The weather has been an extreme roller coaster of temperatures so far this winter and I think it has some of the wildlife confused! I have had a ton of robins visiting my yard lately and the freezing rain didn’t keep them away this morning.
Now if only the cardinal and his lady bird would not fly away when I try to take their photos I would be a happy photographer!
Whoa! The past few weeks have flown by here. Our house was packed without incident (yay!) and we have gotten settled into our house with minimal furniture. My Jeep was shipped back to the USA, as well, and now we are a one vehicle family for a bit.
I am still taking a photo a day for my Project Life album and even adding my journaling cards as well. So 5 weeks in and I am still going strong! I am writing my photo for each day down in my planner and just yesterday I downloaded a free photo editing program, Photoscape, so I can at least get my photos resized and edited to be uploaded to Shutterfly. Photoshop Elements is just toooooo big to download to my netbook. Even Photoscape, which is significantly smaller, slows my computer down.
Here are a few of my daily photos:
My cat enjoys the morning sunshine. I think she is going to miss the huge windows.
Our nearly empty living room after the first day of the movers packing us up.
A little bit of excitement one Saturday in our normally quiet town. Some faulty solar panels triggered a smoke alarm and the fire department spent about 2 hours taking care of it. Thankfully, no one was living in the home yet and it appears there is no damage to the house.
Next week we go on our very last European trip and I am looking forward to the destination but not the 10 hour train ride back! It makes for an extra long day for everyone. However, the train tickets are super affordable since the girls ride for free and you just don’t get that option when you purchase airfare tickets. We reserve seats with a table so that helps with leg room and we all sit together.
That’s all I got for now. Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!
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December has rolled in a bit quicker than I thought it would! I will admit that while I don’t have all of my December Daily foundation pages complete I am about halfway through the month. I hope to get the rest squared away this week.
This year I will not be printing my photos daily or even weekly but will wait until the end of the month and place my order through Shutterfly. I love their print quality and the quick turn around. Since I will have my pages ready and journaling complete I will just have to add the photos once they arrive.
My photo for December 1st is of the girls opening their Haribo advent calendar. This year is a little bittersweet as it is our last year here in Germany. There are some things we will miss and the Haribo calendars have become a tradition for us.
This was about take 5 and the reindeer antlers were their idea! I rarely get a photo with them both looking at the camera and this was just not my day.
Here is the foundation page for the photo:
Because I didn’t leave any room for journaling I will be adding a journaler by Ali Edwards that I purchased from Designer Digitals last year. I like to add these when I am feeling long winded or want some extra space for photos.
My December 2nd photo is of my favorite mug filled with glühwein in front of the Christmas tree. I like Christmas tree bokeh!
And my foundation page for the day is this:
The colors are off a bit in this one as the background is more of a pinkish color. I am using Crate Papers Peppermint Collection for most of my album this year and I was having a bit of a hard time with it but have come to love the feel of it all. The snowflakes are from the Peppermint Collection as well. I had a hard time photographing the first set of pages as it has been super foggy here nearly every day and that means no morning sun for my photos.
That’s all I have for now. I hope to continue my December Daily updates every few days. I always have good intentions of sharing my pages but never get around to doing so but will make a honest effort at posting them here.
