I've completed four Christmas journals and although each one is different, I love them all. Only the first one followed the prompts in Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas class, and it's the only one with a page for each day of December. After that I combined a variety of prompts or made up my own. Looking back at them, I'm so glad I kept track of the little things that made each holiday season a bit different. Each of my albums have been a different size and a different format, and I like that, too.
Every year I try to decide how I want to proceed. I've never really followed Ali Edward's December Daily process, but her initial post really inspired me. Combined with Shimelle's class (free every year after the first one), Jessica Sprague's notebook "Holidays in Hand" which I completed last year, and Tracey Clark's upcoming class Picture the Holidays, I think I'm going with a December Daily format this year.
I'm also going to use the same set-up Ali showed on her blog: transparencies followed by a journaling and photo page. I downloaded the journaling/photo pages over the weekend from Designer Digitals and will use them either digitally or print them out; probably a combination of both. I went through my Christmas stash and found a few transparencies as well as a few in other collections that should work well. Now I have my eye out for the rest I will need to purchase. A few years ago I purchased some lovely red chipboard which will be perfect for the cover. I need to get all of this put together so when we return from California (arriving here a few minutes after midnight on December 1) I'll be ready to go.
