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I've had a lot of materials for projects that I haven't had the time to do, so recently I decided to start using these items. 
After signing up for The Art of Choosing Joy class I needed to make my album.  I can't believe the class doesn't start yet and I'm ready!
It's an American Crafts D ring album that holds 6 X 6 pages.  I used Chatterbox papers, HKS flowers and altered my own chipboard...

Here are more of the pages I completed.  I figure better late then never!  While there are still a couple details I would like to add, for the most part I am done and thrilled that I followed it through!
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Page 25

Here are pages 15, 16, 17 and 18.  Still have to copy my letter to Santa onto my page for 19

You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
-Scott Adams

Think about influence today. Who influences you? Is he or she aware of the impact they make on your life? Who do you influence? In what ways?
Live deliberately today by being a positive influence to...

I've still been working on my journal and still enjoying the process!  Most of my journaling is done, its now just finding the time to put the pages together.
Journal your Christmas #11
Oh Christmas Tree

Journal your Christmas # 12
Tales of Christmas past

Journal your Christmas #13
Tales of Christmas Presents

Journal Your Christmas #14
Christmas music

I started out...

There is an online challege going on.  It's called a fancy word for simple check it out.
 
I wanted a perfect ending. . . Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious...

Tradition of putting up the tree...

Prompt 10 - That's a wrap
Wrapping went great for me this year!  We set a date on the calendar and my mom and sister came over with all their gifts.  We took the kids to the movies and spent the afternoon listening to Christmas music, talking and wrapping our gifts.  It made the process so much more enjoyable and I felt more organized than I ever have...

and still enjoying the process along the way...
Here is page 6 - my perfect and not so perfect Christmas.  One being just a normal Christmas event when my son, father and brother were still alive.  And one being a horrible Christmas when I was sick on Christmas.  Horribly sick on Christmas with the flu. Yuck!

 
Prompt #7
Making a list
I try so hard every year to make a list, have...

I've been trying to keep up and while I got a lot of the journaling done, I haven't gotten the pages put together.  I'm hoping this weekend quiets down enough and I will have some time to work on them.


Day 5 still needs journaling done for my advent calendar.

Well here we are Christmas Eve and for once I can say I'm just about ready!  I have some food to cook and a couple presents to wrap but otherwise... let the day begin!
I got way behind on my Christmas journal (only got the journaling part done)but plan to get back to that right after Christmas.
While December has been a busy month with traveling to Michigan for the annual girlfriend Christmas...