2024 September, October & November!

Since I opted to share the calendar covers by themselves, I'm finishing off the whole calendar in this post. 

For September I usually do a back to school theme: 

October is, of course, Halloween themed: 

And then November was all about family: 

And that's the calendars we gave our families this year! 

2024 May & June

Today I have the May and June pages to inspire your creating.

For May, I put the mom's on, and this page has the a few major events.

My kids don't love when I put things in a month it didn't happen, but we wanted a page of our trip to South Dakota, and the paper I chose worked for June best, even tho we went in September. 

then dad's (and grandpa) with their kids for June for my parents.

It's a Small World!

I know a lot of people have intensely strong opinions on this ride, haha... But we were trying to 100% the park and hit everything we could. And this is the kids' first trip so it has to be ridden! haha!

If you look at the very first photo, you can see the sun is still UP. My husband was handed the timer lanyard and told to give it to the person at the entrance. At that time, it was supposed to be a 35 minute wait. It was over an hour, thanks. And dark when we finally got on the ride. And, if you're curious, they didn't update the time, they left it at 35 minutes. We were tired, lol, and did a lot to deal with the long wait. And maybe some of us were rethinking the decision to wait for a ride with a hotly divisive reputation, haha! 

The ride itself, for four of us, haha, was fun. I rode this 22 years before, so for me, I was surprised to see they had added little dolls of the movie characters. I had no idea! And that's what a lot of these photos are of- is the movie characters like Cinderella, Ariel, Mowgli... And then my husband ended up with a good headache after listening to the song thru the ride! 

But to scrap THIS many photos and capture this iconic ride is actually a bit tricky. There's 28 pictures on this layout. I asked my kids what colors come to mind, and what about it. So of course the music, and then we all kind of thought light colors... maybe the pink is the lighting? maybe the blue is the water since it's a boat ride? So I "stamped" the music in yellow on to pink "paper" and then I scribbled the blue randomly over it and this is what I got. It kind of adds to the chaos, and also works really well to me, hahaha! 

Back to the Calendars!

I hope you had a beautiful Christmas day with loved ones! I decided to save the last of the calendar pages for the rest of this month now that they've been given, so let's go!

This page doesn't look much like March, but my mom's least favorite color in the world is green (her mother was obsessed and went completely overboard filling her life with green, haha). So by the time I got to this page, I'd already done three green pages plus the cover, so I promised her no more focus-on-the-color-green, haha! Her favorite color is purple, and since I already thought the next best thing to a green March page was a St Patrick's Day rainbow, I pulled shades of blue and purple from this fun rainbowy print.

And here is the April page for the same calendar. It's a little tricky getting everybody on there, and sometimes I just can't! But here's a good attempt!

February

May as well continue on, right? haha... here is the February page, and really, the very last page I made. I tell you what, every year I think I need to take more GROUP pictures, and every year I think I need to get started on this way earlier. Both definitely apply to today too! haha... Hooray for determination.
Anyway, another simple page, but I'm happy with it.

Missed pages...

When I started sharing these pages I only had one calendar done, so here are the pages I would have shared if the second one was done too!

January:

 February:

March:

 April:

September & October Pages

Another day for calendar pages! Which are completely done, btw, and they're even on their way in the mail!!
I happen to love how both September pages came out, even tho they are completely different.

I also really like the October pages!

How about you? Are you ready for Christmas yet??

Calendar Pages 2

So the other day when I started these, I totally lied to you. I have scrapbooked since last Christmas, but not a lot. I made a wedding album for my brother and his wife. I don't think I even shared that here, but I made it, and they have it. Same style of scrapping- MDS pages, little to no journaling, lol....

Here are the March and April pages...to remind you that it used to be warm...haha...

I knew I picked green for March because of spring finally arriving and St Patrick's Day, but this is the moment I realized I picked purple for April both calendars too, haha!

November & December round 2

Today is Sunday so I'm going to share a serious focus-on-the-family set with you. Both of these pages are for my parents calendar, hence the tons of photos, haha.

You probably recognize the November layout...It looks a lot like the one I did for my in-laws HERE. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Well, the colors and the DP and the stamps are the same, but I added words, and several photos. All but two of these shots came from Thanksgiving Day 2015. I told you it was a crowd, and it was also a great day. Which is why I took over 250 photos... Aren't they glad we narrowed it down to only 14 photos for this layout?? hahaha....

Supplies:
MDS: Wonderfall DP, Wonderfall stamp images (leaves, words)
Colors: Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

And the December page! This uses photos from last December, throughout the month. I debated between adding more photos and breaking it up with the DP/stamp blocks...but for now, this is how it ended up!

Supplies:
MDS: Winter Post, Old St Nick, Days In December images; Letters To Santa DP; Victoria Ribbon
Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Old Olive, misc.

Grand Old Flag

Happy Monday to you! Wonder if I get to relax after this weekend...? hahaha...right...
But, I DID make this page to fit a challenge about the song "Grand Old Flag". The page is all about our 4th of July this year, I got a flag, or eight, and some red and blue, so I'm pretty sure it fits. I know, its a ton of photos for one page, but I still had another "chapter" of the day left that will need its own pages, haha...so this is what I got.

Supplies:
MDS: Land of the Free

Autumn Weekly Pages

Here are two more pages from my weekly project, these are of October. Most of these pages have been crammed full of photos, and I like it that way. I would like to use more stamps, but I also really want the photos to be the focus of this project- to SEE what we do with our lives... *grin

Supplies:
MDS, Content Disks