*** DECEMBER DAILY 2024 *** MEGAAA thread

Do we know if any of her design team (or whatever they’re called) is doing a 10x8?

Freckled Pickle/ Lisa is. I think she always does hers late though, not during December?

And I think Morgan Beal is also doing 10x8.

I went through things in more detail last night. I saw a couple of posts on insta about Blue washi tape issues and mine is definitely unusable. I suggest you unroll 6 inches or more of of your roll to see if you have the same issue. Basically, the blue is coming off as you unroll it - it is a lot like what can happen with an old roll of washi that starts to disintegrate. I was not really planning to use that roll anyway, but given how many people have already posted about issues, I would definitely suggest you check yours.

The white puffy numbers do have more of a cool grey is cast to them, but I really like them regardless - it reminds me of the color of the felt trees last year..

On the size of everything, yes, there is a lot of bigger stuff, but I am loving the quality and creativity of things this year and I am not worried about size - every year with the things I think I don’t like or won’t use, I am always pleasantly surprised by the lessons, blog posts, etc with ways people use the products I end up loving.

Last night I figured out that the inside lining of the red star album matches the light kraft die cut phrases and trees so I adhered the large “December”, “twenty twenty four” and all 3 of the big kraft trees on the front inside cover and I am loving how that looks. When I originally saw those pieces I thought there is no way I will use any of these, but they really look sharp on that inside cover.

Ok, I am kinda starting to panic. My box has been sitting in Bowling Green since October 9 with zero. movement.

There’s a typo in the 3x8 cards. A cardstock one that says “merry + birght”. 🙄

Fingers crossed for you, mom, that your package shows up like honeypea's did.

Off to check my washi tape.
ETA-it's defective, also

It’s such a blatant typo. It’s not like when they do a word error, like using quit instead of quiet. Like, my eyes immediately grabbed the mistake as I flipped though them. I don’t understand how it wasn’t noticed.

I took a good look at it last night, I believe it is supposed to be slightly distressed.  My issue with is that is barely sticky.  I will have to tape the tape. Bah. 

Annnnd I was hopping on here to say how much I love my kit, LOL. I will be checking my washi later (fingers crossed). I unboxed and looked at everything in detail and overall I'm really impressed with the amount of product in the main and the quality which seems to be better than what we've seen in the past (notwithstanding the washi and the 3x8 cards).

I would also like advent ideas. Maybe something for the whole family? Thinking tea or the jam one.

Linda that advent calendar is very cute.

I highly recommend the jam one (bonne maman I think). And there are lots of different tea ones.

I buy my mom a licorice one from lakridis. It's pricey but it's my mom and she really likes it. This is the third year now that I've gotten it for her.
I give it to her a Thanksgiving.
If you order straight from them you get a free gift of a jar of licorice.

The Bonne Maman jam one is quite fun. I got it on amazon a couple of years ago. I just checked and it looks like they have a 24 spread advent one and now a 12 days version. 

Technically they’re spreads because they’re more sugar than fruit, but the flavors were really nice and it’s just the right amount for two people to have on English muffins or toast each day. They only piled up a little. The empty jars can be an issue though - very cute and tiny, very tempting to keep them all! I regifted quickly to people who thought they’d use them for something because I knew I’d lie to myself about using them and they’d just be clutter in my house. 

I haven’t really seen anything so far. I just did a google search to see if any of my favorite chocolate makers had a calendar and found some cute options at uncommon goods. I haven’t purchased from them but there are some ideas that could be DIYed or searched from other stores that might have better quality versions (I don’t know if I’d trust some of these companies to have good chocolate or tea no matter how cute the box is). I like the idea of a puzzle advent calendar, which seems to be one of their bestsellers. www.uncommongoods.com - advent calendars is one of their trending searches.

I bought these advent calendars this year :

Ali’s sticker calendar
12 days of mini puzzles
12 days of favored chapsticks
12 days Bonne M spreads/jam. Was glad to see 12 days offered because 24 days of jam is too much for us but 12 days could be fun.

Finally got my package after it sitting at the post office for the weekend. Everything looks great and I'm not going to lie, I had expectations of missing items. I'm loving the navy accents, something I didn't really notice through the computer screen. My blue washi is fine, it does have a bit if distressing but I think that was purposeful? All the papers are gorgeous and I'm happy with the specialty card pack. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the dove icons, but I knew that before I bought.