Journal Your Christmas - the end!

And so here we are with the final pages of my journal and the finished book.

Boxing Day - playing with my Cricut Gypsy

Inside the envelope is a letter I have written, with my thoughts and thanks for the season

Penny made us a lovely turkey soup with the carcass and the leftover meat

The story about our angel

A lazy day at home, relaxing, doing jobs and chilling out

New Year's Eve and a Mario Kart competition

My favourite memories of 2012

My completed journal

Inside back cover - a pocket to hold special Christmas cards and letters I received

 Thank you so much for sharing this journey with me! January is such a bleugh month with nothing going on and not a lot to blog about, so I am pleased that I didn't post these as I went along! Penny and I have a fun weekend coming up soon - more about that another day!

Journal Your Christmas - yet again!

Well, we are on well on the way with this now! Today I would like to share the pages I made for Christmas Day. I did three 'full' pages for the 25th and then I had a pocket where I put several tags with more photos and also a journalling tag with more journalling on.

Mine and Hugh's stockings, with our letter from Santa!

Penny, me and Ben after the present opening

Some of the tags (my Mum and Ben)

The additional journalling

Christmas Dinner

Next week I will share the last pages and my finished journal. Thanks for looking!

Journal Your Christmas, almost finished!

Well, I have finished the journal, just need to finish sharing my pages! Today I will share from the 18th to Christmas Eve.

A trip to see 'The Hobbit' with Hugh and Penny

So lovely to see Penny getting out and seeing her friends

A lovely night out with the ladies I work with and opening our Secret Santa pressies!

A little catchup with what is going on in my life 'right now'

An evening at the pantomime with Hugh, Ben, Penny and Rachel

A fun afternoon playing our new board game - all the family together

Our traditional Christmas Eve walk

Thank you for being so patient with me taking so long to post these! Soon be finished lol!

A happy new year and some more pages

A happy new year to you all! I hope that you had a great celebration. We were fairly quiet - just the four of us at home. We did have fun though, playing Mario Party and Mario Kart on the Wii before watching the countdown on television. We have never been ones for partying on New Year's Eve and so didn't change the habits of a life time! However, we enjoyed ourselves and we were all together, which is the important thing.

With having to work between Christmas and New Year I haven't had much time to scrap, apart from doing my December journal. I have now finished it, but here are days 11 to 17 for the time being as I still have to photograph the remainder!.

A lovely poinsettia bought by Penny and her friends as a thank you to me and Hugh

Me with Brenda and Yvonne at the work's Christmas party

Penny's Christmas decorations in her flat

Penny returned from uni for the holidays and tried on her new top!

A family Christmas meal after a visit to the family in Cornwall - there is hidden journalling on a tag  behind the photo

Breakfast together in the hotel and Penny making a happy face with her food!

Hugh after his minor operation

So, only another 14 pages to photograph and post! I am taking a long hard look this year at how long I am spending on my computer - too much time I think. I am thinking of posting only once a week on my blog and limiting myself to one day a week of catching up on blog posts too. I really want to devote myself to creating more pages and cooking and spending more time with Hugh (and Penny when she is home) and giving myself time to go out and 'do' things. So, although I have really enjoyed posting so frequently please only look out for about one post a week from now on! I hope you will continue to read and if there is something special to post about I will always find the time for an extra post!

JYC Catch up!

A bit photo heavy, but here are days 4 through to 10! More to follow soon!

Slowly putting up the decorations - today it was the lights

Inside this envelope is the 'round robbin' letter I sent this year and I have also been putting into it the letters I have been receiving.

Peace or panic? Peace! I am a list maker and so don't panic over Christmas, as long as I have a list!

Wendy came to scrap for the afternoon - by candlelight as we had a power cut! Also put up our new outdoor tree

Penny made the mincemeat today

Mince pies were made and presents were wrapped

I would like a co-ordinated tree, but then again I love my 'mish mash' tree as each ornament holds a memory

 Thanks for looking and I will be back soon with some more pages!

Journal Your Christmas 2012 - 1st to 3rd

I am going to try to keep up with posting my pages as I go along - hoping to upload them here in batches of 3 or 4!

My Manifesto/Introduction Page

I am not going to go along with all the prompts as I have done that a couple of times before. I will do the prompts if they are appropriate to my day, otherwise I will be journalling about what I am up to in December. I love doing that, it is so nice to look back on.

My page for 2nd December

My page for 3rd December

Looking forward to Friday when I finish work early as my friend Wendy is coming round to have some lunch and then we are going to spend the afternoon scrapbooking. Can't wait!

Journal Your Christmas 12

So tomorrow starts one of my favourite times of the year. Journal Your Christmas with Shimelle. This is my fifth year of doing this and although I don't stick to Shimelle's prompts all the time now, just having the prompts delivered to my inbox every day reminds me to complete my journal!

This year I have repurposed a hardbacked book which Hugh was going to through out.

I am doing it landscape and the pages are about 6 x 9 inches, which will allow me to use full size photos this year which I wasn't able to do with the smaller journal I used last year. I have prepared all the pages and they are ready to have Christmas paper stuck upon them!

I have also got ready all the date labels.

And here is a closer look.

So, I am all set to go and really looking forward to it! We have a few things coming up over the Christmas period, so I will have a lot to journal about!