December Daily 2010 | Day Two

I love your pages!! I love the photo of Simon and Anna walking together with their antler ears. I love how you told the story and I love how you handled Anna's hesitancy with Santa! I just love it all! You are amazing in your ability to be able to communicate what happens in your family each day. They are all so lucky!!

On the road to album set up, the lightbulb was not clicking on the transparency thing...NOW I get it and LOVE it!

My goal was to not make any new supply purchases for this album, so my "transparencies" are a mix of only a sparse few I had on hand, some vellums (that now looking at them won't give the same look, but ok with that - take it all in stride, right?) :) And, the rest home made jobbies with presentation binding clear covers and as per your suggestion in an earlier post - staz on ink stamping.

Having fun...each day telling the simpler stories which may not have been formally recorded.

I have a story to share:

how cool is it that my local newspaper's online version offered a snowstorm photo contest yesterday. My Day 2 pic of my oldest daughter shoveling had been my pic of the day, taken early in the morning. Anyhow, my pic was one chosen, so it was featured on their website! Of course that printout is now my new and improved story for yesterday and for being chosen, I won a gift certificate to our local favorite restaurant that we are using to go out to a Date Night dinner tomorrow night to celebrate our anniversary (which is today).

So, as you can see December Daily is spreading good things all over the place! Thank you! We will have a toast to you tomorrow night, for had I not done this album, I may not have necessarily ventured outside at 7:30 a.m. to watch my daughter shovel, let alone take a photo of it and think to submit it in the newspaper photo challenge and win our Anniversary dinner! Cheers!

Thank you thank you thank you. I was worrining about telling a story later that already happened. Nothing that spectacular went on yesterday and I was stretching for a story but today I have 2 stories so I will do one from today for day 2 and the other as day 3 and save my stretch for later when I can really pull it all together! (If what I said makes any sense you are a genius!)

So, for the second day i have only one picture and one page... but i guess "go with the flow" is the motto... : )

No stress going with what works as long as it is documented is my approach. Wednesday's are hetic for us due to a 7:00pm dance class and I almost got caught up stressing n the fact it was day 1 of the December Daily and I had not worked on my page.I took a step back and said hey what we do today or not can be documented another day just as long as I do it. So last night I did day 1 and 2. My advent calendar plan for tonight since the temperature is cold here in fl(I know other areas are colder but for us it's cold :) is Hot chocolate at Starbucks. Can't wait to document that. And if you have a blog and don't have the time to work on your page at least type a draft of what happend and work on your page later. Enjoy the season and don't strees we have enough going on in our lives.

how cute, ali!
love that you are giving permission to focus on the story and not be so concerned about the individual days.
also really enjoying seeing everyone's projects & how different they are!

You did a beautiful job capturing the story behind this outing! Loved reading it! :) You are always soooo inspiring! Happy Holidays. . .I'm off to print some pics. :)

I'm loving that you used a day one story for day two. I've got day one and two started so far and I'm not using coordinating stories for the correct days either. Also, as a way to move away from my "week in the life mindset" I have a list of things that I want to include about Christmas and I'm just taking pictures each day and then filling in my pages as I go. I'm still including the story so that's all that matters. I also removed my overlay pages so as not to overwhelm myself with pages that I think need completed.

Thanks for sharing your pages and thanks for everyone else sharing too! It gives me motivation to keep working on this everyday!

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Great photos!

Love Love Love the picture of Simon and Anna in the reindeer hats..... I always love to take a back shot of my two boys 25 and 10. Thanks for sharing...

Thanks again for another wonderful inspiration project Ali! Just last night Jack - my 13 year old boy (yes, BOY) - said to me, "I'm glad you're doing one of those again this year mom, they're really cool".

I have both day 1 and Day 2 on the same post -- jsut could not quite get all of day 1 finished! My album is little this year -- just a 6x6 size, but just in doing the first 2 pages, am soooo thank ful I decided to do this. I really missed it last year!

I adore the photo of Anna and Simon. Love to see the close bond between them. My girls are 7 years apart as well (15 & 8) and I just love their relationship (especially when they're not arguing) :)

Happy Weekend!

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Love your pages! :-)

I love this page. And the photo of Anna is stunning. This is my first year doing December Daily and while I'm excited about doing it, I know mine is not going to turn out as beautiful as yours. I'm generally happy with my photographs, but choosing embellishments that are beautiful and still convey a "clean and simple" style is a challenge for me.

hi!
I left the link to my blog and a comment yesterday but they kind of disappeared .... I wonder if something is wrong with my settings as I also can't see the links to the blogs that were added after mine...?

I have day one and two done.. I am just loving that you are using photo's from other days that you want to put in.. I think I might do this too.. some day's I have so much going on and would love to put it all in my book on the days that have not much going on..
Precious photo's of the kids,, and love that tag with Simon on it with Santa.. wonderful!!

Love that photo of them walking hand in hand. ;D