Magical Holiday

I just love the magical feeling in the air this time of year. I love the lights, hot chocolate and planning out gifts to give to our friends and family. This year one more things I can add to my list of things I love about this time of year is that we have a fire in a real fireplace.

We've had a gas fireplace before and another house didn't have a fireplace, so we may be a bit overexcited about having a real fireplace. I just love the ambiance and the cracking sounds.

This page is about the first fire we built in our new home. Well, it's not totally new. We move here in April, but it's just now getting cold enough to light a fire for the first time. I hope this is the first of many fires in the fireplace at our home.

All this month we are sharing inspiration using the Glitz Hello December line on their blog. Stop by to see more ideas using this fabulous line!

A Favorite Tradition >>> Christmas Brunch

For the past several years our family has hosted our parents and siblings at our home on Christmas morning for brunch. Pajamas are encouraged along with an amazing spread of food. Everyone brings something to eat, so it makes putting the meal together pretty easy. I had a couple of favorite photos from last year's brunch and decided to use them on a page.

This layout was a lot of fun to put together. I looked at it as if I was building 4 mini pages and then pieces them altogether to form one big page.

One of my favorite things about using new Christmas paper lines is that I go through the previous year's photos and get to remember all of the good time's we've had while I use my new Christmas goods.

Our family recipe that we make for sure each Christmas brunch is Creme Brulee French Toast. Then we add in egg dishes, some veggies, sausage, fruit and a few other things too. I'm feeling hungry!

Hello, Christmas

All this month the Glitz design team is sharing ideas using their fabulous Hello December line. I'm loving the classic Christmas colors mixed with the golden yellow in the line.

This week I decided to create a layout with a lot of triangles. I'm sure I will tire of triangles sometime soon, but for now, I'm loving them!

I didn't have a specific plan for the page, but I did cut out a bunch of triangles from the 6 X 6 paper pad and started playing around with arranging them on the page.

After the triangle pattern was figured out, I added some stitching with my sewing machine to finish it off.

I love this photo I snapped of my kids last year sitting at the top of the stairs before coming down to the tree and presents on Christmas morning. I think I should try to take a similar picture each year and document how much they are growing each year.

Be sure to stop by the Glitz blog all month long for daily inspiration!

Project Life: December 2012

I'm very excited to share my final 2012 Project Life pages with you today. Finishing out the album for the year was quite a process and I'm proud that it is finished.  Here's a look at the December pages.

December 2 - 8

We really packed in fun and events this week. We decorated gingerbread houses at my parents' house, took Max to a doctor to have him examined for really bad heel pain, baked lots of goodies for a boutique and made Christmas wish lists.

December 9 - 15

This week was full of Chandler Children's Choir rehearsals and performances  The concert was amazing and we were happy to wrap up the season and take a break over the holidays.

December 16 - 22

We sent out our family Christmas cards, had class parties and school plus my husband and I celebrated our 16th anniversary. It was a great week!

December 23 - 30

Lots of Christmas celebrations went on this week. We loved getting to spend so much time with family and friends. All of the food was really good too!

2012 Closing Page

Success!  A spread was completed for every week of the year! This one focuses on our New Years Eve celebrations.

Thanks for indulging me and letting me share all of these pages with you!