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Scrappy Page – Christmas Eve Traditions

January 10, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: holidays, scrappy | Leave a Comment

Since today is such a snowy day, I decided it would be a great time to sit and make a scrappy page.

This is a page using picture of our traditional Christmas Eve hors’devours dinner. We’ve been doing this as long as I can remember. We used to go to the children’s mass at church, come home, eat dinner, and then open gifts…the gifts were always from my immediate family…so from each of my sisters and one from my parents. Then we’d watch Holiday Inn and head to bed waiting for Santa’s arrival.

Now that we’re grown up and mostly all married we don’t always start out at church, but the dinner menu remains the same. We had to sit around the table this year, which was kind of strange, but there wasn’t enough room in the living room for all of us.

After dinner, we opened gifts and then my sister and her husband and son left because she has to play Santa. My husband left to feed the zoo and I stayed with my little sister and her, my mom and I watched White Christmas.

It’s fun to keep these holiday traditions. We always look forward to them!

Credits:
Template by Andrea Gold
Papers and Elements from “Very Merry” kit by Britt-ish Designs & DeCrow Designs
Photo Actions by CoffeeShop Free PS/PSE Actions

I love the vintage colors in this kit, and along with the action I used on the photos, I thought they went together PERFECTLY!!

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Project 365 – Week One Scrapped

January 7, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: scrappy | Leave a Comment

I am so proud of myself for keeping up with this project. I know it’s only week one, but it’s an acomplishment!

Here’s week one:

Week 1

I had some time waiting for laundry to finish…

Credits: Papers and Swirly Element – Freebie kit, “Chilly Willy” by Bren Boone Designs

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Project 365 & 2009 Randomness

January 4, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: photos, scrappy | Leave a Comment

Happy New Year everyone!!! I have been meaning to sit and write for a few days now, but every time I tried I got distracted.

My husband and I spent New Year’s Eve alone at home this year. We ordered pizza and watched a movie and played a little Wii and then watched the ball drop. At midnight we kissed and then remembered some hardships from the past year. We’ve been through a lot and we really hope that 2009 is better! We’ll work hard to make it that way!

I decided with this new year that I wanted to take part in the 365 photo project that so many people online are doing right now. It will definitely be a challenge and may actually encourage me to learn to use my new camera!

I made a new blog for my photos: http://365fotoheidi.blogspot.com/ It’s really boring right now, but will be all prettied up soon…maybe later on today.

I haven’t decided if I am going to scrap the photos or not. I assume I will, probably weekly…there are a lot of freebie templates out there right now for such things and I think it would be cool to make a book out of them. Ikea Goddess called her’s a time capsule of sorts, and I really like that idea. So I probably will scrap them…to look back on our lives in 2009!

I’ll post the layouts here as well as on my new blog where the pictures will be. I’ll also post them on flickr. LOL Lots of places!

So what’s been going on with us? Well today I had to break up the oddest animal fight at our house. The dogs were fighting with Razzle of all cats! He was so worked up I had to put him in a separate room and let him calm down. I don’t know what the heck was going on! Don’t know how it started, nothing. But Topaz has a scratch or a bite, I really hope it’s a scratch and not a bit above one eye and now Beans really isn’t interested in food. Don’t know if it’s the flavor or what, but she totally snubbed it. I’ll have to try to feed her a bit later on.

The house is totally a mess. We really need to clean it up. I’m taking a couple days off this week so we can grocery shop and clean. I was supposed to do all that during my break from work, but well, that didn’t work out obviously. *sigh* oh well.

Once the house is clean one of the things I will be striving for in 2009 is to keep it clean! To keep up on the dishes like I said before, to keep my office clean, everything. I think if we had more organization and the house was clean than the animals would be calmer and everything wouldn’t be so chaotic…but I do enjoy the chaos from time to time. lol

I keep saying this, I realize. I’m going to really work on it this year though. I need to. No reason to live like this! LOL

I also am going to try to eat healthier this year as well. I actually joined Weight Watchers online, although I haven’t started it yet, but I’m going to after we grocery shop. I may reopen my “Healthier Lifestyle” blog. Not really sure yet. I don’t need 15 blogs, but I don’t want this to turn into some weight loss blog either. So maybe I’ll revisit that blog.

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