Memory keeping: December Daily – Day 5

Well it’s now the 8th and I’m a few days behind on DD….honestly I am not sure what happened and why it’s Thursday because wasn’t it just Tuesday??? Yikes…better start Christmas shopping or it will be xmas eve and I’ll be madly clicking on Amazon!

I knew the story of Day 5 was going to be the story of the first snow of the season. The girls were SO excited when they went out to the bus and it was snowing… as evidenced by the blown-up SnapChat screen grab I made from Lily ;-). So the story was there it has just taken 2 days to sit down and pull it together!

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I knew I was going to use the snapchat photo, plus another photo Charlie sent as well as the “five things” card from the Main AE Dec. Daily Kit. The rest up in the air… I ended up finding the PERFECT piece of transparent overlay when I was looking in a box for something else….as a bonus, when I took the protective plastic off I realized the little branches were blue! yay… Found old snowflake stamp and stamped paper as a background for the snapchat photo which is on the left, then used it for the “5” that went on the overlay along with a “let it snow” banner from who knows when??? I went with a 4 pocket page protector and put in Charlie’s photo of the backyard along with the “5 Things” card, the “celebrate this” round backed in a bit of blue paper and then hand-trimmed, and some wood snowflakes from last year (?) with some shiny sparkly enamel dots.

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Used Ali Edwards Gold Makers ink for stamping, beautiful metallic finish! I also added in some mini wood veneer snowflakes that I’ve had forever here and there on the layout.

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Journaling by hand…is it perfectly straight? No. Was it the pen that I wanted to use to write? No…somewhere is my lt grey sharpie pen and I know not where it has disappeared to hmmm… BUT I just got on with it and got it done. Repeat with me…done is better than perfect.

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Close-up of the transparency overlaid over the page… I slipped a sheet of white paper under for clarity until I figure out what is going on the back for Day 6. I love playing with transparencies and the hide and seek of what’s underneath!

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