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I finally finished my Week In Review layouts for 2023. I had one day left over so I did a final layout of just photos from Dec 31 with a title of "Goodbye 2023". I had thought about continuing on with the week on one layout and including the 31st there but changed my mind. I'm going to do a month in review instead and just highlight 5 to 7 photos from the month on a single page layout. I am still taking at least one photo a day so I will still have a few photos to choose from during the months that not a lot is happening. I am also continuing with my "5 on 5" project. I take at least 5 photos on the 5th of the month then do a layout. My final weekly layout for 2023 (all weeks had the same format with the cluster and month areas changing depending on what photos I used). I also used the same background papers throughout a month along with the same cluster items. I ended up with 6 different themes so July has the same theme as January. The December pages had the same theme as June. I love the cohesiveness of it!

This week is all about my husbands birthday and he insisted I didn't use a photo where he is on! But a photo of the "vlaai" a specific Dutch kind of cake with different toppings will do perfectly. It originated in the province of Zuid-Limburg, but is now widely available and loved. For this week I changed the colors of the frame and text to suit the photo. Now wait and see what week 3 brings....

Not much of the font in this layout. I wanted to do a simple layout similar to one I saw online somewhere, and I didn't know which photo to use. Ended up with this old one (from 1930s) of my mother (tall one) and her sister and two brothers. Not a good image of them, but it's what I've got and I didn't want to improve it. They're all gone now, but they stay close to my memory and heart. Three of them lived into their 90s (not my mother).

Lab 13 - 03 I used the template : link in the notebook. Made the Wooden token and Decorated metal charm tutorial. The digit beads were made with the cass-Alpha-beads script. The other elements come from pixel-scrapper-blog-trains/feb-2017-blog-train-final-list: themagnoliapatch.blogspot.com WinterFun-addon. Own photos, January 2009, Belgium, Waterloo. A walk with my first Scottish Collie Enzo. I'm not entirely happy with the metal charms I made, I think it doesn't look that metallic.

After weeks of gray days and rain, we finally got some sun this week!, but it only lasted 2 days 😔

I love your layout style. So clean and just so perfect. This is inspiring. I am still in the photo process, it has being a busy two weeks with hubby sick and today a day of dawning the hazmat suit ( AKA: rubber gloves) and cleaning and disinfecting everything. Next week I should be in full on P52 and workshop mode. Lots of photography gonna be happenin'!

And for week 2, just an ordinary picture of line dancing class. Markus is just a spectator.

My week 2 is the woods, where I often walk. I took the photo standing on a bridge that crosses the little stream. The trees are without their leaves but there is still green in this winter scene – moss, grass, ivy, weeds…

Here is my Week 1. this is my favorite house plant. I've been house-bound this past week and just started taking pictures again. the sun is shining beautifully today, but it is cold and we are expecting the white stuff beginning tomorrow here in the south (Memphis).

I signed up thinking I would have the week free to work on it. But, everything changed. I will be away from my computer from Wednesday until Sunday. I've taken it before so I'm not worried (and I've been using templates for 15 years anyways). I'll review stuff later on but won't be posting any layouts.

I am looking forward to this workshop. There is always something to learn or re-learn and I look forward to what folks are going to share as well. I have seen some pretty nice things in other workshops that I have been involved in. Thank you, Carole, for making this available.

I think it looks fine. By the way, I want a piece of every topping!

I = ice pack (for the pain)

With this size I see that I have to increase the kerning of the word week twee for the font I used, will do that for week 3

I had a look and yes, I did this one too earlier:)

Hamstrings. Or heart. (I haven’t been keeping up with these, they’ve gone so fast!)

The groom restored his Grandfather's truck. That is a model of the truck. The bridge added the reindeer and tree.

Oh I love that truck. and it looks like Rudolph and Clarice in the back, another great love story at Christmas.

The following week after the snowstorm, we had torrential rains and flooding. (Luckily, not near my home.) This is a shot of the river at the Mid-Hudson Bridge near Poughkeepsie, NY., taken by Deedee Lumb on 1/10/24 and posted on our Hudson Valley in Pictures Gallery on Facebook. She said: "Come sit for a spell, enjoy the river views." 😉

My contribution to this challenge...😉

I'm in.

Nice to see you :)))))))))

We had 12 inches of snow dumped on us over the weekend. This is an iPhone shot out my kitchen window of the close-by juniper.

Template from Template Workshop on the Scrapbook Campus. Template 1b.

Same wedding. Template by Lady 22, #208.

Same wedding. Template by Chantahlia Designs, #103.

My contribution for this font challenge. I used the Mona Home font for the title of the poem and the font for the poem itself is Aura also a thin monoline font. Thanks to the extremely mild weather we have had the snowdrops are already in flower. My son showed me a photo of it from his garden, but for this layout I used one I took some years ago because it was better suited, no clutter in the background! The drawing of the fairy comes from DigitalScrapbook.com and I had it for some time in my stash together with the poem. I have taken the liberty to alter the poem a tiny bit. In the poem was written the Fair Maid of February and I changed that to January. I think that's ok I'm not going to sell or publish this layout other than here and maybe in our facebook group.

I'm in too! I'll have to search for new photos because this is the 2nd time round.

I'm in too!

I'm in! Looking forward to this workshop.

I'm in too!

I'm in! Thank you, Carole! HNY!

Looking forward to it .

I'm in! Looking forward to something new. Thanks, Carole!