a couple of things

I decided not to do ReVerb 10, i love the concept and would love to have participate BUT i just do not have the time. There is so much going on right now that i had hardly enough time to breath let alone participate in Reverb, so this is going on the list of things to do next year when life is a little less crazy.

Also i noticed some of my 30 days of me entry have gone missing in cyber space, so i go to re-post those prior to doing day 30 so that all of them are done and that little project is completed. ( I going to fix this up on Wednesday when i have the day off work)

Still working on my December Daily and will share photos once i get photos printed so i can actually finish the whole page. I found the little traditions and things Daniel and I do are quite amusing and am loving documenting them. I most like post one big post of  all the complete pages, after Christmas as i do not see me being able to get photos printed before then, but i will share some more of my journalling and photos over the next few days.

December Daily 2010

I have finally started working on my December Daily as i have not printed my photos i have not actually started putting it together, however i have started working out what i want to put in for each day so far. I am basing this album around traditions, new and old. This is the first year where Daniel and I have not really had our family around for the Christmas period, which is a little sad and we will miss them terrible, but i am trying to make the most of the situation. So i have decided we need to start making our own traditions, finding our own meaning for what Christmas is for us.

So i have started working out my journaling for the first few day of Christmas, and I have some photos taken but i need to take some more to finish of this days, as i no so much scrapbooking day by day, but focusing on the traditions we are creating. However, some days will be actually what happened that day, e.g. Daniel's  work Christmas party on the 11th, but others will just represent the meaning and feeling of Christmas to Dan and I.

December 1st: Advent Calender (Need to get a better photo for this)

This is the first Xmas, Daniel and I will start to make our own traditions for Xmas. Though we have had many Xmas together, they have typically been spent with our family, or with a lack of money but this year  though we are comfortable in our money situation and our families are in another state. I thought long and hard what Xmas meant to me and how i wanted Daniel to see how special it really is (Dan is a bit of a HUM BUG), so i decided to make him an advent calendar.  One of my fondest memories growing up  was of opening up my advent calendar each day counting down to Christmas.  So after a little Internet browsing i came across, a concept a website that included free templates for  little boxes. So the concept was born, each boxes has either a voucher e.g.  breakfast in bed, candy or a promise to him. I put all the boxes under the Christmas tree, and the plan is each morning to put it next to his wallet so that he wakes up to find a surprise.

December 2nd: Xmas Letters

Today, Daniel was on a call so I decided to work on a new tradition we have decided to do this year which is to write each other a letter that we will open up on Christmas day.  I cannot wait to open up Daniel letter and see what he has to say to me....  His hand written letter or typed if he wants will mean so much more to me than,  any gift that he gives me.

December 3rd:  It beginning to look a lot like Christmas....  

 We bought a tree, some decorations and lights the other day and i also had made some decorations to put up around the house.  So today while Daniel was at work i put up the tree and decorated it and the apartment. (note: i do not have enough decorations to cover the whole tree, as we are working within a budget so i just decorated the part that is visual at the front).   I left the most important Christmas decoration of the tree, which is the star. When Daniel got home, it was his job to put the finishing touches on the tree.

Prior to putting up the decorations i had gone out had a facial and then got all the food need for our Xmas lunch with Sasha and Julia on Saturday.

Audit: Xmas lunch was cancel due to Daniel's work commitments, to be rescheduled.

December 4th: Xmas Cards

This year I had big plans, but they were too big, I wanted to make my Xmas cards, but after much humming and haring I realised it just wasn’t going to happen. After, this realisation, I was a little disappointed and said to myself I am not going to bother with cards at all this year... but then I yet again changed my mind and said screw it I will just send some out.... So over   the last week  I painstakingly wrote out my Xmas cards, and today  I finally finish

Once I print my photos and put my pages together I will show them to you.

Also on another note, I have been so busy I have not be able to do my Reverb 10 writings, so hopefully tomorrow before work I will be able to sit down and do a catch up on those and the 30 days of me project.

This is what dan will wake to find on the 1st of decemer

I came across a very cute DIY advent Calendar item (check it out here), and decided to use this concept to count down the days of Christmas. So each morning, Dan is going to wake to find this....

In each little box, I am going to put a love voucher, or one of his favorite candy or something to celebrate this wonderful time of the year with him.... 

I will keep all the boxes for next year or may use them as part of my December daily album, and once he has cashed in his vouchers, or left behind the wrappers from his lollies I want to included them somehow in my December daily album too.

(sorry for the bad photos, i am taking these at 1am in the morning here. I will replace them with better ones in the morning).

December Daily 2010

As i previously mentioned i am participating in Ali Edwards December Daily this year, and i was thinking about what sort of things i would like to included in my album, what sort of events will be happening. Our Xmas won't be a very typical one, due to the fact we are not near any family and this year we are not and they are not travelling to each other. On top of this fact, Dan and I will both be working over the Xmas period, i will have Xmas day off but it looks like Dan going to be on call which puts a damper in our Xmas plans... So this year my December daily will not be filled with Xmas events etc but will represent where we are right now and what we are doing right now to make our lives work... i think it will be interesting to look back on and see the difference from this very un-Christmas Christmas to one in ten years or so that will be a true Aussie Xmas.

December Daily 2010 Foundation

Ali Edwards once again is hosting December Daily, this year I have decided to participate... all I can say so far is WOW everyone has such fantastic albums. For my foundation pages i used the a paper pack and stickers from Echo Park, i have kept it pretty simple so far, but eventually i will kick it up a notch... Anyway here are my foundation pages...