2023 megaaa DECEMBER DAILY thread (ALL December projects)

So update on what I thought was going to be a beautiful resin cover with pine greens and a bit of glitter and white snow...my 15 year looked at the cover and said it looks like a skull. Now everytime I look at it I can't unsee it...it looks a bit Voldemort like! So I did a couple more covers to see if I could get a color mix/style I like and they all look like garbage 🙄 so I think I'm digging into my stash and seeing if I have something different. Pretty sure I have an extra album around here that I'll use.

Sounds like you've got the perfect album for your trip to do the Harry Potter stuff at Universal (or whatever else is going on these days).

Help please! Last week I ran across a photo of someone's DD page that had a lovely Christmas tree made of small green layered tassels. I didn't save it!!! Now I can't find it anywhere. I don't know if it was on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. Has anyone seen this? Did you save the link?

Jo, I take deep offense to you calling Miracle Whip a "tangy mayonnaise."  Miracle Whip is an abomination to man, disgusting, and nothing like my beloved mayonnaise. 

I knew someone would take offense at that!
As an immigrant often confuse all the Whips - Cool, Dream, Miracle and Reddi. Any comparison with mayonnaise was meant to clarify that the abomination added to the "salad" was something of a savory whip rather than a sweet one, not to suggest that MW should truly be considered mayonnaise.

It was product play - one of the very last lessons.

First of all, I'm sorry you are going through this. It just sounds terrible and I can imagine you'd have a hard time pulling out your holiday spirit.

I am someone who doesn't work on my DD until New Year's weekend. I take pictures and I do the journaling. As I write my journaling, I format it in either 3x4 4x6 or 3x8 (rare but sometimes my journaling takes up a whole 6x8 page.) This is so at the end I just have to print and cut into cards. And then I get my kit and my kit only (I do not dig through any of my other scrapbook supplies), I keep it simple and I can usually put the entire album together in the weekend + new years eve, new years day holiday. I specifically use those four days to do my album. I did the same process with October Daily this year. My October was incredibly busy and hard because Esther's birthday is during October but I tried really hard to put in a bunch of fun things and work was busy too. I admit it is a little bit disappointing when you can't keep up with the thread devoted to the project and it kind of sucked to be posting after the thread had kind of died out. But, I do the project for me and I was really happy with how my project turned out.

And also, not everything in my books, DD or OD, relates to the season or holiday either. Some days I just document how that particular day went or how I was feeling.

Ha ha. I blocked those from my mind.

Thank you for your good memory.

I’d suggest to keep taking pictures, keep a little log to journal or just jot some thoughts down.
I started doing yearly DDs in 2009 but fell off around 2016, just had a few hard years in there.
Last year, I went back and completed a few of the years to fill the gap. I felt better about that time in retrospect, and because I had kept memorabilia and light journaling, it was easy to put together.

I’m not working on this years DD on a daily basis. I like to take pictures and save ideas, then start after the holiday. For me, the tree picture is usually always my first photo and i like to have a lot to choose from. So a tree photo from the middle of the month may be day 1 for me, if that makes sense.

Knew you guys would hate this 😂😉

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Finally feeling better! First dsy of winter break and just got done with errands so off to play.

Big news of the day is Toby's cancer is still stable with no new growth. He has a slow progressing lymphoma. It has been 2 years and 4 months and the cancer hasn't spread and the 2 lymph nodes affected haven't gotten bigger. Yay!!!

I'm too cheap to turn on Prime right now. I think I have another season of Mrs Maisel too.

I am moving along in December Daily. Day 4 is still waiting on the kid to do her journaling. 7, 8, 9, and 10 are done. Working on 11 and 12 kinda at the same time.
Then I'm going to have a couple of days with a full-page photo and an embellishment and call those done. I feel like I'm making everything super complicated and I do not have it in me.

Again -- remind me next year: They are called foundation pages, not filler pages. Do more foundations, less filler.

I don't know what got into me during prep day. I was cutting out all kinds of stuff. What the hell am I going to do with all those nutcrackers make from pattern paper and the thing from Nolana's lesson. I'm not going to make a dang book with flaps all this way and that. I ain't got time for that.