JYC days 1 and 2 and advent box

Yesterday was the 1st December which meant the start of Shimelle's journal your Christmas (JYC). The 1st was my manifesto of why I'm doing this and what I hope to achieve by doing it. I wonted to take some snaps of Christmas decs to go with the journaling but thought I was out of luck until in the afternoon work put up a few real trees around the building so managed to get some close ups of the bubbles. Today was to do with the weather over the holiday period. My page is about snow as it is my wish for snow over Christmas, I know not likely, but as we have had some small snow flurries other the last few day I live in hope. This page isn't finished as I still need a pic and my journaling will be hidden under the pic.

Here is the yesterdays entries

Today's entry

And Finaly before I go here is the last of the Advent boxs I made this for a friend at work.

As promised

The other week, here is the other advent box I have made for my Mum. As you probably can see it still needs numbers on the draws. I went for a classy approach with this one so I didn't use Christmas papers, but went for green and cream with a creamy poinsettia on the top and a small amount of stickles glitter glue to add some sparkle.

Now for those of you who are not to sure whether your allowed to be Christmasy yet...

I took a group of students to the Trafford Centre this morning to go bowling and on the big screen they showed the Coke cola advert so that means that YES you are allowed to be Christmasy...lol

Whats your Christmas advert?

A Crafty Weekend

Yes I have been crafting away this weekend, there is nothing like getting covered in paint and glue to get the old inspiration going. Having seen all those lovely advent boxes about especial the ones on Ladybird Ladybird's Blog and Misteejay's Blog I thought I would have a go. Not having checked out the pics of them first mine turned out a little different as I did four rows of six boxes instead of eight groups of three (if you check out the above blogs you will see what I mean) But I'm still very pleased with the out come. I also had a little trouble with some of my draws sticking so after a little contemplation I came up with the idea to rub a candle long the sides and bottom of each draw, this worked perfectly. I just need to find some more match boxes preferable the wider boxes so I can make one for my Mum. Oh and what do you do with all the matches??? haha

I have also joined Shimelles Journal your Christmas class which I'm itching to start. I have never done anything like this before the only online classes I have done have been cyber crops on UKS. The fact that its a journal is daunting and a little scary. As I told you all when I started this blog writing is not my strong point as Im dyslexic. writing on the PC isn't to bad, but by hand...argggggg, Oh well in for a penny in for a pound!

Here is a pic of the lovely Christmasy stash I have bought to do the journal with.