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minibookaholic
50 Peas in a pod.
PeaNut 537,370
January 2012
Posts: 66
Layouts: 48
Loc: Washintgon
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Just thought it would be fun if we all shared a prompt or two for our DD albums! I'm getting sooo excited for the holidays!
-Christmas wish list for everyone
-asking each person their favorite thing about the holidays |
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scrappylily
PeaNut
PeaNut 537,853
January 2012
Posts: 57
Layouts: 0
Loc: Pasadena,CA
| Posted: 11/4/2012 11:29:15 PM
I'll go for the obvious...
- favorite Christmas song (secular and religious)
- favorite Christmas Movie
- if you were Santa what would you do
That's all I have so far. |
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Inloveforlife
PeaNut
PeaNut 510,368
June 2011
Posts: 120
Layouts: 54
Loc: Washington
| Posted: 11/4/2012 11:35:21 PM
Here is the super small list I came up with:
Favorite ornaments
Traditions like making cookies
Setting up the tree
Favorite christmas stories
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krispin41
PeaFixture
PeaNut 93,695
July 2003
Posts: 3,848
Layouts: 124
Loc: Do you know the way to San Jose?
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grakka
PeaNut
PeaNut 397,370
October 2008
Posts: 388
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/4/2012 11:57:24 PM
Each year I document my daughters dated Christmas ornament
new ornaments we buy on Vacation,craft stores,etc
advent calendar
wrapping paper we used
our Christmas card | |
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canadianscrappergirl
BucketHead
PeaNut 345,491
October 2007
Posts: 629
Layouts: 27
 | Posted: 11/5/2012 12:14:35 AM
favorite childhood memory of christmas
kids writing out letter to santa or their list for mom/dad
family traditions ie driving around to look at christmas lights
favorite christmas recipes
wrapping the gifts
what gets you in the holiday spirit
putting up the lights outside
mailing the christmas cards | |
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Jaimeelynn
PeaAddict
PeaNut 518,558
August 2011
Posts: 1,820
Layouts: 110
Loc: Minne-sooooota
| Posted: 11/5/2012 6:08:02 AM
-Pics and stories about food
-your thoughts and feelings about the magic of Xmas
-thoughts and charity and giving
-pics or stories about holiday shopping
-elf on the shelf
-holiday baking-what do you make?
-holiday decorating in your home
-favorite Xmas music |
I am a project lifer. That's why I am taking so many pictures.....
Savor the Moment. It is the Everyday Moments that Make Life Meaningful.
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JLBOhio
BucketHead
PeaNut 66,991
February 2003
Posts: 782
Layouts: 18
Loc: Ohio
 | Posted: 11/5/2012 7:26:46 AM
Fun idea! I'm going to try one this year also. Great ideas so far!
- driving around to see Christmas lights
- what comes in the stockings
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alone_inacrowdedroom
What are you looking at?
PeaNut 477,798
August 2010
Posts: 1,398
Layouts: 49
 | Posted: 11/5/2012 1:11:12 PM
-Around the house: decorations, etc.
-Activities
-Memories from childhood - contrast with how you celebrate now |
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vegasroxygrl
Half Way There!
PeaNut 431,694
July 2009
Posts: 281
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/5/2012 1:37:42 PM
I saw online someone in the past made a really cute page titled "official cookie taster" and had pictures with rating of which ones were the favorites.
Holiday packaging from stores or online orders.
A few kids Christmas art projects sized down. | |
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2boysandwill
My turn to hit the PEAnata!!!
PeaNut 121,208
December 2003
Posts: 13,119
Layouts: 71
Loc: SCV, CA
| Posted: 11/5/2012 2:37:51 PM
gingerbread houses
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sarp
PeaNut
PeaNut 426,336
June 2009
Posts: 295
Layouts: 1
| Posted: 11/5/2012 4:11:25 PM
We don't have kids so we do letters to Santa from our pup's. I have a paw print stamp that they "sign" them with. Kinda silly, but it's fun to watch people read them when they look at my album. |
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jmgesi
Jeepers PEApers
PeaNut 385,164
July 2008
Posts: 2,267
Layouts: 341
Loc: Northeast
| Posted: 11/5/2012 5:24:39 PM
Holiday beverages... I always buy this tea from Stash called Christmas Morning tea. Celestial Seasonings always does some holiday flavors. Oh! And Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts always have fun holiday flavors too. |
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Ginger21
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 235,294
December 2005
Posts: 11,537
Layouts: 2
Loc: PA
 | Posted: 11/5/2012 5:32:17 PM
Anyone thinking about covering the Mayan calendar ending? My 10 yo DS was talking about is again today. Seems like the boys at his school are constantly talking about it. | |
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BeckyK
PeaNut
PeaNut 72,868
March 2003
Posts: 292
Layouts: 0
Loc: San Antonio, TX
| Posted: 11/5/2012 6:32:58 PM
I don't think about the Mayans much. Too many "the world is ending" things that have passed thru my long life.
I like finding out what the most valuable tradition is for each of my very small family. My grown sons are not very helpful but I always ask anyway. | |
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EllenPea
Pea with a Pen
PeaNut 70,644
February 2003
Posts: 19,335
Layouts: 783
Loc: Southern California
| Posted: 11/6/2012 12:20:55 PM
Thinking about some things we actually did in early and mid December last year.
1. Picking out the tree
2. Christmas concerts
3. Christmas parties
4. December traditions celebrated by other cultures in my city, but not by me
And if I had done a separate album for all of December last year, it also would have had a few pages not related to the holidays at all. This year my "December, Not Necessarily Daily" album will have some of that, I bet.
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desflo
BucketHead
PeaNut 35,086
April 2002
Posts: 982
Layouts: 0
Loc: New Braunfels, TX
 | Posted: 11/6/2012 1:06:51 PM
Maybe an ending prompt noting how Christmas was different this year?
This will be my first DD. just got news my SC DD kit shipped today  |
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bestcee
PeaAddict
PeaNut 101,686
August 2003
Posts: 1,123
Layouts: 12
Loc: Massachusetts
| Posted: 11/6/2012 1:42:52 PM
I have a toddler, so of course I will have the ubiquitous Santa picture. However, we make it a tradition to see Santa Come By Sea, so it's a fun picture.
~Christmas Movies
~Christmas Music - and how I play it (computer, phone, etc.) I remember my mom pulling out her records every Thanksgiving to play. I'm sure my child will be using a different medium to listen.
~Favorite Christmas Movies
~Putting up the nativity
~Christmas Stockings
~Milk and Cookies - I plan to include a recipe because we'll make the cookies
~Christmas lights
~Decorations
~Shopping
~Christmas Lists - again, how they are made. My DH has an Amazon one, my kid will be doing a paper one
~Sitting by the Christmas tree - that's my favorite part. All the lights off except the tree, and just chilling and reading.
~New Ornaments (tradition)
~Family Picture
I figure 13 planned is a good starting spot. The rest can just happen. |
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Yes, I can spell. No, my Kindle can't.
Just my humble opinion. And no, I wasn't being mean. | |
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scrpnmomof4
Yep...I'm a Manic Mom
PeaNut 222,146
September 2005
Posts: 9,429
Layouts: 48
Loc: Watchin' my kiddos play baseball & softball in SoUtH mIsSisSIpPi
| Posted: 11/6/2012 1:59:35 PM
-Charlie {our Elf on the Shelf}
-Christmas Countdown Happies*
-Home Decor
-Christmas PJs
-Reindeer Food
-The Kids' Lists
-Stringing Popcorn
-Making Christmas Candy
*I buy/make small happies for each of my kiddos to open each day for the entire month of Christmas. Each item is packaged/wrapped by hand and numbered {or simply has each childs name on it and they choose which one they want to open that day.}.
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Yep...I pin!!!
SAHM to Mollie(15), Maggie(12), Liam(10) and Lakon Matthew(4)!! | |
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CraftyCountryBumpkin
PeaNut
PeaNut 567,293
September 2012
Posts: 36
Layouts: 8
Loc: New York
| Posted: 11/20/2012 8:29:50 AM
I wasn't going to do one at all, seriously. But after seeing all the great ideas, yep, going to do one! Love it! |
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AncestralPea
PeaNut 302,923
March 2007
Posts: 4,145
Layouts: 47
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA.
 | Posted: 11/20/2012 8:40:46 AM
the year i did december daily, i took pics of (not in this order):
1. our first snow (dec. 1) - couldn't have been more perfect. lol...
2. the tree
3. the display of candles i set up
4. the presents wrapped under the tree
5. dh opening presents at his parents'
6. thor and dag - several pics of each - them "opening" their presents, playing under the tree, in the box that the tree belonged in when we took it down, etc.
i'll add more as i think of them... |
organize your stuff challenge (master thread).
dysfunctionally-functional
and yes, he did use the ladder...
"some day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." -sigmund freud
there are some things that you should just not have to hear for the first time on facebook.
"our lives at times seem a study in contrast... love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong... everything seen in absolutes of black & white. too often we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes" -ansel adams
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tpgirl
BucketHead
PeaNut 532,261
December 2011
Posts: 801
Layouts: 127
Loc: michigan
| Posted: 11/20/2012 8:48:12 AM
ok...i wasn't going to do one either.....but now I want to!!! |
It was fate that I would enjoy paper crafts...my name is Sharmon (like the TP)!
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lisaplus5
PeaNut
PeaNut 446,807
November 2009
Posts: 87
Layouts: 138
Loc: New Hampshire
| Posted: 11/20/2012 5:37:21 PM
My prompts are on my blog in one post HERE
I loved reading this post |
~Scrapbook designer for Artful Delight, Epiphany Crafts, FotoBella, Helmar, Let's Capture Our Memories, Pretty Little Studio, The Paper Bakery
www.createfor7.blogspot.com | |
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2boysandwill
My turn to hit the PEAnata!!!
PeaNut 121,208
December 2003
Posts: 13,119
Layouts: 71
Loc: SCV, CA
| Posted: 11/20/2012 5:55:09 PM
lisaplus5  your prompts!! | |
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lisaplus5
PeaNut
PeaNut 446,807
November 2009
Posts: 87
Layouts: 138
Loc: New Hampshire
| Posted: 11/20/2012 5:58:47 PM
awww!!!!! thank you |
~Scrapbook designer for Artful Delight, Epiphany Crafts, FotoBella, Helmar, Let's Capture Our Memories, Pretty Little Studio, The Paper Bakery
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desertgirl
PeaFixture
PeaNut 256,534
April 2006
Posts: 3,471
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/20/2012 6:12:07 PM
I always include anything natural or outdoorsy. I love our trees in the front yard - the evergreens in the late afternoon light, the shapes that leafless trees form, the cardinals, the other chickadees at the feeder, the sunlight differences, etc. | |
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3kidmama
AncestralPea
PeaNut 268,201
July 2006
Posts: 4,928
Layouts: 8
Loc: Northwoods
| Posted: 11/20/2012 7:02:19 PM
Great ideas, Ladies! Bookmarking this thread. | |
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mnm_y2
Organize This... Organize That..
PeaNut 134,104
March 2004
Posts: 5,827
Layouts: 126
Loc: sittin' right here!
| Posted: 11/20/2012 8:01:20 PM
i scrap a lot of what we do each day such as
- different school events for Christmas
- family celebrations - we have Posadas for specific days in December
- Dec 12 - day of Virgin of Guadalupe, lots of celebrations at church for this. traditional outfits, the Aztec dance group I'm in, mass etc.
- family gift exchange
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MTCANUK
Make a Wish
PeaNut 36,140
April 2002
Posts: 1,213
Layouts: 254
Loc: lost in Montana
| Posted: 11/20/2012 8:37:06 PM
I like to include a thought or two from Christmas past. Like I use a metal baking cup when baking that used to be my mums. And a photo of the grandkids from a couple of years ago to show how much they've changed. Just ideas.
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susank12
PEAlicious
PeaNut 453,004
January 2010
Posts: 356
Layouts: 35
| Posted: 11/28/2012 3:54:59 PM
This is my first year and like MTCANUK I am going to do partial album of Christmas memories and things that are in the present. Since we have an empty nest I don't have the bustle of little ones and all that goes with it during this season. I know I will be doing one page of memorabilia from 1945 that I just got from my dads estate. It is him spending Christmas in occupied Germany after the war and going to church services, going to a special dinner put on by organizations and attending the USO show with Bob Hope , the Andrews sisters, and other celebrities. I have the programs from the church service, and the USO show and the menu from the dinner along with his letter home.
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CraftinCrazies
PeaNut
PeaNut 507,726
May 2011
Posts: 133
Layouts: 12
Loc: Tampa, Fl
| Posted: 11/28/2012 6:01:08 PM
Here's my december daily so far
December Daily
The page for 13 is not there, only because I forgot to take the pic of it so will do that tomorrow... I will be finishing 21-25 this weekend after I get a pack of page protectors to add in what I need for the rest of the album. I can't wait to see it all done |
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Wifey to Ryan
Mom to Mackenzie (9) & Madison (6) | |
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TXMary
That's my island!
PeaNut 174,226
October 2004
Posts: 7,392
Layouts: 0
Loc: Central Texas/Port Aransas
 | Posted: 11/28/2012 6:16:58 PM
This is my first year and like MTCANUK I am going to do partial album of Christmas memories and things that are in the present. Since we have an empty nest I don't have the bustle of little ones and all that goes with it during this season. I know I will be doing one page of memorabilia from 1945 that I just got from my dads estate. It is him spending Christmas in occupied Germany after the war and going to church services, going to a special dinner put on by organizations and attending the USO show with Bob Hope , the Andrews sisters, and other celebrities. I have the programs from the church service, and the USO show and the menu from the dinner along with his letter home.
That is amazing!! What a great addition to your DD!! |
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cjp
PeaAddict
PeaNut 12,909
March 2001
Posts: 1,051
Layouts: 0
Loc: iowa
 | Posted: 11/28/2012 9:16:28 PM
a few i haven't seen listed:
i am taking pictures of the projects i have done for christmas this year
our christmas picture that is in our card
my christmas pinterest board
our house lit up in lights |
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Chihuahuax3
PeaAddict
PeaNut 431,254
July 2009
Posts: 1,185
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/28/2012 10:28:15 PM
Love all the ideas!!! Thanks, everyone!!! | |
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mommamoonrn
PeaFixture
PeaNut 128,766
February 2004
Posts: 3,399
Layouts: 39
Loc: in my scrapbooking room
| Posted: 11/29/2012 6:51:28 AM
Awesome ideas!!!! I have the stuff to do it, but I am really going to do it!! |
Becky
The greatest gift of all was given at Christmastime....
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ModCandy
PeaNut
PeaNut 470,214
May 2010
Posts: 113
Layouts: 0
Loc: Northern, NY
| Posted: 11/29/2012 7:03:57 AM
I'm doing something a bit different. An advent activity calendar with different activities for our family to do each day and then documenting those activities in my December Daily.
Gingerbread house decorating
Baking cookies
Coloring Christmas pictures
Visit with Santa
Christmas parties
Christmas crafts
My children are 1 and 4 so I can't really do the surveys with them and ask their favorites. Not both of them, anyway. So instead we'll be trying this. It's my first ever DD, so trial and error await!
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sunnychick
PEAlicious
PeaNut 176,712
November 2004
Posts: 327
Layouts: 5
Loc: Morgantown, KY
| Posted: 11/29/2012 8:32:16 AM
I just took a picture of the big stack of christmas cards I am going to mail on December 1st.
I looked back through past DD and I love seeing what cards I mailed out.So I will include what our Christmas card looked like for that year.
I love all the other ideas mentioned. |
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dreamerpea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 211,290
June 2005
Posts: 6,563
Layouts: 0
Loc: somewhere dreaming
| Posted: 11/29/2012 10:59:50 AM
Thanks for inspiring me!
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