DDA day 3

Day three is a clear page (i'm not sure if you can see from the picture..) I placed 6 pictures 3 on each page, of little normal moments during the day...

I then made the tag "remember the moments" and added another stamp and stickles...






Day 4 may take a while as I have to wait to get pictures from school...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

DDA day one and two

Yeay!!! Time to play with my DDA.

I just finished day two... I had something completely different in mind for day two, but due to a wonderful migraine, I had to change it up a bit. I decided ahead of time that I wasn't going to make it too difficult for my self, otherwise there's no way I'll keep it up untill the 31st!

Day one, page one... Here in Holland we celebrate Sinterklaas aswell as X-mas, these are pictures of the boys getting pressents in their shoes. They have to sing a song before bedtime and they awake to a pressent or candy in their shoe...




Day one page two... Every year we take a family picture that we use as our christmas card..'With three (read 4 ) boys, it's getting harder every year to get a decent picture.. This was our first try... it's not "the one" but it's the only one that the little one is not crying on..



Page two... I took this picture of Marcel and Thomas, I think it's such a sweet picture of the two of them.. The other side of this page will be finished when I get some pictures from school...



Just simple things from our daily december life!

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

X-mas and a lot of sick boys....

I haven't posted for a while... (again...)..the boys all had the mexican flue (swine flue) even the biggest boy!!.. It seems to have passed me by...thank goodness!!! But with all the TLC and cleaning that came with it, I barely had time to look ata piece of scrap paper...

I did manage to finish my X-mas teachers gifts... I got the idea from the new cards only book..

They are tea cups, with booklets that hold two teabags, chocolates, little boxes for more chocolates, sugar... I will add a card with a picture from the boys...

Here's how they came out...








I got to basic design for the tea bag book from nicole heady's blog..she's in my faves, should you want to visit her blog.

Well... tomorrow I get to take out my holy grale (a.k.a. my DDA) and I'm soo hoping that I'll keep it up throughout the month... I did get a new camera yesterday a canon 500D, so taking pics has become a day filling job!!

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

xx Merel

Once upon a time

Yeay.... I finally used my cricut again.... I used it for the title and branches..

I love all of the pictures I took while we were down by this little river in France..

This one is of the youngest, playing with his branch ( he fell in the water two seconds after this shot was taken..)

I used 5 different pages of the Boxer line from Basic Grey (which I had laying around forever!!)




Thanks for stopping by...

xx Merel

All the pages...

....of my DDA... Ready for december...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

More christmas in october..

I was looking around for some fun X-mas projects when I came across this beautiful banner... I just couldn't imagine my christmas without it!!

So with full credit to the spilling the beenz blog

Here's my (very look-a-like) version!









There's inking (lots of it), stamping, embossing, hand stitching...and loads of time looking for images on the net!

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

I can't seem to put my baby away....

Ok...I'm finding it hard to put the DDA away 'till december 1st... So I'm still adding here and there...
I want to be able to just grap my pics..write my jourmaling and be done with it when december comes..

So here's the inside of my outer page..



Thanks for all the sweet comments I've received from here and the forums! It's much appreciated!

xx Merel

DDA basics finished!

What a labour of love....and I only finished the basics.....

Here's a peak though..







xx Merel

just for fun..

I'm working on my DDA and wanted to share my desk (ahum) with you...

Eventhough it looks like a tornado hit my room..I still know where everything is and it seems to help me scrap better... Whenever I clean up ( usualy after I finish a lay out or project)I always have a problem starting up again...untill my room looks like the huge mess which it is now!



Almost finished with my basic pages for the DDA 1 through 31 st...

Thanks for looking..

xx Merel

Fa la la la la...

I think that any season is the season to get Jolly....

I'm all x-massed up already... I decided that this year I wanted to make a DDA (december daily album) I came across a few of them last year, but it was too late to get started...

So this year I'm early! It's so much fun too... I will try to post the Ali Edwards link, because it's totaly her idea..not mine at all... (the labour is though!)







My supplies (although the pile got bigger as I'm getting along!) en first inside page...

xx Merel