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December Daily® 2014 | Day Three

Welcome to
December Daily® 2014 | Day Three.

Here's my story for today:

"The boxes are out. The tree is up. There is stuff everywhere and I love it. My prayer and hope for this month is peace - in our home and in my heart. Slow. Calm. Cozy. I'm loving our evenings so far - fires in the fireplace, holiday books out, and twinkle lights. The cold temps and early darkness are just helping to foster coziness. We've also been doing early bedtimes. Rest and peace. Christmas movies. Snuggling. Quiet. No frenzy. No crazy making. All about making our own joy."

I'm really embracing the mess of getting everything up and making space for coziness right now. I know that the pace will likely pick up a bit as the month rolls on and especially as we get closer to the 25th, but for now I'm all about the calm evenings with my kids and the twinkle lights.

Also, heads up that I'll have a second post up later today sharing my completed Tuesday in my
Week In The Life™ album.

Here's a closer look at Day Three:

Day Three includes the back of Day Two - here you can see the back of the glitter tree (cut pattern paper to fit) and how I embossed the "S" with my contaminated white embossing powder (gold got in there last year I think).

The
gold foil 3x4 peace card came in the mail from my friend Cristina at Sweat Pea Ink. It is absolutely what I want for myself (and for others) during this season of light and I wrote about that in my journaling.

On the
3x4 journal card I stamped "the story of today" (x3) using red ink and hand-wrote my story and underlined the words.

Opposite my journaling and the 4-pocket page I added a 4 inch x 8 inch photo. On top of that photo I added one of the gold foil circles + the "daily life" chipboard piece from the kit. The two together will act as a page tab. I'll repeat another one of the gold foil circles on the back along with whatever I adhere to the photo page. I punched holes in the photo using the
Crop A Dile.

Here's a look at it in the album:

Here's a look at what the back looks like right now - tomorrow I will cover it with something. I'm thinking I might stamp a patten using the star stamps.