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Day 9. December Daily

10/12/2014

Probably one of my favourite things about December is all the fresh summer fruits available. I love all the stone fruits available in abundance this time of year and nothing else but cherries reminds me Christmas is close. As for mangoes ... I could seriously eat them all day. We often get a tray of them and between the three of us they are gone in a day or two !!

Date card. Teal numbers from TSS kit. Freckled Fawn cork ornament backed with gold shiny cardstock and day stamp from Ali Edwards. Card is stamped with gold ink and using the Decemer stamp from Alu Edwards on a slant and repetitive.

Favorite wood veneer from Heidi Swapp Project Life kit.

Day 9. The fruits of the season.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee, Pinterest as Beth Patfull @gpirate and I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

This year I am on the design team for The Stamp Spot for documenting our December memories with many other talented members. Stop by these other great blog posts on December Daily:

Michelle Hunter http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watson http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collis http://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holder http://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetman http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Miller http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingerson http://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Young http://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Miller http://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au

Amy Tangerine http://www.amytangerine.com/blog

December Daily® is a December mini-album project initiated by Ali Edwards that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas. The simple goal is to capture the spirit of December via one story per day.

Beth xo

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Day 8. December Daily.

9/12/2014

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Today's page I added an insert - from Simple Stories Instagram page protector 6x8 with twelve 2x2 pockets. I really love this style to add lots of bits to the pockets.

My favourite square is this one. A teal 'zinged' flair button on a gold circle on top of white chevron transparency. On the flair I popped a little circle sticker from Freckled Fawn. Star washi tape and it's complete.

How it sits in my album with day 7.

My day 8. Everyday life around here with a teenage son.

We often get texts from our son from his bedroom asking for one of us to come there or more frequently to get him something to eat. We don't live in a huge house and when I got this text it cracked me up laughing. He has a great sense of humour. And yes he did get his own ice cream.

The date card is a sequin pocket made by Michelle and came in the kit from the Stamp Spot. Added the teal 8 with glossy accents on top and the day stamp from Ali Edwards.

Because today's story is about my son I embossed a cardboard letter J in gold Zing and added to the teal transparency.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee, Pinterest as Beth Patfull @gpirate and I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

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Day 7. December Daily

8/12/2014

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Quiet Sunday here. And a quick page in my December Daily album. I have noticed in the last week or two these amazing trees with their red/orange foliage. Just beautiful.

They are what are commonly called Flame Trees and are amazingly striking in their foliage (One of my favourite Cold Chisel songs is Flame Trees!). I snapped this whilst driving home from shopping (and I did pull over to the side of the road first !!).

It really is amazing when you do stop and look around, what amazing things you see. I know I have changed in what I take photos of now is way different to what I used to take years ago. Project Life and projects like this have encouraged me to look for photos alongside the usual photos I take.

Now for my day 7.

The date card is a simple one - Teresa Collins card, a Freckled Fawn number with some red glitter cardstock and the day stamp from Ali Edwards.

This filler card was just perfect for this day and how amazing things are when you stop and look.

A 'lovely' wood veneer from Freckled Fawn adhered to the photo.

How it is together and in my album.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee, Pinterest as Beth Patfull @gpirate and I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

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Day 6. December Daily

7/12/2014

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Before I start on today, I obviously spoke too soon with Axel growing out of his 'chewing anything and everything that is lying around' stage. This morning after work I came home to find this ----

My very favourite and the best craft scissors, in pieces. My Cutterbee scissors. Handles chewed and in bits. The blades are still okay but not much use without the handles. Grrrr.....

Christmas decorations. Usually we put up the tree on December 1st but for some reason (most likely too many night shifts) we put in up in stages during the week. We have a few Christmas trees (!) ranging in size from small table top ones to a 6 foot one that we have had since Jacob was a baby. We did actually use the big one most years we were on the yacht - it sat in one corner of the saloon (our yacht had 7 foot headroom so it was perfect).

This year we decided to use our small fibre optic tree, decorated as well and placed on our Ikea bookcase.

Simple but decorated. Of course there is a touch of teal in there !!

My pages for day 6. The left side has two photos of tree decorations plus two cards made from the Stamp Spot kit. The day card is from Teresa Collins and I added the teal number 6 with Glossy Accents on top. The Saturday stamp is one of Ali Edwards older sets I've had for a long time. The 'Joy' stamp is patterned card from Teresa Collins and I handwrite the Joy with an embossing pen and used red Zing on it. The trees were made by Michelle at the Stamp Spot and originally were on a 3x4 card. I just trimmed around the trees (with my now eaten Cutterbee scissors !!) and adhered to the bottom of the card.

The tree. A 4x6 photo on a transparency from Studio Calico with some wood veneer stars.

The transparency between the two pages.

The right side. Two photos of the tree. The top right pocket is a glassine bag onto which I added some burlap and vellum which has a gold embossed star stamp (Ali Edwards) on it (made by Michelle again). Added the Tis the Season from Teresa Collins Tinsel and Co collection and some teal enamel dots. A gold tag sits in the pocket with journalling for the day. It's not hidden for a reason - just is the spot for it.

As it appears in my album.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee, Pinterest as Beth Patfull @gpirate and I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

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Day 5. December Daily.

6/12/2014

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Today was pretty quiet in this household. I had worked night duty so slept for about 5 hours. My son (I was told !) played a few games on his Xbox and then went for a walk in the afternoon with his dad and the dog. Axel (the dog) is a 14 month old blue staffy. He was our Christmas present to all of us last Christmas.

This was Axel last Christmas as a puppy.

He has gotten over his puppy love of chewing shoes, cardboard, balls, rocks ... well just about anything that was around. He now (thanks to hubby) has numerous handmade rope balls with extra rope lengths that he plays with and chews and pulls to bits. These last so much longer than store bought dog chew toys. Simon makes them out of boat rope (the toys are made in the design of what's called Monkey Fists - ball at one end of a length of rope).

Axel LOVES playing with these.

He has had one for a few months which is looking a bit worse for wear so Simon decided to make him a new one. This one is made of thicker rope so will probably last longer than the last one.

There is nothing better to Axel to grab his rope and run up and down the backyard, swinging the rope from side to side - often with the ball whacking him in he side of his head as he goes. Crazy dog hey !!

Running up the backyard!!

And down again !! Too quick for me to capture on my phone.

He often grabs the rope and presents it to us if we are outside, for a tug of war. These always end with him winning. There is no way he is going to loosen his grip on that rope.

Anyone for a tug of war ?

He really is a beautiful dog. Such unconditional love he shows. He just loves when we are outside - he obviously thinks it's playtime and tug of war time !! But he's just as happy to run around and whack himself in the head !!

Here are my pages as they appear in my album. I added a larger photo of Axel. At the moment I just added holes to the photo and popped in the album. I will pop it into a flip flap (when I can find it !!)

The two pages with the larger photo turned.

The left side. The date card from the kit from te Stamp Spot with a Sn@p DOG collection card in the pocket. The other side of the transparency I used from Day 4. The 6x4 journal card is from the Sn@p DOG collection also.

The right side.

The right side without the larger photo on top. I will be adding extras to this page - but I have now got to have some sleep (night duty last night and really should have been asleep 4 hours ago !!)

Close up of the date card. This was made with the kit from the Stamp Spot. I added a Sn@p 'Dog collection' card that I had trimmed.

Close up of the journalling card.

Sorry for the puppy dog overload !! He is a special member of our family.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee. On Pinterest as Beth Patfull @gpirate. I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

Also stop by these other great blog posts on December Daily:

Michelle Hunter http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watson http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collis http://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holder http://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetman http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Miller http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingerson http://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Young http://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Miller http://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au

Amy Tangerine http://www.amytangerine.com/blog

December Daily® is a December mini-album project initiated by Ali Edwards that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas. The simple goal is to capture the spirit of December via one story per day.

Beth xo

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Day 3. December Daily

4/12/2014

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Today was my sons' last day of school or the year. He has summer holidays until January 27. His plans include, but are not limited to, Xbox Xbox and more Xbox !! Got to love being a teenage boy. He has a mate coming over for the day tomorrow (most likely to join in playing Xbox !!).

I managed to get a photo (a miracle in itself!) of him after school - I think he obliged because of his excitement of not having to go to school for the next 7 weeks !!

Here is the left side of today. All cards are from the Stamp Spot kits. I added a wood veneer 'happy' from Freckled Fawn and some cord arrows from Studio Calico to the left card. The day card has the teal alphas from TSS adhered and Glossy Accents on top. The flair button is handmade by Michelle at TSS.

The cork frame is from Freckled Fawn Xmas kit and the stamp 'school's out' is from Kellie Stamps.

Today was a very sad day for many Australians. Phillip Hughes, a 25 year old from Macksville in NSW, was fatally injured playing in a Sheffield Shield match on November 25th. He had represented Australia in numerous Test matches and was an amazing opening batsman. This tragedy resonated throughout all of Australia and the world. Many took to social media with hashtags #63notout (he was batting and was on 63 runs when he was hit in the head by a bouncer) and #putoutyourbats - a symbolic gesture by Australians placing their own cricket bats and caps outside their front doors. To say it has rocked Australia is an understatement. Cricket is as Australian as you get. I think every home in Australia has a cricket bat and ball in it. Childhood memories of beach cricket, backyard cricket, street cricket and on Christmas Day after lunch are probably ones that many many Australians have. Phil Hughes epitomised the Australia way. Work hard. Follow your dreams. Smile and make people laugh. The boy from the country becoming a National and international sporting star. He could have been your son, brother, nephew, cousin or friend and I think that is why this whole thing touched so many people.

So I thought I would just put a simple photo of Hughesy on a teal transparency and attach #63notout in black thickers (Amy Tangerine).

Here are the 2 pages together. As they appear in my album.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

You can find me on Instagram as @bluepondbee and I will also be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

Also stop by these other great blog posts on December Daily:

Michelle Hunter http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watson http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collis http://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holder http://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetman http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Miller http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingerson http://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Young http://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Miller http://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au

Amy Tangerine http://www.amytangerine.com/blog

December Daily® is a December mini-album project initiated by Ali Edwards that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas. The simple goal is to capture the spirit of December via one story per day.

Beth xo

Today was bittersweet in terms of my DD layout. I wasn't going to include the farewell of Phillip Hughes but after watching the televised funeral, I felt completely drained and sad. Complete opposite to the happiness Jacob felt today.

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Day 4. December Daily

4/12/2014

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First day of summer holidays here for the boy. He has a mate over for the day and gaming is on the agenda.

This page is pretty simple. A 6x4 pic of my son and his friend in his room (the cave as it's commonly referred to!!).

The date card is from the Stamp Spot kit with some extra washi tape and some wood veneer stars. The number 4 is a Freckled Fawn wood veneer embossed with teal Zing.

The other card is a simple one. A Studio Calico transparency with a Freckled Fawn wood veneer coloured with red sharpie.

The two top cards close up.

Close up of the left card.

Close up of the date card.

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Day 1. December Daily

3/12/2014

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December 1 is the beginning of Summer here in Australia. I love December weather for its warm days and that the humidity not as bad as in the latter weeks of summer.

Today hubby and I started a big clean up of things we need to sell. It's amazing what you find when you clean up. I found Jack the Pirate Elf (a pirate beanie bear that travelled with us when we were sailing). He became an Elf one December and got up to similar mischief that the Elf on the Shelf Elves get up too. I thought it might be fun to bring him out again this year.

A recap of my cover page front and back. I used goodies from my stash, some from The Stamp Spot Documenting December kits, WRMK Teresa Collins Instagram kit, transparencies from Studio Calico and Hambley Screen Prints, wood veneers from Studio Calico and Freckled Fawn.

Cover page under the 'hello' sequin pocket. The 3x4 sequin pocket was made by Michelle from the Stamp Spot. I added a 'hello' from Freckled Fawn which I coloured with a red Sharpie and added Glossy Accents to. The alpha stickers are from Teresa Collins Tinsel and Co.

Back of the cover page. Some digital elements from Ali Edwards plus transparencies from Hambley Screen Prints, cork stickers from Studio Calico.

Here is my Day 1 for December Daily.

I managed to get a photo of the 3 of us - a fairly rare occurrence these days !! The tree is from the Very Merry Christmas kit from Freckled Fawn. It is made from cork - I heat embossed it with Gold Zing and backed it with some teal glitter cardstock to show through in the stars.

Secret Santa for Jacob's class all wrapped and delivered.
Jack is back !! As mentioned above, Jack the Pirate Elf made an appearance a few years back. As my son is 14 he is probably a little old for the Elf on the Shelf tradition which I found out about only a few years ago. Jack was one of his toys from his early days and was a bit of a mascot for us when we were living on the yacht and sailing (we lived on a yacht for 10 plus years until 18 months ago). I'm actually looking forward to seeing what mischief Jack gets up to this year!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a look. I will be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

Also stop by these other great blog posts on December Daily:

Michelle Hunter http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watson http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collis http://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holder http://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetman http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Miller http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingerson http://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Young http://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Miller http://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au

Amy Tangerine http://www.amytangerine.com/blog

Beth xo

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Day 2. December Daily.

3/12/2014

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Today started off like many days of December will, with me being at work on night duty. Working in the Special Care nursery for sick and premature babies. I cared for a little baby who was struggling since being born earlier in the day. It really does make me so much more appreciative and thankful that my own son, nieces and nephews and friends' babies were all robust and healthy when they were born. Anyone that knows me, knows I have a love for baby feet and toes - so darn cute those 5 little toes on each pudgy little foot !! I'm often taking photos of random baby feet !!

This quote from Ali is great.

More cleaning and sorting today by hubby whilst I had a sleep. He cooked dinner and tried a new sauce recipe from Pete Evans cookbook. A new spin on pesto with tarragon. It asked for anchovies which he left out. Bit of a massive fail !! To say it was akin to paint stripper is pretty close !! Maybe it needed the anchovies after all !!

After dinner we all went for a walk around here and saw some of the house Christmas decorations. So lovely to see. My favourite tonight was an inflatable Kombi van with Santa - so Australian.

I printed out this quote on my Picturemate 4x6 size and adhered to an overlay from Studio Calico. Simple. I love this quote.

Here is my Day 2 as it is in my album. I have tried to keep it simple and tell one story from the day. Photos I've taken today may appear later in the month though. It's all December memories after all.

With the day card (I think it is from Teresa Collins WRMK collection) I added a Freckled Fawn wood veneer number backed with red glitter card. Stamped the day (Ali Edwards stamp) with black Stazon. The journal card is one from Studio Calico Project Life kit.

The 4x6 card is made from the kits from the Stamp Spot. Those cute little toes !!

Here is how it looks in the album.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look. I will be linking up to Ali Edwards December Daily posts on her blog.

Also stop by these other great blog posts on December Daily:

Michelle Hunterhttp://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watsonhttp://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collishttp://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holderhttp://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetmanhttp://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Millerhttp://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingersonhttp://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Younghttp://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Millerhttp://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au

Amy Tangerinehttp://www.amytangerine.com/blog

Beth xo

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A giveaway for you ! Winner announced !!

30/11/2014

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The winner of the flair badges is Margaret with a correct guess of the number 8 !! Congratulations Margaret - send me an email at - bluepondbee@outlook.com - with all your details to get your prize quickly !!!

Thanks everyone who entered.

Thanks to The Stamp Spot for sponsoring this giveaway.

As you probably know, this year I am one of a number of guest designers for Michelle Hunter and The Stamp Spot daily Christmas album, Documenting December. The Stamp Spot has an amazing array of scrapbooking, Project Life and stamping goodies, including many handmade products by Michelle herself.

Michelle has generously organised for each guest designer to have a giveaway on their blogs.

The prize is ---- 3 exclusive to The Stamp Spot Christmas flairs as shown below. These will look awesome on any Christmas project.

To win my giveaway all you need to do is comment on this post and choose a number between 1-200. The first to select my number will be the winner. Simple!! The giveaway is open now to Australian residents only (sorry), will close on Sunday November 30th at 7pm (AEST - ie Brisbane time). The winner will be notified on this post. To ensure you get these yummy flair the winner must make contact with me within 24 hours. If no contact is made a redraw will occur. In the event of multiple correct answers, the first to comment with the correct answer wins. In te event of no correct answer, the first person closest to it will win.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck !!

Beth xo

Why not stop by the other guest designers and enter their giveaways as well.

The Stamp Spot and December guest designers blogs -----

Michelle Hunter http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com

Tanya Watson http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com/

Stacey-Lee Collis http://www.getonwithitalready.me

Beck Holder http://beckholder.weebly.com

Melinda Sweetman http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com

Amanda Horne http://www.scrapping-our-blessed-life.com/

Bernii Miller http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au

Gabrielle Ingerson http://mostlysunshineandrainbows.blogspot.com.au/

Kirsteen Young http://lifeinthecraftlanek.blogspot.co.uk/

Amanda Miller http://mypladventure.blogspot.com.au