Today is all about Breakfast with Santa. I added a 4-3×4 page to add some extra photos. It’s the ornaments the kids made:
and here the back:
and then the photo with Santa:
and here it is with before and after:
that’s it. more tomorrow.
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And here’s the last spread in my book:
here’s a closer up of the left side:
this page is about david presenting at school, nathaniel playing with daddy at school, and then election night and voting. And here’s the right side:
Here it’s eating cupcakes, my science of mindfulness class and david’s puppets. By then I was done with November and December will be savored through December Daily, so I closed my book with this page:
Thanksgiving photos and the boys decorating the tree. Art along the bottom as usual. Another great week. And there we are. Still savoring. The Savor Project was supposed to be a weekly project for 2012. You can read about my setup here.
Probably the number one book on my list of “what I am looking forward to reading” was Insurgent this year. I really really loved Veronica Roth’s Divergent and wanted to immediately be able to start her next book. I waited patiently for a long long time before it finally came out. And then I saved it for my long flight to Turkey so I had to wait even longer. And then the kids wouldn’t let me read it on the plane, so I had to wait even longer. Oh, but it was so worth it. I loved this book almost as much. (I still love the first more.) And this one ended with an even bigger cliffhanger so now I have to wait patiently for number three. Ugh. On December third I got to volunteer at Nathaniel’s class and Jake went to David’s class because David had a presentation about a holiday tradition. He chose to talk about the Train of Lights. So the front page talks about David’s presentation:
and here it is with before and after:
and then the back is my day with Nathaniel:
and here it is with before and after:
that’s it. more tomorrow. Here are the sketches from last week.
that’s it for this week. Daily Sketching is a weekly project for 2012. You can see a detailed post on my sketching journey here. For day two, I wanted to share how we went to the movies. We saw The Rise of the Guardians. I journaled a bit and stuck it in the pocket I made out of the movie poster. I also stuck our tickets in there.
and here it is with the pocket in:
and here’s a look at pre vs post:
that’s it. more tomorrow. I have this tradition of starting my album with “and so it begins” so I didn’t want to break tradition this year. Here’s the simple day one page:
and here’s a look at pre vs post:
that’s all. trying to keep it simple this year. more tomorrow. Here is the next spread from our book:
this is the paper bag that held David’s valentines’ together. He colored it.
David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here. This year I didn’t get to post my before pages ahead of time so I figured I’ll share them with you right now. I was lucky enough to use a Gossamer Blue kit which came with the divided pages which I love. I am excited to try this new way of doing the December Daily. The album is an 8×8 American Crafts one. Here’s the cover:
and here’s the side and a little detail:
and then the inside. I put the first and last pages together since they are both singles as opposed to spreads:
and then start the normal spreads. I put very few (I think only two) numbers in the whole album. As always my goal is to have it be a collection of stories. I don’t worry too much about every single day’s specific story/event.
and then there’s the back:
that’s the whole album. Tomorrow I’ll share Day one. Happy December!
I must have just not felt like taking photos this week. There are almost none. Maybe it’s to prepare for December or too much work this week. Either way, here are some snapshots from our week: i love watching the kids play with the Christmas tree in the background.
Nathaniel watching Mickey Mouse while I scrapped for CHA.
david looking up lego ornament ideas online. He made a whole bunch. I will make sure to share them.
I wanted to take our photo in front of the tree this week but the light was so low and so I had to turn other lights on and got bad lighting and color overall. Oh well. Still prefer to have these than not to have them.
i try to close the aperture as much as i can despite the low light since Nathaniel always does this:
and blurs out the whole shot. So we always have to pull him back.
there was some tickle time.
which they loved.
and then some hugging that Nathaniel just didn’t want to be a part of this time. See those tears? Sweet boy of mine.
and here we go. i hope your week was lovely, too. hello, December. Weekly Diary is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.
text reads: paint your life any color you want. it’s your life. Journey into Collage is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.
December starts this weekend. For me, December is a very special time of the year. I like to take a lot of time off work. Spending quality time with my family and reflecting and planning and thinking and savoring. There is a typical list of things I do each year. Places we visit, books that I finally get to, movies we watch, stuff we cook, etc. I also work on my December Daily album every day. But this year, I want to be even more conscious of the way I spend my magical month (as I like to call it.) I want to really savor the moments and make conscious choices about how to use my time. I want to make sure to spend all of it guilt-free. I want to have no expectations of getting anything “done.” I want to really be present with my family. Be mindful of my attitude, my words, my mood in general. I may or may not be able to have the luxury of taking a lot of December off next year (or any other time in the future.) But I do have it now and I want to savor all that comes with. I have two kids who are still young enough to love the magic of the holidays. I have a husband whose work setup allows him to take time off and be flexible as well. These are not things I want to take for granted. I want to greet each day with joy and gratitude. And end each day feeling full and content. I want to live every single day. This doesn’t mean I fill them with things to do. It just means I am right here, right now in this moment, all day, every day. This is something I am going to focus on for all of 2013 and it’s related to my word for next year, but I want to adopt it even before we begin the new year. I want to focus on not splitting my attention. Not thinking about other stuff while I am doing something. Not stressing over the urgent and neglecting the important. Not worrying about what might happen and missing the magic of what is, in the process. Savoring is all about that. To truly make the most of this moment, I have to be present in it. I have to pay attention to it and really live it. That’s one of the reasons I do December Daily. Knowing that I will create a page about this day makes me pay better attention to it. Makes me not “waste” it. Helps me notice the small things alongside the big ones. Life changes so often and so quickly. Sometimes in small ways, other times in much bigger ways. Many of these changes are not even in our control. So instead of trying to worry over or control the future, I want to make sure December is all about savoring this magical time and our luck of being able to spend it together and being healthy and safe. These little memories and moments are the bread and butter of life, if you ask me. And they are not to be glossed over. They are not to be wasted. They are to be cherished. Savored. |
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