DD 11 all about Santa

Every year my mom talks to Santa and has him send my little one a letter. I am done with the page but I might try and add a pocket of her reading the letter later but here is how the page is so far.


I had this cute zip strip that said hohoho and that adorable little I love Santa saying. Well I knew I wanted to incorporate it but was not sure how then I had the brilliant idea to make the Santa saying a banner of sorts and attach it to the hohoho so I found some light paper and stuck it to that punched some holes and made a little flip tag.

 

Here you can see that the little bit of journaling I did here can be seen. and it was a fun way to have a little bit of interaction on the page. The 11 down in the corner is actually some lower case L's that I had on a old letter sheet.

 

This is as far as I have gotten in my December Daily though I do have more pages planned I am hoping to use some of my Sunday scrapping time to complete this super fun mini album. I have really enjoyed doing it this year errr last year.

DD10 Gingerbread

Day 10 is pretty simple just a little bit about a gingerbread house that my girls made. The little one made this with just a tiny bit of help from her sister! I thought they did a great job!! Better than I ever could for sure. I liked the way I tied in some more of the wood words that I used on day 1.

 

I have still not bought anything for my December Daily I have been tempted a few times just because well I love paper and stuff but I told myself nope use what you have!

DD9...life unexpected

Day nine seemed like any other winter day...ok ok it wasn't we have been having unseasonably hot weather here this month  but it was like a regular day. Nothing to exciting happened so I was not real sure what my page would be today maybe fill it in with some cute wrapping paper or something. Well about 11 o'clock at night I get a phone call...that can't be good everyone knows I go to bed super early. It was my son-in-law telling me that my daughter is having a hard time breathing and wants me to take her to the ER. Well that woke me right up!!

 

I hopped in the car to go get her. I of course hit every single red light. We get there and they immediately got her settled into a room and give her a breathing treatment and take her vitals. Came back to check on her the breathing treatment should have worked better so they ran a ton of tests gave her another breathing treatment...took her in for a CAT scan. That wasn't scary at all. They wanted to do that because they wanted to check for a blood clot since she is young and healthy. She came back good to go with that...thank God! The x-rays showed that she had a lot of flem and swelling in her lungs so they went ahead and admitted her. She ended up staying two nights!

Turns out she is very allergic to her sisters dog. She goes over there and babysits so that my other daughter and son in law can work...2nd and 3rd shifts, So now they all have to make some changes and decisions about sitters and shifts.

Today's page has some hidden journaling on it since that is a long story.

 



DD8...the mail

Did you think I had forgotten about finishing this up? I didn't. I just ran into a few issues...like getting sick and then on top of that getting the flu x3! My little one got it first and shared it with the rest of the family. Yikes it was brutal which meant instead of doing a lot of scrapbooking over my break (I am lucky to get time off at Christmas through New Years) I spent it recovering.

Anyway you don't want to hear about that. Today's page is a 3 x 8 and has a little bracket on the edge so it is just a little half page.

 

I just wanted to tell a quick little bit about getting my cards out in the mail. I also got to use up this fun little button that my mom gave me last year or maybe the year before that. She got them from JC Penny's I just popped the back off and added a pop dot. I thought it went well with this old Jingle paper that I had. That little round hohoho came from Stitch in Time again. Come back again for tomorrows story...it is a doozy!

DD7 Christmas Movies

We have been watching a few movies here and there and the other day we decided to actually rent movies Kenny grabbed a Christmas movie for all of us to watch. It turned out to be so cheesy but Maizie loved it. We enjoyed it too as it was a very sweet story about a mom who wondered what her life would be without kids. I see more movies in the next few weeks.

DD6 Decorating the house

We made sure to decorate the house this weekend. It was so much fun and we all got in on it. I love going through the ornaments every year and remember when the girls brought them home. It always makes me smile so much.

I ended up cutting apart this cute little banner that I had. I love how it turned out going back and forth around and around with each panel.

 

Here is a close up where you can get a better view of the banner.

DD5 the Dance

Maizie has loved dance for years and years. She has been taking lessons and finally had her first dance recital.

Here is a close up of some left over embellishments from Yuletide Carol that I got last year from a CTMH club I was in.  One of my favorite things besides capturing the magic of the season is using up my od supplies.

 

Originally I was going to match Mai's outfit for this page and I am so glad I didn't. The tricky thing here was how to attach the ephemera. I decided to use glitter tape. I love how it turned out.

 

Here is the other side of day five you can see that I also added  my ticket with some washi tape and made note of the number that Mai's dance troop did.

 

 

Here is some journaling on a little postcard. I like how it looks like Santa is peeking out.