december daily - wrap up

i was able to finish this project all the way to the end.  in years past i've missed doing the actual christmas day layout.  but not this year.

i followed along with ali and used her album as the basis for mine.  i used what i had on hand to put it together and just ordered a few things to keep it current.  i loved the teresa collins line this year.

i didn't post on flickr or my blog like i wanted to.  and i don't want to post all of the pages now.  but i will show you my favorites.

 i used the free download as my opening page.  the snowflake is a felt ornament from target.  and of course the sleeve from a starbucks coffee.

day 4 - a trip to disneyland with the kids.  and then a chance to explore the park on our own. each of the photos flips open to reveal the journaling.

day 8 - i printed the photo of my coffee bean mug to 6x8 and glued it directly to the back of day 7.  then i added a bag from starbucks (without the pastry).  there is a little bit of journaling inside with thoughts on a peaceful christmas season.

day 11 - date night with b.  i used a baseball card protector to divide the pages.  and i included an instax photo of us and the business card from the yogurt place we went to after dinner.

day 14 - i love that this day includes a picture of each of us.  so simple to put this together.

day 18 - i included the packaging from our harry and david delivery.  another baseball card protector with photos of little gifts we got throughout december. (sorry for the blurry photo.)

day 19 - the back of the baseball card protector has photos of the kids and the trifle i made for dessert.  and i love this page with a photo of bobby's grandparents and us.

day 24 - christmas eve.  there is a transparency in the middle that i added a rub on and numbers to.  then a picture of the kids in their christmas pajamas.

dec 25 - finally a christmas day layout.  a picture of us in the morning printed at 6x8.  i attached some canvas ribbon from michael's directly to the photo.  there is a transparency with the date and some holly in the middle.  then for the last page i printed some photos using the contact page setting in iphoto.  i added descriptions on the cardstock for a look at our christmas day.

my book is full and the binding rings are really too small.  but i'm ok with that and will leave it as is.  it's time to put this away.

what made it easy for me is that i put all of the pages together ahead of time.  i don't usually do this project like that.  i like to make decisions the day of.  but i really loved ali's book and wanted to make this as easy as possible.  and i'm happy with how it worked out.

you can check out some other favorites here:
elise
amy
wilna - scroll down to see her pages.