Here's page one for shimelle's Journal Your Christmas class.

I meant to mention that I am using a 5x7 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.