December Daily 2022 MEGAAA thread

I think for most people it's about not having the pages or page protectors bend and warp. The album itself should be sturdy enough to survive. I guess it depends on how the book is stashed away - on it's back or standing up - and how it interacts with other things in the bin. I would be inclined to leave it be for a while (maybe a year?) and see how it holds up and/or if you care if it gets a bit bent. 

Tough one. Personally, I’d loathe having two albums for DD. I don’t like having to use two for a whole year of PL, so there’s just no way I’d tolerate it for a 25 day project!
I think the reasons to avoid a bulging album are so that it can sit upright in a shelf among other books, to protects the pages inside, and to flip through comfortably. I think another potential issue is if the weight of the pages pulls the rings apart.

Is it possible to reposition some of your contents so they take up less height? Like spread out the tags, rather than stack them, etc.? I think you could save some space that way, but your album looks easily double wide, so I’m not sure that chonk is ever going to be be an easy fit in a single album! 😂

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Congrats to those who've finished and good luck to those pushing through!

After getting sick on the 21st and being sick thru the new year.. I'm over Christmas 💀 I have a mish mash of stuff from those days but I think it's time to push til the summer when I don't hate seeing reds and greens in my craft cart lol

Well, I am at about day 11. There are a couple days preceding that are not complete- I need to set up my sewing machine to make a few pockets. I always think it’s such a hassle, but afterwards think “well that was so fast and easy!”, so I don’t know why I continue procrastinating.

I’m not losing steam! I’d like to be done within a week. Once the kids return to school I expect THAT is when I’ll be mentally done DONE done with this project and cranky to still be dealing with it. So, I’m keeping that in mind and trying to pace myself accordingly!

I'm finally done. I debated on finishing with Christmas Day since we ended up not traveling, but I had enough to go thru New Years so I did (plus it was the first time in forever that DH & I did anything on NYE). The last 2 pages I did were simple collages with the number glued on, but I'm ok with that!

I even did a page for the 1st because I had a picture of DS17 watching football knowing he had won the family fantasy football season. I love that he was fine with me telling him that the traveling trophy was going to be going with him to college (DH won last year so this huge trophy has been in my house for too long already...). It was a good place to reflect/mention that this was DS's last Christmas before graduating, but I didn't get to relish us all being home for it because we were only home because I was sick (only the 3rd time in his life we've stayed home over Christmas).

I do nothing during December other than take photos, take notes on what happened each day and jot down some page ideas. My album is mostly designed/sketched out and I ordered photos. I’ll start putting the album together next week.

I tried printing at home and working on my album each day but that did not work for me. I don’t have a large format printer and most of my layouts do not include page protectors. I order photos. I also found I lost steam on my album with the chaos of Christmas. Just too much. I like having some breathing room between December and starting my album.

Good luck to everyone with your albums!

Finally received prints for days 7+. Hope to get them all laid out and planned this weekend so I can put it on the shelf. This was such a weird holiday season and I just want it done.

I'm about half way finished with mine. We were all sick for the week before Christmas. Thankfully I took pictures, but nothing seems merry or special about those days. But gonna push through and finish before the end of the month. I don't like working on it later in the year.

Yay!! A finished album almost always ends up being more than the sum of its parts.

Looks great and congrats on the job!

I have worked on my DD since like day 8. Just not in the mood. So I packed it away for now and will bring it out later in the year when I am not so burned out on Christmas.

I finished my DD over the weekend!! I really do enjoy the process, but it feels so good to get it done, put away the DD supplies, and move on to my other projects.

Me too! Then I’ll be able to do DD and finish PL for 2022.

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’m backtracking and working on past years. I did DD from 2010-2014, then stopped until 2021. So I’m working on 2016 for funsies. Lol! It sounds like I don’t enjoy it, but I really do. I’m skipping a few hard years, but I already had photos printed and memorabilia saved for quite a few years, so it’s nice to fill in some of the gaps.