Lizzy's December Daily Journey.

Hullo my scrappy friends!

So excited to be joining the team & bringing

you my DECEMBER DAILY JOURNEY!

I'm a 'newbie' at doing a DD. I've watched with fascination the girls here

for a few years, but felt I really didn't have much to SAY in December, so

didn't join in.
I mean, there's only me, my husband & the dog at home...

Then last year for 2015, for some unfathomable reason, I couldn't resist.
I created a little 6" x 4" book:

I learnt SO much on that journey, & to be honest, at the end I decided that it

wasn't something I'd repeat, as I was doing quite detailed

Project Life at the time & felt I'd was repeating myself.

And yet here I am. HAH!
You see, the really weird thing is during this year

I'd pick up my little December Daily & flip through it.
I REALLY enjoyed looking back at the photos
& also at how I'd put the book together.

The clincher was that this year my Project Life is a lot more concise,

so I feel happy to do an in depth day-by-day diary.

And, since I'm entitled to change my mind - I have!

And I'm quite excited:)

I hope you are too!
Happy Scrapping ~ Lizzy ♥♥♥

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I am happy with how my 'stash busting' album turned out. Towards the end it got a little fat, but not overly so.  The one problem I had was the back page fell away from the spiral rings. OOPS!
To keep the book all together, I simply added some trim to the spine, feeding it through the middle of the metal rings and tied it off:

The use of black and white photos was fine, but I did end up cheating, using colour ones in the plastic sleeves tucked in the back of the album for Christmas Day. The idea of using a 'thankful' list when nothing much was happening worked really well for me. This is my fave page because I enjoyed using the ephemera in a 'different' way by creating a flip up to reveal the photo:

Weirdly [or not] even though I had no colour scheme in mind, I've noticed it's mostly green and reds.
I guess that's because they are common Christmas colours! So it ended up matching more than I anticipated!
Totally happy with my 2016 December Daily!

As for 2017. Well, I really enjoyed seeing Jane's plastic binder folder idea. I've got an 8' x 6" one sitting in my stash.  Maybe I'll try pocket scrapping with my stash that I have left over from this year in that next year? And definitely going back to colour photos! I missed that a little this year;)

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