{Blog Hop Goodness} December Daily Blog Hop 4

Hello and Welcome to another Friday December Daily Blog Hop.  I don't know about you but it has been one crazy month, but I have loved every moment of it.

First things first.  You should have come here from Angie's blog at Living a Crafty Life.  If you didn't come from Angie's blog you can start at the beginning of the hop here.  There is a list of the hop order at the bottom of this post if you loose your way.  And I am once again linking up to  Ali Edward's Blog to share in the fun with her.

This week I have a couple of things done.  I decided over the weekend to completely change the way I was tackling my book and do more of a fun holiday events book.  I think it fits my lifestyle so much better.  I'm hoping it will make more sense when I'm done with my book.  As I was working on my book one evening I started feeling overwhelmed by it.  Since that is clearly not the point, I decided to change direction.  I had remembered I read these posts last year and remember thinking what a great idea.  I went back and reread them and felt inspired to keep creating.

Here is the first spread I completed.  I have to add a journaling card to the upper right corner about this event.  Every year we go to a Holiday Boat Parade.  The owners of the boats light up their boats with Christmas lights.  There are always a few different things.  This year our favorite was the shark boat.

Jalyn's dance class had a parent preview day.  We got to go into the class room and see how they are progressing and what they are learning.  It was fun to see her little personality in the class.  I have to add the journaling to the lower left hand corner.

This picture is from Christmas Eve morning.  My girls decided they would like to get up at 6:30am.  We went downstairs and I turned a movie on the iPad for them to watch.  They cuddled up under the Christmas tree together and watched while I got some work done.  Love them together!

That is all for this week.  See you again next week.  Thank you for hopping along with us.  Your next stop on the hop will be Crystal at Capture the Moment.

Also, you can link up your own projects below.  I would love to see how you are documenting the season.

Blog order:

Leslie

Jennifer

Angie

Jessica <<< You are here.

Crystal

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Blog Hop Goodness} Dec Daily Blog Hop 3

Hello Scrappy Friends!  Happy Friday!! I don't know about you but I'm glad it is Friday!Welcome to the third week of our Friday December Daily Blog Hop.  We are so excited to share with you are fun December Daily Projects this month.

If you came here from Angie's blog at Living a Crafty Life you are in the right place.  If you didn't come from Angie's blog you can start at the beginning of the hop here.  There is a list of the hop order at the bottom of this post if you loose your way.  I'm also linking up to Ali Edward's Blog today to share in the fun with her.  I thought it only fitting since she is the mastermind behind December Daily!

I'm not going to pretend that I'm not really far behind.  However, at this point in my life I'm ok with that. :)  This week I got the cover for my book done and one of the inside divider pages.  I wanted to share both with you. I'm going to apologize right now for the pictures.  They are really dark.  I haven't been home during daylight hours at all this week. Then I got the bright idea to take the pictures under my tree for visual effect.  It didn't work very. But, this is what you are getting.

And because I feel like bragging, here are some pictures of what we did this weekend.  Have I mentioned I love living in the DC area!! And yes these will all end up in my book.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Your next stop on the hop will be Crystal at Capture the Moment.

Also, you can link up your own projects below.  I would love to see how you are documenting the season.

Blog order:

Leslie

Jennifer

Angie

Jessica

Crystal

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Blog Hop Goodness} December Daily Blog Hop 2

Hello Scrappy Friends!  Welcome our first Friday December Daily Blog Hop.  We are so excited to share with you are fun December Daily Projects this month.

If you came here from Angie's blog at Living a Crafty Life you are in the right place.  If you didn't come from Angie's blog you can start at the beginning of the hop here.  There is a list of the hop order at the bottom of this post if you loose your way.

Well, I feel like my pages are coming together slowly but surely.  I was determined to get the main date pages done for this weeks post.  I almost got there.  I have the date pages for Dec5th-11th done, which I decided was good!  If you missed last weeks post you can see it here.  I also started a hand page drawing layout of how I wanted each day to be, which I decided was a huge accomplishment as well.

On with my pages for this week...

As you can see, each main date page is a little different.  It just depended what I had for that day and what look I was going for with the spread.  My goal this weekend is to get everything printed and start getting them into the album.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Your next stop on the hop will be Crystal at Capture the Moment.

Also, you can link up your own projects below.  I would love to see how you are documenting the season.

Blog order:

Leslie

Jennifer

Angie

Jessica

Crystal

Have an amazing day! Jessica

{Blog Hop Goodness} December Daily Blog Hop

Hello Scrappy Friends!  Welcome our first Friday December Daily Blog Hop.  We are so excited to share with you are fun December Daily Projects this month.



If you came here from Angie's blog at Living a Crafty Life you are in the right place.  If you didn't come from Angie's blog you can start at the beginning of the hop here.  There is a list of the hop order at the bottom of this post if you loose your way.

I haven't fully gotten into my layouts yet.  So far this week I have been doing a lot of picture taking and documenting.  I thought I would talk a little bit about my plan for the month.  I have decided to do more of a hybrid album this year and I am really excited about it.  I think it is going to help me stay on top of everything more.  With that said, I am not going to stress about having something for every single day either.  We always have a lot of things jammed packed into this month and it will be a full album, I'm sure.  I'm looking forward to seeing how everything is going to unfold for me this month.

Here is my plan...



Like a lot of people I'm going to be to be using Simple Stories 6x8 Snap binder system.  I have this binder already to go with a few extra packages of page protectors in different configurations.

I have all my Christmas stuff in one area so I can pull and go.




I put together December 1st page, just so I could figure out a little of what I wanted to do.

This is a 6x8 page and will be on the back side of the title page.  

 These two pictures are 4x6 and will be on the opposite side.

Hope you like what I have done so far.  I'm looking forward to next week, when I will have more completed and printed.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Your next stop on the hop will be Crystal at Capture the Moment.

Also, you can link up your own projects below.  I would love to see how you are documenting the season.

Blog order:

Leslie

Jennifer

Angie

Jessica

Crystal

Have an amazing day! Jessica

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