Pixel Scrapper December 2017 Blog Train - Home For The Holidays

I guess everyone has their own sense of what "Home for the Holidays" means.  I haven't had that feeling in such a long time.  Things changed once we moved to Florida.  I don't know if it is the warm weather or the fact that most of the family that made it feel like "Home" are now gone.  I remember growing up, we would decorate the house from top to bottom and it was a 3 story house (4 if you include a full basement).  We always had the biggest tree we could find. We don't have that down here.  I did my best when my boys were growing up but it just didn't feel the same....for me.  We would spend days baking cookies and go to parties that our parents would drag us to...we grumbled about it but always ended up having a great time and never ready to go home.  I would love to be able to turn back time.

I bake now but for the most part, I do it by myself.  I think I touched on this subject in my previous post...how the cookies never last a day and I have to bake more.  I don't mind since it's a once a year thing.  It's just too hot down here to do any type of baking any other time of the year.  We really won't see much cold weather until mid to late January and February.  It's great but at Christmas, the cold weather makes it feel more like home.  My sisters and I would put on our snowsuits and grab our sleds and go down the "mountains" (really it was just a hill at the park, lol).  We loved it so much, we would have icicles in our hair and we would be so cold but never wanted to stop.

Needless to say...for some reason, all of that fun was so complicated to put into design so this is what I came up with.  I hope you like it.  Enjoy.

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Here are a few journal cards I made, they are 3.5 x 5 inches. 

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