Growing up, I remember baking with Mom quite a bit. And I remember one Christmas baking with my Grandma Smeigh, and I specifically remember baking Candy Cane shaped cookies, where you colored the dough red, and then braided two strips of dough to make the candy cane shape. If I recall correctly, ... VIEW POST
Making Lists and Checking the Score
Hey Look! It's Joe with a dirty look on his face. And yes, that's Katie in the background perched in "her" spot. Joe was working on his Christmas Wish List. I gave him permission to give me an annoyed look, I figured I was going to get one anyway, might as well roll with it. I love how you ... VIEW POST
Christmas journal so far
I've taken some pics of the physical journal in progress and uploaded them to Flickr. I had purchased a "Christmas Art Journal" from Evalicious (which are sold out, but you can still see them at that link), so a lot of the paper I'm using is from that. I'm using some overlays designed by Ali ... VIEW POST
Christmas Cards
The *last* time we sent Christmas cards was in...2007, the last time I did a Christmas journal. We did a whole photo shoot in front of the tree and it was painful, but I managed to get this really hilarious photo, which is what I used on the front of our cards that year. Just look at those ... VIEW POST
Winter weather
We are just having our first real taste of winter weather -- there were flurries this morning, and the dogs didn't appreciate me taking their picture and not just letting them in already, darn it. Well, Katie was pretty annoyed, but she's kind of a princess. It was just flurries today, but the ... VIEW POST
It’s December!
But I bet you didn't need me to tell you that, did you? I've been thinking that it was 2 years ago that I did a Christmas Journal and finished it, but it turns out it's actually been THREE years. It was 2007! I made stabs at a Christmas Journal/Daily December Journal thing in 2008 and 2009, but ... VIEW POST
