Life Starts to Roll Again

Back to work. Back to the routine. Back to business and the comings and goings of day to day life.

Even me being sick- my vacation was wonderful!!

But I will admit, even though getting up this morning was TERRIBLE (it is only 9 degreee F here -brrr-plus who sleeps great the night before work after a vacation??-Katie is also traveling to Ohio and I am being a mom-concerned all is alright as they drive overnight-love that iPhone tracker for her),
 I am OK to have the routine

 back.

And boy, Christmas seems like a long time ago to me.

So did everyone have a great New Years?

Went to see the movie Lincoln on New Years Eve and I really really liked it. Then we finished up watching the Batman trilogy (my vacation-the Lord of Rings Trilogy, lots of True Blood and the Batman trilogy).

Inspired me to make a holiday journal page-snippet of it above. I love this set from Dynamics/My Favorite Things. I used it to make the popcorn boxes and the old time movie camera.

I also used a small piece of Tim Holtz film strip.

I made this page about a snowy day when Katie and I hung out in front of the tv for hours.

Actually, we did that 2 snowy days and 1 not so snowy day.

 Yesterday we cleaned up the holiday decorations-always sad to do, and so much work, but once done-it feels wonderful. Ready for a new year.

Oh I read a couple of books too in my sickness-

 and 
Going for some fast brainless easy reads right now. Just perfect on this cold winter days when you are not watching tv but a slug on the couch anyhow.

How about a few more snippets from my holiday journal?

 Here's the whole page....

was inspired by the October Afternoon sticky pin I used in the center of the page.

And if we flipped 12 around we get 21.

Notice the circle with the 21 on it? It is a gelli plate design in purple and blues with snowflakes.

I love playing with paint and my gelli plate. I have a 6x6 plate but I would love a bigger one. I see on their web page they now make a 12x14 inch plate. Expensive but would be lots of fun for journal pages. I would like the 8x10 version.

I like how every time you print you get a unique image. And you can create really cool layered images using it.

I also used a sticker on this page of the Abdominal snowman from Rudolph. Found it in my stash and though he'd work here,

So vacation may be over but I am still working on my holiday journal. Need to do a marathon sitting down to finish up- I am all the way up the 12/23. 

Need to do this since I am ready to move onward to some new less holiday art.

Thanks for visiting -have a great day!