Finishing up December Daily
Tags:Day 22 (a little card inside the envelope talks about the tulips):
Day 23:
Day 24 (includes my blog post from the 27th that talks about everything that happened over the last few days leading up to Christmas):
And Day 25:
And the back, which features this cool idea from Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas:
So, wow. I did it.
I will definitely be going this route again next year: setting up an album before December to record daily things + photographs over the course of the month leading up to Christmas day. I love that I now have something I can hold in my hands that shows the progression, that documents the moments (mainly in photos), that has a beginning and an end. My structural format may be different next year (part of the fun of coming up with a foundation), but the overall daily process will be the same.
Thanks for cheering me on along the way.
Making the Squares
A couple questions in the comments yesterday regarding the collage (or mosaic) of inspiring photos. If you use Flickr you can easily create these mosaics using Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker. You specify the number of photos across and down and where they come from (mine usually come from my favorites).
I also often make photo gatherings in Photoshop to use in my projects. Or sometimes I just use a square punch. You can read how I go about creating these groupings in Photoshop in a past issue of my newsletter here (scroll down to "Creating Photo Gatherings in Photoshop").
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Ali, I think I am going to try this idea and do a "14 Days of Love" album from Feb 1st to the 14th... I'll do like you did and include a photo or info about each day and something I love each day. I think I want to try the clear album format, too. It will be a stretch for me, since I've never worked in a clear album before... but, I think you've inspired me to try it. So, thanks!! :) Happy New Year - Tracy
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Fabulous post..look Soooo beautiful generally i like to shop gift items for my loved ones from Jackson&Perkins store through couponalbum.com..
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LOVE the entire album, Ali! Definitely going to do one of my own next Christmas! =)
Happy New Year to you and your family!!!
laura
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What an amazing book and memory for your family! Love love it! I definitely want to do this next year :)
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Wow!!
You really did it!!!
I'm just astonished with all the beauty things i saw here... Jeeeeeeesus!!!!!!!
The most beautiful los ever!!!!!!
Wonderful pictures, wonderful albuns, wonderful everything!!!!!!!! Wow... I'm really shocked!!! loooooooved :)
you'll be my inspiration!!!!!!!
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just discovered your website and I'm in luv! Love your binder idea & advent ideas...and thanks for the reminder about getting our skin checked...I just made my bi-annual appt. with my skin doc...to see if I need anymore taken off.
Thanks for sharing & for the inspiration!
J :)
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Ali, that is such a gorgeous album! I have tried to do a daily book in December for 3 years running, and I'm still only up to Day 5 LOL. Just wanted to post, because you mention one of my all-time fave books, the Tolkien one, that I got from my grandmother one Christmas when I was old enough to appreciate it. It has her handwriting on the inside first page, and it is truly somethign to treasure, 30 years after she passed away.
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