December Daily in July

I took Shimelle Laine's online class - Journal Your Christmas - because I won it on Donna's blog! But I was overambitious so only reached the 20th then got too busy to continue so it sits unfinished. I definitely want to separate the Christmas stash before I start again this year & aim for maybe an 8x8 and not a 12x12 this time. More photos & words & less embellishments to keep this project rolling & stress-free. Maybe just some nice ribbon and...!!!

Love it!! I figured out the other day and posted on facebook we have 154 shopping days left. Molly's book was fab thanks for sharing!!!

I have made one last Christmas and finished it.
But it was too abounding (copieux) for me.
I will do it again this year but would like to find another formula.
Starting only on December 15th, or instead of journaling each day, journaling each week.
http://melimelocreatif.canalblog.com/archives/2009/02/17/12405439.html#comments

Girl, you are seriously on the ball! I tried last year, but things fell apart not even at the halfway point of the month. Maybe I'll get it done this year...

Here's a link to my (completed!) 2008 December Daily. I actually did mine from Nov. 1 through January 1, so I actually called it a Holiday 2008 daily album:
http://techniquespeak.blogspot.com/2009/01/holiday-2009-album.html
The instructions for creating the cover for my Holiday 2008 daily album are here:
http://techniquespeak.blogspot.com/2008/11/december-daily-album-cover-technique.html
Looking forward to doing this again this year. Love the idea of using Donna Downey's canvas album.
Amanda

i'm really looking forward to the december daily this year. i need to find an album...and i can see myself going with a simplified version...words + photos. last year was so hectic i had to try and remember what i had done the previous week! i'm excited though.

Here is my book that I did last year!
http://ljr3kids.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
I loved it as last Christmas was the end of an era at my house--Christmas won't be the same now that my oldest is getting married and will be finsihing Med School. With Residency and having to share a child I know last year was very special!! SOO glad I got my book done..but in the spirit of the DEC daily I made an book that is called The Wedding details--documenting the journey. It is not for the wedding pictures but for all of the wedding planning. So far I have the story of the dress, her boyfriend asking us to marry my daughter and picking the place--I did it the same way with lots of "love" things I picked up in Feb and a few Ali digi things. So no matter how busy I get with the wedding I can slip in some memories in quickly so I don't forget--THanks!!

I did NOT compeltely finish mine last year partially because I was just so busy, but it was SO much fun to work on.
I wanted to share something to encourage those that dont finish it: to finish mine off, I ended up making a few more pages with pockets at the end to include tags to Christmas gifts, photos, and a letter. Instead of making a page for each day I didn't get to, I typed a LENGTHY letter to my readers (whomever might read it may it be me, or a family member) about the rest of my holiday, events, details about Christmas Day, gifts I got, etc. It was a really nice way to end it without being stressed, but still capturing all of the important memories. :]

Yes, I did this last year, and kept up until about day 20! Then life got out of hand, and i finished it after the new year. I went all the way to day 31...and included new years.
I used a 6x6 clear scalloped album, and had lots of different sizes. However, I love the idea of streamlining it this year and adding digital elements to it!!!
however, i'm NOT going to start event thinking about this until around Oct-ish. too much fun and catching up on summer activities - this will be fun to start whenever i do though!!! saving this post for then. megan's album is gorgeous.

Link to mine. Another good reason to wait to do the last few pages - i got prints from scrapbookpictures.com in 2x2 and got a ton more in the album!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peytonsmom/3210120297/in/set-72157600298607834/

Funny you should post this today! I just found my barely started 2008 album yesterday in my UFO bin and was thinking I should try again. I left it until late November to start getting it organized and never did add photos or journalling or anything. It'll be my starting point for this year. I think I'll bring it to a charity crop in October to make up the pages. November will be too late around here!
I'll be back to look at other people's albums for more ideas (it's bedtime for boys around here). Thanks for planting the seed, Ali!

Ali, you totally inspired me last year!
http://amylejeune.typepad.com/benefits_loaded_daily/2008/12/december-daily.html
http://amylejeune.typepad.com/benefits_loaded_daily/2008/12/december-daily-part-2.html

So loved doing this project for the 1st time last year - found that I got up to about 12th or 13th done, then company started coming until almost new years. Because I don't have a photo printer at home, I found that that hung me up - so I tried to do my journaling and then add the pictures. Ending up finishing it on New years day (loved being at my mother in laws for the weekend - snowed in, so we quilted and I finished the December daily journal. It is such a well loved book, everyone still loves to look at it. I love the binder idea and may have to order myself one of those. If I get started now, I think it will turn out better than last years.
Thanks for the heads up Ali.

I loved doing this project last year -- assembled most of it the first week of December, which was sure lucky as I ended up having my tonsils out the following week and would not have been able to make the album happen if I'd waited! Here it is...
http://lawrencoope.typepad.com/photos/december-daily-2008/index.html
Really excited for this year's!

I did this last year...LOVED it!! I cannot wait to do it again..been looking at all the new papers coming out, so actually Christmas has been on my mind too!
This is not the whole book...but almost all. One day I will finish photographing it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=sets

Oh my goodness......talk of the December Daily Album 2009. I must confess, I haven't finished mine from last year, though, I have documented every day, have all my photos are printed and everything is stored in a special box just waiting. My biggest downfall was how to construct each page. I love the look of different type of pages etc.
The lesson I have learned is to have the album ready BEFORE December. I am determined to finish last year's album and when I do........the whole world will hear about it. LOL.
Cheers, Irene

QUESTION ALIE -
You may have addressed this previously. When you print your digital pages, do you use your own computer or print online somewhere? If on your personal computer, do you worry about the archival quality of the inks? If online, where? It seems you (and others) use a lot of irregular page shapes. Do you just print on larger paper and cut to size?
Thanks for addressing these questions if you can.

I mostly print outside of my home. I have found two places that do top notch developing and since I am really pciky about developing, I stick with what I know works for me.
I think that the biggest barrier for me in completing anything is time and making priorities. This has been a year of learning what is important. It is a slow process to get it together but definately is a progressing in the right direction!

I gathered all the supplies and intended to do a December Daily last year but never found the time to complete it during the month. In fact I never made it past the gathering stage. But to pre make the album when the Hot Summer sun is making me long for the Holidays- I can do that!!! Major inspiration!!

My friend Laura and I both did it last year and we LOVED the project. Here's a link to mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumnwind/sets/72157610572792563/
Thanks for the inspiration!