Document Your December - Ideas?

I have this as my cover,

and then day 4.


We have been doing Elf and I have been intentional about taking photos everyday so I can go back and do those.
You could decide to do December highlights and focus on Christmassy things that you do, instead of a daily thing. That way some days may not be featured but other days may have more than one page.

 

I've been known to "fudge" it if I don't have photos every day. There are days when more photos are taken and if some of them are more generic (not tied to a specific event), I'll use it for a day I don't have anything. I've had to do this when I did my "Week in Review" albums 13 years ago.

I do try to take at least one photo a day even if it is something like a sunset out the window because I do live a very boring life! In December I am more focused about taking photos so that I can do a page for each day.

Do what works for you because it is "Documenting YOUR December".

 

I plan on December Moments this year. Some things need 2 pages, like the parade we went to. And other things need 1 page - like the movies we watched. I plan on putting all the movies together on a 2 page spread, and just date them. So, more of a topic overview of our December.

 

I'm doing the DYD again this year, for the 4th year. I use a photo that I take each day and build my TN page around that. My pages are 4x6, I get them printed at Walgreen's at the end of December and put them in one of my TN journals. It gives me a few inches to write more - at the bottom of my 4x6 "layout".

 

I tend to only make pages for the Christmas related things we do each year. So I'll usually do a page about getting our tree (we go to a tree farm and cut our own down). Then I do a page for decorating the tree. I'll do a page or two for Christmas Eve with my MIL and SIL and BIL and then I'll do two pages for actual Christmas day. I'll add any extra pages for unique things related to Christmas on any given year and that's pretty much all I do. I put those page in my regular Shutterfly book, but I also print just the Christmas pages and have a Christmas album that I add to each year. It's really fun to have all those Christmas pages together in one book so we can see how much we all change over the years!