Whew! Catching Up Is Hard To Do!

Man, I was 3 days behind on my Shimelle journal and rapidly falling farther behind. Good thing there was a good episode of "House" on last night I hadn't seen plus a strong latte I had earlier in the afternoon. Managed to get all the entries done up through yesterday. Not really a chore though because I'm so enjoying this project. Now if I could just figure out what I want to do for the cover!

So first up is Saturday's entry which was all about the sights in our house. I'm not all that pleased with this entry mostly because I got the title for it confused with Sunday's entry so I have the word "traditions" in both titles. This one is really all about what's out in our home that's different from the rest of the year. The little index prints are a bit hard to see but I wanted to include as many sights as I could.

Products Used: Scenic Route paper; Maya Road Alphas; Bazille cardstock & MM tag.

Some of the sights at our house include:

• “Fragile” Leg bobblehead from Christmas Story



• Wooden Santa collection on top of Entertainment Center
  Elf Family that lives in our Family Room for the Holidays



• Christmas Village, especially all the figures we’ve given names to like Jamie and Mr. Jope that reminds us of trips in the past to collect mistletoe



• Bedford Falls – how much it makes me love “It’s A Wonderful Life”!



• Peppermint Candy Canes



• The Santa Countdown calendar



• All of the Norwegian Christmas plates up on the wall not just 1978



• Christmas cups out and ready for hot chocolate

The entry for Sunday is all about one of my most favorite traditions at our house

Christmas Movie Night

Right now we have this scheduled for this coming Sunday night. All four of us look forward to this every year. I'd like to think it's because it's our own family tradition that just the four of us share together. The page construction was simple - just Bazille card stock; a small bit of Figgy Pudding paper; an MM tag and a title printed on a transparency. The journaling reads:

One of the most time honored and favorite Larsen family traditions is our Christmas Family Movie Night. Over the years we have watched “It’s A Wonderful Life”, “Miracle on 34th St.”. “White Christmas”, “A Christmas Story”, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, “Elf”, “Scrooged”, “Mixed Nuts”, “Home for the Holidays”, “All I Want for Christmas” and others. We love them all but our absolute favorites are “A Christmas Story” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”. We have our own copies of these and we faithfully every year are home by a roaring fire with popcorn, peppermint candy and hot chocolate just us four Larsens and our favorite Christmas movies. Such fun!

And, finally yesterday's entry was all about our gift wrapping plans for 2007. I just chuckled that Shimelle would have thought I was this far ahead to be thinking of gift wrap. Fortunately I hit the Target sale after Christmas last year so the supply is definitely here. All I need to do now is just get the darn shopping done so I have gifts to wrap! Other than wrapping paper and ribbon from my gift wrap stash the only other products I used were some American Crafts jumbo letter stickers and some small random letter stickers left from an old CK card kit.

Would love to put my feet up and relax but today is another day which means another entry. Off to check what's in store for today and hopefully I can post the results before the end of today!