December Daily™ 2011 | Day Twenty-Four
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Welcome to December Daily™ 2011 | Day Twenty-Four.
Ah, Christmas Eve. I love this day - the anticipation, the excitement, the magic.
My favorite part of the day is when darkness begins to fall and the twinkle lights seem to glow brighter than any previous day.
I've been holding on to that Santa drawing from the paper all month. It was part of an ad for Macy's - I loved that it was city specific.
December Sentiment Strip right above the jouranling. Journaling font is Garamond (date is Helvetica Neue). The green word sticker is from October Afternoon.
This time I did more of a play by play with my jouranling. I think that's the kind of thing that will be cool to look back on in future years (and next year when I will have forgotten what we did this year).
Pattern paper along the bottom is My Mind's Eye Peppermint Patty. Stamp on kraft cardstock is my 25 Moments from Technique Tuesday.
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Hi Ali,
We also unwrap family gifts on Christmas Eve and Santa on Christmas morning. It was our compromise....my family always opened on Christmas morning (English) and my husbands always opened on Christmas Eve (Danish). Now I love it.....Christmas feels longer and the effort of choosing gifts seems to be more appreciated as everything gets played with.
From my experience I hope you stick with it.
Wishing you the best for 2012! Hoping it is a good year for you.
Cori
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It felt good - thank you for sharing your traditions :).
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I LOVE Anna's peppermint stripe jammies!
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Love this layout.......it's so fun! Anna's jammies are so darned cute too!!! (wonder if they make them in big girl sizes) :)
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i was wondering if you have a december daily flickr account set up for sharing photos? if you do, can you share a link? i don't have a blog to share photos of my completed album. thank you.
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Loved the journaling on this page. I was stumped for last Thursday's page, because honestly I didn't want to remember that day --- it started with us having to call the ambulance to pull my elderly father out of the hot tub (he is FINE now, he just spent a little too much time in the hot water). I even took a picture of him in the ER (giving me the "finger" with his pulse oximeter ha ha ha). I ended up putting the picture in a little pocket of the 9-pocket page protector (gotta share the good and bad), but took the page for that day and "doodled" all the things I love about the holidays. I will also go back and add some details to the events of Christmas Eve and Christmas day (I really just ended up with several pictures).
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absolutely love the layout, well your whole entire album actually, I have 4 children (under 8) and for 2 years keep saying I am going to make time for a DD album I am planning now fir 2012 this will be the year, anyways Ali I wanted to know the settings for that gorgeous shot of the kids, recently I am very disappointed with my indoor picture. If you have time to share it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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My kids are under 8 I have no idea how that smiley face got there, this is only my second time commenting ever
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Love this layout. And the play by play is a good idea. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are always so jam packed.
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I've just loaded my blog with my december daily in one go. http://fonmee.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-december-daily-for-2011-photo-heavy.html
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