Happy New Years Eve

Hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas.  I have been battling a bad cold/flu since before Christmas.  I'm not sure what is going around but whatever it is sure seems to last.  Hopefully with this colder mid-west weather it will freeze all the germs.

Hard to believe 2012 is coming to an end.  This year has flown by.  I had a daughter graduate from High School and is now a Sophmore in college, we moved and I completed a few half marathons and a marathon. 

What does 2013 have in store??? I'm not sure, but a few goals I will be working on:

1.  Try to cook nightly for my family.  This is always hard as my family is off in so many directions.   Sometimes cooking for 2 is just no fun.
2.  To PR a half marathon.  I have registered for 4 thus far, so hopefully one will bring some magic.
3.  Although I swear them off every year, I hope to complete The Chicago Marathon in 2013 feeling   great. 
4.  Stay active with Crossfit.  I absolutely love crossfit.  After two back surgeries, I have to modify a few moves but I give it 110% every time I go.

I originally started this blog for my creative side and scrapbooking.  I do plan on keeping up with it but I plan on sharing more of my running and crossfit adventures in 2013!!!

Happy New Years!!!

Good Afternoon! 
 

Today has finally settled down a little after I have been dealing with sick children the past few days. Thank goodness we are almost all back to normal as the holiday is quickly coming up on us! 

This morning I had a little time to finish up some little projects I will share below for the holidays! 

 

This first project I worked on was a ornament for my daughters class to give to an elder she works with in her CNA program. Not only is it a fun little ornament, it was very easy to make! 

 The next thing i finished up today was a card i made for my sons teacher for Christmas which i have to go drop off today! 

Well, off to go start some holiday cleaning and prep and enjoying my last little bit of peace before all of the kids are on Christmas break and the havoc of the holidays. Hope you all have a good rest of the day! I plan to post more of my December Daily album as soon as a finish the page I am currently working on! 

-Michelle

 

Oh December!

Just popping in really quick to share a couple more pages of my December mini album.  There is still so much to do, shopping, wrapping, baking, kids school parties, etc. and Christmas Eve and Day are right around the corner.  Here is what I worked on yesterday.  I made 50 snowman cake pops and 50 Oreo balls!

This first page is a picture of my son.  As you can see he appears to be on Santa's naughty list.  I used Crate Papers letter stickers to list my 3 kids names.  Although you can not see it well, I used glossy accents over there names with glitter. The tags also have hidden journaling.

This page just needs a photo.  I am sure I have one to use, I just need to go through them.  All of the paper I used comes from  Crate Paper Sleigh Ride.

 This last page i have for today is my daughters band concert on Dec. 6th at Normal West High School. The insert on the right is a cutout from her program.

 

I will be back soon to blog more pictures of the pages I have gotten done. Time to go do some household cleaning. 

Hope you all have a good afternoon!

Dec. 8th, Already???

This month is sure starting to fly by, only THREE weekends left before Christmas!!!

Since this month is moving along faster then I would like, I decided not to actually do a December daily.  Instead, I decided to make a December mini album to document important dates and events during the month.  I thought this would be a little less stressful for me.  I am making the pages and added pictures as I capture them.

Here is the inside cover. The Paper is from Crate Papers Sleigh Ride collection.  I also used a piece of Green Pow paper, and a small piece of Studio Calico's Wonderland Sleigh ride.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the arrows, saying and snowflakes.

Here is another page I put together.

 A close up of all the layering.

I will update with progress very soon! Hope you all have a good day!
          -Michelle

Whew It's Been Awhile

Wow, haven't posted on here in a bit.  My apologies, things just got busy and time got away from me.  I can't believe it is already December.  This year has sure flown by.

I did run my marathon.  Super glad that is over! I say I will never do another, but I am already rethinking that idea.  I did make a cute mini album to highlight this years marathon.  I still need to add the pictures, but I thought I would share of the few pages.  I ended up using Echo parks for the Record 2 collection.

Since it is December, I am going to share my December Daily Cover page.  It went together very quickly but I am happy with how it turned out.   I have never actually done a December Daily but thought this year I would give it a try!  I used Crate Papers Sleigh Ride.  I am in love with Crate paper and especially this line.

Hope you have a great day.  I will try to get back later this week to share a few additional pages of my December Daily album.