Archive for December, 2008

A late, but warm wish to you from me! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The photo is from our Christmas Eve and my mom’s Christmas tree. I’ve edited it a bit; loved that brightly colored Christmas decoration and wanted the surroundings to be less bright so I added a sepia layer and did some erasing….    The gift in the background was the largest gift under our tree – and the first one my kid decided to open. No surprise there – LOL. He loved what was inside it, though, and we both had a wonderful Christmas celebration at my parents place.

Hope you enjoy the holidays!

Hugs

I love Advent, but it is super busy, both at home and at work!!

I’ve had family services both this last weekend and the week before and there is lot’s to think about for the services to come. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday is filled with Christmas play with children from kindergarten and school. It is fun (more fun than I remembered) and today went so nice (even thought I were so tired!) – but it leaves me with a messy house and a kid that feel slightly neglected. Thankfully the weekend we’re going away – together – to visit my great friend that I don’t see often enough(!) I look forward to it and to spend some time Christmas shopping in our capital, Oslo (I haven’t been there for years).

Anyhow, this is just a small pop in to make sure you know I’m alive and enjoying the season, even though the days have their challenges. So before I go for some sleep I want to ask you this: What do you do when your kid struggles with the pain of death?!? MT is there at the moment and I have tried about everything I know to help him tackle it. This is gigantic thoughts for a 5 yr old, so I see why he’s struggling so hard – and I don’t want him to just swipe it under the rug and pretend it doesn’t bother him – but I’m looking for a way to make this a tiny bit easier on him!

Hopefully I’ll be back in a few days, there is more to the story with MT and I have lots of photos from our first 8th days of December. I’m keeping a journal of our days and I’m planning to make scrap pages from them as well, as a kind of December Daily by Ali. If I ever get around to it

Take care!!

We’ve had a lot of snow lately. Now we have winter wonderland and MT is sooooo happy!!

Lately I’ve been a CT (creative team member) for the Pretty Scrappy and for this months collab kit I got to make a BB QP (brag book quick page) and give away as a freebie

(here is more previews of the kit and another LO made by me!)

I did this with the QP:

Now it’s your turn. Download it by clicking the image. Please leave a comment when you do, this is my very first freebie and I’m excited and want to hear from you! Be kind

If you want more freebies from this kit check out the links at my scrapping blog!

Have a fun and blessed Advent!