Heritage Challenge No. 36 { A little bit more Christmas! }
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!
