December Daily-Day 6

Day 6 of my December Daily is dedicated to St. Nicholas.  We always celebrated when I was a young girl, as did my husband and his family.  St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children and the poor (among many others).  He was known for giving to those in need, especially families of children.  It is said that he would leave small gifts, fruit, nuts and candies in the shoes of children at night.  My husband actually would sit his shoes out and St. Nicholas would leave things in he and his sister's shoes.  As a girl, St. Nicholas would always leave things in our stockings, which is what I do with my boys.  One small gift (DVD or LEGO set) candy and fruit.  I always go and pick out the biggest and best apples and oranges for St. Nicholas Day.  My oldest son was always most impressed with the fruit, and not the candy or gift.  Even though he no longer believes, he still marvels at the yummy fruit when he peeks in his stocking!
More photos below.  That old Santa image is one of my favorites. I think it epitomizes Santa Clause and St. Nick.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

Happy Birthday to me....

Hello!  Today is my birthday.  I am 37 years young! LOL!  To celebrate, I am sharing a card with one of my favorite things-candy!  The stamps are from The Stamps Of Life set, candy2share.  I pieced the lollipops with papers from echo park and added some glitter and baker's twine to the lollipops for fun.

No big plans for today, but to hang out with my guys.  I think they are planning a big dinner for me tonight, and even my five year olds are being quiet about it and keeping it a secret!  I may work on some more of my December Daily album pages, but I may just curl up with a book and relax.

Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

December Daily-Day 5

Pulled this book out the other day to read to the boys. My favorite.  I was able to go to Bing and grab these images of the book cover and an actual illustration from the book.  More photos below!

Thanks for checking out my December daily!

Emily

December Daily-Day 4

Hi, there!  For day 4 of my album, I decided to talk about George, our elf on the shelf.  He appeared in our home this day for the year, but this will be the third year that George has come to visit.  Max and Luke were so crazy excited.  They love waking up each morning to try and find where George is hiding.  Max woke up at 4 am last night and woke everyone up to tell us he had found George's new hiding place! LOL!  Below, you will find photos of each page.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Tradefish Designs-Let It Snow!

Hello! Today I have a card using the fabulous set, Sentiments of The Season from Tradefish Designs.  I pulled out some of my 25 Days of Christmas paper from Simple Stories.  I added some glitter to the paper designs and some burgundy crepe paper at the bottom with some green satin ribbon to finish it off. I distressed the edges of my paper with some scissors. Remember...all stamps are 50% off at Tradefish Designs!

Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

December Daily-Day 3

Day 3 complete!  This was all about my oldest Will and his FLL competition.  The little clothespins will not be there when the album is complete. They are holding journal boxes and tags and photos for upcoming pages.  You can see the individual pages for day 3 below.

 I will be back tomorrow with days 4,5, and 6!

Emily

December Daily-Day 2

Day 2 is done!  Since that was the day of Max's surgeries, I wrote a little blurb about it on the left and then a photo of him on the right.  I printed the photo onto SU Whisper White cardstock, so that I would get a good stamped impression for the "Joy".  Below are photos of each individual page.

Love this sweet boy!

Now on to day 3.....

Emily

December Daily-I took the plunge!

Hello!  I decided to challenge myself this year to complete a December Daily album.  I did not get the scrapbooking done that I wanted to this year, so this will be my consolation prize!  I also think it is an amazing idea and project. The concept of a December Daily journal or book was developed by Ali Edwards.  You can read more about it and see her fab album HERE.  I made my album out of recycled cereal boxes covered with cardstock and inked up.  The album cover and back are 6.5 x 6.5 ".  The pages inside will be 6 x 6".  I like the idea of using double sided 6 x 6 pages to maximize the patterns on both the fronts and back.  I decided I will stick extra envelopes and things in as I complete the days.

This is the inside of the album cover.  I created a large tag with journaling about why I decided to create this album.

For day one I created a page dedicated to the many advent calendars we have in our house.  From chains, to chocolate to Star Wars Lego-we have a bunch!  The kraft envelope will hold more small photos of our advents along with some journaling about every one's favorite.

As I complete my December Daily pages I will blog them!  I will create a separate blog post for each day even if I complete a bunch in one day!  I am going to play "catch up" today! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Peace On Earth and some family stuff!

Hello!  Today I have a card using a sentiment from Tradefish Designs set, Sentiments of The Season.  I used a punch from SU for my bird and branch.  I sponged green ink on the "text" paper limb.  I stamped the sentiment in the lower corner of my white panel first and then ran it through my Cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder.  I then adhered that to my white card base and added my bird and limb to the side.  I added some red baker's twine from The Twinery to the top.
Make sure you check out the newest GO Fish challenge!  You can find the details HERE.
Busy few days at my  house.  Max had surgery on Friday-adnoidectomy, ET tubes placed, and bilateral inguinal hernia repairs.  He is feeling much better, but cries when I have to give him ear drops.  Ear drops and eye drops for kids suck.  No other way to put it.
Yesterday, Will participated in a First Lego League competition.  It is a program that is based on science and technology.  He and his teammates had to come up with a research project based on food safety, which was the them this year.  They had to provide research evidence and a prototype invention that they developed to help make food safer to eat.  They also had to build a robot to perform certain tasks for points.  They had 2.5 minutes to get as many points with their robot as they could.  They acquired the most points so they won the top award for robot performance.  We were so happy and excited.  Here are some photos from the event, so humor a proud mama! :)

This is Will with the robot that he and his team built and programmed.

This is Will, team and coaches during the first round of robot competition.

It was hard to get good photos because we were not allowed in certain areas during the competition, but this is Will, coaches and team when they won the award for Best Robot Performance.  Will is in the middle!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Emily

The Stamps Of Life New Release

The first of the month means a new club set from The Stamps Of Life!!! Club members get 15% discounts ALWAYS!  You can still purchase any of the stamp sets even if you are not a club member. Another awesome thing about TSOL...all stamp sets ship for $1.00 in the states!!!! You can't beat it.

I love all of the fun candies in this set and how you can change them up.  I paired this sweet sentiment and candy image with some  paper from My Mind's Eye Lime Twist collection.  I added a baker's twine bow with some fab twine from The Twinery, too!  The round candies and the suckers all work perfectly with a 1" circle punch.  It was easy to layer that candy and it looks like it was paper pieced!

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily