2025: A New Year with DID.IE... For Everything You

I had quite a big bag full of pine needles that I’d saved from cleaning up in January and they were still as green as can be!.

I had black and white prints made of a bunch of my favorite photos from this year, and special old family photos too.. It’s a good idea to get copies printed especially for this purpose because everyone who comes to your house will come up and touch the photos when they look at them, which is just fine!A tree like this is a great way to share family moments and to create conversation too!

Babies will be fascinated by all the photos too and will probably grab them off the tree and maybe even take a bite out of them.Ask me how I know.I attached the photos to the tree using these basic clips that you can find at any Staples store.

Instead of the basic black color that you usually find this style of clip in, I grabbed the all silver ones for a little extra sparklyness!.I’m hoping that we’ll be able to have Christmas morning breakfast this year in our newly-painted dining room, so this type of family photo tree will be the perfect backdrop..

Even though I didn’t want to make complicated ornaments out of our pictures, I did try my hand at one type of ornament idea that I’ve seen around.

I couldn’t resist..There was a second call about a week or so later where we were supposed to talk about some ideas for concepts and things like that, and by that time I knew a little more about what to expect, so I came prepared!

I came up with a few different ideas for the book and got myself ready to talk about my general vision for what type of book I would want it to be and how I would want it to look and feel.I still felt like I really had to sell myself on that second call, maybe even more so than on the first call, but it was much easier when I knew that I was the one who would be doing most of the talking, job interview-style..

So we landed on a concept pretty quickly and they asked me to send them a list of the chapters that I wanted to include in the book, along with the introductions to each of those chapters as it would appear in the book,.1-2 fully-written chapters for them to look over.