Journalling December

How is everyone on this cold Tuesday.

We are up to our armpits in snow again. I don't think I've seen so much in many years. We've had about 5 inches this morning. School was open which was impressive. It's the highest building in the town but the teachers all walk and so do most of the children. They were allowed some play out time before home time so didn't miss out on the fun.

My DH set off and got less than a mile in over an hour so turned round and came back but then couldn't get back up our hill again and had to leave his car and walk. I think he's enjoyed his unexpected day off though.

I've been busy trying to complete my JYC book so that I can play with all my new goodies and thought it was about time I showed you some of the pages. I won't bore you with them all but these are a selection of what I've done so far. There are family photos too but as they are all shy, I promised not to post those so these are the more general ones.

My book should really be Journal Your December because I like to journal all the things that we do in the build up to Christmas.


My first page was what I intended to do with my book which was to do less of a diary (I did that last year) and more what other people wanted to remember so the journal cards on each page open out and include comments from friends and family and then I've written about each day on the front.


I've used a digital scrap kit from 2 Peas In A Bucket so that the pages all had the same colours to try and keep them simple and uncluttered, although I do get carried away sometimes. The glitter snowflakes were a sissix die and the titles have all been stamped with stickles applied here and there. The dates were done on photoshop and matted with silver mirricard.

I like to include all the special food we have, like the special marzipan that has to go on the cake.

What the weather is like, which dominated later in the month!! Freya wrote on this card about how her class sorted all the cards that were posted in the school Christmas post box and delivered them to each class every morning.

The Arrival of the Christmas Tree and what new decoration was bought for it this year.


And of course the snow and the Christmas cake.

I made a book for the first time last year and wondered then whether it would be interesting to look back because the photos I took didn't seem to be so interesting at the time, just day to day things, but I got it out this year and re read it and really enjoyed looking back so I will perserve and get this year's finished. After all the weather has certainly been memorable.

Thank you for stopping by and keep warm and safe. If you haven't had the snow yet I'm sure it's on it's way.