10 on the 10th

Shameless theft from Shimelles' 10 on the tenth last month :). 10 fave JYC pages of mine.

If you want to see other festive 10 on the 10ths go to Shimelles blog.

First three are from 2008, my first journal, and I used 8x8 size.

Love Harry's letter to Santa on this page.

On this LO it's the photo that says it all.

And here is my favourite decoration I have had since childhood with a LO all to herself.

Now for 2009, when I was unemployed (note the increased level of work in these pages) and went with 6x12" portrait.

This one for the photo.

and this page for the amount of effort it took!

This one for the snow!!!

and this page for the journalling, it's the last in the journal.

And now 2010, 6x12" again, but landscape this time.

This one for the unbelievable cold we had that December

and this one for the handmade decoration that goes on the tree when it's up

and finally this page from 2009 is my favourite of all my JYC pages ever, and it's the story of something that happened to my eldest daughter on the 23rd of December that year.

and this is why i love journalling my Christmas.

Christmas Journal completed...

Well at last here are the last 2 LOs completed and uploaded. I've been quite unwell over the last few days, but finishing these and uploading them has taken my mind off this. The prompt for the 5th was about geting the house back to normal, and although i always leave taking our tree down until the 6th, this was the subject for this LO. .

I have enjoyed the project, and it's so nice to look back over the last month or so and remember the little things!

The LO for the 6th sums up how i'm feeling at present.... roll on spring!

If you want to have a look at the whole journal in one go take a look at this link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30991481@N00/sets/72157612061712498/

You can view it as a slide show and leave a comment if you like!

Back to work tomorrow, hopefully i'll blog (and scrap!) again at the weekend.

The Last day of the holiday....

Was awake at 6.30 am today worrying about work :( so have got my page for my journal completed early. It has helped me to take my mind off tomorrow, i remember reading a snide comment made by a Tory shadow minister before christmas about the number of sick days taken by teachers, if he had any idea of the stress the job causes, maybe he would have a bit more sympathy.

I have finished planning all my upper school lesons for next week, and year 9, so only Yr 7 to do... hopefully i can sleep well tonight!

Will start taking the decorations down today, it's at times like this that i seriously regret having 3 christmas trees!!! But every Dec it's the same, and up they all go again!!

So here's my page, it's about things to remember to make next years clebrations better!

Thanks to Sheena for the inspiration for this LO.

Todays page

Made this about a fave memory from the christmas holidays. Included a photo of kevin, as the memory is about him!!

A couple more pages.

Firstly here is the page i made for JYC yesterday. The theme was childhood and innocence, so i used this photo of Harry visiting Santa for the last time :(

The next page is the first 12x12 LO i have made in ages (since the end of November) as i have been so busy with my Christmas journal) so i am pleased to have got back into scrapping the bigger size again!

New Year LOs

Here are two pages for New years day, and New years eve. I still have todays to do, might get this done by the end of the day. i do have an idea for the page, i think this is half the battle!


New years eve includes photos of us dressed up for the party we went to, the 'silly' stamp went perfectly with it! As you can see Kev looks very silly as Kojak!! The photos of my sister are even funnier, but there was no room for them on an 8x8 LO, so i'll have to complete a 12x12 one instead!


I'm not one for new years resolutions, i would only break them, so that forms the LO for the first of Jan. The swirls are Doodlebug stick it ones that you can put glitter onto, i have been using these a lot during this journal! Letters are DCWV chipboard, i won these at a crop early last month! Only 5 more pages to do now.

Happy new Year

I wonder how many posts for today have started with this title? Well i wouldn't want to buck a trend so here goes!

Last night was a great evening, as usual we were the only family to dress up (theme was 999 emergency services), and so there were a multitide of police officers from here and the US, including Kojak pulled off very fetchingly by Kev, and my sister dressed as Magnum PI!!! I was a sort of Juliet Bravo, but Hannah decided that i should be called WPC Notsogoodbody! As we had so many cops, we needed one robber, and Katie played this part really well, complete with home made swagbag. One doctor made up the party, Shane was House, complete with walking cane.

It was a really good night, Colin as usual made some very strong drinks that only he, Kevin and my Dad were foolish enough to drink!!

More pics of the real us later when i get round to putting them on the computer!!

2008 photo summary

I don't like this time of year too much, it's always a bit of an anti climax after christmas... but i enjoyed completing this page and looking back at the events that have happened during the past year. I added a word to each photo using PSE to keep the LO tidy (if you click on the LO it will grow so you can see the words!), and just cut out each one and made a mosaic effect on the page. 'Lyndsy's Diary' alphabet cut and sanded for the title and sizzix clock habds cut from card covered chip board. An early foray into hybrid scrapping, but no digi LOs for me!!

Hannah as Mary

The prompt today was to include something from the season that had not fit into any earlier pages, so i included this picture of Hannah as Mary in the school Nativity play. Lots of glitter again, and i used an alpha Kev bought me a couple of years ago for part of the title.

We also had to make a title page, so here is mine, made with the Anna Griffin papers i started the journal off with..

More pages, up to date now!

Here are my pages for Boxing day and the 27th and 28th. Photo for 27th seems a bit random, but if you look at the journalling you will see why i have taken it!!

Have enjoyed getting glittery with todays page!

Christmas Eve/Day pages

Went away from the trad colours for my Christmas Eve page, had written my journalling in rough on the day and had the idea for the photo , so this didn't take too long.

I decided to make a double LO for the big day, as i had lots to include, and a few photos i wanted to use.
The title is flocked, so has a lovely touchy feely nature to it!

Only thing is that there are no photos of Kev and me!

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Post Christmas Post

Well apart from my Christmas pressie not arriving in time, the hoover dying just before i had finished the housework, and the discovery of headlice during Midnight Mass (Aaaaaargh!) it all really went to plan over the past few days!

The kids seemed to enjoy their pressies, I just need to catch up with my journal now. I did one page yesterday, but didn't have time to upload it, so here it is. Hope to get some more done today!

Remembering Christmas Past (and todays page)

This is the mini book i started at the Exhall crop on Sunday, and spent most of today completing. I got lots done at the crop, but didn't realise how much time it would take me to finish it!

The photographs are sort of chronological, i converted them all to B&W to avoid clashing colours, and they go quite well with the mainly red, black and white colour scheme.

As i made my Mum an album using the Christmas photos last year, i was hankering after one for myself!! I will keep this out as part of the decorations every year now!!

I am really pleased with the final outcome, i even added some jingle bells (courtesy of Paperchase) to the fibres around the bookrings for an extra festive feel. This was a great idea shared at the crop, so when i saw the bells, i HAD to have them!!!

So to todays JYC LO, made 3 lists which tuck behind the ribbons, one for today (all done) one for tomorrow and one for Christmas Eve. The latter 2 are on the fridge door until i complete them. love lists!

Up to date again.

3 LOs done today, had a good time at the Exhall crop, and part made a lovely metal covered mini book, hope to finish this tomorrow.

First LO is about Christmas food. I remembered that i had some photos of the children with their gingerbread house from last year, so i used these. made the cutest little gingerbread men from grungeboard and a cuttlebug die, inked and covered in glossy accents.

Struggled with the next one, it's about the unexpected, so I have made a pocket with some tags in, added a title and some tags, and if i get surprise pressies on the big day i will add pics of these, and some journalling.

Finally todays page was about capturing what the house looks like today, This morning when i took the photo it was still uncharacteristically tidy (visitors yesterday!!) but the picture i chose captures this moment to a T, the Wii game in the foreground, and the nativity behind. we also were asked to try and use colours in the photo, hence the unfestive look to this page! Made use of my stitch stamps on many of the recent LOs, had forgotten how much i liked them!

Another catch up

Got 2 pages done today. After Ian and Sharon and the boys left, and i had watched Strictly (Great show dance from Tom, after that i think either couple deserved to win!) i managed to complete the page for the 17th about the perfect gift.

Had to hide it quick when Hannah got in from her party though, as the gift is hers!!!

Sorry the photo is a bit blurred, taking it at nearly midnight doesn't help!!

Cropping again tomorrow, might get another journal page done as well as the class we are completing!

Catching up. Letter to santa

Am 4 days behind, but when i looked at the prompts for these days, picked the easiest to do. Got harry to write a letter to Santa, and used that for for the basis of my LO.

Used DCWV cardstock, and added lovely DCWV glitter letters i won at the crop last week!

Tree page at last!!!

Finally caught up the LO for the 11th (not done tonights or last nights yet, but it's nearly the christmas holidays!!!)

The tree has gone up in the lounge, adn i took some bokeh (blurry!) pics of the lights. I used these printed on some textured white cardstock to make my background paper, and a close up of our geriatric little fairy!!!

Stamped journalling block on Anna Griffin papers, AC thickers DCWV cardstock and job done! Really pleased with how this one has turned out!

Give thanks

Yesterday prompt was to think about what we have to thankful for. I am really pleased with how this page has turned out, and the embroidered emellishments from the Anna Griffin kit are really beautiful!

Drama Queen

Great news today, Hannah was cast as the female lead (Titania in Midsummer Nights Dream) to be performed in the summer. Much more of this later i suppose!!!



Was Hannah's GCSE prize eve tonight (David Moorcroft was the guest speaker, and very good he was too) Because of this am very glad that the theme for todays LO was to make a simple and quick page, mine took only 20 min to make. Journalling is about the visitors we are expecting at Christmas.

Christmas Journal Update

Here are the next 2 pages, still not done the 11th, tree was bought today, but until it goes up later in the week, this page will have to wait!

Page for the 13th is about Christmas carols, names of the carols are on tags tucked behind the Anna Griffin patterned paper, used doodlebug sticky loopyloo letters and some gold glitter on top.

Page for the 14th is about gifts. I chose to journal about the smaller presents we choose to save until after Christmas dinner, these stay under the tree until then, "tree presents", a tradition we have had since i was a child.