december daily

I've been reading about the December Daily project for a couple of years now, but have yet to jump on this particular crafting bandwagon. Until yesterday, that is. I got on some major crafting mojo and went to town.

I have a Christmas album. It's 8X8" and includes our yearly photo cards (except one which got lost when we moved into the apartment a few years back, so if anybody out there still has the one of us with Mt. Rainier in the background, please send it my way) & my cheeseball newsletters, pictures from usually Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, and whatever other memorabilia (I love that word) I might decide to include. I started it after my first Christmas with Phil, back in the "we're young and in love and still engaged" days. I'm a year behind (go figure), but I love looking at this album.

If you've kept tabs on my Project 365 blog, Snapshots and Snippets, you know I failed miserably after about the first week of April. . .if I actually even made it that far. I just found that my life was not so exciting and that I really didn't want the whole thing to be pictures of discontinued mop heads, Costco toilet paper, and pictures of us making out. But then I was telling my friend Barbara about this December Daily thing and saying that my life wasn't exciting and I might not do it, and she says, "You can make anything exciting." There folks, that was all it took. Thanks, Barb, for the inspiration.

So I'm hoping that I can keep up with a month. One month. Actually, only 25 days of a very busy month. But I'm going to try because I've got all my 25 pages all ready to go. Well, kinda. I dug out my stash and remembered that I had a ton of stuff left over from mom's tag book. (Remember that precious little thing?) So everything I've used so far is stuff I already had (which my husband really appreciated.) As days go by and I take pictures and journal, then I can embellish. I still have to do the cover - I'm thinking chipboard covered with patterned paper - and do the title page - which will, of course, have a great big B on it. And maybe an e, r, g, l, a, n, and d. Because I like big B's and I cannot lie.

Here's a little preview. . .

The pages are all different shapes and sizes. Some are plain cardstock, some are patterned papers back to back. I cut out all the numbers & letters on my cricut and can't wait to fill it all up. I'll keep you posted.