Document the Everyday Challenge

I wanted to start the day after Thanksgiving... and I did. But I am not happy with my album at all. I don’t know if it is the 6x8 size, the color scheme, or the fact I am trying to squeeze in so much since I am not doing Project 365... but I am just not feeling it.

I may start over tomorrow, possibly use a 12x12 template set I found, maybe follow the prompts, and see how it goes.

 

Oh, this is good. I hopefully I'll remember to take photos!

 

It is a challenge to document everyday- but this year, I have prepared more than ever so I am not "drawing a blank" on those days when I/we don't have anything very "christmassy" going on.
I have made two lists - the first is writing down the days 1 thru 31 and jotting down any plans we have on that day - for instance, on Dec.2nd we are ringing the salvation army bell, on Dec.20th I am meeting with the neighborhood woman's group - so on days I have something planned, I will remember to take a photo and make that my story for that day-done. I think having it written down and seeing it makes it less overwhelming for me - the decision has been made - now I just have to pop in a photo, write a few sentences and use some fun embellishments!
On the (many) days where I/we don't have anything planned yet, I have come up with a second list of things I want to photograph or stories of late that I want to include. For me, these are things like our dog, my son playing club baseball and how hard he has worked, my texts to/from my family that lives out of state. Most of these stories are flexible and can go in just about any day. The list is on my desk and ready for days when I don't have anything else.
I have done a DYD/DD book for the past 5 years - not always finishing but this year I feel more prepared than ever. I got many of these ideas from the fab @Liz -she has a great blog post & video showing how she is preparing her DYD- it's worth checking out here.http://paisleepress.com/2017/11/december-daily-2017-foundation-pages-video-walkthrough/ -hope that it's ok I linked that? Anyway, thanks for the great ideas - looking forward to seeing everyone's pages!

 

I made a start on some foundation pages in Nov to get me going. I wouldn't have any hope of managing it otherwise. Dec can get quite busy. It will good training for MOC I guess. I've decided to do this as an album of everyday life from my perspective which is something I've not done before, and I'm a bit nervous and excited about doing it all at the same time.

 

I'm quietly, inwardly freaking out. I don't have a good plan in place for this year yet. Last year was my first successful year and part of what it made it successful was the fact that I had the journaling side of my spread laid out for every day in advance. I might just pick a template set and let that be my "foundation pages" for this year. We'll see... deep breaths, deep breaths....

(Once a decision is made, I'll be fine, it's just making that decision to get started!!)

 

That's with me as well... I just need to get a couple pages going to establish the feel I want for this year. And I'm definitely keeping things simple this year too.

 

today.

 

I have a document on my desk and I have been jotting down dates and things to prepare. Some have pictures and some do not. I have also made a couple of foundation pages. Hoping to work on them later, but first on the priorities is the Christmas card.

 

I think ill document our every day, and on days we do absolutely nothing, I'm going to do "memory pages" with heritage photos or use one of the awesome prompts listed in one of the posts here.

 

What do ya'll do if you forget to document a few days? We're already 7 days in and I've only documented the first four days. Any thoughts?

 

I saw that Liz missed a day taking pictures. She did a layout about the music they were listening to that day. If you were too busy to actually take the pics, do a day of journaling about everything going on.

I am doing DYD this year hoping it gets me back into the scrapping mood. I am just documenting the day to day things I'm doing. I probably won't be posting my layouts since I am using non TLP kits.

 

My day 11. It doesn't get any more everyday than this. Appointment with the teacher...