I always create a simple tracker to help me remember the stories of the season. Here it is if it would help you too! Happy December documenting.

The gorgeous image above is a free download from Lily & Aval. 
​http://blog.lilyandval.com/inspiration/free-december-desktop-wallpaper.html

Heading into year 14 of this wonderful project, there have been MANY stories told.

My albums span various seasons of my life. When I sat on my bedroom floor and created foundation pages for my first album, I was a single woman. I was teaching a class of grade 1/2 students and was living in a unit that I had bought. As the years rolled on I started dating my now husband. We got married and bought a house. My albums cover the years where we had no kids. There were pets, babies celebrating first Christmas's. They've been young kids and now, they are becoming more independent (but still young). There have been busy seasons and quieter ones, but regardless of my life stage, there have always been stories to tell. And looking back on my albums now, I love to see what has changed and what has stayed the same. What did I value in that season and chose to include in my album.

I thought that it may be fun to make a list of some of the stories that have been told in my albums. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but just a snapshot of some topics that have featured repetitively in this project over the years.

Here they are   

• Pre-December Christmas events
  
• The tree
• Traditions- events, gatherings, baking, family recipes
  
• Card writing
  
• Memories from Christmas' past
  
• Work- a view from your desk, task list for the week, lunch or coffee with colleagues
• End of year celebrations and breakups- school break ups, concerts
  
• Food- the Christmas meal, baking, festive drinks, Making the gingerbread house, cookies
• Christmas decorations- decking the halls, the tree, the yard, ornaments, stockings
• Christmas books and movies
  
• Advent activities
• Christmas light hunting night drives
• Santa- letters to Santa, visiting Santa, wish lists
• The ordinary- work, shopping, school, typical mornings, A day in the life, snippet/collage of everyday items
• Giving- wrapping presents, donating to charity
• Your pets
• Kid's Art work- a picture, painting, hand or footprints (there are lots of fun Christmas themed ideas)
• Street Party
• Elf antics
• Seasonal toys- Little People nativity set, Christmas Lego/Duplo
• Holiday or day trips- a getway or daytrip to the city
• Carols by Candlelight
• Family time
• Reflections on the year that has been- a letter, tags for each person 
• Your family Christmas letter
• Photos of the same thing each year- a tree, kids posting Santa letters by the same postbox, your garden
• Making fun- a candy cane hunt, picnic dinner, games night, scavenger hunt
• Santa beards made from bubbles in the bath!
• Christmas countdown
• Lists- shopping lists, to do lists, things you love, favourites...
• weather and the news
• sentence starters as journal prompts- this is why... the story of... I want to remember... (Ali has great ideas examples of these)
• include your own handwriting

I hope that these give you some ideas for where to start on your stories. 

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I'm back again for another year of December Daily... even if I do still need to fill the many gaps in my 2020 album. That's what 18 months of COVID and home learning will do to me. ;) 

I've created these trackers once again to help myself and I'm sharing here if they may help you too.

Here's to another year of documenting our Decembers and remembering the magic. 

Hi everyone! In the Ali Edwards- Australian Followers Facebook group this week I was asked if I could share a tracker for my December Daily 2020. I have modified my 2019 one for this year and also used some images I found online from a free calendar (link here) to create the first download. I hope that they help you to record the stories that you want to tell this year.

I've shared below the files and also some of the foundation pages that I have started to play with. Bring on a new year hey?!

For those of you that use these, enjoy your 2020 planner! xx

Hello there! I'm in the mood to be thinking about December and as part of my preparations I've created this printable to list my events happening in December. I usually do this to assist me in planning my December Daily foundation pages. I thought I'd post it here for you to use too if you'd like!  Enjoy!

Welcome to a new year everyone! I hope that 2019 has kicked off well for you and your family. There's been some chilled out holiday and some birthday celebrations for us before my husband landed himself in hospital for a week. He's home again now and we wait to find out where to next.
Anyhoo, after sharing my 2019 Memory Keeping Tracker on instagram there have been some requests for generic planners for people who are working on past years and also working on monthly albums.
I'm linking here to my weekly trackers for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for you.
My Project Life Type A planner template is here.
And just below here, I am attaching generic monthly and weekly memory keeping trackers. Enjoy! 

Merry December everyone!
Yep, it's been mighty quiet around here I know. Most of my memory keeping sharing now happens over on instagram here but today I've got something to share with you. 
Part of me feeling on track with my Project Life for the last few years has included my memory keeping tracker. I've updated it ready to go for 2019. There are two versions. One with labelled tick boxes and one without. Feel free to print them off and enjoy them for your own personal use.  I'd love you to tag me if you end up using them! 
I use these trackers in conjunction with my Project Life planner which can be downloaded a few posts before before this one. :) 
I might see you over on insta, or who knows, perhaps I'll post more here in 2019! ;) 

After some chatting on the Project Life Australia Facebook Page, I went live on Instagram to talk about how I manage my Project Life workflow, when I'm up to date and also when I'm working backwards. I have recently extended my use of Lightroom from just editing and catalogue management to creating smart collections and quickly creating drag and drop templates. This enables me to quickly export my photos for the week ready to print. It has been revolutionary for me. 
Remember that this is a very basic video recording from an instagram live so it's not great quality, but there's lots of information here for you if you're interested in that kind of thing! 
Let me know if you have any questions! x

Hi everyone! It's a new year and for me, that means getting organised to help me for the next 365 days! 
One way that I have kept on top of things (mostly!) this year has been through using my tracker. I have this and my page planners on a clipboard which makes it easy to see where I'm up to.
I've created a tracker for me again this year which I am sharing for your personal use. You can download the file below.

I share most of my memory keeping projects over at instagram as @beckholdermemorykeeping
​I'd love to see you over there!  xx