Holiday Junque Journal

I've been working out of the same Journal Your Christmas album for the last three years now. I really enjoy it, and it's going to be super fancy when it is done.

But, inspired by this most recent round of Learn Something New Every Day class, and also the fact that I'm doing Project Life AND a separate holiday mini, I decided something a little bit more for play was in order.

I rummaged around through some scraps of other projects, grabbed my cinch and made up a little 4x6 junque book. It's pretty adorable. And I feel absolutely no pressure about making it be pretty or perfect. This is where I am going to get down and dirty with my holiday crafting. If I want to test out a stamp, splooch out some random paint, put in a blurry print, whatever. It will be all good.

But where did all those little scraps come from? Why was I working on something like this in the first place? Well, it's a mystery for now. But, here's a little sneak peek, just for you.

Shhhhh. It's a surprise!

JYC: Mini Update

This is my little train case of Christmas embellishments. It makes me so, so happy to rifle through it.(Also, a vintage train case is a way cuter way to store these than the paper sack I was using.)

Finally feel like I'm making progress in my cleaning and organizing. And since I actually was able to clear off my desk enough to scrap tonight, I wanted to pop by and share a few photos of my in-progress holiday journal.

Prompt #2 is totally done, yay! Prompt #3 will be finished once I add some instax photos from my upcoming weekend...

Prompt #4 is aaalmost done. I'm fussing over how I want to do the journaling page. Once I figure it out, I can photograph all these spreads properly.

This weekend looks to be full of holiday-festive-ness.

I'll be taking lots of photos for sure. Happy Friday!

JYC2011: Manifesto and December 01

Happy December First! This is the start of the crazy magical amazingly craft time of year that we all love and stress out about. Today I worked for 16 hours on a very big and high visibility project. So that didn't leave a lot of room for crafting. Fortunately, since I'm trying NOT to stress out about being behind (and also the fact that I made these pages last year), I am happy to share the start of my 2011 Journal Your Christmas class book. I'm really not sure if I've shared these before, but I hope you enjoy them.

The manifesto: a reminder to find the joy in every day this time of year. 

I made this with die cuts from my Slice, a martha tree punch, the lovely  manifesto image from Shimelle and labels from Fontwerks and Jenni Bowlin.

And page one. Look at that journaling! Yay!. 

Red gaffer tape from 7 Gypsies, paper from Teresa Collins' line from last year. A chipboard snowflake, basic grey basics label (which I stuck in a vintage typewriter) and a felted making memories embellishment help showcase that photo of a christmas card I made last year.

So, TGIF. I have an event tonight and I'll be going to Urban Craft Uprising and tree trimmng this weekend... I'm hoping to get crafty, but if not, I won't stress. :)

Getting Ready for December

Just wanted to share what I'm planning to do to document the holiday season (aside from blogging, of course). And this may sound shocking to some, but I'm NOT doing a December Daily this year. Nope. Out of scope, as they say at work.

I'm almost done with my 2010 December book, which I will be delighted to share with you, once I can clean my scrap desk off enough to finish it. I got a lot of good work done at a girls' weekend earlier this month.

My already made book for 2011 is actually all documented here on this post.

Yup. Using a book from last year that I didn't finish. Huzzah!

The plan is that this year I'm going to focus on blogging daily, then batching photos to print weekly to put in the book. And also, focusing on the yummy class parts of Journal Your Christmas, because I totally wussed out on the LSNED for this year (though I mostly have a book totally assembled for that, which I will use next year).

I think it's a good plan. It's achievable. I can do it.

Here we go.