30 Days of Gratitude: Days 5-10

For the first time, I'm participating in 30 Days of Gratitude. I even joined a FB group with other listers. While many use mini albums to document, I created a simple insert to my regular PL pages. You can see my prep work in this post. Once the month started, I realized that I did't really want the extra duty of picture taking, so I'm going strictly with journaling. I thought I would share my daily cards and a few extra decorative ones.

Day #5: All about sweater weather. It's still warm here, but slightly cooler. The mornings are cool enough to actually wear a sweater!

Day #6: I knew I wanted to incorporate some of my closest people as part of the month. Today I am grateful for J.

Day #7: After thinking about J yesterday, I had to highlight being grateful for my littlest boy. After one miscarriage, we got lucky with this incredibly amazing little boy. Can't wait to see what adventures await us during his second year of life.

Day #8: We make a library trip once a week for lots of great picture books and a few novels for me. Currently ours is 1 mile away, perfect for walking to and from. And they have a great storytime on Tuesday mornings. We'll have to scout the library after we move. I'm sure Castro Valley has a great one.

Day #9: The first twin, if only because he pushed his way to the front.

Day #10: I've found a great group of friends through my parent's group, the Mountain View Parents Association. We won't be in MV for much longer, but I'll definitely keep up the friendships I've made. Looking forward to our next event and especially mom's night out next weekend.

30 Days of Gratitude: Days 1-5

Day #1: Today was all about coffee. Arthur had a rough night and day of not sleeping. Coffee became my best friend. I added some nice navy alphas and cute brown flowers to complete the card.

Day #2: After another rough night, I did not want to cook. Thankfully we have a great street of restaurants only two blocks away. The journaling note and flair came from random PL supply stash. I finally found a use for this fork, knife, and spoon flair.

Day #3: Another rough night, but I needed to run a ton of errands with the baby this morning. Thankfully there's a great local coffee shop near my current house.

Day #4: It was Election Day! Made me think about all the sacrifices of those who came before (especially people like Alice Paul) who helped make it possible for me to vote today.

Day #5

30 Days of Gratitude Prep

Randomly I decided that I wanted to participate in 30 Days of Gratitude in November. I have seen many great examples using mini albums or small notebooks. I wanted to prep something ahead of time, but make it something I could incorporate into my usual scrapbooking. After thinking about it some more, I decided to do two dedicated pages in my Project Life album.

I dug through my PL card stash and found a ton of fall themed/colored cards. I used a ton from WRMK's Harvest collection. Once i chose some great cards, I used the stickers from SU's Days of Gratitude kit to label my inserts. Even though the cards and stickers come from very different kits, the pages flow together nicely.

I have a few special cards thrown into the mix. I used an overlay from the WRMK Harvest collection for one day. I also pulled on the "Fall" PL swap cards I received last month. I love the little felt pumpkin!

Once November hits, I plan on grabbing the day's card and doing a bit of journaling as to what I am grateful for that day. I may add some more embellishments if time permits. Or I may wait until the end of the month. Either way, I will be sharing my completed pages at the end of November.