2023 megaaa DECEMBER DAILY thread (ALL December projects)

Story 5.

http://instagram.com/p/C1DTE_Rv197

Now I am working on story 15. I want to make a wreath around the photo so I cut the photo using an older stacking QuicKutz Revolution die set and will use an even older Quixkutz 2x2 die that is the holly.

So sorry you had food poisoning! Hope your tummy (and gut?) has settled down now. 

Last one for today. Story 16.

http://instagram.com/p/C1D9hjkrqYH

We're in the home stretch!

What I'm doing now is planning out my last few stories (I finished 16 last night -- just pretty much copied what Linda did for her JOY page but I used a photo instead of words).

I have several foundation pages and embellishments I want to use this year so I'm going to start laying out what order those will go in and try to consider what stories I will still need to tell.
This morning it's bright and sunny and I went around the house taking pictures of a few christmas decorations. I'm going to cut them into the shapes of that ornament paper.

Here's what I have left to use so if you have any ideas, let me know:

- 2x2 pocket page with the folded over papers (from product play) - maybe this can be for cat costumes because we will have a million photos of them.
- the nutcracker thing Nolana did for Prep day (I cut those shapes out of pattern paper with my silhouette and I really like it). Probably this will just house a number and maybe some journaling and be an overlay for a full page photo.
-the Paige Evans most gorgeous acetate. This goes well with the number 19 I have from the Elle's Studio set that I put on a silver edge round tag
-the Paige Evans stitched trees. (I'm going to adhere these to the flap of a foldover page I got from Felicity Jane (or make a new one out of pattern paper or a color, depending on the photo/story).
-plastic nutcracker (hopefully Ali will use this soon so I can steal her idea)
-that filler page I made with the strips in a wreath shape with the santa on it
-a number 20 I cut out of vellum. So story 20 needs to work with that.
-I made a file that I have been adding my Christmas movie watching to. On the back will be a VHS tape image I'll print out. The colors are too bright and I need to change the red but that will be an easy one to pop in.

I think that's it.

We had a beautiful snow the other day and I got a cool photo out the window. I think that will make a nice story.

I also really want to take a horizontal photo and spread it out over two pages. I just love how that looks and I haven't done that yet this year.

I like this part of the challenge -- making everything work, deciding what I won't use, choosing which stories are the most important.

That’s the one with Will Kemp, right? It was OK. He’s only pretending to be royal so it’s more of a fish out of water story. I didn’t watch it closely but unless you really hate royal stuff or the actors I’d say give it a shot. I much prefer regular people pretending to be royal than royal people pretending to be regular. 

At lunch I've been watching scrapbooking videos. Today I watched Linda's video on DD pages 6-9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB1f5Q-7c0). She said, "Not every page has to be your favorite."

That's a good one.

Remember that when you go through your album 5 years from now, you will not see that little mistake or that something is boring. You are going to love it. The whole is the sum of its parts.

I've made some progress on my album this last week. I've got five days complete and another three days with photos printed and/or papers/cards in pockets. I've been keeping up with my notes for each day and have a rough plan of stories I want to include with some of those allocated to specific days. Work has been busy this month but today is my last day for the year so I'm hopeful I can take some time for me and get a little more done before family start arriving on Saturday.

Story/Day 9! We went out last weekend to shop for the cousins gifts. Ds also picked out 2 new books for himself so that is what this pic is for.

http://instagram.com/p/C1GiQ0HLMpQ

Today was my first day off (taking a week over Christmas). I finally was able to work in my dd and plan out all the stories and see what kinds of pics I need, if I had days to fill etc. it was so nice to work on it. I’ve just been busy with work and then after work I’m too exhausted to do anything really.

I know I’ll be getting various scrappy things for Christmas gifts- including a sewing machine- so it will be even more fun to work on pages after Christmas. I had ordered some photos from persnickety prints in some larger sizes- I’m am loving those additions to my album. I’ll do another order of some other prints at the end of December, too.

Todays story was “currently” - a variety of things I was doing today including baking, planning, wrapping, scrapping

Tomorrow’s story will be dd1’s 30th birthday.

The 23rd’s story is our Christmas game tournament story (it spreads out from 22-25 but the story is the 23rd.

I do the usual Christmas Eve/Christmas day stories and I also do the 26th to round it out.

I'm chugging along with my album...

We are celebrating Christmas at my mom's tonight with my sisters family and our kids. My mom insisted everyone wear pajamas..

He won't be with us until we celebrate with Jeremy's f amily on Sunday.

I finished more pages and posted them to Instagram.

http://instagram.com/p/C1OEiDpuxX6

Day 20 is my watchlist. Day 21 is solstice.

3 days to go!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!!

Coming into the home stretch. I will be working on my last days (18, 19, 22, 24, 25) Tuesday and Wednesday.

I enjoyed this year's DD and how I set it up (25 stories that didn't have to be scrapped to the exact day). I am however ready to be done with Christmas items lol. Looking forward to getting back to regular pocket scrap pages.