Here’s another project with the Scenic Route Kit I got to work on as an
AMM DT member.

For the first time in ten years, we have a real tree again.

Each little tree represents one person I have to buy gifts for and under
each tab is the present I am getting.

Today was all about counting down to “the day.”

I don’t like to write or receive xmas cards. When I receive them I feel
bad throwing them out after the holidays and yet I hate keeping them too.

Here’s page one for shimelle‘s Journal
Your Christmas class.



I meant to mention that I am using a 5×7 minibook by 7gypsies that I
took apart. I wanted something small and manageable but big enough that
I could use photos if I wanted to.

Today’s prompt was about writing your manifesto. Your intentions behind
doing this album.

I wanted to do this for many reasons. Partly to create something
everyday, but I could have done that with any album class. I picked this
one cause Christmas is my favorite time of year. Despite the fact that I
am Jewish and grew up in Turkey where there’s almost no one who
celebrates Christmas the way American Christians do, Christmas makes me
much more happier than any other holiday. Maybe cause I grew up with
Christmas trees (even though we called them New Year’s Trees) and
ornaments, and lights and presents. Or maybe it’s that the cold, cozy
time of year just makes me giddy.

Either way, my intent for this journal is to take this time of year,
write down my observations and see if I can create some traditions for
my family so I can find ways to create our version of Christmas,
Channukah, and New Year. Maybe it will look like all of them, or maybe
like none of them. But it will definitely be ours. Something we can
personalize and internalize and love.

More of the Scenic Route papers I received as part of being on the A Million Memories DT. Big
thanks to both Scenic Route and AMM.

One day down.