Hello and wishing you all a very happy and creative New Year! Although new horizons are beckoning and I'm looking forward in lots of ways, I haven't felt able to give these attention until completing my December Days album - and it's finally ready (after yet another proof-check!) to be sent off to Blurb for printing. (Part 1 is here). Below are many of rest of the pages, though there are quite a few of our lovely family (created from Whatsapp-ed photos and messages) that I'm not able to share. As you will see, we did a lot of walking; being outside every day at least once for a walk, and often twice despite the snow and ice, has become a firm part of our days. We are embracing the Scandanavian habit of Friluftsliv :).
On a shelf in a cupboard (because I don't want to be reminded of my failure-to-complete) languish a few unfinished December Days projects, so I am very pleased to have managed to bring this one to a proper end. Hoping that I'm setting my future self a good model for the rest of 2021! Sending you all warmest good wishes, Alexa.
The snow pictures are so pretty!!!
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Posted by: Dee | Saturday, 02 January 2021 at 07:38 PM
Using my friend's Insta account I've been following these posts. Such gorgeous photos.
Happy New Year Alexa to you & your family.
Posted by: Mary-Lou | Sunday, 03 January 2021 at 11:28 AM
Hi there, are these electronic scrapbook pages? Lovely images and I like that you have journaled about them. I am a paper scrapbooker but I don't ever journal much more that date and place. Not sure anyone will ever look at my books anyway but probably should start identifying the occasion and the people in the pictures, just in case.
I don't have unfinished or yet-to-be completed projects in a cupboard but instead, in several rooms in the house. The biggest is a mosaic tabletop I started 7 years ago. This has to be the year to finish things or toss them.
Posted by: Leslie Susan Clingan | Sunday, 03 January 2021 at 04:52 PM
I was going to ask the same question as Leslie, are these digital pages? They are so crisp and clear, your style is absolutely perfect!
Posted by: Deb | Tuesday, 05 January 2021 at 10:53 AM
Hello to Leslie and Deb, and thank-you so much for asking about the pages - yes, I design them in InDesign or Photosshop and make them into photobooks. The December Days has just gone off to be printed, so I hope to be able to show it in a few weeks :).
Posted by: Alexa | Wednesday, 06 January 2021 at 03:23 PM
Yippee for getting this completed - it looks wonderful! Happy New Year!
Posted by: Melissa Gross | Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 11:47 PM
There are lots of treasures in this post - like the baking story, the meeting with Mr. Claus and that ending quote. But what I will remember longest is friluftsliv! If I had known braving the cold weather had such a fanciful name, I would have been doing it more.
Posted by: Susanne | Monday, 11 January 2021 at 10:57 PM