Journal Your Christmas

"Manifesto: Noun. A declaration of one's intentions.

Starting December
first, I will keep a Christmas journal. In it, I will write something every

day to reflect on the holidays of my past, enjoy the holidays of the present
and dream
about the holidays of my future. To some, this will be a stack of
papers and trivial
scribbles, but not to me. I am taking back my Christmas,
I am letting it be something I
relish and, most importantly, I am giving at
least fifteen minutes every day to myself no
matter how crazy this season
becomes. I hope you will share, encourage and understand
as I make something
with my own hands, my own words and my own memories.

I may post some or
all of my entries here. Other artists are doing this with me, and you
can
see there work here. Or
you may join
us.

Above all: enjoy the season. I will."

Now, I was supposed to post this on the first December obviously so you can imagine how well I'm managing to keep up with the whole 'giving at
least fifteen minutes every day to myself' side of things. The fact that it is now the 8th December and I am only now just posting the manifesto stating that I'm doing this will give you some small indication of what I've done so far. Yup, nothing. I hang my head in shame. I have got a book to journal in to and I have written up some notes from the daily prompts but have done nothing else. I am therefore taking it with me to do tonight at the PaperArts crop in the hope that I might be able to do something towards catching up.

Apart from that I've been very busy. Not much scrapping getting done but I have got a class in the pipeline to prepare for and a couple of CJs to complete, oh, and I have started on writing out my Christmas cards so who knows? I may actually get to send some this year (a whole other story for another day).

Anyway, that's all for me at the present as I have to go now and buy some presents!