Hi again - everyone still recovering from this week's holiday festivities? I for one need to lay off the cookies! If you were celebrating the Christmas holiday, I hope you had a great one. We have a big gathering on the night before but on Christmas day we keep it very low key.(Like 'pajamas all day; low key.) I even got to work on my December Story book; one of the first days in this hectic month where I could sit and dive in.
Here's what I've got so far (I plan to spend a lot of time over the break working on this project). I tweaked my cover a little bit by adding one of the doilies from the kit (I trimmed off a slice to make it easier to tuck under the green paper):
Here is my intro page. I absolutely love those 2" square sectioned page protectors - they remind me of mosaic tile. I like to layer so I worked within and on top of the page protectors - still keeping it relatively flat:
Here are the first few pages - since I've fallen a little behind I'm keeping it simple. Again I worked on top of the page protectors as well as within. I like the dimension that this adds. I also like to mix style from page to page. While the Type A in me loves the idea of a formula to streamline the process, the other part of me loves the mix of materials and style and the unpredictablity. This comes in particluarly handy when I start mixing in collected items, like receipts, tickets, lists, etc., which always throw off any formula I try to employ.
I also worked on a layout yesterday. I haven't done a traditional layout in ages but the Eggnog line was so perfect for my cookie pictures I couldn't resist. Again, my word for December is simple....
I like to use simple 8 1/2 x 11 layouts in my Project Life books - interspersed with the divided page protector pages. Sometimes they serve as a divider of sorts. This page will function as the lead in to the December section of my book - and for me, December is a month where I bake a lot of cookies...
I will be back next week more pages form my December Story book - if things go my way, a lot more pages! Enjoy the weekend and all those post-holiday sales!