december daily | Scrapping Wonders

December 26, 2012 By Beth 7 Comments

I can’t believe that Christmas is Over!! I was non stop until today and even today my little monster has had me building things for her. She is currently in her castle that I just built and is taking a nap which means that I have a few minutes to share with you all about my December Daily that did not go as I had hoped it would.

This was my first year at attempting a December Daily and now that I have made an attempt I know what to do next year so that I am successful at completing it in a timely manner.

Taking the pictures for the December Daily was easy and as I said I would be dedicated to using my iPhone to create a December Daily Album. I took pictures and I uploaded them to Shutterfly through my phone and I had them printed at my local Walgreens on a weekly basis. This part of the project worked great for me.

The part of the project that did not work out for me was the album that I choose to use for my December Daily. I have to admit that picfolio albums are not for me. This was new for me as well as I had never used a picfolio album before. A picfolio album is from Creative Memories and it has pockets on each page. Two vertical 4×6 pockets and 3 horizontal 4½x6½ pockets. This was the downfall to me completing my project. I never realized that the majority of my photos are vertical photos and not horizontal photos. My photos were not ready for this pic folio album and I had to figure out different ways to make my photos fit.

I also felt very limited in my ability to be creative with this type of page protector or photo sleeve or whatever you want to call it! I prefer a nice piece of cardstock and the ability to place my photos on my cardstock as I wish.

My plan of action next year is to prep an 8×8 regular album and then I won’t be stuck with fitting my photos into a picfolio album. I am going to share with you my half completed December Daily. I have a little bit more free time and I am hoping to finish up this December Daily before the end of the year.

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Christmas is in the Air!!!

December 13, 2012 By Beth 2 Comments

Ahhhhh Christmas my favorite time of year! Although this year in Sunny Florida I could use some cooler weather. It’s still in the 80′s in South Florida which makes me a little sad . I prefer to be in at least 60 degree weather around this time. At least it’s not snowing though!!! Wouldn’t that be interesting if it was snowing in South Florida. I think it did one time in 1977. I thought there was another time that it snowed in Miami sometime in the 80′s but I can’t find that information so I am just going to go with a yes because I think I remember it happening one time in 80′s but I was young so I could be wrong!!!

I am totally off subject with this whole post though. The reason for this post is to share how utterly talented my mom is. I can paper craft and scrapbook with the best of them but when it comes to floral arrangements or Christmas decorations that don’t require paper you might as well not even look at me. I am horrible at floral arrangements!

I have proof of how horrible I really am and I wanted to share with you how wonderful my mother is at making Christmas decorations with you. I am lucky that I have a mother that will come over and make Christmas decorations for me so that I have some Christmas decorations up in my home!

I did help a tiny bit with making this happen as I was the one that picked out the materials and purchased them because I thought for some reason that I would be able to put them together myself! Obviously that did not happen!

I have photos so that I can put all this in my December daily at the end of the week of course!