some layouts

So little happens in January, I don't have much to share, so here are a few layouts.

start with this......

.... a canvas and a bit of paint....

and thanks to inspiration and products from studio calico, end up with a calendar like this...
So this is what I've been doing this week.

Christmas photos

A few holiday photos, firstly Christmas Eve

and a very excited girl just before going to bed.

Not too early in the morning
On our bed opening presents

it was lovely

hope yours was too

here's what we've been doing

Visiting the Christmas House (the caretaker of a local school does this every year to his house, we only discovered it this year - big hit, we've been 3 times already!)

Choosing a tree, decorating it,

and then posing under it for Mummy's camera.

october afternoon mini album

it's beginning to look a lot like...

Christmas! I've been having a lot of fun with a Christmas project since the start of the month. Shimelle's Journal your Christmas. It involves a short project each day from 1 December until 6th January which encourages you to make note of what is going on, and to notice all the small details that make your Christmas so special. I've really enjoyed it so far and am reasonably up to date with the daily prompts. The album above will store all my pages, I decided to keep it quite simple and am using a 6" ring binder.

Below is the first page, which is a manifesto of sorts. In it I outline whyI'm doing the album, and I promise myself 15 minutes a day to work on the pages.

These are some of the pages. Above is the page about Christmas cards (spoiled the suprise now for everyone on my card list!), and below is a page looking at winter weather.

This page outlines a perfect Christmas for me-he, she, i and lots of food and decorations!

and the prompt for the page below was around counting down the days. Here I used a hambly overlay to show Katy gazing at her advent calendar and behind the acetate is a close up of the tree on which she hangs her ornament each day.

Another prompt asked us to look at perfect and/or not so perfect Christmas past.

Katy and I are going to buy our tree after school tonight so will try to come back tomorrow with photos of that.