I have no idea what insanity entered my mind and made me decide that I was going to try Ali Edwards December Daily album. I mean really, I'm usually so dang stressed during the holidays with everything I have to do that adding one more item to my list of things to do should probably send me over the edge.
But...I went and started it anway (So maybe I'm about to go over the edge, look out below!!!). I made the album as simple as I could. I used leftover cardstock and scrapbook paper. I used embellishments out of my stash. I used stickers that I probably picked up during the stone age. I tried not to sweat about making the thing "cute" or "edgy" or "prefect" or "magazine worthy" or anything other than "get the dang book made". It helped that I started this process at the end of October. Of course I didn't finish putting the pages together until last night.
The idea of the December Daily album is to every day, print out a photo and journal about that day so that immediately after the holidays you have a completed album documenting the days leading up to Christmas. The trick is to have the album and it's 25 blank pages done before December 1st so that you aren't spending time trying to create the page every night... you just plop down your photo and journal and the entry for the day is done. At the end of the season, your holiday album will be complete (I actually made mine 26 days as we celebrate Boxing Day in our household).
A December Daily album isn't something that I plan on doing every year. Without kids, decorations and such, don't really change much every year. Maybe I'll do one every five years to see what might change or if we move, I might make one sooner since a different space to put out all my Christmas stuff would change it up a bit. But I look forward to documenting the season so I'm able to reflect back on the holidays sometime in the future when my memory might not be that good, and bring back the special feelings and fun of this time of year.
Oh and technically I'm not actually done and ready on this first day. See the cover of my album is one of those acrylic types. That came with a thin plastic cover that you are supposed to remove before using. Which I didn't remove. Therefor the couple hours I spent stamping, dating and embellishing last night went to waste. I figure Ali won't be too mad at me if I wait until after the holidays to finish the cover.
The photos are of the back sides of some of the pre-done pages. Don't ask me why I photographed the backs and not the fronts. Photos were taken on my iPhone. For more information about December Daily check out Ali Edwards project blog here.
You're better than me! I keep thinking I want to do this, but my life is so dull before Christmas it's almost not worth it. :)
Posted by: Ann | December 17, 2010 at 05:28 PM
i tried this this year too. time consuming as hell... so where are photos of the finished product?
Posted by: Andea | April 08, 2011 at 11:25 AM