December Daily 2014

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty Five

Day Twenty-five is Christmas Day. I just took some photos of our breakfast, opening presents and the two boys hugging each other. The boys got presents for each other for the first time this year. it was really sweet.

(photos are a bit blurry and blue as the light wasn’t accommodating.)

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

And then as is my tradition, I wanted to add my tulip page with my word. So I made one more layout:

left:

right:

and here it is closed (camera doesn’t do justice to the glimmer here):

and finally a top view to see thickness:

and all done.

i love love loved this project this year. It was lovely, simple, and personal.

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty Four

Day Twenty-four was a busy one. We made some french toast for breakfast, got some lovely flowers and then spent the afternoon in the city. I put the food and flowers on the cover and tucked some photos from the city and the opening of the Christmas eve present under the flap on the left.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

here’s the left side:

here is the front of the photos under:

and the back:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

birds have shimmer too but it’s hard to capture that one on film.

almost there.

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty Three

Day Twenty-three is all about cookie decorating. We made sugar cookies from scratch and then had a ton of fun decorating them all. I loved the layout of this page so much that it pained me to add photos and ruin the balanced look. So I decided to do the best of both worlds. I created two flaps with photos but you can raise them both and still see the original layout.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

here’s the full layout with the flaps open:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. merry christmas eve.

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty Two

Day Twenty-two is about this wonderful street in San Carlos where the whole street is crazy lit up with holiday lights. I also spent a few hours helping my friend’s son with his math homework so I tucked his sheet into the book.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty One

Day Twenty-one is about going to the movies to see The Imitation Game, probably my favorite movie of 2014. The right side tells the story of our weekend and has a little photo of Nathaniel looking in the car where we seem to have plants growing.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Twenty

Day Twenty is all about the Niles train. We’ve taken this ride every year since before Nathaniel was born. We love it.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side (sorry for the blur 🙁 ):

and the ticket is in the pocket:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Nineteen

Day Nineteen is about the last two days of school. Two holiday parties, two holiday concerts. One very tired mommy.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

there’s a bookmark Nathaniel’s teachers gave us on the left pocket (and the musical program is on the top pocket):

and the back:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Eighteen

Day Eighteen has two stories. The one on the left is about seeing Mockingjay PartI and then on the right is about a poem David wrote for me.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Seventeen

Day seventeen is all about Hannukah lights.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Sixteen

Day Sixteen is about the day we spent at the zoo on Sunday. Even though we did it on Sunday, I wanted to make sure to tell the story. I look at this as the story of our December so I am not super-particular about what’s preserved on what day.

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

David lost his tooth right when we were at the park, so I decided to save that, too!

and a tilted look to see all the shimmer:

yey. onward.

December Daily 2014 – Day Fifteen

Today’s page had a drawing of Santa’s present bag so I decided to write about our presents. I had just spent a bunch of time wrapping them all so I thought it was a good fit. It’s one of those story-heavy entries. A reminder of what I like to shop for, how this year’s holiday shopping went, etc. I also attached a snippet of the wrapping paper I used for each of us for this year.:

and here’s the page after all the photos and words:

this is the left side:

and the right side:

and a tilted look to see the shimmer:

it’s getting awfully close to Christmas.

December Daily 2014 – Day Fourteen

Day fourteen was all about the Google Geo Christmas Party. This year’s party was at the Computer History Museum and they had some cartoonists, some fun graffiti photo thingie, ice skating and a photobooth so I wanted to capture all of that. They also had a robot on the dance floor that both Jake and I posed with.
the before shot: