Last year, my friend Katie posted her Christmas gift to her husband.
I was so inspired!! I knew that this was something that I wanted to do for Adam.
I immediately hopped on etsy and ordered a HUGE handmade journal.
The concept was this, I would write love letters to Adam all year from January 1, 2011 all the way until Christmas 2011. I literally carried the book around with me EVERYWHERE. Which is crazy because after I gave it to Adam, he said he had never seen it before.
I guess I was sneakier than I thought :)
I tried to document as much as possible. I taped in ticket stubs, movie stubs, tons of photos, cards, postcards, and I even made a couple of mixed CD's throughout the year and a couple of DVD's too.
Here is a little sampling...
I tried to make sure that I wrote at least once a week but a lot of times I wrote even more than that. It was addicting :)
Adam says it's the best present he has ever gotten. He loves handmade gifts and I can tell that it really meant a lot to him. He read the whole thing, cover to cover, in a couple of hours. It was awesome.
2011 was a wonderful year full of milestones for us, especially with our adoption. I loved documenting it, I loved being sneaky.
I will admit at the beginning I wasn't sure that I would stick with it, but I did, and I loved it.
I think this was a great project to get me amped up for Project Life this year too! Another year of documenting things the way that works for me :)
What is the best gift you gave this Christmas?
xo
janel
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