Journal Your Christmas/December Daily

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December Daily Twenty-Twelve

YAY!!!

Are you playing this year?

The Crafty Side of ME..

So what have I been up to creatively, or should I say trying to keep up with...

Learn something new with Shimelle has start up.

And of course I'm behind but in doing..

Well I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all the classes offered on BigPictureClasses.

After yesterday post... WOW two post in a row :)

I signed up for the Album of Awesome workshop it Starts today. I'm looking forward to taking the Good Life workshop by Amy Tan and they have started offering other types of classes besides scrapbooking, this fall Big Picture Classes will offer a knitting-felt workshop called Fabulouss Felting, thinking about this we'll see how it works out.

Doing to much... maybe?

Hanging out at my favorite online scrapbooking website bigpicturescrapbooking.com
Working on my art skills with Claudine!


Waiting to get started with Donna making some fab fabric creations

I love Shimelle her classes are really afordable and she encourages you to use what you have.

until now I always had to buy...But thanks to the economy I will use what I have.

I have already started on my journal your Christmas album with Shimelle/ December daily album with Ali Edwards this holiday season is going to be STRESS FREE. I know its early to start thinking about Christmas but I always want to do to much and than I'm upset I didn't finish everything I started.

Last but not lest I'm starting a craft club with a few of my friends. We all like to make stuff but there is not really a place that offers a variety of crafts at one place... cards, scrapbooking, sewing, quilting, knitting, crocheting, jewelry making, gardening, home decor, gift giving, party planning ideas and cooking... that's a lot, but every month we will make a couple of things that we see online or in books that look interesting.

I guess being super busy with multiple projects is the gemini in me! I just want to finish what I start. I'll keep you updated on my progress.

SNEAK PEEK for Valentine's Day

This is what I'm Giving to friends and family on Valentine's Day. So I can't show the inside just yet. I can tell you that Almost everything in my mini album is from Thersa Collins CRUSH line.

LOVE THESE QUICK PAGES at sweetshoppedesigns.com ,

Kissable Bundle by Traci Reed .

I'm back at work so I hope I can keep up with my blog and scrapbooking, wish me luck.

p.s. I love Pjs....

Majestic Memories Is Closing

Bill, Leticia and Dodi, I wish all the best for you. Your store will be missed!

The first time I join a scrapbooking swap for bag toppers. I go to turn in my project, I see that my favorite scrapbook store Majestic Memories is closing. This is the second store within a year. Pebbles in my pocket closed last year. Where is a scrap addict to shop! Michaels’ and Joann’s are ok, just not the same. I only know of two other scrapbook stores in the city, and one is too far and the other scrap store the prices are marked up crazy high and just not that friendly!!! I do shop online but sometimes you just need a quick fix or descend cardstock.

Mr. President Obama you should fix our economy as soon as possible. People are losing their jobs and homes, becoming homeless. Most Americans right now don’t care about party lines. If we all do the right thing for America it doesn’t matter. We always take care of other countries, and that’s nice, but this time for once can we start at home? Please.

In closing let me state, that I’m joking around about scrapbook stuff. I’m truly blessed that in these times all I have to worry about is no place to buy junk. My job is OK at this moment, I still own my home and my family is well. I worry for us (the United States) as a whole. It starts with little stuff like small businesses. This has opened my eye wider. I better understand what I need to do for my family to be OK. We all need to stop buying and start saving more, the storm is coming!

Getting off my soapbox…. Above is a picture of the bag topper I made for the swap. I think it’s really cute. LOL. My Month was July and theme butterflies. I used paper from the Flair Designs- Paradise collection, love that paper, small butterfly - Martha Steward punch, large butterfly - QuickKutz die, stamp - Inkaddinkado hand lettered alphabet and jewelry tags.

Below are some of my favorites from the other ladies in the swap.

Project 365

365 is a cool way to keep track of the year and become a better photographer. Only one rule take a picture everyday! I have not figured out how I want to post them to my blog yet. I'll either put up each picture or do a digital layout for the week. So here's the first. I started project 365 the first week of January.

Digital Scrapbooking

I started to digital scrapbook afraid I would like it to much and have to much paper. It didn't happen I still love paper. YAY! I Seem to do more when it's digital. Hope you like them. Leave a comment tell me what you think.

1. Family





















2. Jarron





















3. Beautiful





















4. MISS TEEN

MY 25th Of The Month Album

I'm so proud of myself...I'm almost caught up will all my scrapbooking projects. And I enjoyed scrapbooking and used my stash. This album is really cool because on the 25th of the month you take pictures and scrap about the day. This is done for a year, what's neat about this album is years from now remembering the little things.

New Challenge from Shimelle

The 25 of Every Month Album


The idea of starting early comes both from saving time and for motivating you later on in the project. The idea is to record the 25th day of every month for one year, documenting a tiny snapshot of your everyday life. Some things will remain the same, others will change with the seasons, still others may change entirely in a year’s time.

This is the first time I've done anything with scrapbooking that I had to commit to for a whole year! I will have my album finished and posted Saturday.
So are you in? http://www.shimelle.com/