Stuff you are gathering for December Daily?

Mine will be a hodgepodge of leftovers I have.

Pale Blue BH 6x8 album
Gold Thickers with the numbers 1-25
October Afternoon Eggnog collection
October Afternoon Silent Night papers
PTI Tinsel and Tags paper
Pretty Pink Posh Sequins
Teeny Tiny Jingle bells
Twine
Webster Pages tiny alphabets
Leftover 3x4 cards from a DD kit last year
Stamps, lots and lots of stamps!!
Some free printables from Pinterest

I have SO MUCH Christmas stuff that I think I will be able to make a few DD albums. Lol!

Last year I went through all of my stash (it's not too big) and picked out EVERYTHING in the christmas colors I was using.
That was crazy. I ended up having way too much to work with. Now I have a better idea of what I use and I will be more selective.

I picked up some CUTE CUTE CUTE baker's twine and gold letters in target's one spot yesterday. And I've been gathering a couple of images from christmas catalogs and mailers that have been coming.

I have so much stuff amassed that it's not even funny, but I'm two years behind so a lot of it will eventually get used. I did get some new stuff this year to go with all of my old stash. Bought some at OA's warehouse sale and at the new store that's in front of them. Bought some of the new Doodlebug and Pebbles when I went for a scrappy weekend back in September and to a crop in October. The bad thing is I'll be THREE years behind before I get any chance at all to work on anything! I plan on at least taking the pics and writing some journaling every day like I did the last couple years, and once my studio is put back together I'll be able to sort through what I've got.

Last year I got a Pink Paislee warehouse box that I have not used yet. I remembered seeing some Christmas stuff.

Last night I looked thru it, and there is a whole bunch from their "City Sidewalks" collection- an 8 X 8 paper pack with the prints reduced in size, 12 X 12 sheets of many of the same patterns, and several packs of ephemera etc. I am making a paper bag mini album this year from a youtube tutorial December paper bag mini album, I can easily add other stuff like bling, ribbon, twine, brads/dots etc from my stash.

In past years I fretted too much about the photos matching the pages and didn't get the albums done until long after December. This year I am taking the approach of making the whole mini-album, as if I were going to send it for a swap or give as a gift, and then just adding my photos and journaling. It is so easy to re-size and crop photos now I am sure I can make the photos fit to the mats or tags.

"back 40" heeheehoohoohaha - love it!

Taking cue from Ali and trying to tell more stories. This year I will write about my tradition of buying a new Holiday CD each year. I took a picture of the CD and printed it. I also put our Holiday card in my basket to include. Yesterday I sorted through my stash and found some old paper with gold glitter patterns, grabbed that and some white and black card stock. Its in "the basket". I also printed out from Outlook the month of December. I did weekly style and included a section for notes. This is on a clip board and in my kitchen. I will at the very least jot some stuff down on here for daily activities. I already went through the month and wrote down plans we have.