Still Working On 2014 December Daily

I like your goal of completion by January 15th. May have to follow your lead. I have a few more days to print out my pics and then just journal.

Just picked up the last of the photos for days 25-31. I'll finish up tomorrow. It's so huge with photos now! Really jazzed about finishing and giving it to DD.

I literally finished last night. I also want to make some pages for my main family album so now I need to tell the bigger stories from December in 12x12 format. It will be Christmas until Valentine's Day in my house!

Go go go!!! It's so worth it to have it done. You can do it!

And yes, using pocket pages was so much easier. Last year I did all mini layouts and I felt like I had to re-invent the wheel each time. This year it was about half/half.

I have my pictures printed and day 1 done. I'm usually finished the first week of Jan. Today would be ideal to work on it, as I sit here wasting time. I think because there's so many pocket pages this year, and I didn't go that route. So I'm having to look for inspiration through traditional scrapbook pages and mini books. I'm not giving up, it's my favorite project every year when it's finished.

I just finished mine yesterday. I don't worry about it too much. Last year, I didn't finish until November of the following year. I just put the photos in the pockets and put away until I felt like doing December photos again.

I finished on Saturday.

I did an 8x8" album, and kept it fairly simple. I repeated a lot of the same elements, kept it to one paper collection.

This was my first time doing it (I did a variation on DD, starting the day before Thanksgiving to New Year's day - but not doing every day, just the ones I wanted to).

I love my album. I keep looking though my album. It means so much more to me than just getting pretty pictures on paper. I look and see the pic taken on Thanksgiving night when my kids waited up for me because mommy had work. they all agreed to take a family pic when I got home. I was still even wearing my work clothes. Haha. I love looking and remembering. Things were hectic. Not all the pics are portrait studio perfect, but they are real and they happened, and we were all together for them.

Thanks to all the refupeas who kept each other going during our DD.

And keep going to all the refupeas still working. Whether your album is done tomorrow or next November, it'll be worth it.

This is strike 3 for me. I realized that DD is not my thing.

Year 1 (2012): Started off great and by the end of the second week, it was over. Plus, it turned into more of "Ghosts of Christmas Past" than a current album.

Year 2 (2013): My biggest success. It was just a Word Document where I journaled something every day, with the intention of going back to scrap it in January. Well, the best part was reading it this year. I liked the journaling, but it never got scrapped.

Year 3 (2014): (Or should I say strike 3) I decided to call it "Holiday Happenings" and not try to document every single day. I started the Journaling again in the Word Document, but by the time Christmas Day came, (and the most active parts of the holidays) I didn't write anymore because I was too busy. I went back after the fact and filled in, so I captured the big things.

I watched the NicholeJones911 videos on YouTube and just loved them. I wish I could do something like that but know it is way more than I can every come up with. Maybe I'll print the journaling from the Word document and call it my version of DD.

Nearly done with mine!

I love reading about everyone DD but I don't do it I scrap a few holiday memeory pages instead because I was realy great about making the albums and pages and never added the journaling or photos....I finally realized that I just like the holiday memories in my regular books. So carefully wrapped and gifted my completed mini album to some friends with lots kids and no time!!!!! Best idea yet!!!


Good luck to all of you, I find it inspiring how you follow through and finish!

I used a similar size album. When I wanted to use the page protectors, I just cut the paper to fit inside.
If I wanted to do more of a collage style, I made the paper 1/2 wider so I would have room to punch the holes.

Some were smaller to add some variety to it and some things I stuck in there with the basic grey things (I forget what they're called but they are genius plastic things with holes in them).