December 10, 12 and 13

I took some liberties with my pages this weekend and moved a few things around, to try to work with the pictures I had for each day. I've also skipped over day 11 for now, and will add that in later (I simply don't know what to put in here for that day yet, as we didn't do a whole lot. I may just add in a picture from around the house or something).

This is December 10th. I started the 10th on the back of day 9. The bottom of the picture reads "2009 Christmas Card Outtakes." Avery and I had spent a little bit of time that day in a photo shoot for our Christmas Card. We took LOTS of not-so-great photos, and these were some of the ones that were rejected from our card. That is basically what the journaling says that I wrote in white gel pen around the picture.

I added in our finalized Christmas card after this page. It's not laying flat because it is not attached to anything, so it's sort of popping up. I'll eventually attach day 11 stuff to the back of this card.

This is the original page for December 10. I ended up removing this from the book.

This file folder that I used for day 12 was actually originally intended for day 11 (but I'll be putting 11 on the backside of the Christmas card). I decided to keep it in the album. I printed a 4x6 photo of our visit with Santa. As you can see, Avery was not at all happy that we tried to get her to sit on Santa's lap (or even that we got her anywhere near him). To the bottom of the file folder I adhered some PP (can't remember the name of it right now, but will add it in later), and then cut out some strips of paper to write the journaling on. I drew a white line around the edge of the whole sheet, with a white gel pen, and added in a strip of paper that I printed "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town" on, between the photo and the PP. The number 12 is a cardstock sticker from Little Yellow Bicycle.

I covered the back of the file folder page with a photo from Saturday night, when we went to Abe's company Christmas party (Avery wanted to jump in the photo). I just added a little bit of text in Photoshop, and then trimmed the photo around the file folder.

This was the original page.

For December 13 I combined 4 photos in Photoshop (I cropped each to 3.25" x 2"), and cut them out as one strip and just adhered them to the page. Then I printed "december 13" over and over in one long strip, and added that to the edge of the photo, and called it done (trying to keep things simple here, so I can stay on top of this album!). The photos are of Avery, my mother-in-law and I making Coquito, which is a traditional Puerto Rican drink that is similar to spiked egg-nog.

On the back I included the recipe for Coquito. I used one of Ali Edwards' title overlays. I deleted the original title and replaced it with "Coquito, the recipe," and then typed in the recipe below. I added a piece of Christmas Flair from American Crafts, and was done.

This was the original page. TFL!