For the last few years I have planned to do a December Daily album, based on Ali Edward’s phenomenal idea. In 2006 I had my album all ready by November 25th, but didn't manage to complete daily pages. In 2007 I got my album finished the around mid December, started journaling but got bored of having to catch up on the days I missed so I stopped. Last year, I again got gung-ho in November and was ahead of the game, but didn’t manage to journal one single day! I think I was too caught up in all the crafting I did, plus I was pregnant and tired. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Things are different this year though. it’s Kieran’s first Christmas and I am excited to record it all. Since he won’t remember a thing, I think that some day in the future he will appreciate having a record of his first holiday season.


I quickly pulled my album together on Monday and Tuesday. To keep things as simple as possible I pulled a bunch of Teresa Collins die cut pages and chipboard bracket covers made for the Bind-it-All. Thank goodness for my hoarding tendencies (and thanks to my sister Vernell for having sent them to me sometime last year!)
I only had one sheet of Christmas die cuts, so the rest of the album is made up of pages from the Travel set, the Damask set, the Destination set and the Journal It set.

The pages and covers come with explicit instructions on how to punch and bind them together, regardless of the page shape and size, so it was pretty easy going to make. I managed to get it bound yesterday while Kieran played quietly for about 15 minutes.
As you can see I basically just alternated the page types then added the numbers. I kept the album very simple, since I really didn't have a lot of time to pull it together. As I am completing each day, I will probably add an extra embellishment or two.
And confession time: I only had up to page 14 done yesterday, but decided to go ahead and bind it, since I worried that if I waited to complete all the pages, the book would just sit there in a pile and never get used.
For the cover I also went to my stash and found a Christmas themed monthly scrapbooking kit from last year. I’m also using other bits and pieces like the numbers and labels from my stash, and letter stickers from my “Write” basket (where I keep all my journaling supplies). I’m also using Thicker number stickers in a variety of colours to change things up from the red numbers.
Here is Day 1!


I doubt I will get to post my pages every day. I’ll be happy just to get them done! But I will definitely share more pages throughout the month, and also in the flickr group.
I’m really excited to keep up with the journal this month!