December Daily 2012 - Days# 1-8

Hi Everyone! - sorry for the late post but was very busy all day today. My husband was out of town so had to take care of the dogs this morning and all day today. Did my usual sweeping, dusting, and using febreeze on couches and bed to take that doggie smell away :)
Also can't forget laundry!

I also wrapped all our Christmas presents that we have so far. I think we are pretty much done except for a few here and there.

Afterwards finally focused on working on my December daily up in my craft room. I had the foundation down for the last 4 days but needed to add my journaling as well as my pictures.
I have been taking an Instax photo every day that captures something I did that day.

Here is a current picture of my craft desk - it is MESSY!

I have laid out all my Christmas themed paper collections, papers, stickers, chipboard, and embellishments. This way I have everything there to be able to look at.

I ended up buying several Christmas collections this year although I had told myself I wouldn't. :)
It's great though because I am using a lot of it instead of just hoarding it.

I showed you all my December Daily (DD) cover page in last week's post so now onto Day #1-8.


DD Days #1 and #2:

I used Echo Park's Winter Park which is paper collection from last year but bought most of it on sale earlier this year. I really like the shades of blue combined with red.
Day #1 is on the left and Day #2 is on the right.

I actually took 2 pics that day. The first one of my family - my husband and my 3 dogs in front of our Christmas tree.

The 2nd picture is of our decorated Christmas tree that I worked on last Saturday after work. Aren't the penguin stickers cute!

Day #2 was last Sunday and I spent most of the day doing work including office notes so I took a picture of my computer. I watched Netflix while doing notes so my Apple TV remote is included in the picture as well as my Christmas gift list. I was also shopping online all day :)



Here is DD Day #3 and #4:

For this page, I used October Afternoon's Holiday Style paper collection. This is also a collection from last year which I bought during the summer. I just LOVE October Afternoon so I could not resist :)

My picture for that day was one of my husband holding my little red LV wallet that I have had FOREVER. Apparently I had left it at home all day since I had taken it out of my purse the previous day to do online shopping! He gave me a hard time about it. I actually did not realize until that evening when we were at the grocery store and NO WALLET!
At least he had his wallet so no problem but I had been driving all day without my license in my purse!
Sorry my hand is mostly covering the wallet.

Day #4 was a typical day for me. That evening after dinner, my husband poured me a small glass of milk and gave me a few Holiday oreo cookies - Yummy! So I had to take a picture.



DD Day #5 and Day #6:

For this page, I used Cosmo Cricket's Jolly Days paper collection. This is a new collection for 2012 from them. I bought it on super sale from Blitsy.

Day #5 was highlighted by the big surprise/bonus in my paycheck! I even took a picture of my paycheck :)

Day #6 was the day I received my first Secret Santa gift in the office. The picture did not turn out good at all but its supposed to be a small basket with warm fuzzy socks and chocolate. Thanks Secret Santa!

Here is DD Day #7 and Day #8:

I used Crate Paper's new Holiday paper collection called Sleigh Ride - this collection is GORGEOUS! I saw it on someone's video blog on You Tube from a recent haul and just knew that I had to buy it. Great colors and designs. One of the papers is just a map of the North Pole. I am wanting to use that for my final page of my December Daily which is Dec 25th - I will be doing a 12 x 12 layout for that day.

I bough almost everything with this collection including the chipboard accents, vellum tags, border stickers, regular stickers - almost everything!

Day #7 was the night of the Cypress Physician's Christmas Party. I can not find my picture from that night so left it blank for now.

On December 8th I spent the afternoon with my friend Amie scrapbooking/cardmaking at her house.
She has just bought the new Fiskar Fuse system which is pretty cool! I took my Studio Calico November kit to work with as had not used it yet and I already received December's kit this last week - Yikes!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have all enjoyed my little adventure here with doing a December daily for the first time. It has been a little tough but doing well on keeping up with it.

Will have another update next weekend.

I hope you all have a great week! For now KEEP CRAFTING!