Stitch In Time

December Daily - Day 24

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house... thought I'd document how our son has been sleeping under the Christmas tree all month.  If you look really close you can see that's he's had company.

December Daily - Day 23

One of my favorite places on earth... Snoqualmie Pass

December Daily - Day 22

The truth is I hate shopping.  But I love window shopping, especially during the holidays.  And my favorite store window is always Tiffanys.

Last year was the carousel theme.  And this year was tiny furniture and houses. 

My other favotire store window is always Anthropologie...

this year they did a lot of cutouts...

It's always fun walking around Seattle this time of year..

December Daily - Day 21

I am a coffee addict and this year my husband got me a latte machine for Christmas which I've been enjoying every day (yes I opened it early).

I've gotten a couple of emails about the viewmaster which has been peeking through the pages of my December Daily and today's the day it finally appears.

You can make the viewmaster two different ways.  You can make it with this digital kit by Lori Whitlock available at jessicasprague.com,  Or Lori has the same file available as a die cut file for the Silhouette. You will need to go into the "Purchase Online" library in Silhouette and search for viewmaster.  Either way, you can just add some vintage images and voila..

I added it to some paper from October Afternoon and that was all there was to it. Super easy!.

December Daily - Day 20

The New York Times compares Leavenworth to the interior of a snow globe and they are pretty close.  It was magical there with carolers, and bonfires, and holidays lights.

What they don't mention is just how crowded it is there during Christmas.  There were people in front of us...

people behind us...

people to the side of us...

this was the line to get into the gingerbread shop...

and it was a sorry sight for those waiting to get into the hat shop...

we did spot a few familiar faces wandering through town though...

 

and the carolers were lovely..

Unfortunately every restaurant had at least a two hour wait, and it was really, really cold there.  Which is finally how we found the one place in town where there wasn't a line...

December Daily - Day 19

Taking the snow train to Leavenworth...

We realized at some point neither of our kids had ever been on a train before so we decided to take the "Snow Train".

It takes about 4 hours each way as you head up into the mountains but the scenery is beautiful...

the train was decorated really cute and they served breakfast on the way up and dinner on the way back, plus hot chocolate and cookies...

and there was a lot of entertainment on the train from magicians...

to barbershop quartets...

to Santa!

 

December Daily - Day 18

I spent the day at Les Schwab getting snow tires put on the car, but my husband got taken to the Hobbit movie at the Imax theater by his work (Amazon.com).  Afterwards he stopped off at the Seattle Center and took these photos of Seattle lit up during the holidays.

December Daily - Day 17

A flyer from the Nutcracker and on the opposite page some journaling behind a vellum overlay of what's happening in the world.

I'd also like to pass along that a group of designers from Kitschy Digitals

will be donating all their proceeds from this week's sales to benefit the community

of Newtown, Conn. 

For more information and a list of participating designers 

visit the Thompson Family Life Blog.

December Daily - Day 16

Catching up today.  A quick look of what we did over the weekend.  

I used an Ali Edwards' template for the circle, cut it out and adhered it to a half page.

December Daily - Day 15

A lunch date with my husband.  In February he was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer.  This spring he had chemo, radiation and experimental drug treatments.  A couple of weeks ago he had surgery and we can happliy report that everything is looking really good at this point.  He has been home recovering from the surgery and the two of us went out to a holiday lunch together at Maggiono's (Little Italy).

The vellum overlay and number tag are from Kelly Purkey's December Daily kit.