December Daily: Day 2 and Updated Cover

Back with day 2! It was kind of a long day at work so it was fun to come home and play a bit... first, I updated the cover a little. After it was all dry and I looked at it in the light of day, it felt a bit too psychadelic for me. I covered over it with a coat of Golden Irridescent Pearl - it seemed to tone it down and highlight the texture of the snowflakes all at once. I added a little ribbon and I like it a lot better now.

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Are you feeling it? Yes? No? Although if the answer is no, I'm not sure I want to know. lol. Maybe a second coat in that bright pink area on the top right? Maybe. Who knows :)

I like that I can still see the stenciling and glitter and stuff, but it no longer shouts "I was WAY too heavy handed with the Glimmer Mist!"

And the inside pages... I mixed bits and pieces from my day with Shimelle's prompt on my feelings about winter weather. My feelings about snow are well known, but I decided to be fair and also write about the things I like about winter weather. Although as we're expecting snow this weekend, I'm thinking of the Amazon with great longing. Great. Longing.

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I used some Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses today, along with some Making Memories stuff from various sets and releases.

The chipboard snowflakes are glittery and were from a snowflake ornament set. The transparency is also MM, and I used some pink washi tape and some Pink Paislee paper tape and a Prima flower.

This page really serves no purpose other than to be pretty. I was inspired by one of the samples in Shimelle's email this morning.

And a few bits from the day, including the 10-day weather forecast with the snowflakes all over this weekend.

I got my first Groupon photobook back today from Picaboo. I'd never used them before... I did a 90-page 11x14 album of my trips to Venice and Paris back in 2005. I have to say, I was really pleased with the results - it was great! The plan is that this is the first of a series... I want to do a book around this size for all of my trips, and then have mini albums and random layouts of things that I want to focus on just a bit more (like that South Africa safari mini album that's been half finished for about 2 years!)

I put in a bit about my new-found love of downloading new digital kits on Fridays,the hockey game I watched / listened to tonight while I was working, as well as the tweets from UDot about the crappy traffic on the drive home tonight. Just little things that make up my day, but I think years from now it will all be pretty cool to look back at.

okay, break over... time to get back to my other projects! I've got a deadline to hit in order to have things ready for Christmas, and my procrastination is getting out of hand :-P I tell myself that if I can buckle down and devote the weekend to getting it done, I can have a much lovelier and low-stress December. Wouldn't that be nice? sigh. We'll see how it goes. I'm notoriously bad about these weekend resolutions. lol.

TTYL!

Comments

[mariangeles_spain]

I'm loving your album!!!

I hope I can work on mine during the weekend :)

[Marie L]

I'm really loving your album. Can't wait to see more.

[Lorell]

What a pretty album cover, and I love those pages on the weather. Those little pockets with the memorabilia are so darned cute! I might have to try that, too. Everything is just gorgeous!