Finished!!

Yay! Finished my December Daily Foundation last night. I'm so excited to have it complete and really quite pleased with how it turned out. I completely changed my mind about the cover, but I think I like it better than the other option.

I've had some requests for me to try to let people know what I've been using along the way so here goes:

For the cover I used some left over chipboard and covered it with Poinsetta Ledger paper from the Making Memories Noel set. The stripe down the side is from a Tim Holtz Seasonal paper pad. I used the December Daily Title circle that Ali Edwards gave as a freebie on her blog and added some Christmas Red Stickles to it. 3 brads from My Mind's Eye under that and done!

I can't believe how full it is already without any pics or additions! The other two I've been working on (for the sis and sis-in-law) are nearly finished too. Just need holes punched. I'm planning on posting my foundation pages tomorrow and Wednesday (I hope). This has been so fun to put together I actually thought about doing a couple more to get a jump on next year. But then I thought, what will I do next year for this kind of fun? I also thought a pre-made DD album would make a really fun birthday gift, but I'd have to be really choosy I think. It would be so hard to do a project this fun and special and have it never put to use. Is that arrogant? :)

Its amazing the sense of accomplishment I'm getting from such a seemingly small thing.I've tried hard not to overdo this thing. Trying to stick with Ali's idea that its much more about documentation than decoration. Trying to remember that I'm new at this and perfection is SO un-necessary.

Ali had a post on her blog today about the time we December Daily-ers will trade to get this project done. I think the whole project with be a exercise in time trading. I think I will look for opportunities to create memories, to journal thoughtfully and take some special pictures. In preparing the foundation I thought a lot about things Brecon might enjoy at this age and things I can do to teach him about traditions, family and the true spirit of the season. At the same time I have tried hard not to mentally stuff the month with meaningless fluff activities and million extra things we probably wouldn't do if I wasn't trying to document our Christmas. I love the idea of telling one story a day. I hope I stick with it. I hope we treasure it.