On the 24th day of Christmas blogging - the bauble box

When Chook was 6 months old and having her first Christmas, my Mum bought her a giant red sequined bauble for the tree. It is actually a box and the next year when she was 18 months old I started a new tradition. On Christmas Eve once she's had her bath and Santa's elves have brought her new jammies (another tradition!), she gets to open her box and there is always a small gift inside. Well, when I say small? Sometimes it's the first clue of a treasure hunt that's inside the box - she got a foot spa one year! *g* But the first year it was her favourite wine gums!

I keep a scrapbook of Christmas pages. There's a toddler Chook helping put up the tree, my Papa-Jim carving the turkey one year,  the special baubles that my Mum buys for Chook every year (another tradition!!) and various wee moments like the first time Spouse cooked Christmas dinner all documented. My scrapping, as you know, has largely been peared down to birthdays and Christmas. But I do try and keep the bauble box layouts still going and it's not too arduous since the pages themselves are only 8in square and I follow the same sketch so the basic design is always the same. And I'm up to date after my wee scrappy surge last week!

I'm so very grateful to have discovered scrapbooking when I did, I would never have remembered all these wee things. It's very much a physical blog. With glitter. *g* And this year? The box had one of Kirsten at Quernus Crafts awesome polymer clay reindeer mice in. Chook has wanted one since she first saw them in about October!

Have a superb cool Yule one and all. See you on the other side!