This is it, peeps!! The final post of the final pages of my 2010 Journal Your Christmas/December Daily album. If you've made it this far with me, thank you!! If you've gone into a boredom coma after being bombarded with seemingly endless pages, then it's safe to wake up now. :)

January 4th is the annual "Remember This" entry.

Last year I used it to remind myself that I'd put all the most important Christmas stuff in a plastic tote labeled "Christmas: Open First." It was the most fabulous thing ever for my sanity. The stockings, holders, Christmas card display, and other needed items were right there- no rooting through various boxes to find each one. I could just get that one box down (well, plus the tree and ornaments) from the attic and then pull out anything else I might want later at my leisure.

This year I used the entry to remind myself of several things, including the fact that I like the icicle lights in the tree out front much more than I like them when they're hanging on the front of the house.

January 5th was the "Packing Away" entry.

This year as I took ornaments off the tree and wrapped them up to put away, I made sure that I used color-coded tissue paper for each one. All the purple ornaments are in purple paper, red is in red paper, etc. I decided that if I was going to continue to do my semi-themed tree each year, I should at least make it easier on myself to find the right ornaments.

January 6 was the "holy cow, I can't believe I'm finally finished with this thing" entry.

I used some gift wrap that I bought a few months ago at Paper Source (it's one of my favorites that I picked up there) just to have something a little different.

I have such a massive feeling of accomplishment and relief now that this thing is finally done! This was my third year doing a December Daily type album, and while I'm always excited to start on one, I'm equally excited to be done with it by the end of the year.

Just a quick comparison: last year I posted my final pages on February 18 (so those of you following along who haven't finished yours yet, don't give up!!). This year I'm posting the last pages on January 12. That's more than a month earlier than last year, which I'm sure happened because I decided to use Ali's templates and a standard page size instead of custom-printing the photos to print a different size of page each day. For my next December Daily I plan on doing the pages in a purely digital format, then having it all printed as a photo book when it's finished. That means that I'll have a digital version that I can share each day and not have to continually wait for photos to come back from the printer before I can assemble pages, then photograph and blog them. I hope that means I can actually keep up with the project and not get behind at all!

Journal Your Christmas: December 31 through January 3

I think I finished this album out of sheer stubbornness. I had already taken and formatted all the photos and written the journaling for each day, but I had a hard time forcing myself to sit down and actually assemble it. In the end there were just too many other projects I was ready to move on to, and I hated having the Christmas stuff spread out everywhere in my scrap room for five weeks. Digital. Next year This year will be digital!

We aren't big party people, so we usually spend New Year's Eve either at home or with family. This year we were home by ourselves and worked on projects all day before watching the ball drop at night.

Over the years I've learned that I'm not a resolutions person, I'm a projects person. So it seemed fitting to include a photo of the finished bedroom Expedits here. I only had one picture I wanted to use here, and it was shot in landscape format, so I just included it as is. The album isn't that hard to turn sideways to see it properly.

I love this penguin paper that I bought at Paper Source when I was in Washington D.C., and I thought it would be fun to use it on a page about the most magical part of this Christmas.

Baby penguin. Squeeee!!

Just like last year, I had a hard time choosing a favorite moment from Christmas, so I included a collage that incorporated pretty much everything.

I'll be back tomorrow with the very last post of my Journal Your Christmas album for 2010!

Journal Your Christmas: December 27 through 30

I did it!! I've finally finished my Journal Your Christmas/December Daily album. And since Journal Your Christmas ended on January 6 (and today is the 10th) I'm not even that far behind!!

December 27th's entry was about something I don't do any more (except for very rare occasions)- sleeping in. For the last few months I've been getting up super early to go to the gym before work, and I'm loving it!

December 28th's assignment was to scrapbook all those little indulgences that pop up around Christmas. I have a serious thing for Christmas chocolates and the holiday fragrances from Bath and Body Works, so I included those.

I even punched bits from a Bath and Body Works ad to use as embellishments, along with a Starbucks coffee sleeve.

December 29th is usually a "catch-up" day for Journal Your Christmas, but I decided to use it to document my trip to IKEA to get the items for a new project. We never take a day off around here! :)

January 30th is the annual "year in review" entry, and I decided to use the monthly photo roundups that I already do for the blog as part of my entry.

I printed each month's collage as a 4x4 print, then adhered them back to back with a little tab at the top labeled with the month. They all fit nicely in an envelope on the page and can easily be pulled out.

I'll be back tomorrow with more entries to share!

Journal Your Christmas: December 23 through 26

Yes, I'm still slogging (and I mean literally slogging) through these pages. I think that if I hadn't been so conscientious of keeping up with the journaling and photos during the last week or so, I would have dropped it entirely! And, unlike all you December Daily peeps, those of us in Journal Your Christmas go through January 6!!

December 23rd's entry was all about stockings. This was always one of my favorite parts of Christmas morning as a kid, and I still enjoy my stockings today!

For some reason I forgot to include photos of our sushi lunch on my Christmas Eve page!!

Christmas Day I was just a little enchanted with our snow...can you tell? :) It was also another one of those days where the journaling wouldn't fit neatly onto the page, so I used another 4 Bar envelope from Paper Source.

December 26, which is usually my post-Christmas sales shopping day, was also the big gift-opening day with my family.

I was hoping to get another round of pages ready for tomorrow, but that's not going to happen. I went to pick up my prints at Sam's, and they'd refused to print it out because a Kodak logo ended up in one of the pictures I took while we were watching the Times Square festivities on New Year's Eve. Is that not beyond ridiculous? I'll have to find a way to print that one at home, I suppose.

Journal Your Christmas: December 19 through 22

I've packed up almost all the Christmas from everywhere except one room of my house- the scrap room. In here there's still Christmas stuff strewn across every available flat surface, and it'll likely stay that way until January 6th, when Journal Your Christmas officially ends. Whew!

I really think that I'm going to do this album all digital next year, for a few reasons. First, there's the aforementioned Christmas stuff scattered everywhere, and yet I'm still having trouble picking out embellishments that I'm happy with each day. Then there's the fact that since I'm getting prints several days behind, I'm obviously several days behind on album assembly as well. And it seems that as long as I still have pages to put together, I'm not working on any other projects, which is not a good thing. I love this album, but I don't want it completely taking over 37 days of my scrapbooking while I'm doing it- know what I mean?

All digital won't be bad- it'll still be words and photos, and there's tons of cute digital Christmas stuff (I'm thinking Cosmo Cricket or Echo Park). I can have it all printed as a photobook at the end, which will cost me about the same amount as having all the pages printed individually.

Anyway, on with the pages. December 19 is our annual letter to Santa. Mine was short and sweet this year. :)

I found this lovely paper at Paper Source when I was in DC in October, and I just love it with my photos from the Bahamas.

December 20th was the day we went to the aquarium at Atlantis, so I included a ton of photos from our visit.

I love this neon green contrasted with the turquoise (a Hambly print) for some reason. I've seen a lot of neon green this Christmas (mostly in store window displays) come to think of it.

December 21st- on our way home, and excited that the house is all decorated and waiting for us!

December 22nd was all about those things that still needed to be done. My list was, thankfully, very short since we'd finished so much of it before our trip!

Is anyone else still working on their December Daily or Journal Your Christmas albums? I'm so ready for mine to be done!