December Daily 2010 | Day One
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WELCOME TO DECEMBER DAILY 2010.
Even with all the preparation leading up to today I still can't really believe we are underway again.
For the first page in this album, just like in 2009, I chose to write a bit about our Advent calendars. Simon and Anna were both super excited to find new Advent calendars on the table. This is one of the things I love seeing in my December Daily from year to year - the repetition of traditions.
With the addition of the cover page (free download offered yesterday - grab it here) I decided to include a new transparent page (the star page - you can see it in the before image at the bottom of this post - is still the first page in the album) using a silver script transparency from Hambly. The "1" on top of the transparency is from The Girl's Paperie.
Before printing the 6x8 photo page (2, 4x6 photos on a 6x8 canvas) I added a Christmas twill across the middle.
The second page features a piece of packaging I cut out from the Playmobil Advent Calendar
Using a sheet of cardstock that was twice as tall as the Playmobile packaging I created a "lift-up" page to include more room for journaling by folding it in half and adhering the Playmobile packaging to the front.
Here's what it looked like after I added my journaling.
I stitched around the inside to give a bit more of a "home" for the words and stamped a simple title using the Basic Uppercase letter stamps from Hero Arts. The little image of the Lego Advent Calendar was printed from Lego.com.
Here's a look at the before image:
All December Daily posts for 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 can be found here.
TODAY'S POST SPONSORED BY :Masterful Scrapbook Design
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SHARE A LINK TO YOUR DAY ONE
Would love to have you include a link to your DAY ONE page here. Please link directly to your post vs. your general blog link. Thank you! Also - don't feel like you need to leave a comment!
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The positive energy is absolutely contagious! The love here is just so inspiring and it is making this project exciting and not daunting at all.
I added another page to yesterday (yep - kinda 3 stories for one day...lots to say I guess!) because we finally got some snow. Now today, it is a blizzard out my front window as I sit here and write this...fun comparison to my photo from yesterday - today my daughter was shoveling this morning and now this evening, all in all there is about 2 feet of snow with more to come.
Anyhow, I would love to link my pages. I may use photoshop no prob, but this url online linking stuff is not my cup of tea. I only follow the blogs! I think I am the last person on earth that does not have a blog, twitter, facebook, etc. place online to store my pages. Am I out of luck?
Thanks!
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Steph - you could always add your pages to an online gallery - like the Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/decemberdaily2010/) or upload your pages to Two Peas.
Ahhhh....
Ali - I have followed your blog for a while now but decided to do DD for the first time this year - at the very last minute. Missed the post that discussed flickr and now see how easy to set that up.
Thank you!
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It will be a bit harder for me to do an update daily because I order my photos about every two weeks. I plan on keeping up with the journalling daily.
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Love it Ali. I've linked my page. It's nothing fancy, I just want to commit to do it this year!! I missed last year unfortunately so am ready and motivated to do the whole album this year!!!
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doing mine digital this year, but wow! love your day 1 ali...though I think I'd be shot if I tried to cut up the box for our lego advent calendar from last year :)
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hope someone will find my contribution inspiring and I already have found some great ideas in other's blogs! Thanks for the list!
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Love that you're allowing people to post links to their pages! Such a great idea Ali!
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I printed my Day 1 pics at a Canadian developer with the 6x8 templates. Both of them had the line at the bottom of the page cut off! Urgh...I wanted to cry. The layouts were beautiful - those templates are amazing Ali by the way! First time I ever used one and I am now sold for sure!
Anyway, I measured and my print was actually 7 7/8" long, but a true 6" wide. I don't want to badmouth any companies, but is this just a fluke today or is does any one know if photo developers do a True 8" x 6"? I've only ever enlarged 5x7, 8x10, 8x12 and never had anything cut off.
This won't get me down, though. I will still put them in my album and figure a solution later, but this is just so weird!
Thanks!
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I linked my blog. I'm excited to see other people's perspective on the same project.
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Day one is digital, I am journaling day two! Having lots of fun!
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Thank You for the inspiration Ali! I hope I can keep up!
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Definitely very excited to complete my third december daily! I'm also very excited to start my first blog. December is definitely a great month for me to document with lots of special events, beautiful Minnesota snow, and part of the month at college and the end of the month at home. Thanks for inspiring me to document the everyday, Ali.
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So happy to be participating in this project!
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December is finally here! I'm really excited to see how my album evolves as I fill it with memories...this is great. :) Something tells me this month is going to fly by...I'm so glad I'll have this album to bring those moments fresh to mind.
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Wow! Great to find a post knckniog my socks off!
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I'm doing it Ali! For the first time I'm making a December Daily! Yippee! Thanks for all your inspiration! :)
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Thanks for the inspiration Ali.
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Almost forgot that December 1 had even come around, but I happened to go christmas wrapping paper shopping when I realised. I love wrapping our gifts, I think that I someimes go to more effort with the wrapping than picking the gift on the inside!
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This is my first year to do the December Daily. I am excited to do this album.
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Question: What are your thoughts on taking photos, and keeping notes, and then going back and creating the album in January? Part of me likes the idea of creating the album day by day, but I worry about balance, and figuring out how to fill the slow days, if you know what I mean.
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I think you can totally do that Maureen - it's really up to you, your schedule, etc. For me, I find that I'm most motivated to do it now (when I leave things to later they it tends to be WAY later). There's so many different ways this album can come together.
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Linked mine up-adding photos of the pages right now.
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you may have addressed this before (sorry if you have) or this may end up to be a stupid question....but, do you ever add pics in your DD that have been taken by someone else, as in another family member?
My SIL sends me the most adorable photos of my nephews. Since, they live 1 1/2 hours away, I don't get to see them as much as I would like. I would love to add some of their photos in my DD. But, is that like...cheating?
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A photo is a photo! Totally not cheating at all - I think it's totally fun to bring in different perspectives (either with words or photos) to your album!
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