Home for the Holidays | Sahin Designs

Sahin Designs just released Home for the Holidays collection, and I can not wait to add this collection to this years December Daily album. 

This collection is 30% off through November 30th, don't miss out! IF you're a newsletter subscriber, watch your inbox for your code to download the bundle for 50% off. Also, if you pick up the whole bundle, you will receive the printable colouring pages for free! 

I created this layout using the product.

Christmas this year, is going to look different. 

I've been focusing on joy. We put our tree up nearly two weeks ago. I had a sneaking suspicion that the white lights would make my heart happy. 

Guess what?

It did. 

The funny thing is, I've talked to so many people that have done the exact same thing. We are not letting Covid bring us down this year. We're making our own joy. 

Truthfully, that's one thing that we've learned over the past nearly 8 months. We have to control our attitude. Doing that makes a HUGE difference. 

So for now, I choose joy. 

This past Tuesday, our province was once again place in a State of Emergency. I'm much calmer about it this time around than I was last time. Though I was absolutely bewildered to walk past the toilet paper aisle and once again see it empty... What's up people? I will never understand this type of hoarding. 

The following Sahin Designs products were used: 

Elements: https://sahindesigns.com/products/home-for-the-holidays-elements/

Paper: https://sahindesigns.com/products/home-for-the-holidays-papers/

J.Cards: https://sahindesigns.com/products/home-for-the-holidays-cards/

Digital Stamps: https://sahindesigns.com/products/home-for-the-holidays-stamps/

PL2020 - Week 41 | Sahlin Studio

The days have become short.

It was super noticeable during week 41. We dropped Madelyn off at the rink for practice, walked Libby and raced to get back to the rink before it got dark. One positive aspect, the sunsets are amazing.  

Now, in mid-November, it's completely dark by 5:30. Probably even before that. This time of year is hard, that's one reason I've got all my Christmas decorations up. I love turning on the white lights. It just makes me happy. 

Week 41 of my project life album: 

• Checking out this amazing sunset through the trees of Confederation Golf course. 
• How surprised we were to see this rainbow one morning as Madelyn left for school. 
• Bought, thawed and cooked my first ever turkey.
• We had turkey with all the fixings, just the four of us. It felt weird. 
• Grateful for my crew, who all pitched in to get supper on the table. 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

Photo Journal Templates Magazine: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Photo-Journal-Templates-Magazine.html

Favourite Things & November Template Freebie | Sahlin Studio

Favourite Things is the brand new release from Sahlin Studio, it's just in time to prepare for the holiday season. It's on sale until Sunday night [November 16th] if you purchase the whole bundle, you can get it for 45% off. Product links are at the bottom of the post.  

 

This year will be my 12th December Daily album.  

It will also be my first time documenting Christmas during a pandemic. Covid-19 is still going strong, and numbers are once again rapidly rising. 

I'm not quite as anxious about Covid now as I was back in March. But I've also been home, almost exclusively, for the past 8 months. 

We plan to enjoy this year by decorating earlier than usual. Twinkling white lights, make everything better. We celebrated Easter and Thanksgiving this year, without extended family. We are FOR SURE taking extra precautions over the next 5 weeks, so we can safely get together with family for Christmas. 

I've started working on this years December Daily album. I've already got a few pages done. I'm super happy with how they turned out. 

I'm a sucker for the Hallmark Christmas movies. Every one here groans and sighs at me, but the movies are just so darn sweet. Right now, hopeful and sweet are where it's at. Also, I got Barry on board last year, by playing drinking games while watching said movies. [I'm not going to lie, it certainly added an element of fun] 

This years first Christmas movie premiered on October 31st. I've already watched 2 of them since then.  I plan to update my layout and mark off movies that have been watched.  

Aside from Hallmark movies, we do have a few other favs. It's the one time of year I can get Barry to watch romantic movies without many complaints. Well, as long as I promise to watch Die Hard at some point during the holidays. He assures me, it's the ultimate Christmas movie. 😂 I go with it, because I actually like John McClane, I've even been known to quote him a few times. 

Here are pages that I'll tuck somewhere into this years DD album, highlighting this years new movie line up.  

I also used Favourite Things collection to create a quick layout, using Novembers template freebie. [Available to download for free - click here, through the month of November]

I use snapchat strictly for it's filters. 

I honestly, have no idea how the app works. And I don't care. 

I do know that I get a lot of joy out of taking photos with my favourite people, while using these silly filters. 

I'm already looking forward to this years crop of silly photos. Here are a few from last year: 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-paper.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-elements.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-journal-cards.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/December-Days-No-6-Numbers.html

PL2020 - Week 40 | Sahlin Studio

Here is week 40 of this years project life album: 

• Waiting in the car at ringette practice, so much waiting...
• The Phantoms are looking pretty sharp with their new practice jerseys. 
• Enjoying each and every day of autumn. The colours are amazing. 
• While madelyn was at the Calgary Farmyard with her ringette group [wrangling chickens] Barry and I found a patio to hang out on. 
• Can't believe we're enjoying a morning coffee on the deck, in October. 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

Photo Journal No. 3 Templates + Stamps: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Photo-Journal-No.-3-Templates-and-Stamps.html

Good Times | Sahin Designs

The Good Times collection was just released from Sahin Designs. 

You can get it for 20% off through the weekend, check it out! 

Newsletter subscribers, watch your inbox for a 50% off the bundle code! 

It's the perfect collection to document the different ways of spending family time together. Baking, cooking and eating, to name a few. 

It's released just in time for the American thanksgiving. But like most everything else this year, that is bound to look a little bit different. 

In Canada, we celebrate thanksgiving the first part of October. 

This was definitely a weird thanksgiving for us. We celebrated it as our little 4-some. Taking no chances of spreading Covid to any family members. 

It was the first turkey dinner we've ever planned, cooked and executed without the help of my Mumma. Though the bird was a tad over done, Heather with no Feathers, was a gorgeous specimen. Making a turkey dinner feast with all the fixings, was quite a feat. Once finished, a great accomplishment. 

I learned a few things along the way, and will definitely try my hand at it again. It wasn't as scary as I'd made it out to be. I also started a 'turkey journal' to remember the size, weight, time cooked etc. 

Here's the layout I created, using Good Times: 

I'm so thankful for this crew of mine, who helped at the final stages, when we needed to bring everything together. My wish is we'll be able to have everyone over at Christmas. Crossing our fingers and toes. 

The following Sahin Desigsn products were used: 

https://sahindesigns.com/products/good-times-elements/

https://sahindesigns.com/products/good-times-cards/

https://sahindesigns.com/products/good-times-papers/

PL2020 - Week 39 | Sahlin Studio

Looking back at these 'fall' photos, I just feel like we were so lucky. 

Of course, I do wish the colours could stick around for longer. It would be lovely if we had mild days right through November. Alas, we live in Canada. The weather shifts and changes crazy fast. 

Here's my week 39 layout: 

• Picking Miss Mad up from school. 
• Enjoying the fall colours this year, as much as possible. 
• We grew sunflowers this year, they were a huge success. Will definitely grow them again next year. 
• Celebrating Barry's birthday. Candles can still be blown out, if you serve a cupcake. 
• Waiting... at the rink. Only the athletes and coaches are allowed in. 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

You are Here Elements: https://the-lilypad.com/store/you-are-here-elements-ss_youarehere_ep.html

You are Here J. Cards: https://the-lilypad.com/store/you-are-here-journal-cards.html

Lemonade | Sahin Designs

For Sahin Designs November creative gallery, I went back to sunny summertime. 

Madelyn has wanted to catch snakes, for as long as I can remember. 

This girl is absolutely fearless, when it comes to most things. 

The first snake we ever saw, was quite a few years ago, at Head Smashed-in Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta. The four of us were walking along some of the outside pathways and saw a large black snake ahead of us. Madelyn took off like a shot, headed directly for the snake. We all yelled stop! Thankfully she did, and the snake quickly slithered away. We think it might have been a bull snake. But didn't get a good enough look to know for sure. All I know is 3 of us stopped, and one wanted to investigate up close...

What I do know, it was a big snake. Also, I don't care much for snakes. 

She found a little snake in May, at her Grandma & Grandpa's house. Grandma was yelling "don't touch" but it was too late, she'd already scooped it up, fascinated by it. On our way home, all she could say was, this has been the 'best day ever'. 

On our camping trip near Pincher Creek, we saw 4 snakes. Madelyn caught 3 of them. 

I assume these were harmless little garter snakes, but I really have no idea. One thing I do know, she's not scared to catch things, that could potentially bite. 

I am. 

So she doesn't get her bravery from me. I don't like to pet strange dogs for heavens sake...

Naturally, I had to do a layout of her summer snakes. 

The following Sahin Designs products were used on this page: 

https://sahindesigns.com/products/lemonade-elements/

https://sahindesigns.com/products/lemonade-papers/

Home for the Holidays | Sahlin Studio

The November featured product for Sahlin Studio is Home for the Holidays. 

You can get it, through the entire month of November for 35% off!

For me, it came at the perfect time. Just when I'm beginning to think about putting my December Daily album together. 

December Daily... My most favourite, as well as the most 'all-encompassing', project of the year. 

This year, I didn't buy any new products for DD. Last year I was delighted with the Elle's Studio Document your December kit, but this year the shipping to Canada was off the charts. I just can't justify paying those prices in US dollars. 

So, this year, my album will be mostly digital. Though I have lots of left-over physical product from past years. I'm kind of excited about how it will turn out. I love some of my albums more than others, but what I do love is the 11 years of December Daily albums I can look back on. 

So, I created this 6x8 sized layout, that will be the title page, or close to the title page of this years album. 

We had family photos done in October. A Christmas mini session. It's been 2 years since we last had photos done. I am a photo person. Pictures bring me such joy. This is something that's worth doing, to me. I know I could have set up my camera and taken photos myself. [And sometimes I do] But the kids listen better, and don't roll their eyes as much when someone else is telling us what to do.

Looking forward to working on this years album. 

For sure a bright spot of 2020. 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Home-for-the-Holidays-Elements.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Home-for-the-Holidays-Papers.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/December-Days-No-4-Numbers.html