December Daily

Just sharing my first few spreads with you of my December Daily album. I am really enjoying this process as it is helping me slow down and realize just how very special this month is. Since this is my first time doing a December Daily, I purposely made my album small (approx. 6x6), so that I wouldn't feel pressured to fill it with tons of stuff. But as I create each page, I'm finding that I really could have gone larger. I feel like I want to include more photos and journaling for each day. So, I will keep that in mind for next year. Yes, I am definitely doing this again next year.

One of the other things I am enjoying about this project, is that it's motivating me to do some things I've wanted to do in the past during this season, but never got around to. For example, my husband trims the extra bows off the bottom of our Christmas tree each year and I always to tell him to save them, so I can make an arrangement with them. Well, I never actually got around to creating those arrangements until this year. Something about documenting each day of December made me want to use those pine bows, so I could photograph my creations for one of my pages. As you can see on my Day 2, I filled some galvanized metal buckets (found at most hardware stores) with sand and then pushed the pine bows down into the sand along with some artificial berry springs that I got from a craft store. I love the way they turned out!

Well, I hope that all of you are enjoying your December. I'll be sure to update again soon with my next few spreads.