Days 4 & 5

I am having a lot of fun so far with my December Daily album and finding a lot of inspiration from Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas prompts and Ali Edward's December Daily Flickr pool. 

I have to say the Picture the Holidays class hasn't really got me yet, although I have utilised the daily prompts in Days 1-4.

How are you getting on?

Day 3 - December Daily

Day 2 - December Daily

Day 1 - December Daily

Okay, so it was a little more complicated than I thought, trying to take and incorporate, ingredients from 3 classes into one!

My main dilemma is where (and how) to tell the story.
My eventual aim is to get the pages printed into a photobook, so it will be something I want to show others.  As a result, I don't want the journalling to be too personal.  Equally I will want to look back through it 10, 15, 20 years from now, and remember what I was feeling.  It's a tough line to tread! 

In the end I did most of my journalling off line and print, and used the prompt from Picture the Holidays to write the couple of lines I did.  

My December Daily

So, the mayhem starts tomorrow!
And I say this as someone who doesn't have a large family to worry about, or children for that matter, and I still struggle!

This year I am making a revived attempt to Journal [my] Christmas, and (hopefully) combine it with my December Daily album, whilst being inspired and motivated by 30 Days of Festive Photography.  Good plan?  I thought it should all work pretty well togther.

Now I was trying to give myself a head start by at least getting the template of my December Daily album ready.  I've decided to go completely digital this year (much to the disgust of some of my scrappy friends no doubt :) but I need to give myself at least a fighting chance of completing this!  Unfortunately it's Day 1 tomorrow, and I've only managed to get up to Day 7 so far.  Oops. 
But Cam is working late tonight, so maybe I can crack on with this...

I've used embellishments from Weeds and Wildflower's Jolly Holiday range and the page templates are from Oscraps Paislee Press Snapshot No 2.