Holiday Inspiration - day 3 (Daily Photos and December Daily)

Day 3 of my 24 days of Holiday Inspiration series Take a picture every day during this holiday season. I've been doing this all year and let me tell you that November was a real drag in this department. I was so out of inspiration of what to shoot each day. Now I have a whole new world of decorations, goodies, parties, and other fun things to photograph! Get out your camera and capture the little details of this time of year. Your photos will mean even more if you take a minute to document them in writing. You can do this on your own personal blog, in a notebook, on a calendar, or in any format that works for you. It's nice to see the picture of my pretty wreath but it means more if you understand why I took the photo in the first place. Ever since someone gave us a fresh wreath as a gift a few years ago, I love to buy fresh Christmas wreaths for our front door. The delicious smell of pine every time we open the door is totally worth every penny I spend! I go to Costco each year at the first of December so I can get a great deal on a big fresh wreath. This wreath cost $14.99. If you want to do something really inspiring with your pictures you may want to consider participating in Ali Edward's annual December Daily project. I've never tackled this before because I am not really a mini album fan. I like to keep all my layouts in chronological order in larger albums. But I got thinking about it and I certainly could make this project work in my own way. Maybe I will have an album for December Daily pages and add to...

Holiday inspiration - Day 2 (Flickr Mosaic)

Christmas inspiration, originally uploaded by katiescrapbooklady. Day 2 of my 24 days of Holiday Inspiration series Need some holiday inspiration? Browse through photos on flickr and create a mosaic at Big Huge Labs using some of the images you find. I didn't take any of these photos but they all inspire me in some way. I had a lot of fun creating this mosaic! Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, you can use this same idea to create a mosaic of Hanukkah images or even winter scenes.

Holiday inspiration - day 1 (Desktop Wallpaper)

Day 1 of my 24 days of Holiday Inspiration series Put a seasonal desktop scene on your computer. Some fun and free Christmasy desktops are available for download at Shabby Princess, Shabby Miss Jenn's Shoppe, Di Hickman, or from Eva Kipler. OR turn any photo into a desktop with a calendar in the corner. Love this tool from Big Huge Labs!

24 Days of Holiday Inspiration

I started working on a huge blog post about all the ideas I had for celebrating this holiday season in "Scrapbook Lady" style and it got to be a bit overwhelming to say the least. So I decided to break it down into daily chunks of goodness and post something each day from now until Christmas. Now I realize that not all of my readers celebrate Christmas, but I do believe that these bits of inspiration can be adapted to suit anyone's culture and beliefs. Because I celebrate Christmas I will focus a lot on that particular holiday, but I also teach my children about many other December celebrations so I will try to include some of those as well. No matter what you celebrate, December is a fun month full of many things to do and plenty of opportunities for making memories! Here's my list of daily holiday inspiration. I will update the links throughout the month until December 25th and this blog post will serve as a table of contents for the ideas. December 1 - Decorate your computer desktop December 2 - Make a photo mosaic December 3 - Daily Photos and December Daily December 4 - December 5 - December 6 - December 7 - December 8 - December 9 - December 10 - December 11 - December 12 - December 13 - December 14 - December 15 - December 16 - December 17 - December 18 - December 19 - December 20 - December 21 - December 22 - December 23 - December 24 -

December is full of digi treats!

Just a quick post for all my digi scrappin friends out there. December is a fun time in the digi world because so many sites and designers are very generous with freebies and gifts. Here are a few places you will want to add to your daily rounds during December: Sweet Shoppe is offering a free layered template each day until Christmas.Check this forum for downloads. Or you can purchase them all in advance and the money will go to a wonderful charity! CatScrap has a very fun advent calendar with a free download each day until Christmas. Weeds and Wildflowers is giving away 25 free gifts on their blog as a countdown til Christmas event. ScrapArtist is also offering a free daily quickpage each day until Christmas. You need to be subscribed to their email newsletter. You can sign up on the bottom lefthand side of this page. Scrapbook Graphics has a free download each day on their blog until December 14th Please let me know if I've missed any.