Hanukkah begins.
David was the Shabbat helper today at school so we all went to be with him.
Here he is collecting sadakah.
It was lovely watching him and how comfortable he was.
Aurelia woke up at 4am today for his second feeding and I could not fall back asleep so I really need to go off to bed now. Happy weekend.
I forgot to post the weekly layout this week. So here’s one with the December AMM Kit.
David, one of the things I regret a lot is not spending more quality time with you. Especially now that I am working from home and we’re together more often. I worry that maybe I am not teaching you enough. Maybe when you go to school, you’ll be behind all those other kids. I want to make sure that you have all the opportunities you deserve.
A few weeks ago, I decided it would be a good idea for us to start practicing our letters. I knew you could already write your name but I wasn’t sure how many of the other letters you could write. So we started practicing. Every day, we’d pick one letter and write it ten, twenty times. Over and over again until it came easily to you.
About two weeks into it, we did start to slack a bit and I was feeling guilty again, so, one night, you wanted to play with my beads and I made a deal with you, I said you have to sit and write one of each of the letters in the alphabet and you could come play with me. So you did. You sat down. And began to write. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUvWXYZ.
You wrote them all. Perfectly.
I guess maybe I don’t need to worry after all. You’re doing wonderfully all on your own.
This is from the wreath project David and I made yesterday. I found it here and had been saving it for an occasion.
And despite resisting it, David actually enjoyed it.
Today, we had playgroup. This is the third week of Aurelia’s new playgroup and it’s been quite fun. I am really glad we can do this for him.
And one of him eating those puffs he loves so much.
Off from work for the next five days! Excited to rest and relax. And play.
Here are my pages for day nine.
I wanted to honor the baking and avocados so two simple pages today with photos and words.
and the back:
Sad that we’re almost on day ten.
See? I told you he’s standing up! He loves playing with this toy and standing up as he does, even though it’s supposed to be a sit-down toy.
I am normally very anti putting even slightly naked photos of my kids online anywhere. Just a personal peeve. To each his own. But I love this cute little one and it doesn’t show anything so I decided it was ok. This is from last night’s bath. David was in there, too.
And a smile from Aurelia.
Trying to catch up today. Working hard and methodically. This month is going to be topsy turvy. I won’t get to read as many books but I will spend lots of time with my boys. All three of them. Love them.
Today David said that his brain was full and that he had to create more room in it. And then he proceeded to do just that. Love love love this boy.
This week’s question is: “What’s something you do over and over again?”
This was easy for me. Photos. I take photos over and over and over again. I love taking photos. I love capturing my family.
One of the few items on my list that I hadn’t done yet was using rubons on a tag. Just rubons. So I picked this beautiful Jenni Bowlin rubon which was so apt. I rubbed it on and then inked the tag. I love the way the silver makes it look embossed. I then put a tiny camera sticker just for me.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Weekly tags are posted every Thursday, you can see all of them by clicking here.
Here are my pages for day eight.
I changed the cover cause I wanted to journal because the inside page of this is just a photo.
here’s the inside. I love the colors I see on my drive to David’s school and I wanted to capture it so I could remember forever:
On the back, I just put our Christmas tree.
Still keeping it simple.
This week’s download is a set of labels. They are really simple:
They are PDFs so you cannot change the color (apologies) but you can print them on white or craft or red cardstock. The words you get are: joy, love, christmas, blessings, santa, merry, surprise.
You can download it here: holiday labels set download.
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.
This is part of a weekly digital download series. They are posted every Wednesday. You can find all of the ones that were posted here.
We baked more today. Blueberry muffins for David’s class. They turned out pretty yummy. David had a lot of fun mixing the flour and sugar and putting the papers into the trays. Aurelia’s going through this super-clingy phase so he cried every time I left the room even to get the ingredients. But we made it.
And I tried to give Aurelia some avocado and was met with this face.
And a lot of gagging. Let’s just say he didn’t like it.
Here’s our tree. I’ve made my peace with it being slanted.
And the mantle with our stockings and the beautiful mirror.
Aurelia is also in this phase where he gets up every time I put him in bed and cries and cries. Fun fun.
Sorry that the posts have been inconsistent this last week. I am spending more time with my family for December which is giving me less time to do these things. I am prepared for pages 8 and some of 9 for tomorrow and I will post them. I did finish a book last week and I plan to post that, too. And I’ve got an idea for downloads so expect those some time tomorrow. My tag, I haven’t begun yet. But I shall. At some point. Apologies. Family comes first.
Here are my pages for day seven.
Just a few words from Jake’s storytelling.
and the little boy with one of my digital overlays from a while ago.
I’m loving this book. This is definitely my favorite project all year.
David’s the friend of the week at school this week and so he’s allowed to bring toys to share and bring his family etc. So, today Jake and I and Aurelia went in and Jake read a story to the class.
And I snapped photos, of course
We were supposed to go to Six Flags afterwards but it turns out they are closed so we stayed home and relaxed.
Happy Monday.
Catalyst ninety-one is: Create art around someone you wish you got along better with.
I am not always very good to myself. I don’t appreciate all that I have and I might even go as far to say that there are periods where I really dislike myself. I know that if I were someone else, I’d be giving myself the benefit of the doubt. Yet, I cut myself so little slack. I criticize and judge myself so harshly. So I made this art to remind myself that I need to get along better with myself. Love all of me.
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projects for twenty twenty-two
projects for twenty twenty-one
projects for twenty nineteen
projects for twenty eighteen
projects from twenty seventeen
monthly projects from previous years
some of my previous projects
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