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December Daily (update 2)

by Amy on December 19, 2012

I’ve finally gotten enough caught up with Project Life that I’ve started editing photos from December.

What I’ve been trying to do is just take photos all day. Journal a little bit in my Blurb template for the appropriate day.

Then once I have all the photos edited, I can just drag-and-drop them in to the right day and have it almost be done.

*Trying* I said.

Always an obstacle: I work until 11p, don’t get home til almost midnight, and go to bed immediately (because I’m actually a ‘morning person’) … so any journaling will be done the next day.

I’m realizing that we are doing *very little* holidayish things this month. This is more of a day-to-day book for the most part. BUT my family is coming into town for several days before Christmas so at least we’ll have that.

blog promotion tip: It looks like Ali is including a linkup for every day of December Daily. So if you’re keeping up every day and blogging about it, make sure you go over there to add your appropriate link and encourage new readers to come find your site!

Sidenote: I’m working on putting together a December Daily project page. Let me know if there is anything specific you’d like to see on a landing page like that.

I’ve slightly changed my template. I decided I will NOT be moving the date label around (like last year) so instead I centered the date label so it at least looks deliberate.

Some examples of my pages so far (I didn’t realize how many family-in-the-mirror photos I had taken until I put these together!)

DecDaily01

DecDaily 02

DecDaily 03

DecDaily 08

Reposting some December Daily inspirations from around the web….

25 tips to rock your December Daily
December Daily from The Nerd Nest
My self-directed Christmas journaling series from several years ago
25 ideas and story inspirations
Document Life Workshop posted a great collection of DecDaily links
or you could always sign up for Megan’s Daily Doc December class
or check out Annette’s DecDaily LISTING prompts (inspired by 30 Days of Lists)
or simply follow the #DecDaily hashtag on Twitter and Instagram
December Daily – looking ahead and looking back

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December is for

by Amy on December 1, 2012

December Daily 2012
so between that and Project Life I will be spending most of December taking and editing photos
getting a big Christmas tree for our front window
trying to keep the cats from climbing all the way to the top
Working on posts for my annual L&R blog party! (so I’m not doing them all the day before as in previous years)
My parents’ 35th wedding anniversary (!)
Andrew’s work’s Christmas party
*should* be slow at the day job for me most of the month
4 day weekend for Christmas. But back to work Dec 26. And also working New Year’s Eve. Til 8p. So that’s awesome.
watching Christmas movies! I can rewatch those over and over …. favorites include Elf, White Christmas, and an old TV movie called A Muppet Family Christmas
Going to see The Hobbit at midnight (! the first movie we will be seeing in the theater since HP7.2)
and taking that day off work. Just because.
getting the last of the little Christmas gifts we need to get
planning several big projects for after the first of the year
need to take new headshots….. to go with my new site design which should be up by the end of the month!
snuggling with the babies

What do you have planned?

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DECEMBER is for

by Amy on December 1, 2011

working on my December Daily album
finishing my Alaska vacation Blurb book
finishing the final pages of our autumn mini book
San Francisco this weekend
to visit friends and see a concert
Tucson the weekend after
to photograph a wedding
trying to get a bit more ahead on scheduled blog posts
finishing Christmas shopping (only a small small handful of gifts left)
finishing the big fat biography I’m reading. 660+ pages
working on (and finishing) BLOG PARTY posts
editing photos
watching Christmas movies
hopefully SLOW at the day job
hopefully finding out if Andrew and I will have a new niece OR a new nephew! (my hunch is nephew)
more heavy-duty planning for 2012
house hunting
parents possibly coming out for the Christmas weekend
starting to pack up some boxes for the inevitable move
working on the next 30 days of lists installment

What are you up to this month?

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December Daily 2011 : Base pages

by Amy on November 28, 2011

I have been going back and forth with whether or not I wanted to participate in Ali Edwards’ December Daily project this year.

Keeping a physical minibook for the autumn season has been so fun …. But expensive and a little exhausting. (Final update on that coming soon, by the way. As soon as I get my Thanksgiving photo prints).

I mentioned last week that I am currently working on a couple different books to be printed with Blurb, so I thought why not do my December Daily album with Blurb as well? Just text and photos, but that’s really all I need. I don’t have the money or energy to go shopping for all the fun little Christmas embellishments that make physical scrapbooking so fun.

So, since I’m doing a Blurb book ….

I’m excited to be able to work on it every single day, without having to to break out the adhesive, paper cutter, etc. PLUS with my autumn minibook, I have had to place an order with SmugMug every week or so for photo prints to put in my physical album.

By using Blurb, I still will have to place an online order and pay for shipping, but at least it will be all at once at the end, instead of every week.

Here are the base pages *so far* -

I’ve made title pages for each of the days (this gallery only shows through Dec 12, and then the templates repeat through the end of the month). I don’t actually own photoshop or anything similar, so I will be exclusively using Blurb’s book design software to create/format the pages.

[Show as slideshow]

We already have basically ALL our weekends in December booked up, so between that and house-shopping, this should be a great month to document on a daily basis!

Other random notes about my December Daily project:

I *may* only do the album through Christmas Day, but we’ll see
I will need to remember to take plenty of photos to fill up these pages!
I may in fact use some of these December Daily prompts and ideas for days when nothing especially holiday-ish happens

Are you participating in December Daily? Have you prepped your album yet?

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2010 in review

by Amy on January 1, 2011

All of 2010 was pretty awesome.

We didn’t go on any BIG vacations, but we did get a couple mini getaways:

San Francisco for LAST New Years

Paso Robles to shoot Andrew’s co-workers wedding

Hearst Castle for my birthday

Phoenix to visit my family

I went on a Mexico cruise with Andrew’s sister

San Diego to snorkel with sharks

Palm Springs just because

We didn’t travel out of the country really, but we did a lot of Los Angeles local touristing (why, yes. ‘Touristing’ is a word I made up. You may use it).

Grammy Museum