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Hi!  It’s Mollie [readstoomuch] from the Heritage Challenge team of Mollie & Lynnie.  First of all I want to apologize for not moving our little section of the DD blog on to the new year!  I know that my Heritage post for the blog is very much like Lynnie’s from December.  But, I am having a hard time breaking away from Christmas it seems . . . I have a smattering of Christmas decorations out in our house that I am still enjoying so much now that our house (without grandchildren) is quiet again!  Our old Christmas photograph albums remain out on the tables and the more that I look at them; the more I want to record my thoughts about the photographs.  In actuality, I guess that I just want to keep Christmas in my heart and I’m still wanting to scrap a little bit of it even in January! Can you forgive me for not moving on?

Now, in case you haven’t guessed already . . . this month’s Heritage prompt is “a little bit more Christmas”.  Did your Christmas of 2010 bring back memories of Christmas’s past?  Do your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews remind you of a Christmas day from thirty or more years ago?  When I watched our young grandchildren run to their stockings and get so excited over the packages under the tree this year it brought back all sorts of good memories from the days when our children were the same ages.

I’ve only one example this month for the challenge . . . it is my own layout about Christmas Day of 1971 when our first two little boys were 15 months & 3 years old . . . and just before our third little boy was born.  It was the Christmas after my husband returned from Vietnam . . . and it was a very memorable holiday for our little family.

I used the following products from the Designer Digitals store:

Basic Paper Alphabet: Chocolate (recolored) – Katie Pertiet
Bead Scatterings No. 01 – Katie Pertiet
Christmas Whimsey Paper Pack – Jesse Edwards
Classic Cardstock:  All My Chicks – Katie Pertiet
Clustered Layered Template No. 08 (altered a bit) – Katie Pertiet
Cut-Ups: Christmas – Katie Pertiet
Dandy Life Paper Pack – Jesse Edwards
Happy Christmas Paper Pack – Jesse Edwards
Holly Christmas No. 02 - Jesse Edwards

I hope that you can take a temporary break from your newly started 365 Projects to take a look back and join me in reminiscing for a little while longer!  When you do, post your pages in the Heritage Gallery here at Designer Digitals so Lynnie & I can enjoy your memories along with you.  And, now . . . I am wishing each of you a very Happy New Year!

Have you gotten started documenting you past decade? Organizing all your photos? I really think that is the biggest part of this. And it’s good to do it now before more of the memories fade. If I didn’t have the pictures I think I’d be quite inaccurate about what happened that year and the memories all come flooding back when I see the photos.
Love that.
And here’s a brief recap of some 2001 hot topics to help you along:

George Bush became president
US and Britain attack Iraq
September 11
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone released
Bob Dylan had the album of the year
Britney Spears was still hot
Will & Grace, The West Wing and Ally McBeal were hot TV shows

It was a busy year all around the world with the tragedy that changed the world as we know it on September 11. If you don’t have pictures from 2001 you could always grab images from the net and document about how 9/11 changed your life.

This week we have two sets of templates to cover your layouts for the year 2001.

And these templates will be useful for so much more when this book is complete!

Check out how Jen used the templates for her pages! So fun to look back!

I hope you’ll join in this project to document YOUR decade and create a photobook your family will look through time and time again.

Congratulations to akpatterson. Her layout tiny fashionista has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on Creating Keylines with Rounded Corners in Photoshop and PSE.

I hope you’ve all stocked up on your brushes at the recent sale, because you’ll be wanting to lift this gem by bbe entitled “Natali’s Christmas 2010”.  I love the dark background contrast with this photograph and the clipping mask she’s used with the loopdaloop just scrolling through the page.  It’s really dramatic and at the same time gives us a glimpse of a special moment in time. 

Such a lovely page that I hope you enjoy getting that special photograph out and sharing the story of it. 

Sharon and Janet have had fun playing along with me and we’ve all come up with quite different takes on a theme, obviously Sharon and I are the chatty ones with our pages having lots of journalling!

Layout by Sharon, Credits:  Anna Aspnes:Showcase FotoBlendz Layered Templates No. 01,  ArtPlay Palette Thankful Heart (background paper).  Katie Pertiet: Alandia Rancheros Kit (alpha).

Layout by Janet, Credits: Products coming this weekend - Metal Rimmed Glittered Alpha Red No. 1, Lovisa Solids, Lovisa Paper Pack, Doodled Daisies, LoopDaLoop Layered Masks No. 1, Weathered Wood Word Strips No. 1.  Other products: Be Labeled: Harvest, Heart Strings, Staple Its!, Filed Photo Frames No. 04, Stitched by Anna Red No. 02, ModGrunge FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No. 01.

Layout by Carol, Credits:  Anna Aspnes: PotPourri Paperie No. 07, Easy TornEdges Layered Templates No. 01, FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No. 06, LoopDaLoop Melange ArtStrokes No. 01, MultiColor MagicFlares No. 01, FotoGlows No. 02.  Art Warehouse: Candles and Cake Solids Paper Pack.  Katie Pertiet: Leather Flowerettes.  Fonts : Texas Hero and Love Letter TW

Will be looking forward to seeing your lifts.