December Daily, knitting etc.

 Hello,

As I plug along with my Story Album (still working chronologically 😏) I also decided to work on my December Daily, especially since this years goodies from Ali Edwards were released recently. You can find the info here: Ali Edward's DD

Day 5

Here's a link to my previous pages from December Daily 2023 DD Days 1-4 etc.

Little miss Ensley turned 2 yesterday!! My how time is flying by! Not kidding! 

Paul got a really cool video of a cicada chirping. He said he's never seen one in action so to speak so this is pretty awesome, although I hate the sound they make..sounds like an invasion of some sort 😖. Make sure to have the sound on. 

Usually when I go upstairs to play in my craft room, I give Oreo a little treat, a chewy that will take a little while to consume to keep him busy. This time in his treat jar, the only chewy left was this. Anyway, he treated it like a REAL BONE. He took it outside to bury it, tried to bury it in several places all over the house. The final straw was when he chose it to take to bed (he always goes in his toy-box and brings a stuffy or toy to bed) and kept trying to bury it under the covers and then put it in his mouth and just sat at the bottom of the bed in a quandary. I really think it was stressing him out, so I took it and exchanged it for a stuffy and the next day when he finally wasn't paying attention to it, I tossed it. 

So, while we were in Alaska, of course I had to buy yarn in every town/city we went to. I love creating things with authentic yarn spun or hand dyed in other places. Even if it's in the US. Anyway, I started some socks with some yarn I bought in Sitka. 

I think this was the only yarn I didn't get a picture of me holding outside the yarn shop..damn! 

I joined the Summer Lee's Cuff Club #2. This is Augusts' and I'm actually past the heel and onto the leg. I'm excited to start the cabled cuff!! Cuff Club #2

I have to brag on my hubby. We've wanted landscape lighting for a while now and checked into having it done. LOTS of choices and price ranges. Started at a couple grand. So, Paul looked into it and found on Amazon he could buy all the lighting and transformers for a fraction of the cost and he thought it didn't look too difficult to install. So he did!! I'm beyond proud of him! 

 

Seriously, doesn't it look amazing?

One last thing. I subscribed to a knitting newspaper called Knit Nation. It's a monthly print and it's wonderful to sit down on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and look through. One month they had a contest for people to submit a photo of themselves reading it outdoors. I had Jenn take my picture and submitted it. They announce the winner-the woman in the kayak, but then when the next issue came out, there I was!! LOL! 

I'm famous!!! 

Well, I've babbled enough. Thanks for reading and as always...

thanks for stopping by. 

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.