Photography of our daily lives really shines in December and it’s the perfect time to put those photos in a scrapbook. This year I followed Ali Edwards’ December Daily. I didn’t post about it here because I honestly wasn’t confident that I’d follow through with it. But I just finished!
The point of December Daily is that you assemble a small day by day scrapbook for December in October or November. Each day during December, you take a few photos, print them, journal a bit and by the last day of the month you’ll have a complete set of memories for this year’s holiday.
I assembled by December Daily long before December started and was raring to go. And I was great about taking pictures everyday. But I stunk at the printing and journaling. So I did all of that work this week. I’m very happy with the results and hope to do the same project next year. And keep up with the printing rather than having to do lots of work at the end of the month.
Here are some of my photos and pages:
I had lots of fun with my Bokeh Master. Do you see how the two out of focus green balls on the right have star shaped bokeh? I had my star filter on the lens.
I used the heart filter on this photo. The lights came from car headlights and two stop lights.
And I wish I had thought to bring the bokeh filter for the night out below. We have a big tree of lights here in town that the kids love to spin under. I set a long shutter speed (about 1/4 second) and spun around too. Somehow, the kids were able to spin a lot longer than my body can handle!
That bright white light in the middle? That’s a full moon, believe it or not!
We found a tree made out of mirrored silver balls for this family self-portrait.
I used two Ali Edwards products from the Designer Digitals Scrapbook store and followed her example pretty closely. The first product was the 2010 December Daily 6×8 Overlays.
I also used the December Daily 6×8 Layered Templates. Being layered, these are great because they are easy to modify to suit your personal scrapbook.
As with my Ali Edwards Week in the Life project last year, I stayed away from Photoshop as much as possible. These images are mostly un-edited. Even when they should have been edited! But this project for me isn’t about perfect wall-quality photos. It’s about preserving the memories in a reasonable amount of time.
How many of you created a December Daily this year? Were their other projects that you made to preserve your December memories?
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I didn’t hear about this until the end of November, but I did take a photo everyday and did an extremely simple 8×8 album with 5×7 prints (posted on my Flickr stream of the same name.)
Good for you for starting late and being finished already!
Gorgeous photos! I especially love the one you did under the tree. Good for you for completing December Daily. I decided to go to the end of the month since I’m visiting my family for New Year’s. Happy New Year and thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Melanie! A 31 day project. I think it might have been 6 days more than could handle. But you’re right, you have to get those family pix.