annual festive courses from Shimelle

Now in its twentieth year, Journal Your Christmas is an online class helping people reclaim the magic of the holiday season. Starting on the first of December every year, participants receive daily messages to ponder a particular festive theme. From there, you might choose to just keep those ideas and memories in your thoughts, you might feel like writing and following the daily journaling prompts, or you might like to follow along with the craft tutorial videos to make your own Christmas scrapbook. There are even simple photography ideas included.

It’s important to know there are no deadlines with this project. Once you join, you can participate as many years as you like at no extra cost. It’s been running for twenty years and some participants have been with me for all twenty years and only paid that first year! That’s because there is no pressure to make a full project in one Christmas season. If you want to make daily entries and create a whole scrapbook every year, that’s brilliant and I have a whole shelf of albums to prove it’s a concept I know and love! But I also love the idea of making just a few entries each year, highlighting the topics that speak to you most at the time, then compiling them into one book over the years or including them in the December section of your usual album.

For those who want to focus on photos, videos, and maybe captions too.