October Daily 2020 MEGAAA thread

Might be a good use for the Positivity Passport!

What are your plans? A fall themed album. I'm thinking 8x8.

Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties? I have a good amount of fall themed supplies but Carta Bella Hello Autumn is calling to me.

What are you adding to your October agenda this year? All the fall things we love. Food, drinks, clothes, decor, traditions, light up the fireplace, use the fire pit in the backyard, fall scented candles, a few movie marathons, and more!

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic? I will have to give this one some thought. 

Look at that handsome guy up above!!!🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤

What are your plans? Probably an Oct Daily since I have never done a true daily album, usually I just do a list of things I love about December and things we do to celebrate, I don’t know what size, likely 6x8. Need to make sure I have a black album in that size.

Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties?

I have a ton of stuff to use, but some of that old/new Pebbles line will be coming home since I don’t have any for some reason.

What are you adding to your October agenda this year?

Just adding more cooking since I will have plenty of time. Will be looking here for idea though!

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic?

Well, since I think traditional T or T is out I will be getting orange and black eggs for the kids in my family and having Halloween hunts for them. I will be cooking as many creepy themed meals as I can, watching a lot of horror movies- actual horror and my favorite black and white classics and a whole bunch of Vincent Price flicks. We are very lucky to have a local theater that hosts an all night horrorthon, but I can’t imagine that it will be happening this year, so that is a huge bummer. They also usually show Phantom of the Opera with live organ and we usually go to that along with various other movies they show throughout the month. Fortunately they have a video store so I think I will be haunting the selection there to make our own movie nights. I think we will still have jack o lantern carving, at least I hope so!


I also love to read creepy books in October, well anytime, but I try to only read creepy books in October. I have read only Poe’s work one year. Last year I read all of Shirley Jackson’s work, anyone have any suggestions for an author to highlight this year?

I am super excited about this!!!!

Given that I don’t think weekly or monthly PL is in the cards this year (just going to order photo books instead cuz I ain’t got that time!), one-off projects like DD or OD (is this going to be the new acronym, lol) are appealing.

So I’ll bite

What are your plans? October Daily, autumn stories album, LOs?
Probably more of an autumn stories album. Dare I try to premake everything and go day by day?

Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties?
God knows I don’t need more stuff. But I don’t have a lot of fall-themed or colored items. I might pick up one paper pack.

What are you adding to your October agenda this year?
Having a little pancake means being forced to do more stuff, ha. So I will seek out a more socially distant pumpkin patch. We have done apple picking before, and a lot of those places also do pumpkins later in the year. Halloween costumes for sure. Painting pumpkins with the little one.

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic?
We don’t have a lot of traditions but one thing I would do without the pandemic is go to some of the city’s street fairs/festivals. I doubt they’re being held this year. We also like to go to breweries for Octoberfest. Doubt that will happen this year.

What are your plans? I don’t know. I might have to do ‘something’ to pass the month. I did like my positivity passport in July and I’m missing that in August. But maybe not quite as simple as I did that one but not too elaborate either.


Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties? well I have no specific halloween paper but I have stamps & some swap items from way way back in the day that should be given a proper home. So I’ll say stash. But I’m not refusing to buy goodies. Apparently that is how I’m coping with the pandemic ! Buy stuff.

What are you adding to your October agenda this year? prayer. Lots of prayer that we can keep this at bay enough to do a couple of things.

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic? no idea, I like to go to farms & such but that can be super crowded on weekends and I’m not comfortable with that. Especially since the farm locations seem to coincide with areas not taking this thing seriously.

What are your plans? just layouts in the family album - maybe an excuse to go back and catch up on some previous Octobers


Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties? stash for sure

What are you adding to your October agenda this year? I'm not sure - I think we're losing the two big October events for us (Trick or Treating now my youngest is 13 and Fall photos at the pumpkin patch - thanks covid)

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic? not sure

I LOVE the idea of an October Daily, as Christmas tends to be too hard to do. (I seem to spend most of December dealing with extended family crap) We are big on Fall/Halloween doings, so it makes sense.

What are your plans? October Daily, autumn stories album, LOs?

Good question! We generally take a road trip, so we may or may not do that this year. DH and DD birthdays are both in October and DS is November, so will for sure be doing birthday scrapbooking. We will be working on costumes (although we seem to go as Leia and Han every other year, so not sure...and not sure what actual Halloween will look like. We also go to the Apple Orchard, so that may look different.

Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties? I don't know...I have so much good stuff. I really like the older collections for Halloween and I have some great stuff left, including some Rusty Pickle halloween stack. I also fell in love with Pink Paislee SpellCast, so I may have to try and pick up more of that. I am sad to say I don't love all of Carta Bella's new Halloween line. Some is ok, but it is so black, orange and white ...I really wanted to love it. So I may trawl through some older lines and see what I missed during the 5 years I quit scrapbooking to do grad school.

What are you adding to your October agenda this year? More long walks, a return to the dog park in the early morning hours

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic? I want to try making my own carameled apples, we always get them at the orchard because they are SOOOOO good! (They make their own caramel from scratch) I also want to try (like really really try) to make apple pie with a lattice top. I am too lazy, so I usually just throw the crust on the top. Last year I made this beauty smittenkitchen.com/2016/11/cheesecake-marbled-pumpkin-slab-pie/ and it was AMAZING.

This is a great thread, thank you.

Ok, I'll bite (in true vampire form). Last time I did an October album was 2012! I don't do December, I prefer October. I may give it a go this year....

What are your plans? | Not sure, but I may continue using the HS Storyline Chapters planner book that I've been using for daily documenting. Or maybe I will create a separate mini album?! hmmm....

Will you be using your stash? Will you be buying new pretties? | Stash - I love Halloween lines, but I generally only scrap maybe 1 or 2 halloween layouts, so I have plenty. I tend to buy them bcz of cats, esp black cat (pictured left <<<<).

What are you adding to your October agenda this year? | I am hoping that we can still do some outdoor things...I wonder if corn mazes will still happen? But at least foliage looking, hikes, pumpkins, farm market, etc. I generally always photograph my Halloween mantle decor and scrap that. And yes, I tend to dress up for fun photoshoots and dress my cats for no particular reason except my own enjoyment. Also baking and cooking soups, stews, etc. It's a big food prep season for me.

How are you adapting some of your favourite traditions to the pandemic? | We will see...I am assuming there will be no trick-or-treaters, so that will be different. Hopefully not too much else will change.

October is also just a big clean up the yard time for me and plan for next season and this year I will be getting into some more projects like that. I also have a full movie lineup: Nightmare Before Christmas and Garfield's Halloween are my favs. Hoping there is a new part of Sabrina on Netflix by then, and I think Stranger Things maybe coming back in October?!

On another note, not sure if those of you get Victoria Marie's newsletter, but she is looking to host a October crop with a Halloween/Harry Potter/dress up theme...which I am on board.

I think I'd like to try some sort of October Daily. Maybe, creating daily like #100 day project or memory keeping like Dec Daily.
If i use a daily memory project similar to DD, I will definitely need to create an album in advance.
Even if I don't use the album as it is, it is a great jumping off point.

This is a really neat idea! 

Rather than a single year, I've been wanting/planning to do a cumulative Halloween book of "favorites" from decor to movies, to coffee cups to favorite villains, candy, to an array of all things Halloween. I'd like to come up with something where I can add new stuff as needed every year. I don't have/do enough (as much as I love Halloween) to devote an entire album to every year individually. But there's a lot of stuff I love and have loved that I'd like to document and be ale to look back through every year.

I love this idea!

Well I've gone from "nah, probably not going to do that" to shopping for supplies to make my own junk journal with white journaling on black pages + this cool monochrome paper pad in no time flat. Face palm. Might have to take a step back and see if I really want to do this or I'm just riding along on your collective excitement.