December Daily 2015: Days 3-6

Hello dear friends!

As you can tell, I am a little behind on sharing posts about my December Daily project, but honestly, is anyone really surprised (I know I'm not). On Saturday and Sunday I was in Georgia and didn't bring any of my supplies with me, so I had to get everything finished yesterday so I could share this post with you today.

I may be sharing some of the days in groups like I am today, but at least they will be shared. Also, later this week there will be an actual video walk through of the first week of my album on my YouTube channel for you guys to check out.

Without further ado:

Day 3:

Day 3 starts about halfway through the page where the tree is. Amy and I decorated the tree and set up some other decorations around our apartment to try to get Amy in the holiday spirit.

The "the tree" sticker came from Me & My Big Ideas Mambi sticker pack of clear stickers that I found at Michaels. I really like the sticker set and was super excited to use them!

The Santa and Mrs. Claus are a set of decorations Amy got from her grandmother. The "dear santa" came from the digital stamp set Ali included in her Storytelling With December Daily class. I just thought it was perfect! I also am making it a point to use the December stamp from the hard copy stamp set from the same class each day! Trying for consistency here!

I really love this tree picture!

The second page of Day 3 is all about some of the ornaments on the tree (I included my Batman and a snowflake that Mem made when he was younger at the top) and the bottom is a picture of my fabric scrap tree I made back in 2013 and a picture of Mem's new Chewbacca ornament next to my American Hero ornament.

This was also the day that I introduced Amy to the wonders of Butterbeer Frappacino's! She loved it!

Day 4:

On Day 4 I included part of an ad from Bath and Body Works from the day before. On the back I attached some purple snowflake scrapbook paper from the Arctic Wishes Matstack 4.5x6.5 paper pad and then added pictures of the M and A ornaments on the tree for Mem and Amy.

The second page of Day 4 shares a picture of our stockings we hung out, the garland over them wrapped in silver ribbon, and the darn "Merry Christmas" banner that we finally had to hang with command hooks. It kept falling down until we tied it up this way. Hasn't fallen a single time!

Day 5:

Day 5 brought me to Georgia to see an old friend of mine. In the pages I talk about why I was there, and then I included a picture of him and I that one of his coworkers took when we went to dinner.

The bottom of the page has me talking about my attempt at a bokeh tree, which I think turned out quite awesome!

Day 6:

I didn't photograph the first page of the spread because it's all writing (I haven't edited/printed the photo yet, so there is no reason to include that here) I talked about the end of my trip and then I took someone else's idea and talked about my ornaments on our tree. ((It's mostly covered in Amy's ornaments, but there are a couple that came from me)). I backed the ornament pictures with pieces of scrapbook paper from the Jolly 6x6 paper pad from American Crafts

Amy bought me that blue and silver star for our shared love of our favorite football team. Then there is Batman (again)! The bottom picture is just a picture someone shared in one of the groups that I saved and printed because I really liked the picture! It says Make a Christmas Wish!

The last page of this spread talks about 3 more ornaments. The top one is a set of two hearts, one painted like the American flag and the other painted like the German flag. This one represents my time in Germany. Below that is a Starbucks ornament I got with a guy riding on an ornament that makes me think of "I came in like a wrecking ball"! It makes me laugh! The last ornament pictures is my American Hero ornament with an eagle and the American flag. This one represents my 5.5 years in the Army.

At the bottom of the page I talk about doing my own book to document the story of my ornaments and how I will continue to include new ones here in this project.

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Thanks for stopping by! Stay tuned here on the blog every couple of days where I share more about the spreads I am doing in my December Daily album. Also,  I will be sharing a video walkthrough of days 1-6 on my YouTube channel later today. Every week I want to do a walkthrough video to show you guys how it looks and talk about some of the products that are used in each spread.

Are you participating in December Daily? Share a link with me (on whatever platform you're sharing) so I can check you out!!!

Dreamer Inserts

Dear friends,

I don't know if you guys have noticed the extra page at the top right, titled Dreamer Inserts. But it's there.

If you're like me and you love the Midori Travelers Notebook's, but want a specific insert, then let's discuss what you want and see if I can help! I love taking a Moleskine insert and decorating to just to what I need. I want to do that for you guys.

So please check out my page on Dreamer Inserts and contact me if you're interested in something. If you're looking for something that isn't listed there, please let me know and we can discuss details!

November Goals

Hey friends!

I know that we're already a couple days into the new month, but there has been a lot going on. I finally have time to share my monthly goals with you guys!

** Finish October Daily- I'm about halfway through. The month kind of flew by, so now I am just not getting caught up.

** Share a video for each week of the project

** Prepare for December Daily- use my own supplies as a kit

** Share a video of my completed December Plan book and how I use it for my December Daily project

** Read an entire book

** Pack my room for my upcoming move at the end of the month. Purge any unnecessary items that I won't need. Separate stuff into plane luggage, unaccompanied baggage, and household goods.

** Prepare car for transport- vacuum the inside, wash the outside. Need an oil change, air up a tire. Need to see if I can ship it with the crack in it or if I need to replace it first.

** Photograph Eilene's Hope Session

** Look for a place to live- For real.... I need a place to live. Haha. I will be staying with a friend for a little while, but I don't want to live off of her for a long time.

** Inventory crafts to sell- I need to make more money, so I figure I can sell some crafts to do this. I make TN inserts, photo sessions, hair bows, and crocheted little monsters.

** 30 Days of Thankful project- document something I'm thankful for every day for the month. Right now, it's written in the bottom of my monthly plan book, but once I get finished with my October Daily project, I will move on to the Thankful project.

** Scrap-journaling mini series or YT series- just an idea that I am toying with on sharing how I do my scrap journaling.

Do you guys have any goals for the month?

Blog or otherwise?

Let's share them, talk about them, so we can try to keep each other accountable!