Hello friends and happy December! I’m so happy it’s here. I love December and get so excited to crack open those tiny doors on Advent Calendars and decorate for Christmas without anyone grumbling about it being too early. I think December has a smell to it too, today it’s a yummy vanilla candle from day 1 (yesterday) of my Rituals Advent calendar. We take Advent Calendars pretty seriously in this house!
We are putting our Christmas decorations up and have some special traditions when we do, things we eat and listen to. I really love the Christmas traditions that I have adopted over the years and every year I think I must document those traditions and the special moments. This year I finally decided not to wait another year and lightly follow December Daily using my Tim Holtz idea-ology products and a Heidi Swapp planner to document my December.
I’m using a planner from Heidi Swapp and Tim Holtz Mini Trimmer and Distress Collage Medium. I fussy cut with EK scissors linked below. I also use an Epson XP8505 printer. It’s a European model and a fair few years old but it’s been low maintenance and it prints beautiful quality photos. This was a printer equivalent to a model that Ali Edwards recommended years ago on her blog. It’s pretty reasonable on ink cost wise and easy to use, I have zero patience for printer antics! ZERO!
I gather all my dimensional idea-ology in a muffin tin like Tim does. It helps being able to see it all when I’m making.
This basket is known as the Christmas idea-ology paperie. Ready for me to dip in, to document December.
My sweet husband even got behind documenting December by staging this festive photo outside of a department store in central Copenhagen after Advent Calendar shopping.
If you would like to follow along or even document some of your own December traditions, whether you celebrate Christmas or simply enjoy the coziness of winter, join me. I’ll be sharing here and on instagram.
I’ve linked to some of the items that I’m going to be using to document December.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Zoe
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it is fun to see what other people’s traditions are. will be watching. I am working on my own DD and on Luise Heinzl’s #dephemerember where there is no shortage of Tim’s products being used. Thanks as always for sharing and all the inspiration.
I love your creations. They are a big part of my December, which starts in September as a soon as the preorders for Tim’s stuff start popping up. I think it was three years ago that I discovered the makers had blogs and it has been eye candy ever since. You and the creative team have brought such joy to me, and I know to others. Being able to look at your art and get to do some of it is my oasis, my vacations, my escape, my paradise found. Thank you so much for the rich and inspiring content.
So wonderful to hear you’ll be sharing some of your
December with us! I’ve been curious about Heidi’s
line for memory keeping/documenting so I’m super excited that
you’ll be using one of her planners for this. Thank you
for sharing 🎄
That’s interesting. Thanks for sharing. I really like your ideas, very original and creative. Looking at the materials you prepare, it’s fascinating to me. It would be nice if you could share ideas for making calendars here.