Holiday Projects | Pad Patter 12.1

Well, Elf arrived today - the rest of the day was singularly un-Christmassy so I don't have anything planned for a daily December, but December highlights remains a possibility.

 

I really want to try a true December Daily this year, but we'll see how it goes. Nothing much productive has been getting done since the puppy entered the mix this weekend lol!

I'm just struggling with format this year, I really want to try to blurb 5x8 trade book to mix things up, but I'm not sure if having a 5x8 in a stack with my 8x8 books is going to bug me or not.

Once both kids are home for Christmas, I have a few countdown gifts for them to open together on the days leading up to Christmas. It was fun to buy "toys" for my college kids!

 

I will be working on my DYD album. I can't plan ahead on it because the happenings/photos for the month dictate the layout.

 

My schedule is never as busy as most people and I'm sure with still not feeling up to par from this sinus infection, I won't be doing a whole lot even for another week. Today's photos are documenting the work the landscapers did yesterday. I went out in between rain showers and snapped a few photos. Since it is raining I didn't make the trip to the cemetery I usually do on the 1st (today is my dad's birthday). Temps should be much better tomorrow so I'll do it then.

 

I wasn't going to do the December Daily this year. However, my hubby asked what it was and I showed him my last 3 years. He spent a long time looking at all of the years' December Dailies and said he loved it and he definitely thought I should do it again this year. So, yes, I'll be doing 2021 DYD.

 

Scrappy wise- I will do a DYD project.

At home- we got the kids the Lego Advent calendars & then I also have a little crafty advent calendar that I put in a bunch of their leftover Halloween candy!

 

I desperately want to do my DYD as 6x8, but I had zero luck finding that size as a photo book. Persnickety has one, but it's soft cover and I would prefer hard cover.

I think I may go for the 5x8 and if the book size really bothers me after it's printed... I'll just plop my pages onto 8x8 canvases and reprint as an 8x8

 

I've never done a DYD or DD album and won't this year either my life is boring, lol!

I may or may not pull down the counted cross-stitch advent wall hanging I made years and years ago. My pain-in-the-rear grandson usually enjoys taking a mini candy cane off of it every day. But it's in the attic in one of the Christmas bins and I'm feeling lazy.

 

This will be year 10 for DYD for me! 5:25 and I haven't taken a photo yet, but I will haha. I have a couple of foundation pages done, but I need to work on some more. That's what keeps me on track!!

 

I'm counting down to my two week winter break! Sixteen more days to go. Only 11.5 work days. (The last day before break is a half day at my school. I'm a teacher assistant.)

And Cheryl reminded me we have MOC coming up soon! I'm Very Much looking forward to that!!!

 

I am doing two Advent devotionals, one of which has art journaling aspects. I got Advent calendars from Trader Joe's for us - a salmon & seafood for the cat, a salmon and sweet potato for the dog, and milk chocolate for hubby and I. The cat is not impressed so looks like the dog it getting double the treats.

p.s. I finally started a separate Instagram account for scrapping, planner pages, and art (Bible) journaling I do. It is Bev_scraps_n_plans if you want to see what I have been up to recently.