Ok, time to do some catching up. I've already finished layout #13, so I'm kind of behind in posting.

Just a family gathering at our house on Christmas night, 1990. I have a real mental block about doing Christmas pages, but since there wasn't much that was overtly Christmassy in these photos, I just went with vaguely holiday-like antique colors and patterns and didn't feel boxed in by a Christmas theme. The empty space in the upper left-hand quadrant kind of bothered me, then I decided what's the point in having beautiful bold-patterned background paper if you cover it all up? So I decided to leave it alone, it has a sort of leaf-and-berries motif that seems vaguely Christmassy so it fits with the theme, and stuck a chipboard flourish up in the corner just to hold the layout together. Works for me.

Patterned paper, journaling label: K&Company; chipboard flourish:  Rusty Pickle.