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Post by Linda on Nov 2, 2014 21:27:20 GMT
I love the idea of these projects but I don't think any of them are ones I want to do year after year. I see them more as a do-once, snapshot of life and then move on to another project another year.
Last year I did a mini Thanksgiving album (6x6) from a link that pea posted - it had each family member's photo and something they were grateful for plus our menu and some of the recipes/food photos. I had a blast doing it but I think it would be overkill to do again this year - not to mention, how many mini-albums about Thanksgiving do I really want to own/store/look at?
I'm thinking about doing a December Daily this year to document all of our Advent/Christmas traditions while I still have all the children at home (my son is almost certainly moving out next year). But I think once I document them, I won't need to do that again - I'll still have traditional Advent/Christmas layouts in my family album each year but I think that'll be enough.
Maybe next year, I'll do a Week in the life album - I would just need to pick a week that is busy enough to be interesting yet still reflective of day to day life. That might be one to repeat in 10 and see if/how my day to day routine changes once I no longer have children (my youngest is 8 so in 10 years, she'll be 18)
What are your thoughts? I know that these are the sorts of projects that seem to be really popular and people do (or attempt to do) year after year.
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Post by berta147 on Nov 2, 2014 21:43:37 GMT
I am planning to do a December Daily/Journal your Christmas/Holiday album, starting with Thanksgiving and ending at New Years. I have never done one before, and I think it will be fun to do.
But I don't think I will do another next year, but may be every five years or so.
My boys all are still at home, but the youngest turned 18 this week.
I think one a year would get repetative, but every five years or so would be fun. To see what we still do and what has changed.
I have an album planned out, it won't be daily, but I hope to have at least a page every 3 days or so. I made my base pages and cover. And have a big box of supplies ready and hope to try to keep it up during the holidays.
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Post by purplebee on Nov 3, 2014 10:29:47 GMT
I can see how doing an annual DD would be kinda boring year after year, unless you have little kids, maybe every three years or so would a better choice, esp. if you're already doing PL. I just started my first 30 Days of Gratitude project, so I will see how that goes, planning to morph into a DD Dec. 1. The lure of non-12x12 supplies was also a factor, I will admit!
Can imagine doing an annual 30 Days of Gratitude/Thankful mini album as an end-of- year wake up call re the good things in life.
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Post by kitbop on Nov 3, 2014 12:31:08 GMT
Yes, my DD project seems a little repetitive on the 3rd go round. And thinner! But I have found a different story every year to tell (only 3 years mind you)
I think if you have a big family Christmas, or a trip, or young kids, the album would be really valuable as a memory.
I think if it were just DH an me, it would be too repetitive to make it worth while.
I like your idea of doing DD this year, and week in the life next year...document a period of the year, it doesn't have to be Christmas!\
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Post by anniefb on Nov 4, 2014 5:09:52 GMT
I bought a DD kit but I'm not doing a separate album. I'll use the products for 2 weeks of regular PL layouts when I'm staying with my brother's family in the UK over Christmas & New Year. My niece has just turned one so it'll be a special celebration.
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Post by miominmio on Nov 4, 2014 6:34:06 GMT
I don't do PL, so I sometimes make a December Daily. Last year is not finished (but it would only take a few hours, so I really should get it done), but I think it 's mainly because I chose colors that I'm not so fond of (green/red). This year, I'm going for a blue/white color scheme again, to see if that makes a difference. Plus, this year I have an instax camera, so I can finish the page each day. Not quite sure yet if I'll do it as a daily album or as a "this is our Jul" album yet.
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Post by AerynK on Nov 4, 2014 18:36:52 GMT
I have a hard time doing projects like this *once*, let alone several times. I didn't finish last year's 30 days, I got to day 23, so I'm trying again, but I'm taking a "find something about this *day*" approach vs "all the things in my life" because that would just repeat and repeat. DD I'm not doing again. Finding something every day, for a family of two adults... yeah, it was insane. I had my fun, I used a kit, I finished a project. YAY! Done. And it didn't make me like the holiday any more either, so... yeah, not dealing with X-Mas again.
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Post by loco coco on Nov 4, 2014 19:08:20 GMT
i dont have kids and even then I dont think I would have enough to document and read about later!
I love the idea of the mini thanksgiving or christmas album though
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Post by amom23 on Nov 4, 2014 20:43:50 GMT
I think those type of projects look neat, but aren't for me. I would never finish one if I started and around the holidays isn't the best time for me to take on another project. Sometimes I will include extra stuff in my Thanksgiving or Christmas pages and add more journaling like if we bought new decorations or did something pretty different that year, etc. I'm firmly in the camp of doing what makes you happy. Scrapbooking is suppose to be fun.
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Post by LisaDorothy on Nov 4, 2014 22:18:18 GMT
I agree with you. Doing December Daily once was certainly enough for me, as it took me 2 years to complete! I've never done a 30 days project but I did do a Peek at my Week once, and that was the only one I would do again for sure. The kids love it, I love it, and it's a manageable chunk of time for me to document again. The others, eh. Been there, done that.
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Post by annchristine on Nov 5, 2014 0:08:34 GMT
I did WITL for the first time this year. Life is so busy, with two little ones and working FT, that I'm afraid these years are going to go by in a blur. I take a decent number of pictures usually, but I got a bunch of great ones that I normally wouldn't have gotten because I was making a conscious effort. I haven't even gotten close to starting the album process, but at least I have the pictures and the notes I took. It doesn't feel daunting, as it's only one week out of 52 and I love the idea of doing it every year and being able to look back and compare!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 5, 2014 4:39:36 GMT
I have two December Daily albums that I am calling done (maybe missing one photo or something so I can always do it when I get around to it, two more years where I took pics and wrote journaling every day but never got the album assembled and I want to do one this year. I do plan to assemble the years that aren't done eventually. My kid is still really young so for me I want to do it because she changes so much from year to year even if the themes and traditions stay the same. It's just fun looking back and seeing her go from a little baby to a toddler and now a preschooler. Plus for us it seems like something unexpected and cool always happens around the holidays and it's neat to be able to capture that and document it. Last year, a friend of mine decided out of the blue that she was just done with her Dept. 56 Dickens Village and brought it over here and gave it to DD who LOVED it. Two years ago my brother gave me the Nativity set that my mom had for years that a special friend painted for her and the wooden stable that one of my uncles made for her back in the '50's. He found it in a closet in my mom's old house. This year we're heading to Disney for 8 days before Christmas and will be attending Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party while we're there, so it will be an amazing experience to scrap about in my December Daily.  Maybe I would feel differently if I didn't have a little one in the house, but for now I do and that makes our holidays so much more magical and fun. |
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Post by penny on Nov 5, 2014 20:28:31 GMT
I love how December Dailys look, but I've never done one... I have enough stuff to do about a dozen of them, just never got around to it... I think they're great if you have a big family, young children, or a really busy holiday season with parties and outings... For me, it would be 20 days of nothing unusual, a party, a day shopping, a day baking, and then christmas... I think that I have to work another challenge into it - like a picture a day, or some other prompt per day...
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Post by ReneeH20 on Nov 5, 2014 22:16:21 GMT
I've done Journal Your Christmas for several years now. It's more prompt based than recording everything going on in December like December Daily. That makes it easier for me. When the kids were younger, I did 3 of 30 day projects (March, May, & July of separate years) and one WITL. As an almost empty nester, there is just not that much interesting stuff going on to document 30 days of anything.
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Post by blemon on Nov 6, 2014 0:23:07 GMT
Ok, here's something I'm thinking of. I did DD last year for the first time and I loved it. But I'm thinking of doing the 12 days of Christmas instead. I'm going to pick 12 themes about the holidays that I love and go with that.
Then if some are more than one page or if I put a pocket page in there with more photos (like for Elf on the Shelf), it will work.
I'm getting excited about it. 25 days was just a bit too much for me last year although I loved doing it.
I'm doing week in the life this year for the first time but I don't know if I'll do it again. I'm getting some shots I never would have gotten and I like thinking about the little things. I'm shooting this week and will put the book together starting next week but I think it will take a couple of weeks to finish.
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Post by Linda on Nov 6, 2014 15:01:46 GMT
I'm loving all the replies - lots of food for thought and some great ideas on how to tweak the concepts to work for me. Thanks everyone
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Post by scrapcat on Nov 6, 2014 16:15:35 GMT
I agree with you, I would not do all of these ever year. That said, I usually only pick one type of project like this a year and it probably won't look anything like how someone else does it bcz I make it work for me. Sometimes it's a mini album, sometimes it's just a few regular layouts dedicated to that one theme or a sort of insert in an album. I never purchase kits, I just use my stash.
In 2012 I did an October album bcz I love that time of year. I have not done a December Daily album, but I did a December paper bag album and just highlighted a few events, traditions and days. I'm attempting Week in the Life for the first time this year, so far I just have my photos and words and no plans for the actual project. I'm either doing digital or hybrid layouts that I will just stick into regular album.
I'm all for no rules scrapbooking. Do what you like and what works for you!
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Post by tallgirl on Nov 6, 2014 16:43:41 GMT
I'm on my 8th year of December Daily this year. I love it and consider it a holiday tradition in and of itself. I love how some aspects of it remain the same and others change from year to year. I do have kids at home, a 7 and 9 year old, which probably influences how I feel. But I feel the same way you do about other projects. I did P365 once. I don't need years worth of grocery receipts and other daily minutiae. I think Week in the Life sounds similar and I've never had the urge to do that. Different strokes for different folks. |
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Post by kelly8875 on Nov 6, 2014 18:50:26 GMT
I've done a couple round of WITL. but years ago. The first one may have been the first time Ali taught her class at CKU actually. Then I repeated it about 5 years later. I'm glad I did them, because I know someday they'll be pretty interesting to look at.
I've also done a 30 day type album about 10 years ago. It was very simple, only using 1-2 things from each day to document something that happened. If I recall, I didn't use photos at all, it's receipts or journaling, or a photocopy of something from the day.
Summer 2013, I did a photo a day for the month of July. I love summertime, and we had a lot of fun that month. I love, love, love, love this book I made. The best part, was that I didn't tell anyone I was taking pictures for a book.
I made a book for December last year, but never put anything in it. I felt like it was too close to the July book I just had made, so I shelved it, and might use it this year instead. It's generic to the Christmas season, not day specific at all.
They're fun to do, for me, if it's not too repetitive. Themed for an occasion or season works best for me!
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Post by mrssch on Nov 8, 2014 0:34:26 GMT
I've never done the "Week In The Life" project. It's a goal. I enjoy December Daily. I have completed two albums and have 2-3 more "in production". I plan on a 2014 edition as well. Actually, I might get started on it next week while I'm still on medical leave. I plan to return to work on December 1st so I have no excuse not to be ready...
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Post by kimmie75 on Nov 14, 2014 19:25:10 GMT
I'm so happy to have finished three December Dailys 2009, 2011and 2013. I wished I hadn't missed the in between years. They were tough years for me, and I really wish I documented them anyways. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of this year's kit.
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