Christmas All Year Blog

The Challenge is up on the forum (July 27-August 2). This week is we will be working on cleaning checklist, Rudolph Club, and notes sections.

I haven’t been able to print off my checklists yet, because I’m having trouble connecting to a printer. I have hubby (my computer expert) working on it though. I have decided to incorporate a few plans (Holiday Grand Plan, Houseworks & Holidays, and Christmas Countdown), as well as some of my own ideas into my Christmas Notebook.

The Rudolph Club sounds interesting - basically every 25th of the month you do something that focuses on Christmas planning and preparation. I’ll post more about it later.

The Christmas All Year Website is now live online. There is still more to add and probably some more tweaking to do, but I figured I could still spend years working on it and still not publish it, so now it is up.  Would love to have some feedback, feel free to comment here or on the CAY Forum.

Wow!  Only 5 more months till Christmas!!!  Not sure where the year has gone; it’s just seemed to fly by.

What plans do you have to celebrate Christmas in July?

I was going to have a turkey dinner, but I don’t have air conditioning and today is going to be a bit of a hot day.  Oh well, maybe next year.  I’m now going to try to watch a bit a shopping on TV; they always have Christmas items on today.

From the folks at CAY - here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas — in July!

Snowbelle has posted this week’s challenge (July 20 - 26) - it’s all about picking your Christmas plan and calendars.  Feel free to join in.  There’s always room for one more and lots of time to play catch up.

Just so you can follow along with my progress.  Last week, I reused an old binder and went to the dollar store and bought some divider tabs (nothing fancy), although I would love to get the protector sheet dividers so I could use some great custom dividers like these by Melinda.

This week I’ve created my own calendars, more to suit my needs, rather than using the ones from a plan.  And I’m still trying to decide on what plan I want to use.  I’m thinking of making a combination of a few with some of my own stuff added in.  I’ll do my best to keep you posted.

More Notebook Challenge posts: Getting Organized.

This month most of my thoughts have been towards preparing my house for Christmas.  This year I’ll be starting a Christmas Notebook and my friend at the Christmas All Year Forum, Snowbelle has started a Notebook Challenge which I’m hoping will help me greatly!

This week (July 13-19 Challenge) has been the hunt for a binder and setting up the basics.

The basic outline and plan comes from these 2 sites, plus some of what we add ourselves:

OrganizedChristmas.com
Holiday Grand Plan

Feel free to join us as we get ready for Christmas!