which holds one of DDs Xmas cards that she's produced as part of a school project.

Day 4 - Create for Xmas. This was a Ladies Craft evening event at my friends church. She asked me to help this year and so I made up minibook kits and on the night helped 40 ladies to make one from scratch. This page is on acetate.

Reverse side - showing the minibook kits.

Day 5 - Meeting Santa at the School Fair. This page consists of a flashcard with a photo on the reverse and an extra page for another photo plus journalling.

So just 3 more pages to catch up.

In other news:

• We had a great time in London to see The Lion King and my little sister was thrilled with her album - made all the effort worth it to see her smile!
• We've been without hot water for 10 days and central heating for 5, so haven't felt like doing much festive. It's now been fixed this morning, so am feeling a bit cheerier!
• I won a prize on the Rough Draft blog - made my week. Can't wait to find out what I've won.