By Nicole: Three By Sea on December 19, 2011
So you went and downloaded your free Christmas Me-Mo Book over on Oh My! Handmade Goodness today tomorrow (slight miscommunication!)
Or you’ve been diligent about snapping AND printing your holiday photos.
Or maaaybe, my goofy little holiday doodles inspired you to doodle your favorite moments on some index cards as well.
Now what to do with all those photos and mini pages and index cards? Hmm…
Well, you could…
Hang them up. This month holiday photos and Christmas cards are hanging in our hallway on an Ikea DIGNITET curtain wire that I use as a rotating art/photo gallery.
Grab an inexpensive holiday photo book (these are from Target) for your Me-Mo Cards and photos. The green book is holding my holiday doodle cards and the silver book is where all the photos hanging in the hallway will end up at the end of the month. Two little books and I have a season of memories that are illustrated and photographed.
Hole punch your cards/Me-Mo Book pages/photos and use a Christmas card as a book cover to make a simple and easy keepsake. Or turn your Christmas cards into a bound book with just a few book rings. Have photos you don’t want to hole punch? Hole punch an envelope to add as a page in your Christmas card book and tuck the photos in there. 
Use some tape and connect the pages/cards/photos to create an accordian book that you can have out on display. But only if your book looks better than ours. As you can see, were doing some experimenting with this one.
Have more ideas? Share in the comment section!
Posted in Me-Mo Booking : Life, Noted | Tagged alternative scrapbooks, display, memory keeping |
By Nicole: Three By Sea on December 19, 2011
Christmas is less than a week away…have you taken time to take note this month?
Perhaps you’re looking for a project for the kids now that school’s out (almost out) for the holidays…
Then go download the free printable Christmas Me-Mo Book I designed and am sharing over on Oh My! Handmade Goodness today tomorrow! Above is just a sample of the book, which prints as 12 black and white cards measuring 4″x6″ each. (Cards print three to a page.)
A printer, a few sheets of cardstock paper and you (the kids, the entire family) have a way to doodle, color, write, and take note of all that is good about this time of year. (You might even be able to email the file to Kinko’s and have them print it for you. Report back to me if it works.)
Stay tuned…my next post is about ways to display and/or bind your Me-Mo Book pages.
Posted in Me-Mo Booking : Life, Noted | Tagged alternative scrapbooks, Christmas, holidays, me-mo booking, memory keeping |
By Nicole: Three By Sea on December 17, 2011
This holiday season is proving to be rough, dude. I knew the first holiday season without my brother Christian and all the memories that it’d stir up would make me sad, but seriously…when Grinchy Coach Sue showing signs of being human on “Glee” and the Christmas episode of “Modern Family” turn you into a soggy sponge of tears (far beyond the typical, teary-eyed, heart string tugs), you know you’re not emotionally stable or fit for social interaction.
So rather than writing posts of forced holiday cheer, or crapping on others’ Christmas joy, I’m staying offline more and focusing on my kiddo. His innocence and excitement deserves a magical Christmas, full of good memories and fun. As a side project for myself, I’ve been doodling index cards of our activities to put in a mini photo album.
Here are our first 12 days…
Nothing fancy with the cards, just some Sharpie markers and 4″ x 6″ index cards, all going into a cheapie little photo book from Target. Jack seems to be enjoying the doodles…sort of a story book of our holidays, I suppose.
We still have more things planned, too- thank you cards to stamp, visit to Santa, movies to watch…Jack’s friends are coming over for a little Christmas party of cocoa and cookie consuming, gingerbread house constructing, and ornament painting. And while the children have fun frolicking and trashing the house, the moms and I will sit out on the lanai and enjoy some coffee…with a bit of Baileys.
To finding holiday cheer wherever you can,
Nicole
Posted in Me-Mo Booking : Life, Noted | Tagged Christmas, doodling, index cards |
By Nicole: Three By Sea on November 16, 2011
Jotting down the funny things Jack says or words he mispronounces are some of my favorite things to document. Sooner than later, he’ll finally pronounce his F’s and S’s and learn correct verb usages, and I’ll miss these innocent moments that make me laugh. But until then, I’m enjoying these daily bits of humor that help balance out the temper tantrums, assertions of independence, and other joys of life with a three-year-old.
Plus, illustrating these moments gives me a reason to doodle more.
You like those oven mitt boxing gloves? Nice, eh? Well, you know what they (I) say, if you can’t laugh at yourself, it’s probably because there’s a stick up your ass.
So pull out the stick, get some index cards and doodle (or even just jot down) translations of the funny stuff you’ve heard this week. It doesn’t have to just be your own children- it could be nonsense your Cliff Clavin co-worker shared, a ridiculous quote you heard on TV, or for my teacher friends, those misused vocab words.
Leave me a comment and tell me something you heard this week that was a case of improper usage, mispronunciation, or just a case of “WTF?” that made you laugh.
Posted in Me-Mo Booking : Life, Noted | Tagged doodles, journaling, kids, memory keeping, weekly me-mo |
By Nicole: Three By Sea on November 9, 2011
Remember the “Fresh Picked” ABC prints I did this summer? Well now “Fresh Picked” is available as a calendar!
Wanna see it in a frame?
AND it’s going to be a tea towel calendar soon as well! Here’s a peek at the tea towel-
I had to make some minor changes to the text on the tea towel and the new sample is on its way. Once it arrives, I’ll list it for pre-ordering.
In the meantime, I’ll have the print version of it is NOW available in the Etsy shop later tonight. The print is 13″x19″ and it fits in a 16.5″x20.5″ RIBBA frame from Ikea.
Got any foodies on your Christmas list this year?
Posted in Shop Updates | Tagged etsy, new items, prints, textile |
By Nicole: Three By Sea on November 8, 2011
Jack has been sick for the last week. It hasn’t been pretty, hence the colors I used to make this Me-Mo card. He’s finally on the mend, but I went out for drinks with friends last night, and now I feel like this nauseating color today…
If you had to pick a color to describe the past week, what color would it be? What color would you like this week to be? Leave me a comment below.
In the meantime, I’ll be on the couch for a bit, dreaming of happier colors, like a soft tranquil green to soothe my slightly hungover self, or maybe a bright energetic red to get me fired up and productive the rest of this week.
Posted in Me-Mo Booking : Life, Noted | Tagged memory keeping, weekly me-mo |
