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May Calendar page



Yeah, my little promise to myself!  I wanted to get working on the calendar for my in-laws again for Christmas.  They don't have internet (hard to believe I know!), so they won't see this and I'm safe posting the pages!  I managed to get the pictures printed a few days ago, so that was a good start.

With this one, I had originally done it with other pictures and then realized they were a year too old!  lol  The pages are from exactly a year previous, but when I first did this page, I had pictures of 2009 rather than 2010 on it!  I was thinking, "the year previous", but that means the pictures are this year since it's a 2011 calendar!!  These pictures don't look too bad on here anyway since the colours weren't too crazy.

And the best part is that I used scraps and bits for this!  Love using stash for sure.  I have a but of trouble with my calendar pages because they need to be a little flatter than a lot of stuff I normally use, but my in-laws love this gift and they don't care about the product!

As I mentioned in my post last night, we didn't have heat!  The guy was scheduled to come today from 3:30 to 5pm and I thought that was perfect because I could get Kyle from school first.  It would mean no karate for him, but we'd have heat!  At 2:30, there's a ding dong at the door and it's him!  I'm thinking "Ahhhhh.... have to get Kyle!", but he said he'd have a quick look and see if it could be done quickly.  Literally, about 15-20 minutes later, I was writing him a cheque for $190!  lol  Oh well, I quickly found out there's no price that I wouldn't pay for heat!  And George paid anyway!!

So, we're madly getting ready for karate, so I'd better get going here.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Tuesday and here's to a great night!

Cheers,

Productive Morning!

Well, it's not the nicest day outside by any means, so we're just kind of hangin' at home today.  We walked Kyle to school as usual this morning, but it was certainly colder than I expected since it hasn't been bad lately. 

Anyway, since coming home I've been working on chores amongst other things.  Got laundry on, dishwasher running and kitchen cleaned up.  Would like to get things in the living room picked up and my scrap table cleaned off too, but we'll see how that goes. 

The other HUGE thing I did this morning was get back to work on a project that needs some attention. Ages ago, I posted about how I needed to get the above calendar started and worked on early for my in-laws for Christmas so that I didn't have to do it at the last minute again.  Did a couple of pages and then it got left..  I went through pictures this morning and chose what I'm going to use (up to and including this month!) and have sent them off for developing.  Oh the joy of doing it online!  Once I get the pictures, I'll be working on that this month with the goal of getting everything but the December page done which will be their annual Santa picture!  Wish me luck and feel free to ask about it if you don't see any more pages in the next week!  lol

So, let's hope the rest of the day is as productive!  Need to obviously get Kyle later and he has karate today as well.  It's his only class this week since Thursday is Remembrance Day and the karate academy is closed.  Looks like he'll have his first grading at the end of the month too!  Exciting! 

I'd like to do a couple of cards this afternoon too, but I can't even see my table right now!  Need to work on that as well... 

Have a fabulous afternoon and evening!  Oh, it's Glee night too!  Yeah!  Better go check and see if it's a new one or not...  IT IS!!!  Yes, I'm a Gleek and OK with that!
Cheers,

I've actually started!

OK, so I knew I had to make my in-laws a calendar this past Christmas since I hadn't made them one the previous year and got hints about it all year long!  I had given them one the year before that and hadn't realized quite how big a hit it was until I didn't make them one!  Lesson learned...

Now, I knew about this little project all year long and yet ended up creating almost all of it on Boxing Day before we went to their house for dinner!  I decided I wasn't going to do that this year and to help me, I offered to post a Calendar Challenge for Challenge Masters and then actually at Scrapperie as well!  If you play on both sites, it's a 2 for 1 deal!

The above page is the current challenge which is...
Create your page for the month of Fenruary (with or without pictures depending on the type of calendar you're doing) and include something that wouldn't normally be considered a "scrapbooking product". This could mean something recycled (like the packaging from a toy I used in my layout), an office product, a piece of fabric - it's endless! As long as you wouldn't normally find it in your lss, it's all good for this challenge.

I can't possibly tell you how good it feels to be working on this well in advance and know that one of my Christmas presents will be taken care of well before Christmas!

This was the page I did for the challenge last month for the first page of the calendar.  I thought I had posted it actually and realized I hadn't.  I can post the pages here without worry either since my in-laws won't see them. (No internet if you can believe it?!  Can't imagine!).  You'll be seeing more in the months to come!  Come and play!

Guess it's off to bed for me!

Cheers,