This is a little late, but I'd like to wish a happy new year to everyone on the boards!
To start things off, I'd just like to show off a little Christmas photo. It's a little bit late, but I love Christmas, so I'm more than happy to keep the spirit alive, if only for a little bit longer.
For Chrstimas my DF surprised me with a trip to the World for next summer (Aug 21-28)! I was completely surprised and floored. He said it was because we should have a site visit and stay in one of the hotels we hope to have in our room block, Caribbean Beach. We've never stayed there, so I'm very excited about that too. I'm sure you can all imagine, I was so happy and amazed!
As Christmas came and went I had a few other "presents" to deliever, but they weren't for Christmas. Now, I've been hinting at this for quite awhile, and it's my "Will You be my Bridesmaid?" project. I am only having two girls on my side of the bridal party (my best friend since grade two, Vanessa, and my cousin, Ashley), so I wanted to spend a little more time and hopefully make something really special for them.
Stupidly I totally wrapped one of them without taking any pictures of the contents, but since they were mostly the same, I took more than enough photos of the second one. So, just as a warning, this is probably going to be a little photo heavy...
I started with a little box...
It was shaped like a little suitcase. I really love the latch.
There are Parisian motifs, which reminded me of France... Epcot...
The inside.
I put down some white tissue paper. And then a book.
The book was a photobook that I put together and ordered from Snapfish. It was 5x7, hardcover (although the hardness of the actual book is pretty debateable), 20 pages. I filled it with photos from growing up, the present, crazy adventures, and movie quotes and song lyrics of particular meaning.
I won't post all twenty pages, but here are a couple sample pages:
We love Newsies.
Both books had pages similar to this, because this would be us three together at a pirate festival a couple years ago.
And so forth.