December Daily 2010 | Day Nine

Love that today's page post is a photo montage. Have no plans for today and wondered as I was getting ready this morning what today's story would be.

You've given me my inspiration! I've got a few little notes of things I'd like to fit in somewhere, but nothing I'd devote an entire day to (pulling out the Christmas mugs - coffee just tastes better in December in one!, Loving Peppermint Mocha Coffee mate in my coffee these past few days, wanting to eat the Christmas B&B Works Soaps for the holidays - so yummy and loving the bag they came in, the adorable packaging for my Winter's selection of David's Tea my mom brought me back when she was away last week, etc). Now I think today it's going to be little snippets of December goodness like these and I can borrow your tiny note idea!

My album sits out on my coffee table and it has already been read by friends and family that have been by. Again, to repeat myself, Thanks for this awesome project!

And, I have stuck to my goal of not making any new purchases for stuff for this album. Is everyone else surprised at how much Christmas/Winter stuff they had already, perhaps like me, lost in the mound of supplies in our scrap/craft areas? I have also stuck to a new challenge. I have always had a horrible habit of saving the good stuff for good. Well, anything is good, right? I'm using some of those kinds of things and am so happy that they've found a great home!

Also, thanks for the comment notification! Great idea to check back when we've asked questions and forget where it was we asked!

Funny you mentioned creative fatigue, I hit that wall big time on my day nine. It's so frustrating... which makes it even harder. Ugh. Moving on to day 10!

A few of my family members, combined with too much to do, was starting to make me crabby. Looking at some of the work here brought me back. Thanks all!

I love the little snapshots from the mini camera, it makes the photos look almost vintage. Very cool! I love the black and white too, looks great!

I think I must have that little camera :)

I must say, doing Dec Daily is definitely therapeutic for me. This week wasn't a good week for me. I wasn't too sure if I wanted to document about it in my Dec Daily. I want my book to be happy thoughts. But I also want to remember how I felt. I did end up documenting the stressful event in my album. Though I didn't go into too much detail, I really did feel better about the whole situation once it was done. I think it will be therapeutic for me to look back on it next year.

I wanted to do some typewriter strips, toooo! I've meant to, but I'm finding that I'm kind of rushing through getting my pages done because I'm afraid if I don't keep up, I'll get too far behind and then give up. I do wish I really had more time to play. The only way I get that is if I stay up really late. I'm seriously considering going all-digi next year... :)

And YAY for "wonderfully ordinary" days!

Hey Ali - I have a question/comment. I love the 12x12 decdaily templates as I am doing an 8x8 decdaily album. I really like the 6x8 daily overlays, however because of the rectangle size they look weird with the 2 inches extra on the side on my 8x8 page. Next year would love for there to be a square daily overlay set - because I don't think I can resize the 6x8 into a square, right?

I too was wondering if I'd hit the wall! When I posted a link on Twitter the other day I asked, "Will I make it to the end?" I think the key for me is if I'm feeling tired or tasked by this project to just keep it simple! I want to make sure I'm spending the better part of my time making those memories vs documenting them! :) Also, love the metal rimmed tag. Great inspiration to use what I already have on hand. And that vintage wallpaper is great...may have to splurge on some of that though!

Definitely some "creative fatigue" happening on this end. Although I've actually been able to keep up with daily journaling and photos (for a change!), because I don't have any layouts put together in my album, I really feel like I haven't done anything. Today is payday though so I'm hoping I can get a bunch of photos uploaded for printing tonight or tomorrow - then maybe I can actually get something done!!

Also, I'm having trouble printing a mosaic of album artwork from iTunes... Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? I'd like to include pictures of my Christmas music playlist in my DD. Thanks!

YAY for your fantastic web person! That IS a nice feature to be emailed if someone comments on your comment.

Love the photo of Simon today! I wished my boyfriend's son (or my little bonus son) lived with us full time so I could get more daily pics of our life here at home and about. I have that cool camera- haven't used it yet- any tips that you can share for it? Ps- i love this project so far- although, I've fallen behind and been staying up LATE these past few days to work on it. I know it'll be so worth it :)

I love, love, LOVE the retro feel of this layout!

I'm really loving all of the patterned papers you are using. I'm learning from my album this year that buying a pack of matching papers doesn't work for me. They may match each other but they don't match my photos. Lesson learned!

I also wanted to tell you that it's fantastic that you can receive an email when someone replies to your specific comment. Genius!

hi ali! no creative fatigue yet-in fact i'm loving dd this year more than ever. i'm keeping a daily journal mostly of just jotted things (easier to have it all in one place than all the scraps i had last year). what i think i like best this year is that instead of being mostly focused on the photos and the decorative elements, this year i'm more focused on "telling the story." my kids and i have all been taking turns being sick, and all the usual dec. activities just seems like too much this year. like you, i'm going for simpler. i love how on day 3 you just free-handed lines and handwrote your journaling. so easy. i've been using that same format ever since and i love it.

thanks ali!

I'm still on track, just haven't posted anything. soon. soon. This is so pretty.

Having a wee bit of creative fatigue today - ready try some new things here soon.

This is so pretty, has a really lovely Christmas feel about these pages! xx

I haven't had much time to get creative & was 7 days behind, but with notes & photos up to date, tonight I finally had time (& energy!) to get creating & all of my inspiration came from all the things you tell us - keep it simple, don't make it more complicated, tell the stories you WANT to tell, it doesn't matter if the photo was taken the day before or after, real life happens, it's not all about Christmas but the memories. I also used my square punch to include more photos that weren't "great" shots, inspired by you, I'm including a letter to my eldest daughter, inspired by you, I'm including a today you page about my toddler, inspired by you, I'm including an @ 7 months you... page about my baby girl, inspired by you! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

Also my layout looked odd on my desk, it didn't flow properly & I was all set to take it apart to "fix" it when I remembered you said that it's not about the individual pages but the album as a whole & you know what? When I put it in my album it "fixed" itself!!

Finally got mine done, only a day late, not bad. Even tried something new. Thanks for all the inspiration you give. :-)