DD prep day

I must’ve missed something with the tags because I’m not sure why the need for large circle punches?

The 4” size punch just makes it easier to punch out patterned paper for the top of the tag as it’s that exact size.

The one thing I like premade videos for is it keeps the creator from answering the same 5 questions over and over and over again throughout the recording. Though a moderator would help with that a bit..

I appreciate that with an edited video that the repetitive boring parts are sped up.

But there is a vibe to real lives that is fun and energizing.

I really really like this idea -- thinking how I can manage it in a smaller format. Also LOVE that dang hey santa vellum so much I went searching for it lol. Found it on an online store that had some other really cute Christmas vellums but the cost of shipping 12x12 anything is always so much 😩

honeypea I heard Ali say that and for some reason this is completely going over my head. Stocking items to fill it with. Like, take photos of the items you will be putting inside your loved ones stockings?? Why don’t I understand this? LOL! Like candy and stuff?? Omg I’m sorry!

jenna you found the same vellum? That’s great! Yes, shipping 12x12 papers is pricey. Maybe the store you found it will offer free shipping during Black Friday!

When I saw the stocking idea, I immediately thought, "Eh...not for me." Then someone suggested taking photos of the actual contents inside the Christmas stocking. I take such care with the contents of our family's Christmas stockings, shopping at World Market for snacks from around the world. There were a couple of years when I did not fill the stockings--years when I was grieving, one year when we spent the holidays in Germany, and then 2020, when it was just too hard to go shopping for anything. So now I'm getting lots of ideas for what I want to do!

Thanks lanena. I’ll have to look for those videos.

Is anyone planning on using a notebook as part of their DD. I think I like the idea but cannot for the life of me come up with an idea for one. I don’t have childhood ornaments. I document new ornaments each year in DD. Kids DD doesn’t work for us. And I do not understand the point of Kristin’s notebook. So weird. And I do keep a sketch book of DD ideas I plan to use each day. But pencil and super sloppy. I would never put that much time and effort into a notebook like that.

Lol! 😂
So, I take it as you are recreating a stuffed stocking. Do flat-lay photos, or use packaging from stocking stuffers, etc., and use those to stuff your paper scrapbook stocking. So, similar to having a bunch of tags in a pocket, but you’d have your pics/ephemera of your real life stocking stuffers in the stocking pocket of the scrapbook.

I do the stocking content photos every few years. Use a white piece of foam board. I’ve either arranged everything in a some sort of order and printed a full page photo. I’ve also arranged the items around the outside of the board, leaving the middle open. I then journal in the white space.

This only started to work when my kids were older and didn’t rip into everything right away. And stockings for us are a big deal, I stuff those suckers full. My stocking from child hood would have been way less cool… 3 pieces of fruit (really parents?), nuts (again why), a bit of candy and maybe a small gift.

I mapped it out in photoshop and if you print the stockings 7" tall you can fit two on the page with as much overlap as Ali has in hers.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet.


Here's my other dilemma: I usually do a page for my 9 nieces and nephews. So this year I thought that making the tags for each would be cool and we would do it at Thanksgiving. But we go to my parents so we might have them and my grandma do the tags too, then my MIL. Then why not us 3 as well. So 16 tags. And, oh wait, Troy is married and I usually put them together but you can't really do that with the tags so now we're at 17. 17 tags in a 6X8 album. No.

Dammit.

I could do us and the grandparents. That would be nice and then we'd have 7. That's manageable, right?

blemon yes, you could just have everyone fill out the tag for fun, collect them all and then just use the ones you want in your album! Also, what size album are you using?