December Daily 2010 | Day Twelve

I love the letter to Santa for all 3 of you! I wrote out a letter for my daughter - perhaps I will do a real one and have her color on it too. What pens do you use for your hand-drawn lines?

Letters to Santa is a great idea! I need to have my youngest do this still... he didn't want to see Santa this year (scared I think).

I love following along with your December Daily. I don't have the time to do it this year, but I'm going to use the idea (and the templates) to do a January book. We are hosting an exchange student from China for the month of January, so I thought I would make it Red, White and Blue as a memento for him to take home to remember his time in America. Found some great transparencies online! Thanks for the idea, Ali! You're Awesome!

ohh looks amazing!! thanks for using my paint in your tutorial!

Oh my gosh.. I love this idea! I'm going to borrow it for my DD! Love love love your letter to Santa!!!! Yes, I love the kids as well, but we often forget 'us'!

My children are a lot older than yours (16 and 13) but I would still like to include some of their handwriting in my journal somehow. Not sure I could get them to write to Santa, but will give it some thought. Enjoy your children while they are still little. Love your page!

Carole

I love it. Never thought about writing a letter to Santa myself, but what a great idea!

Love these letters. So cute! Thanks for sharing, Ali! :)

Love, love the letter to Santa! I so appreciate your daily posts. My daughter and I are away from the rest of our family for a month; she and I have been documenting our days with photos while my mom and husband have been taking photos back home. I can not wait to put our December daily together (album and pages are complete). Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Dear Santa,

Please send an elf to clean out my truck too. Today I found 5 cheerios stuck to my butt !!

I see the magic of Christmas has awakened the little girl inside you Ali. How beautiful :)

Cheers,
Jan

Love the Santa letter writing picture! My son is younger than Simon (age 5) and my daughter just turned 2 last month. She is the same way. She loves to sit at the table and do her homework when my son does his. So cute to watch the little ones idolize the bigs! Your Dec Daily is lovely, as always, Ali! Thank you for sharing!

I like where you have pinned the red glittery "A" on Anna's section- the twill underneath now reads "I love Chris" - which will presumably warm your husband's heart!

Did you know that you can have Santa send an email to your kids too? That was our day 12, here is the website where you can enter in all the info:

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/home

Very fun. My son was beside himself.

I started with high hopes and then this Dec has turned out to be very hard. First I got the missing my mom blues really bad (Christmas was huge for us with mom). Then an ongoing drawn out legal issue came to a head. So instead of doing Christmas things, I am tracking down recpts and checks to prove I did not commit fraud.To make things worse, it deals with property my mom left to me.It's like loosing my mom all over again. How do you make that merry and bright let alone record it. Help any ideas?

Love your letter to Santa Ali! What a great idea! I was wondering what to put in for today and reading your post made me remember that I wanted to get my girls to write to Santa today. Yay! Something to add!!
Thanks.

Nice album, Ali. This year is too busy for me, personally, to take part in this project but I'm totally okay with it. I decided to accept my limitations and not be stressed about NOT doing something. Going with the flow. I totally am enjoying viewing your book and all the pages from your fellow "December Daily" peeps.

so cute. I love how you have the tree lights and wreath lights on in the background. It would be super cool to make this a whole family page and include a letter to Santa from your hubby too.

Hi Ali!

I'm still hanging in - not giving up on this project - a little catching up to do but I'm learning photoshop elements and having fun with your templates, word art, twill etc. etc. Seriously a learning experience - hoping my next pages will be quicker since I'm understanding more about the mechanics of it all now.

Two quick questions...
- do you have a go-to font for journalling on photos etc.??
- how do you usually adhere photos to cardstock?? I'm using my Kokoyu Dot'n Roller but don't know if that's good enough

Thanks so much!!

Ali,
This is my third year doing the December Daily album with you and it is such a wonderful project. I can't thank you enough for the magical feeling it lends to the holiday spirit. I was wondering about your comment of your book getting so big already. Do you think, being THE Ali Edwards that you could talk to a manufactur that would produce D rings for this project? Currently I believe you can only get them w/binder mechanism. I think they would make the album sit and open so much easier than the circle ones....just a thought. See what you can do! :) Thanks

I get further behind each day but I'm taking the pictures and composing in my mind - it's my end of term and my grades are all done now, so I'm hoping I can catch up tomorrow! Even though I'm behind I'm loving what I've done so far LOL.