getting going

Ok this year I am DETERMINED to keep up to date with my Journal YOur CHristmas Album- well so far so good. This is what I have come up with so far

MY album is a combination of 6x12 LOs for the Prompts and 3 4x6 spaces for a photo of the day and some journalling about the events of the day

The first

 I stuck in the manifesto and journalled about how grateful I am to have my children to cuddle

( we had had really awful news at school about a boy who was killed on the way to the bus so I was so glad to get home and hold my children)

I used a photo of Nancy and JAmes having a cuddle on the sofa- 

the second

Nancy was going on in the car about how everything was frosting- how appropriate for the day I have to journal about the weather

the third

My card= I journalled inside the card and added a row of old stamps in red and green- I am nowhere near ready to write my cards- must do that this week

Because I am using a combination of 6x12 and 4x6 pages I thought I could add extra pages for photo heavy days

this weekend we had the children's Godfather round for a christmas dinner and to exchange presents

we also put up the tree so on this double page spread are photos of

contents of the Chrismas crackers

decorating the tree

the dinner table

an empty plate

and the most hideous door wreath we found in the loft- left by the tenants ( a bigger picture of it it below- its off to the charity shop) 

the fourth

Another day another tree- we put up the tree in the conservatory today

I made a LO about my CHristmas wishes today

basically all I want is some nice surprises

NOT surprise gifts

just random surprises

like last weekend when the Santa Fun Run went unexpectedly past my house- so I had an hour of Santas running past my house

OMG

the door wreath we found!

a 2 trophy weekend

a Lo using the Pencil Lines sketch from a couple of weeks ago- this weekend Stanley won two trophies- one for man of the session for his football training yesterday- and one for man of the match for his match today- they drew 2-2 - he didn't score but he did play well and stop the other team from scoring and preventing a loss- he's so proud- and so am I

pretty

I loved the colours of the tags that I used for my Scrapbookers Anonymous Design team Lo so I made another LO using them and a few more- the challenge for this month at SA is a great one for Christmas even though my LO is not Christmassy at all- its tags and glitter- perfect for Christmas Los or not as you can see from mine

Ok bad bad photo but I feel the need to attempt to keep up to date with my JYC on the blog as well as in the journal

My chose format this year is 12x6 but every other page is 4x6 photo pages so I printed off the mainifesto- had one space for the date and one space for a tag with journalling on- I think I can change things round day by day- add more photos or more photo pages if I need to

I managed to get a reasonable photo today of James and Nancy having a cuddle- but its so annoying trying to take pictures in the dark and really I don't want pages of me at work in my journal just because I can take a picture in the daylight!

journalling is about the need to have a cuddle with my little ones today- had very bad news today at work about a very sudden death- makes you realise how precious people are

journal your christmas- three questions

These are my first thoughts for Shimelle's JYC- i kinda wish I had put Mum and Nan for question three but today has been a very emotional day that I will never forget and it was what was in my mind today. But then again its always worth remembering today is important don't you think.

I'm feeling quite proud today that I have managed to take a photo- print it- journal and almost finish my page for today- my last JYC album was only finished in November!

sparkle at the molineux

here is my submission for the December challenge at Scrapbookers Anonymous- the challenge is a great Christmas challenge - you need to use  tags and glitter- perfect for this gift giving season

Glitter is not my thing but I do have some glitter thickers so I used those- I used my tag punch to create some embellishments

The Photos are from Nancy's first trip to the Molineux- if you don't know Molineux is the home ground for the Wolves ( and if you don't know who they are they are Wolverhampton Wanderers and the play football in the English Premier League- well at the moment)

She wasn't really happy- when the opposition scored- she cried and when they went 2-0 ahead she decided to start making up her own score. i think she decided Wolves won 1800-0 ( the real score was 2-2)

just the wrong moment

Here is my submission for the From Screen 2 Scrap December Challenge- the Poster this month is 

I've got all the added criteria that Shazza has included - white card- a two colour title- and I'm wearing a Christmas hat with added plaits in the photo. 

I tried to give a Christmassy feel with the red and green colour scheme and I punched some circles and added a touch of gold card and string to imitate baubles.

The photo is if me last Christmas- I took it myself ( hence the wonky angle and the slight blurring) Just as the Christmas dinner was being laid on the table and we were all being called to eat Nancy fell asleep in my arms- just the wrong moment. 

You might guess from that that I wasn't in charge of cooking the Christmas dinner :)  Although I do make the Christmas cake and Christmas pudding- 

Here's the poster