today is december 1st … not even sure how that happened. lol! but that means that it's the first day of journal your christmas … and i'm totally up for this again this year.
definately check out this class if you havn't already. i had heard of it before. but it wasn't until last year that i actually signed up for it. and i can totally thank nichol for inspiring me to do it. i had watched her album from the previous year … and loved seeing what she did last year too. she has her albums linked on her blog. and here is some of my album from last year. and the nice thing … is that once you take the class … you get it free every year after. so it's something you can do every christmas if you want.
this year, i'm all about making this simple. i feel so overwhelmed this year with everything going on in life … and i just know that if i want to keep up with this journal this year … i have to keep it simple. so i came up with this idea … using a regular 2-up photo album. these are the papers i picked out … a ton of making memories papers (from about 6 different collections) and background papers from scenic route. i cut them all down to 4×6 … and already have them all arranged in the album.
this is basically what each day will look like. this is NOT the prompt for december 12th necessarily … i was just tossing one in there to get a feel for how i was going to do it. this was my planning page … to see how it turned out. but it gives you the idea of what i'm doing. each day will have the 4 spots … one for the date, one for my journaling prompt, one for a photo, and one for the journaling.
i have all the tags in the album, along with the "december". i just have to finish adding the numbers … i'm using the slice with the falala design card. i'll type up the prompts as they come to me … and i'm just printing them on transparencies. then i just added kraft cardstock strips … that i used my SU scalloped punch on … and tied on some string. super simple.
then i'll add a photo pretaining to that day's prompt. i didn't use a single photo last year in my album … so this year, i want to include the photos too. for this one … i just printed 2 photos (3×4 each) together on a 4×6 size photo. for the journaling … i'm just going to use my own handwriting. it's quick and easy … so i know it won't take much to get it done. each spot also has a half circle cut from cardstock … that i'll add a stamped image, diecut, rubon … or whatever i happen to have on hand.
so i probably won't be sharing these every day … since they're all going to look very similiar. lol! but i'll share them in groups maybe once a week … and start an album on the sidebar.
did i mention that deneen and i leave for utah in less than 3 days?!?! i havn't even thought about packing or anything. i don't even have a suitcase …. or a heavy jacket … or a carryon bag … or even know what i can bring in my bags. lol! but i cleared up a bunch of projects as of late last night … so as of now, i have nothing going on. i taught an album class here at my house yesterday … had 8 great ladies come and am mailing out a few extra kits. so that is all pretty much done. and finished some assignments last night and got everything mailed out today for that too. so now i should be able to find some time to start thinking about this trip!
Laura Vegas 
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