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And we are at the end of one more December Daily. Here are the final pages: Day 23 is about our family photos:
Day 24 is about Christmas Eve presents and then I added a 4×4 to be able to put a few more photos.
Hanukkah candles, setting the table, the kids opening their presents.
And then Christmas morning photos:
And the last page is my traditional tulips with my OLW for the following year. Here’s to a happy, merry 2017!
One of my goals for 2016 was to make 20 pieces of art each month. I had some ideas of what I wanted to do but I also knew that they would likely change as the year progressed. I wasn’t sure I would be able to pull off making 20 pieces of art each month. But I did! This post will be image heavy as it will show all of them. (Almost all.) For January I made Fashion Girls:
For February, I made Choice Cards
For March, I drew ladies from the back:
For April, I made some Lettering Wisdom:
For May, I wrote all about what choosing means to me:
For June, I drew some Evening Looks
For July, I drew some watercolor food:
For August, I wrote some Daily Mantras:
For September, I made Index Card Photos:
For October, I made Truth Cards:
For November, I did some Today Journaling:
And December, of course, was December Daily. The best part is: I enjoyed every one of these projects a lot! Not too shabby for a super-busy year. Here’s to hoping for more art in 2017!  In 2016, I read 138 books. As it turned out, I haven’t written about any of these because I read more than 52 books a year and a book a week posts fall behind. So I am still posting 2015 reads even though 2016 is over. I find this annoying. I also have a hard time remembering all the details of the book this long after I’ve read it. So for 2017, I’ve decided to change things up. I will be posting the books as I read them. That might mean that one week I have 3 books to post about and the next week, I have none. It shall be so.
Here’s the list of books I’ve read in 2016 so far. (A few more days left and I am sure I’ll read a few more, I’ll come and update the list.) These will not appear on the blog on their own. If you have questions about them, ask in the comments and I will reply! 🙂
In the year 2016, I became a huge proponent of audio books. I listen while I drive, while I do art, while I play candy crush. I listen all the time now and I listen at 2x speed, which is a bit slower than the speed at which I read.
My favorite read of the year was: The Nix.
My favorite YA read of the year was: The Sun is Also a Star
My favorite non-fiction read of the year was: Truth and Beauty
Here’s to another year of reading!
And here we are. I know I didn’t post last week, I was in Edmonton, Canada, and I didn’t take my computer with me so I didn’t get to post. And next week I will be posting all about my plans for 2017, so there will be enough reflection posts to last a lifetime. All of this is to say that this will be the final Weekly Reflection for 2017. I will be continuing these next year since they were so helpful in making sure I am intentional with my time and reflective about life week to week. This helps me see all I do, it helps me see who I am and the choices I make day in and day out. It also allows me to pause and enjoy my life while I live it. Gratitude in real-time.
Happy 2016 everyone. Here’s to an amazing 2017 for all of us! Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016Â here. Today is honoring one of those really ordinary days where we do nothing super significant. David is on his computer, working away. Nathaniel is watching Pokemon and I am working on my year-end blog posts. Love days like this.
I always like to have a page that honors my word of the year. This is that page.
There’s a little flap.
under which I wrote the journaling.
I love having my word in there. I really liked my pages for 19 and 20 and I knew I wanted to print lots of photos from our trip to Edmonton. So for the 19th, I put some of our boarding passes. and journaled a tiny bit about the flights we took there and back.
On the back, I journaled all about our trip and then added a photo I love.
And then I just printed photos from the trip and added them as 6by8 photos for the next few pages.
No one photo is amazing but together they tell the stories from our three days and I love that.
And it love that i will back on this and remember how wonderful this little getaway was even though we didn’t get to see the aurora.
So here we go. Onward to day 21. And it’s pointless to record media if I will not also record some of my favorite reads from 2016.
I’ve read 119 books so far this year. I am so grateful for books. This year, I wanted to make a point to record some of the TV and movies we watched and loved. I like looking back on these over the years.
a few of our favorites. Today we leave for a quick adventure to Canada. We bought lots and lots of warm clothes and packed it all up.
Here’s to more adventures! I have finally put together day fifteen now that my ink is here. Â Today started with a trip to Nathaniel’s class, back home for meetings, and then back to Nathaniel’s class for a craft party so I took a bunch of shots all day long and added them here. I also wanted to make sure to have photos from my day at work and then a goodbye party for my previous manager.
This is my manager’s goodbye cake. Love it 🙂
a little closeup. On the right side, I have a short cardboard, I covered it and journaled on it.
I like having some tall, some short, some narrow things. I also added a tab to this page for fun.
The back has shots from Nathaniel’s classroom.
The tag we did for craft fun.
A photo with his teachers and some journaling.
And there’s day fifteen. Today’s about how I finally wrapped the presents. This is a milestone for me. It’s when it feels even more like Christmas. Seeing the presents under the tree like that. I love it.
More than halfway to Christmas now! |
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