Journal Your Christmas Giveaway

Last year we had a 3-month-old and had just moved all 5 of us into a 2-bedroom apartment. THEN we had guests here for Thanksgiving AND Christmas. Talk about cramped and crazy!!
This year, we are going elsewhere for Thanksgiving and Christmas and are slowing down the bustle of the holiday season. Though it never seems like there is enough time in the month of December, we are planning to spend each evening in a time of celebration. Whether it is making ornaments and decorating the tree, or just singing carols and eating cookies, we are planning a more family-centered holiday.
This year's December Daily will be filled with a bunch of different entries this year compared to last year' album... and that's a very good thing!

Oh how I need organization like this !!! Pick me !!

i'm hoping to get lots of my crafty projects organized before dec. (so that i have all i need to do the project when it is dec.) i'm well on my way towards making a dent in our gift shopping. i've planned our Christmas cards and just need a picture. looking forward to really enjoying the season with our kiddos this year!

for everything i purchase i am throwing something away!! it's my new approach to staying simple and organized...especially around the holidays!

Alot of my extended family has moved away over the last couple of years, so this holiday season will be quiet. I plan on really trying to focus on what's important to my family and starting some simple traditions of our own.

I'm planning on trying to keep it simple. I want to enjoy the season and all the special moments with friends and family. I want to capture the memories and preserve them for years to come.

I plan to make my Christmas holidays more sane by starting earlier. I am going to make my "list" of the most important things I want to accomplish this holiday season (and I know most of those things will be more "experience" oriented rather than "material" oriented) and then I am going to start on it earlier. I usually wait until after Thanksgiving to get out my decorations and to set things in motion. But inevitably with the Thanksgiving holiday, I end up pushing Christmas beginnings until the first week of December and then regret when I don't accomplish everything I would like to. Not this year. I will start with a written plan and then start the plan earlier in the month of November. I plan to do a December daily album too. I have it just about ready to go. :)

More sane = putting out decorations and baking only the things I love
More crazy = host an impromptu gathering

yesterday i decided to try myself with a christmas daily, becuase i was so inspired of your album that you prepared.
since i am in canada now until dec 17 and then go to california after that, i think i will have double stress in december. and that is the reason, why i want to write my days down, becuase so i hope i will get myself in a christmasy mood ;)
rachel

I was actually laid off about a month ago so this Christmas will be much more sane with all the extra time I will have on my hands. We are also getting back to basic with all the relatives presents and giving them alot of baking and home grown goodness.
Cheers Sally

Such a great question Ali, thanks for asking. I'm going to take time each day throughout December just to sit and breathe deeply, I'm going to set up a wee focus space in the lounge just for this purpose. Also, I'm going to walk into town as often as possible when I have to shop, saves looking for a carpark and getting road rage! Finally, I'm going to handmake or not buy as much as possible this year, see how creative I can be!

I'm already planning my shopping & will search out a few gifts this weekend. My daughter also commented on not putting out as many decorations. "It is just to much work, right Mom!"

I'm hoping this holiday season will be a mix of a little crazier, in a good way (brand new baby nephew to spoil) and calmer in the sense that there hopefully won't be any major health crises this year for anyone.

My holidays aren't ever too crazy, but I'm excited about starting new traditions this year as we just had our first child in May. I've ordered Eve's Christmas art journal as a way to help jumpstart my first attempt at a December Daily album.

I'm limiting the number of presents for each of us to 4, plus Santa's, and am buying and wrapping presents already. Thanks for the giveaway!

oohhh, what I wouldn't give to win!! I was just thinking of gifting it to a friend too. I already started planning for the holidays - a holiday planner from Georganna with Cut the Crazy out of Christmas class at BPS, and I've started before Thanksgiving! That alone is pretty impressive! I've been hoping that I can get started getting the crazy out of the way now, so I can do a project just like yours and Shimelle's classes . . . ~april

There is so much I want to do -- I need to make sure to take time to ENJOY it not just check it off the list -- could really used this class!

a more sane holiday season . . . hmmm. If I can just get through the month of November than I'll start thinking about that one! :)
I think, though, that from past years' experience I need to spread out the fun/tradition parts of Christmas throughout the month of December (like making cookies, delivering neighbor treats, crafts with the kids, special meals, etc.) . . . . rather than saving them all for the week leading up to Christmas. That can get pretty crazy and leaves no time for just sitting around to ENJOY the season. This year I want to just enjoy. :)

A sane Christmas for me is going back home and enjoying the Holidays with people I love!! I live in Switzerland since 10 years and now that I have a little 16 months old girl I feel even more like I want to be where my heart really is, in Canada.
Thanks li for the chance to win and for everything you've done for me lately (in the Yesterday & Today's class) :)

I am starting early this year and making a Daily Dec. album for the first time has definitely put me in the mood. I am going to stick to what matters most--my family.