Laura Vegas

i'm going to cheat a little on todays post. so if you're reading this and it sounds or looks a little familiar, you're not having a deja'vu kind of moment. i really did blog this same post exactly one year ago. lol! but figured it was worth sharing again. there are a few new thoughts mixed in there too 🙂

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 two years ago 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 two years ago. 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. which was my thought last year, when i put this entire album together. but last year, i just never got around to journaling in this, or taking photos. i had taken my 4 day trip to utah at the beginning of december last year, and just never caught up. lol! and this year i sort of feel the same. just very overwhelmed, with everything going on in life. i knew that if i wanted to keep up with this journal, i would 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 pattern 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, which i'm creating using the slice with the falala design card. i have all the daily prompts typed up, and printed on transparencies. then i just added kraft cardstock strips with a scalloped punched edge, and tied on some string. super simple.

then i'll add a photo pertaining 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, and 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 will start an album on the sidebar. i have to admit, that it felt good to pull this album out last night. it's 90% done. so it really shouldn't be that hard to snap a photo each day, write a few sentences, and maybe add a few embellishments as i go. we'll see how it goes 😉