Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and already we are a week into it! Thank you to those who stopped by last week and left a comment to say hi. Remember to sign on as a follower as well if you like while you're here.

This week has been a busy one as my family finished celebrating Christmas on the 2nd, I started the Cathy Zeilske Design your life course being run by Big Picture Scrapbooking (www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com) and I started to sift through some of the 2009 photos to scrap as an end to the year (that certainly doesn't mean I have scrapped all I want to from last year). Of course this always takes longer than you think - way too many photos, so I am hoping to finish it this week to show you next week.

I did manage to scrap a Christmas page though before the New Year started. I was stoked about this because I think this is my first Christmas page. I rarely manage to scrap events, focusing more on moments (something I plan to work a little on this year), I always take way too many photos, have scrapped pages for other peoples albums from Christmas, but never managed one for any of our albums. So this year I started with Jaime's page and I am determined to do 1 for Jake before February.



It is a very simple page using Kraft and Bazzill white cardstock with RW laser cut raven alphabet letters for the title. I decided to keep the colours (or no colours) very neutral because Christmas photos are generally so bright they add enough colour to the page when you use multiple photos.

The other thing I have been pondering on this week is how I might record 2010. There are lots of ideas floating around as how different people are going to approach this. Last year I tried to join Nicole in her 52 week challenge on the Remember When blog, but I failed miserably. Because of this I think a weekly challenge is not in my league this year and a daily one is certainly out of the question. I think I might give a monthly one a shot though. So my plan to this point is '2010 - month by month'. I have some thoughts floating around in my head for this, so next week I will share these with you in more detail - trust me it will be simple. If you have any suggestions or ideas you would like to share with me about how you are recording 2010 please let me know. Or, alternatively if you would like to join me in my month by month record please let me know because I would love to have some company (it always helps to keep me motivated and on track). When I have the new gallery up and running I will set up a folder for you to share your layouts - however you choose to record 2010.

One last thing - January can be either a very busy or a very quiet month. If it is a quieter month for you then please join me in a sketch challenge this week. Below is the sketch. I will post my interpretation of it next week and hopefully share some others with you as well. Please email me yours to lee@rememberwhen.com.au


Feel free to use it as a 12 x 12 of alter it for an 8.5 x 11" layout. Have a great week and I will be back next Thursday.