December Daily 2009 : Step Two, Part One • Construct
Just a short note to let you know I am in the middle of constructing the interior & exterior parts of my December Daily album. I'm planning to have a post showcasing them on Thursday or Friday.
Construction is basically the process of creating 25 foundations - the pages upon which my stories and photos will be placed during December. I am using the Prima canvas album as my base but I am changing it up a bit (maybe more than a bit) and mixing in a variety of interior pages.
Most of these pages are simple. Some are just two pieces of pattern paper adhered back to back. Some are just page protectors with a number embellishment stapled to the outside. And as you can see from the photo above, there is some stitching involved.
More details on all this when I have the interior completed.
Cocoa Daisy Greece event (where I will be teaching next fall) is now open for registration. Go here for more information.
Technique Tuesday has a new website. Check out the stamps I have created for them here.
okay so I want to know how you manage to use your sewing machine at what looks to be quite late at night without waking your whole house up!
Really hoping to get my act together with this project this year...
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Ali, I CAN-NOT wait to go on this journey again with you. I just can't believe it's come around so quickly though - okay, waiting for D day. hugs.
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I got so inspired, reading your posts for the December Daily. I ran upstair and got out my album from last year, and was super-happy to discover I only missed the last four days of December, and I am sure I have the pics and can complete it before I am due to start this years adventure.
I was just so happy to see the album again, to remember all the good times we hand, and to read about all the stuff I do not remember at all :). I feel like such a wonderful mom for rediscovering all the little things I did for my kids in December 2008, and the idea with the ready made pages worked way better than my 2007, make-the-pages-as-I-go-approach.
I absolutely LOVE you for bringing this idea to my attention!!!
Hugs, Irene from Norway
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Is anyone else having problems reading this blog? The font size is teeny tiny and I tried it with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. In fact I can hardly see what I'm typing! Yikes!
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Don't you just love late night crafting? I smiled when I saw you using your sewing machine in the dim light. I do it all the time.
Yay about the December Daily starting again. I so enjoyed playing along last year.
Sure appreciate you, Ali.
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Not sure what might be wrong, but you can always increase the font size by clicking "cmd" and "+" on a mac / "ctrl" and "+" on a pc using windows. Hope this helps!
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I spent the day in my craft studio yesterday beginning my first ever December Daily Journal. I am so excited, thank you for being such an inspiration. I have your blog up all morning, refreshing the page about 10 times. Can you tell that I can HARDLY WAIT to see your finished product. :)
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yeah! so excited to see what you've been creating for the DD.09 album. this is such a great project, and about the only scrapbooking i have (make) time for.
thanks for sharing this special album with us again this year ali.
beth
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i can hardly wait to see your finished dec. daily album. i also wanted to say i am so loving your today and yesterday class. i get so excited for thursday's. i feel like a kid on christmas morning getting ready to open her packages. thank you so very, very much for all the inspiration and for sharing all of your special talents with us.
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Ali~
Unrelated to the current post, but can you direct me to where I can find the framed Merry Christmas decoration you made (I think) last year? The one with a variety of holiday patterned papers.... I've done a couple searches of the site and can't come up with it.
Thanks!
April
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Thanks! That was wonderful to look at.
You're a peach! Carol
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THIS IS SOMETHING I AM GOING TO GET WORKING ON RIGHT AWAY !! I love mini's and you are so generous with your tutorials!!
thank you so very much for this inspiration
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Here you go April: http://174.121.80/wp-content/typepad_archives/photos/holiday_projects_2006/holiday1.html
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I've been following your December Daily's since you started. I love your albums, they really capture the true holiday spirit. This year I am going to give it a try. I usually scrap every Christmas, but I find myself too overwhelmed with all of the pictures. Your album is a great way to document the season without having a ton of photos! I just finished putting my album together last night!
Heidi
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Ali, I love your stamps & I am so glad you teamed up with Technique Tuesday. I took the "Everyday Life by Ali Edwards" class at CKC Seattle this past week & loved it. I loved the design we made. I even bought 3 of the puzzle "tiles" to help benefit autism. And then of course I had to buy stamps! Love it. We need more journaling stamps out there for normal size journaling...not just tiny dates & 6 word sentances only. Thank you thank you thank you and keep bringing us more!!!! I love your style of scrapbooking, it fits me...clean, organized & the story is told!
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