Christmas Morning

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Showing off one of the first pictures taken with the new camera.. You can all see why I love it! 🙂

I very happy with how this LO turned out!
Credits:

Holly Jolly Holiday by Polka Dot Plum 

Font: Cooper Black
I really love the Holly Jolly Holiday kit by Polka Dot Plum. This is the 3rd LO I do using it (plus a hybrid ornament!) and I’m not tired of it in the least!! 🙂

Week 1

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So here’s my first pictures for Project 365 – it seems like I’ll be doing a Project 365 for pictures and a Project 52 for scrapbooking. 🙂
I kept the page real simple, because this will turn into an album that is in addition to my regular LOs, not a replacement.

Als0, since I’d like to have a uniform style throughout the album, it’s likely that I will change fonts/titles sometime.
I downloaded quite a few templates created for Project 365, but I ended up not using one: it’s hard to use a template when your pictures have a certain orientation, and size, and order..
As you can see, for me the week starts on Monday, so the first week of the year ended today, on Sunday.

Credits:
Basic Felt Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Note this
DH and I decided to leave the Christmas decorations up for another week. Then, the Christmas season will be officially over. 🙁

New Year Resolution?

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I usually never do New Year resolutions, because I never maintain them, and this year is no exception. That’s why I’m not even committing to do Project 365, even though I’ve started it and want to keep doing it. If I can do it, I’ll be happy, but I don’t want too much pressure if I fail.

However, I do have a goal this year: I want to use the fancy camera DH gave me for Christmas, and I want to use it well. I hope to improve my photography skills and especially to have fun in the process. I scrapped a LO for a challenge at SM:

Credits:

Template by Scrapmuss Designs

Pretty Grungy by Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Basic Felt Alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Note This, My Own Topher


I used the Pretty Grungy kit by Bree – I love how versatile it is!

Welcome 2009

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Happy New Year everyone!

There’s a lot of interest all over the web for Project 365. I read about it months ago, and recently re-learnt about it from IkeaGoddess. The project is to take a photo a day, for a year.

I like the idea, but I’m not really sure how to apply it. Taking a photo a day shouldn’t be a problem (actually, I might have the opposite problem: I tend to take many pictures once I start, so choosing just one photo a day will be really hard). And then since I’m all about scrapping, how should I scrap them? Ideally, a 2-pager per week would work well.
But I like to dwell over the minor and major events in my life so scrapping 3/4 pictures from different days on one page is not going to be enough for me..
Anyway, I’ll start it for now, and we’ll see where it leads me. I will take more than one photo a day and will try to choose just one for the Project, and use all the ones I want to scrap as usual.
Here’s my first LO of 2009 and it’s one I’m very pleased with:

Credits:

Don’t Hold Back Template and Basic Felt Alpha (slightly recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

Winter Spell freebie collab (some recoloring) by Scrapmalin.com

goodbye 2008 Wordart by Denise Beatty Originals

Font: American Typewriter

The pictures were taken only minutes after ringing in the new year.

The Last LO of 2008

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I managed to scrap one more LO before the clock strikes midnight. 🙂

We took this group photo with my new camera on Christmas Day.

Credits:

Dear Santa (recolored) by Cecile Designs

Snow border from My Feet Are Cold! by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Note this

Now I can go get ready for New Year’s Eve dinner! 😀 See you all next year!

Last Christmas Ornament (for this year..)

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Finally, this idea of a circular ornament has been put into practice. Better late than never! 🙂

I cut out a circle from a used cardboard box (instant mashed potatoes :)), printed out the 2 sides on normal paper and Mod Podged them for finish:

Credits:

Template by Winkasheart

Dear Santa by Cecile Designs

Font: Handwriting- Dakota

Then I glued the two sides to the cardboard with Mod Podge and was ready to use another of the marvelous gifts my adorable husband gave me for Christmas: the crop-a-dile (the big bite, too!):
Hole punched, ribbon, and the ornament is ready to be hung.
A little note: pictures are straight out of the camera (the new one, of course!!) – I took them when it was dark (as usual).
In our family, the Christmas season ends on January 6th, and it’s sad to see most of our neighbors have already pulled down the Christmas lights!
I’m really moody today because my parents+grandmother left today, and who knows when we’ll see each other again.. 🙁 But we spent a beautiful, perfect Christmas together and I feel so blessed and lucky.

Christmas Pastime

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Here’s the LO I did to match this one. I lifted a LO by Yzerbear91 (Melissa) for a challenge at SM.

Credits:

Holly Jolly Holiday by Polka Dot Plum

Treasured Memories Wordart from My Toes Are Cold! by Britt-ish Designs

We had lots of fun playing cards with my parents and grandmother this holiday, and I’m sad they’re leaving tomorrow. They’ve been here 12 days and time has flown by too fast.
The snow has melted completely, but I believe we will see lots more this winter. 🙂

White Christmas

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I was afraid we might not have snow for Christmas, but we indeed had a very white Christmas! 🙂

I did a LO for the Grand Theft LO challenge at ScrapMatters: I lifted this LO by sarahtawisha and came up with this:

Credits:

My Toes Are Cold! by Britt-ish Designs

Font: CK Cursive

It snowed a lot last week and it lasted for Christmas, but now it’s almost all melted away..

Merry Christmas!

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My wonderful husband gave me a beautiful SLR camera for Christmas – better than I could ever dream!! So soon I hope you’ll see much better pics from me. 🙂 In the meantime, this is a pic a took last night with my old camera.
Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

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It’s Christmas Eve already!!! Time is just flying by so fast! I’ve been really busy the past week since my parents are visiting and we got ready for Christmas buying a gorgeous 7.5 feet (fake) Christmas tree – it’s gorgeous! I have yet to take some good pictures of it, though.

Our evenings are usually spent playing cards with my parents and grandmother, and we get some good laughs out of it! I did a LO with pictures of me and DH, and will eventually do a 2nd LO with pics of my parents+grandmother.

Credits:

Template Inspired by Kate by Britt-ish Designs

Holly Jolly Holiday by Polka Dot Plum

Font: FG Bonnie’s

So now everything is ready for Christmas at our house: we have the most gorgeous tree with a few cute presents underneath it (the calendars I ordered from Artscow have arrived – very pretty indeed! – and are wrapped). I got highlights and a new haircut yesterday. We have plenty of snow outside so we will have the most perfect white Christmas. 🙂
We will have a nice fish dinner tonight, then Midnight Mass, and tomorrow morning, presents, and a lovely Christmas lunch!
Merry Christmas to all!