2023 megaaa DECEMBER DAILY thread (ALL December projects)

I have the photos printed and in their pockets and am slowly getting the journaling and so forth completed for each page. I think I've done about a third.

I think I only have the day we opened presents at home left to do. I've done a little insert for Santa gifts and used the ornament paper for stockings (still have to do the journaling though). Realistically I just need to concentrate on going through my photos, deciding which ones I may want to use and go from there.

Good luck to everyone finishing up!!

Good morning - remember me?! Missing in action for so long, with builders doing major work on our house for the last seven months, I have barely been in my studio at all and the idea of digging through the dust to find my Christmas stash just didn't appeal. But with twenty Christmas journals on my shelf (I started young!) I couldn't bear the idea of missing a year and of course, in my head I was collecting all the material for a journal which just wasn't there *yet*. Whilst looking for a quick way of keeping my Project Life going - Traci Reed's dated ledger cards in Christmas colours on which I could just scribble a few words each day and stuff a photo in a nearby pocket - I came across some tags in another of her collections. I didn't really want to make a tag journal this time but I jotted down all those "currently" prompts and decided to make a simple, undated journal with a less structured record of Christmas 2023. It will be a bit chaotic and disorganised, but perhaps that's a true reflection of how it was! And so yesterday, I began...sorting a couple of photos for each prompt and happy to "work towards" (!!) making a journal of all those important little details - what we watched, who was around, what we ate and where we went.

I have dropped in here from time to time to see what my peeps were up to, I've followed IGs and looked on in envy (and will look up karinec in a minute) but for the first time today, I feel as though I can claim a baby step towards the smallest achievement. Oh, and the builders are gone and the work complete...except that those of who who have been there, done that, will know what I mean when I say they keep coming back to do this or that! One day, we will regain control of our house!!
(oh and as if that's not enough, in the next couple of weeks or so, our first grandchild is due...another reason to get Christmas done and out of the way, ready for the journal I can't wait to begin!!)

Same with Jennie Rey, her work is so creative! Without realizing it I saved just about every one of her daily posts. I have all the items for the foil quill but I’m intimidated. Maybe I’ll give it a try.

 That is awesome to use up the supplies!

I started my album on January 7th and am almost done.... I ended up doing a 4x6 vertical flipbook and love how it is coming out. A few more journaling spots to print, about 1-3 photos, and then some final embellishing. I am totally surprised by myself still wanting to scrap Christmas, but happy with how it is coming out. 

RAK: Elle's Studio 2023 Christmas collection - lots of items. US only please!

1(Oh no!  I just spotted that I missed the deadline on this thread by nearly a month - so sorry!!)

I can't believe it but I can say "It's done!!" I put the last bits together on my Christmas journal yesterday and just posted a blog about it so that next year I can say "well, at least it didn't take me as long as it did last year!" I feel as if I've been missing in action here for so long, have lost touch with the conversations and am looking forward to getting my mojo back.
blog post here

I would say, "life got in the way of fun" but that would not be true - we have a new Grandson (our first Grandchild) who is gorgeous - and Grandma needs her cuddles of course. Oh, and there's the business of prepping a new travel journal as well

Now I need to go and have a stern word with my Silhouette, which just did the weirdest thing and cut at a wonky angle, for no reason that I could see at all. Hmmm.

Congrats on finishing!!! (I have not- I’ve put it aside until probably summer). I didn’t know there was a deadline to this thread. lol

I'm so close to finishing--just need to add my 6x8 pictures, but I didn't see the "deadline" either 😁

Deadlines, schmedlines...

I think Booty was just setting up the general expectation that the thread would be going for several months, at least into January, but it usually trails off after that. There are no deadlines in DD! Although there will be a new Christmas product sneak peek thread in a few months it’ll come on quicker than we expect!
I haven’t been working on my JYC book but I just need to proof and fine tune it, add one silly story if there’s space, and upload it when blurb has a discount code for trade books. I missed the last one.

Congrats on getting it wrapped up!

LOvE that title page!