Saturday, January 18, 2025

What's Happening!

 Happy mid January! 

I can't believe that 47 years ago today, I was getting ready to have my first baby! I knew NOTHING! LOL!! 

In this picture I'm 12 days late and I'm both extremely excited and scared..and as you can see, I gained 50 lbs!! It was the Burger King Whoppers with cheese without tomato LOL.

Tomorrow's the big day! 

In my previous post I showed you my December Daily for 2023. Since then I've started telling my story in the Project Life style but this year, I'm using a 9x12 sized album instead of my usual 12x12. I'm definitely excited starting this project. Also, I'm going to be documenting weekly instead of monthly. Lots of changes and changes are GOOD! 

Here's my title page. Usually I'll include a Christmas photo of the whole family but this year we didn't all get together at the same time. But..that's ok. I've included my 3 kids in the title page because I document what we do together as a family anyway. 


Here's my first week of January..








I've just started week 3 and will post that along with week 2 after I add the smiley faces to the kids etc. Gotta clean em up first. 

I bought some sock yarn last year during the eclipse and it's actually dyed to look like the different colors of the eclipse. I've started some socks with it. 
How cute is that little stitch marker?! 






For years I kept a journal in a Daphne's Diary notebook. She designs these GORGEOUS spiral planners, I guess you'd call them. Not enough room inside to actually call them a journal but I used to find the room to write every night. Then, the pandemic hit and I couldn't find them. Since 2019 they haven't been in Barnes & Noble (and believe me, I've searched). So it was a total surprise to see them on Amazon at the end of December! I bought one and I'm having so much fun with it! 


Check it out!! It comes with a little paper flap on the inside front and back with all kinds of stickers, post cards, bookmarks..just yummy stuff!! 


Here's the inside back flap. So cute!! 


So Eric sent a text message to our family group about journaling. When I was looking through one of my journals, I came across this page that just warms my heart..


Funny story;
I had bird feeders in the backyard during the summer and we had the hardest time keeping Oreo from eating the seed. He'd pig out on it then get sick, plus being the only house in the neighborhood with bushes and trees, we didn't get much in the way of birds. So we didn't put up feeders this year and when we did put one up, it was the kind that didn't make a mess or sprout. It was in a flat tray type of feeder and the wind would just wreck havoc with it. 
Fast forward to now, I told Paul since Oreo isn't playing out back and nothing is going to sprout in the cold and snow, I wanted to put out some feeders and see if the birds in the arborvitae might come. I didn't have a finch feeder that wasn't a mess so I used a regular small feeder. 
The next day I told Paul. LOOK! Our feeder is almost empty! We've had birds! 

the feeder on the left

Paul says, no we haven't had any birds. The wind took all the birdseed 😡
Anyway, I tried and I did get a new finch feeder. Hopefully that will cut down on the amount of seed the wind whisks away. 

Well, I've rambled enough. As always..
Thanks for stopping by. 

Friday, January 3, 2025

December Daily 2023

 Hi and HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

2024 flew by! We went to Jenn & Dan's last night and had some fun. We didn't plan on staying up til midnight and we didn't. But Jenn put a countdown on her phone for the kids around 9 pm. We celebrated with some leftover NYE clappers and hats and we even had a couple of poppers. It was fun! Maybe next year if we get to know some of our neighbors a bit better, we can invite some over for NYE. 

I'd like to show pics of the kids jumping on the bed a yelling YAY with their noise makers but not seeing their faces is missing the point. 

I've got some awesome pages done for my 2023 December Daily which you can learn all about here: 

Ali Edwards. I chose a 10x8 album for my very first December Daily. I love the design because it reminds me so much of the pj's Ethan and Elliott had for years! Here's what I have so far. 



My reason why page. Ali does this every year and I'm not sure I'm going to put my reason why next year. But there were lots of reasons why for me to make an album in 2023. 


I've scattered around the days but they will be in the appropriate days in the album. I see something and get excited to create it and it doesn't always go with the next date, if that makes any sense. 



Inside the little pocket on side 1



Inside pocket on side 2. 





This was fun sewing a pocket and filling it with sequins etc. 


















At the end of the season, I gave each person who could write, a large tag with Christmas questions "Would You Rather". Everyone filled their card and I created a pocket to put them in. It might go at the back of my album since I don't have a specific day. Or if I'm missing something and need a filler for a day, this could be it. Anyway, it was loads of fun to create. 



This was one of the first pages I did and I think so far the most fun. I loved creating the title on vellum and adding the little charms. 

So, that's it for my December Daily album so far.