December Daily Day 6

December Daily Day 6, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Here's Day 6 of my take on Ali Edwards' December Daily project.

Day 6 finds me...

*having a quiet day, not much going on

*getting leftover bits of housework done

*spending the day finishing up my new Advent Journal (bottom photo)

*having taco salads for dinner

*taking a photo to document the cold, gray day we had only to find that it was too late in the day and thus too dark for a photo...hence the large black rectangle (If you look really REALLY closely you can see the tree outlines. sigh. It was pretty cool on my camera.)



I followed Cindy's instructions for my Advent Journal...find that here. I used an old German textbook, ripped out enough pages to get the desired number of pages doubled. (I needed 24 days for Advent, so I left 48 pages in the book.) Sewed two pages together for strength, adhered the Scripture verse for the day on the left side and my notes on the right. Came out so cool! I totally want to make more of them! =D


Stay crafty, my friends!

~Cynthia

December Daily Day 5

December Daily Day 5, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Day 5 of playing along with Ali Edwards' December Daily finds me....

*getting the last touches on my Christmas cards done

*mailing all of my Christmas cards...finally (Relief!!)

*enjoying more hiking in the gorgeous warm weather

*eating my current cheese obsession: Laughing Cow Creamy Swiss (Mmmmmm)

*laughing at the Altoids Mints wrapper thing (NOT FOR THE FAINT OF TONGUE)--hilarious!

*taking inspiration from Cindy at Serious Play for a cool Advent journal


And that's it for Wednesday! If you've never thought of playing along with a December Daily-type album/project because you thought your life was too boring to document....do it anyway. Your life can in no way be more boring than mine and I'm having a lot of fun working on this album!! ;-)


~Cynthia

December Daily Day 4

December Daily Day 4, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Day Four of the December Daily journey! Even if you're not into this project, you GOTTA check out all the awesome pages linked up on Ali Edwards' blog!! Such inspiration, I tell ya!! =D

So Dec 4 found me....

*finally getting my tree up and going

*messing around with my digital camera (I'm totally an old school film chick, but it's so much fun hitting the Delete Button on a digital camera!!! No film waste! Love that!)

*enjoying, loving, wallowing in the 73 degree weather! (Wearing shorts outside in December? Yes, please!)

*clearing off the To Do List (LOVE that feeling!)



Thanks again for checking out my page--I appreciate your visit!!


~Cynthia

December Daily Day 3

December Daily Day 3, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

Day 3 of playing along with Ali Edwards' December Daily finds me...

*eating a taco salad for dinner (It looks kinda gross in the photo, but it was DARNED GOOD!)

*doing laundry (Cuz it's Monday.)

*taking a photo of that CrAzY Santa thing, which tends to roam around the house getting into mischief (Kind of like those Elf on the Shelf things, but scarier.)

*tucking in a note that CrAzY Santa thing wrote while getting caught while doing mischief

*reveling in the WARM temperatures (Cell phone screen shot.)

*heading to Walmart for groceries (Cuz it's Monday.)

*and finding trash (the Fiskars tag) and hundreds of tiny silver stars scattered on the trail I hiked in the afternoon.

Now, seriously. Who thinks to themselves...I would like to go hiking today. Where are my tiny little silver stars?? =O

I spent quite a bit of time picking up what seems like a lifetime star supply thinking they would look AWESOME in my Dec Daily album. But if I ever run out....I know where to find more! ;-)


Oh, and yes, Jules, that is my handwriting! =D With all the mistakes and misspellings and everything else--you're so sweet!! =D




Thank you SO much for taking the time to stop by! I've really enjoyed checking out other crafters' Dec Daily pages too!


~Cynthia

December Daily Day 2

December Daily Day 2, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

**Scroll down for Day 1!**

Just catching up on the Dec Daily posts here. =D


Sunday was about...

going to worship

the First Sunday in Advent

watching an all-day-marathon of "NCIS"

watching birds in the backyard

drinking IBC Root Beer

enjoying beautiful weather

resting



~Cynthia

December Daily Day 1

December Daily Day 1, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

And so it begins...

December Daily, Day 1

So today's big story was the missing Baby Jesus. My Mom was putting the Christmas lights on the bushes outside. (See how happy she is with that job???) I was putting up her nativity set inside. But I couldn't for the life of me find the Baby Jesus.

Now...you just CANNOT have a nativity scene without Jesus, can you??

So we went on a chase. I looked under stuff and in stuff and around stuff. No Baby Jesus.

My Mom was looking in the storage room where all the Christmas decorations are kept and just happened to move the vacuum cleaner.

And there was Baby Jesus.

Under the vacuum cleaner.

It was horrible and probably sacrilegious and hysterically funny all at the same time! I'm sure there's some sort of deep spiritual lesson God was trying to teach us with that. ;-)

So naturally, I had to document it with a photo. See the brown linoleum shot? That tiny wooden rectangle thing in the middle? That's the Baby Jesus.

He's currently hanging out with the angels, awaiting Christmas morning.

Safe and sound.



Thanks for stopping by today! Don't lose Baby Jesus in the midst of the holiday madness. He's the Reason for the Season! ;-)

~Cynthia

Tim's December Tags

Tim's December Tags, a photo by HikerCynthia on Flickr.

It's December first and you know what that means!! TIM TAG TIME!!! Woot woot!!

AND as if that weren't enough, Tim gave us TWO tags! He skipped January and is now "paying" us back! Awesome!!! =D

Check out Tim's blog for the low-down and technique goodness.

I'm super happy with the left one--those Metallic Distress Stains rock my world!!

The one on the right....meh. It has its good things (that background is so cool and the poinsettia came out awesome) and its bad things ( I don't have ANY charms, dang it!!) I ended up using jingle bells.....maybe after I think about it for a while I'll MacGyver something up!!



Thanks so much for stopping in to check out my tags! I appreciate your visit!!

And Merry Christmas!!!! =D


~Cynthia