December Daily™ 2011 | Day Ten

What a wonderful treasure trove of memories you have, and thanks so much for passing that inspiration on to us! This is my first year of doing a DD, and I want to let you know that it has really been a valuable way to help me focus on what is important; fully being in the moments, and appreciating it all. Documenting this joy and wonder is the payoff, which I know I will dearly be grateful for in the future! Thank you so much, Ali!

Love the Santa pictures! I agree I like your picture better. Your picture is your children in the moment with Santa, your picture is a candid not posed, its magical. The other picture is cute and what all us parents have... over priced mall pictures! (it is now become part of our tradition). We see Santa after the dentist Thursday! Merry Christmas!

Another great one. Loving the pics with Santa!!!

I can't seem to get my mind and time around December Daily this year but I am so enjoying seeing your pages and those of others. I might need a visit with Santa myself. :)

Hi Ali! Oh how I love December Daily! I didn´t do it last year, because I got the "I have no kids so I have nothing to put in it"-illness. I know that is stupid, and I scrap mysef all the time the rest of the year. Even though I didn´t do it last year it made me notice more during December, and I regretted not doing the book so much. I actually started collecting items for my album last December, so I had a box full of items and papers I wanted to use :-) Thank you so much for doing this! I love it!

(I also just want to say that I send all my pregnant customers to look at Annas baby book. (I work at the LSS), just so that they can see that there are more ways to document that first year. You inspire me so much!)

Siri

What a gorgeous looking Santa! Love it! Your photo is SOOOOOO much better than the official one, it really captures the excitement and the serious conversation taking place. Love Love Love it!

I love your shot with Santa - surely priceless! Reading your posts during December is a highlight of my day - still very excited!

ALI!! i am so very glad you got a Silhouette Cameo.. have been hoping for years someone would gift you one so you can start making some Ali inspired cutting files.. OMG my crafting world would be a happy place with some of your designs in the studio format..I hope you will look into after the holidays.

I had made a 25days of December book to start however I had a biopsy that came back positive so immediately my world was upside down..we have no Christmas up which with 3 girls it has been a bit somber. I am now recovering from the surgery and yesterday decided I could do a '12days' of Christmas book so I dismantled a book Janet Hopkins style and hope to have it completed to start in two days. THanks for all the inspiration that you give!! I hope to get on the HOliday bandwagon quickly!! :)

Hi Ali, I'm loving your December Daily album, as I do every year! It just gets better and better. This year December has not gone so well for me - I got started with the first week, and then I got sick. Nothing serious, but I haven't felt at all Christmassy or inspired, and our family has actually been skipping some of our usual Christmas traditions because I haven't felt well enough to go out.

Any suggestions as to how to handle this? I still really want to complete my album, so as to have a companion for last year's (our Christmases are on a 2-year schedule with the different families, and I thought it would be great to be able to compare them).

Thank you! You inspire me like few people can. :)

Catching up on today's pages and the pictures from last night. We threw a big Christmas party Saturday Night. I thought that the party would throw me off my December Daily habit; but in all the hullabaloo - it was nice to know that my December Daily album was waiting patiently for me in my scrapbooking room. I used my scrapbooking time before, and now after, the party as a peaceful brackets of time to counterbalance all the the excitement of the party atmosphere. I love this project.

Hi Ali - Adorable pictures of the kids. You can just see what they're thinking! Just wonder if the Tim's Tiny Attacher staples rust? And I am guessing you cut and sewed the inserted divided page protector? Love your style! Thanks!

So prefer your picture to the "official" one! What a great capture of the kids looking at Santa - and what a cute Santa! Thanks for sharing! I'm only on day 3, but getting photos done digitally on your December Daily templates - so easy to use! Thanks for the tutorials!

So glad you showed this example of a border with a 5x7... had been struggling with ideas for that same concept. Thanks!

yeah, and ummm, whose photo looks better, huh? it always cracks me up how much they make you pay for these photos and we could do better with our cameras. or even better... some times i just want to ask the photographer, can i just take the picture with your camera instead? lol... ;)

Hi Ali! I'm enjoying seeing your work. Wanted to let you know that I've had good luck getting permission to take my own photos with Santa (and the Easter Bunny), by asking ahead of time and letting them know I'll also be purchasing from them. I've never been turned down! I like being able to get photos of my grandsons looking at Santa like you did here and especially close-ups of their faces where you can really see the magic in their eyes.

[...] The top left pocket includes a couple things: my Minted receipt for our Christmas cards, a grocery list, and a Christmas Quote Strip that I cut out with the Silhouette and added black zing on top (thought I was going to use it as a December Daily embellishment). [...]

i love the santa you get to see. our santas are rather bad, im sad to say. but oh well :) Yours is lovely :)

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