Hi everybody. This is Lain for Big Picture Scrapbooking. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about my Christmas Letters class.

As we move into the holiday season, it seems that the to-do lists get longer and longer and the time in which to complete the items gets shorter and shorter. So as I was brainstorming topics for this class, I came up with a solution for you. I thought about my own holiday to-do list and some of the items that seemed to either get pushed off until the very end or that seemed to kind of fall between the cracks, and then at the last minute I'm scrambling to try to put something together, and my Christmas letter is at the top of that list, unfortunately. You would think that being a writer, and a humor writer at that, that it would be simple for me to sit down and pound those out. You know what, it is easy to do that if I am not under pressure, but when I'm trying to do them on December 20 or even December 23, as I have been known to do, there is a lot of pressure and it's not so much fun anymore. So what I thought is that I would put together a class for Big Picture Scrapbooking that would be a Projects Now class that would lead my students through the creation of their holiday letter. We would do it in the month of November so there would be plenty of time for you to work on it before the Holiday storm starts. In this class I will give you all the little tips and tricks that I use when creating my holiday letters. I have been lucky enough to have come up with some good ideas in the past, and I am happy to share those with you.

So, in this class, we won't be doing a project, per se. We won't all be creating the same scrapbook or the same page or the same letter. Your family is unique, and your holiday letter should be too. So what I will be doing is leading you through a series of exercises, some brainstorming, some creativity exercises, some thinking about your own family, and then helping you build a letter that capitalizes on the unique attributes of your family. So it's going to be a little bit different than a typical Projects Now workshop, but it is going to be a lot of fun and very useful as well.

I hope to see you in class. If you have any questions you can always contact me. All my contact information is on the Big Picture Scrapbooking teacher site, so feel free to ship me an e-mail if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the Big Picture Scrapbooking site. Talk to you soon. Happy Holidays!