Wedding-obsessed?

Wedding Shots, originally uploaded by Genevieve_vev.

Not for myself (though I would love to have another wedding...I'll be blogging about that later), but my friend Heather recently got engaged and picked a date of August 26th or 27th, 2010, so I've become her little un-official wedding inspiration guru :) Anyway, I keep telling her that having good wedding photos is VITAL, so I thought I would search through my Flickr Favs and find her some gorgeous shots to consider/dream over. I can't wait!!

More wedding-ness to come soon!

December Daily-Days 8 to 12

Playing major catch-up, but I'm not letting it get too out of control! Anyway, here we go, Day 8 to 12. (Sorry for the blurry photos, my kit lens and I aren't friends at the moment and it's dark at 4pm, what can a girl do?)

The spreads:

The pages:

Day 8, really simple, I just journaled about the good news that I got at the doctor's that day (that we can most likely have a natural birth and not a c-section, my heart tests all came back positive with a less than 5% chance of complications, which is great news.) This journal is ending up being pretty baby-focused, but that's where my life is at right now, so if it ends up being that way, it's ok with me, especially if I'm not capturing the memories elsewhere.

Day 9, I wasn't sure what to do (nothing happened that day), so I decided to use an old photo of my sister and I and journal 9 things I remember from my childhood Christmases (many are duplicates of the memories I have in another mini, but oh well, they're better documented in this one.)

Day 10, pretty self-explanatory, trying to remember and appreciate the simple pleasures from this time of year (including a Starbucks Caramel Brulé latte, I'm addicted to these sugary things, I swear...included the cliched coffee sleeve of course.)

Day 11, another mostly journaling page with an old photo of me. Just talking about my general feelings for the season, which so far have been pretty low/uninvolved. It's just all happening TOO FAST, a sentiment I think many of us can agree on! For this page I used some Christmas rub-ones my mom gave me, they are so cute!

Day 12, another envelope page, and for some reason that day I was really missing Heather, so I decided to use a pic of her from our last shoot together and write a little letter saying why I missed her especially during this time of year. Here it is (it's mushy, be warned.) I really like how this one came out kind of graphic-looking with the rub-ons, it's a bit different than the rest of the vintage-ey look I got going on in the album, yet it still goes :)

Dear Hea-tha,

There are so many things that I miss doing with you now that you’ve moved out West, but during the holidays it’s especially noticeable. My Christmas spirit has not been nearly as high this year and part of the reason is not having you here to do things with, like baking and crafting, shopping and watching movies, and all the other little outings/traditions that we’ve done together over the past 3 years.

I had a sudden pang the other night to go to Starbucks/Chapters to browse the Christmas items and drink yuppie coffees while chatting, but that was something we used to do, and without you it’s just not the same.

I know that we’ll see each other again and we will keep in touch for the rest of our lives, and for that I’m very grateful, but I must honestly say that I miss you my friend, but especially so at Christmastime.

Love,

Geneviève

Well that's it, still enjoying the process, even if I'm a little behind. It's not planned, but it's still happening, and that's the fun part :)

Until Days 13 to 17!

Loves,

G.

9-really-it's-7 days to-do list...

source

Saw this on a few others blogs so I thought I'd share my list as well. Can't believe how close Christmas is!!

Before the 23rd of December I need to...
-Make my brother and sister-in-law's/new nephew's gift
-Buy a gift for my California nephews <--got this one done tonight, woo!
-Finish my sister's gift
-Buy a 5X7 frame for my Grand mama
-Think of a gift for my dad and Dan's youngest brother
-Work on my Italian friend's gift
-Make sweets for my mother-in-law and Dan's nan
-Wrap the rest of the gifts
-Write and pass out Christmas cards for co-workers
-Look up recipes for duck and side dishes; create menu for Christmas supper with Dan
-Get Dan's stocking ready

Yeah, mostly to do with gifts, can you tell I'm a bit behind this year? :S

I also have some other non-Christmas things that I want to do, but I'm not sure if they'll get done until after the holidays (such as catch up on my 52Qs, write up about a dozen blog posts I have in my head, pack up some more boxes, register for birthing classes, find a masseuse for Dan, decide on a crib, and so on and on...)

But for now I think I'm going to go work on my December Daily and drink hot chocolate.

Night all!
G.

PS-OH! The most amazing thing happened today: Dan has agreed to watch Season 1 of LOST!! Now that Dexter is done (sniff), we're looking for another show to fill the time, and he actually suggested LOST, I was shocked. Now he said he might not stick with it, so it's a probationary
viewing, but still, I'm excited and hope he likes it! If not we're going to move on to Oz or Californication, has anyone watched those?

Some Christmas-ing going on over here...

So I know it seems like I'm not in the Christmas spirit this year, and while it is true that I'm just not able to get as into it as I would like (too many other things going on at the moment), I'm still finding small ways to celebrate the season. A few decorations are up and around the house (I decided yesterday that we aren't getting a tree though), I've been wrapping gifts and will be baking a little tonight and this week, listening to Christmas music, etc. Plus Dan and I are having our Christmas dinner this weekend coming up and I'll be making some food-gifts, so there are some ways I'm trying to be jolly :)

Here are a few snaps of the little corners of Christmas in my house:

I also wanted to show off my wrapping so far; this year I'm trying really hard not to buy anything new to wrap my gifts with, I'm re-using what I have or finding ways to wrap gifts using things from around the house. So far I've only had to buy some ribbons (which I'll use for scrapping after) and one little eco-green bag (below). I made gift tags using Christmas cards from last year (so fun, I'll be doing this every year from now on!), and I'm also trying to use up old scrap supplies too. It's fun trying to come up with unique ways to wrap gifts.

Well that's all for this Monday, I'll be back later this week with a wedding related post (ha, yeah I know), and hopefully some catch-up for my December Daily.

Hope your week is starting off well!

G.

Happy Birthday Jonas!

(picture from last Christmas wearing the cocoon I bought him)

Just wanted to wish my littlest nephew (for now), Jonas, a very happy 1st birthday! I'm sad that I haven't met you yet little guy (I was in Italy when you visited back in August), but your mom has been keeping us up to date on everything about you with pictures and videos, and I can tell that you're a pretty cool kid already :) I hope we get to meet soon!

(10 months old)

Love,
Matante Geneviève

December Daily-Days 4 to 7

Here we go, the rest of the pages from my December Daily (so far).

The spreads:

(with quote card closed to hide journaling)

(with quote card open to reveal journaling)

And the pages:

This is good example of doing a page that was completely unrelated to Christmas, but it's still representing a time in my life, which I like (especially now since I'm trying to capture as much of this pregnancy as possible).

Confession time: This photo was not from Dec 6th, or from this year for that matter, it's an old photo of my parent's camp in the wintertime that I used to represent the snow falling on that day.

Simple envelope that I embellished with a Christmas tree trinket that I got from a Christmas candle.

Again, the journaling comes straight from a blog post, printed onto cardstock and tucked in the envelope. I may go back and add a photo or another souvenir of the day later, or I might just keep it as is.

So that's it for now, I have to catch up on Days 8-10, so I'll probably share those over the weekend.

If you're doing a December Daily/Christmas journal, how's it going? I'd love to hear of your experiences with it, especially if you're a first-timer like me!

December Daily-Days 1 to 3

*Days 4-7 coming tomorrow*

I have to start off by saying that I'm pretty impressed that I'm keeping up with my December Daily so far (I'm only 2 days behind plus today, so not bad!) I wasn't sure how it was going to go, especially since this Christmas hasn't been very 'Christmas-ey' so far, but I decided a few things right from the get-go that I think are helping me not stress out about it:

-I'm not forcing myself to take pics everyday. If I do, great, if not I'm using other things or just journaling (I'm trying to make the journaling the main focus)
-I'm not making all the pages about Christmas or the even season at all, some are completely random
-I'm not doing the days in order. I have 'themes' that I think of for each day at the end of the day and include on the page, but I might not get it done on that particular day
-I'm trying to keep the layouts simple, with just a few embellies/add-ons here are there, but I'm mostly sticking to my base page and adding words

So with all of that in mind, here's what I've come up with so far! (Page spreads shown first, then individual pages)

The spreads:

(with the MS card closed to hide the journaling)

(with the MS card opened to reveal the pics and journaling for Day 3)

And here are my pages:

For this page I took the goals I had written in this post, printed them on a tag and slipped them into the vellum pocket I made. Added some little Christmas pop-up stickers from an old Christmas cards and that's it!

Pretty basic layout about the music I listen to at Christmastime.

I was originally going to print off the little pics of the crafts I wanted to do, but I got lazy and just cut them out of the magazine instead. The arrow points to the journaling card on the other side so that it's obvious the journaling goes with Day 3 (I like the idea of having 'add-ons' thrown in here and there, plus it gives me more room per page to work, since this album is only 6X6.)

So that's Days 1-3, be sure to check back tomorrow for Days 4-7! Thanks for looking :)