OLW 2011

This year I decided to follow Ali Edward's lead and choose One Little Word as a theme for 2011.

We went out of town for the weekend and I had some time to think about what I wanted my word to be this year. Our family was with one other family for the weekend and the adults enjoyed sharing ideas and thoughts about things we want to improve on this year.

The word GROW kept coming back to me, so I decided that it must be the right word for me this year.


I have chosen a few areas in my life where I want to continue to grow.

• Grow family relationships
• Grow creatively
• Grow health
• Grow friendships
• Grow spiritually
  

Each week I plan on writing down (and completing!) one thing I want to do for each area that will help me GROW and become a better person.

A lot of these are areas where I actually feel pretty good about how things are going, but I know they can be even better with additional focus.

I've decided to sign up for Ali's class at Big Picture Classes so that I will receive monthly reminders about focusing on my word. I know from past experience that it is very easy to loose energy with a project like this, so I figure a little extra motivation will be just what I need.

Did you choose one little word for 2011?

December Daily - Day 1

Yesterday was day one of taking photos for my December Daily album. I am really excited about this project because it will motivate me to take more pictures plus it will help me focus on all of the memorable things we are doing each day this month.

I must say that I love the flocked transparency from Fancy Pants on the cover. It gives a nice texture to the project.


Now for page one. Here's a look at the foundation pages before I added photos and a few embellishments.


Thanks to the Ali Edwards Templates, the photo page came together really quickly. I added some transparent Fancy Pants ornaments plus a Crate Paper chipboard embellishment to the page.


Originally I had planned on the journaling on the page where I ended up putting the ornaments. Once the ornaments were added, I decided to make the photos a flap page and put the journaling behind the photos. I added a tab sticker so the photo page could easily be lifted.


I journaled on strips of paper and placed them behind the photos.


Are you doing a Devember Daily album? I'd love to see it. Leave a link to your album in my comments, so I can see it.

Thanks for stoping by!

December Daily - I'm Doing It

I wasn't planning on joining Ali Edwards with her December Daily project because it's such a busy month, but Monday night I had a few free hours and decided to put together a December Daily album and join in the fun.

On Monday night, I was able to put together the framework for the first half of the book and then I finished it up yesterday afternoon.

Here's a look at the front cover, back cover and first nine days of the album.

(You can click on the image to enlarge it.)

Each page is made from patterned paper that I trimmed to 8 x 8. I've decided to use Ali's 6 x 8 Layered Templates for the photos. The reason the pages are 8 x 6 is so that I will have a 2" border on each photo page.

I'm excited to put my first photo page together tonight.