I absolutely love every bit of Christmas from trudging around the shops to ODing on turkey and brazil nuts ! The only slight disappointment is the lack of quality photographs that capture the fleeting moments – this year we will have 12 days to practice before the big event arrives with my new FREE Online Workshop.
So if you want to avoid photos like this ………….. read on
In the comments section below I want you to tell me why you should be on Santa’s Nice List – five names will be selected randomly – be creative 
You have until midnight Tuesday 24th November.
45 Comments
I would love to be on santas nice list I have been taking part in the 365 day challenge this year and to have the pleasure of being part of this course would make december so much fun:)
I’m always ready to learn more – and let’s face it, I need all the help I can get!
I would like to be on Santas Nice List because………….although I have been a little bit bad (I have a lovely camera, which I just don’t know how to use properly), I think I deserve a little treat as I have been quite a nice wife and Mummy! I promise I will try harder to be good next year!
I should be on Santa’s nice list because over the past few days my home town of Cockermouth has been left devastated by the floods and I would like to do something that I enjoy and would cheer me up.
I would like to be on Santa’s Nice List because I have 17 years worth of my childrens’ christmas photos all looking like those examples and I would like year 18 to be different.
I would like to be on Santa’s Nice List. I have always admired your work and have been tempted to try a class or two, but due to being out of work I don’t have the extra finances to indulge, so the opportunity of a free class will certainly help make my Christmas Merry and Bright.
I should be on Santa’s nice list because I’m just about to finish my dissertation after 6 years part-time study (which is almost as bad as reading my camera manual). That and the fact that if I see one more dodgy posed photo of us all at Christmas, I’ll scream!
Thanks
I would like to be on Santa’s nice list because I’m going to Journal my Christmas this year and would like some better than usual photos to go in it!
Thanks.
To be on Santa’s nice list would so make my year, so many photo’s from the past that all look the same, I would so love for this year to be differant. To be able to use the camera properly would be the icing on the cake.
I would like to be on Santas Nice List because…it’s gloomy, wet and grey outside but I know with your help I can make it glowing, warm and colourful indoors… or out!
I think I should be on Santa’s Nice List as I woken at 5.30am by both my 2 year olds this morning, and then rashly agreed to a baking session today with my 4 year old (as well as his little brother and sister). I think I’ll need a treat after that! And possibly a nice man to come and clean my oven and kitchen …
Pleeeease can I be on Santa’s Nice List. My camera has been gathering dust and I want to make a fabulous mini book of Christmas this year to record all our traditions, old and new. All I need is help taking some fabulous photo’s…
I was so dissapointed to not get a place.I was in hospital when the email came and clicked on the link too late.
I am trying really hard this year to make it the best Christmas ever,and it would have been lovely to have been able to leave my family some beautiful photos to remember.
I should be on Santa’s nice list because………I have been redecorating the house so it is nice for him coming down the chimney on Christmas Eve
I am a good girl (most of the time) but Santa bought me a lovely camera 2 years ago and I still only point and shoot on the automatic setting – so I guess that makes me a bit bad. I dream of artistic photos of baubles, decorations and snow…….but it is only a dream. Please help me be on Santa’s extra nice list and make proper use of a lovely camera……
xx
I would love to be on Santa’s nice list because I have never done anything like this before and love to try new things, I am sure that Santa is bringing my 11 year old her first camera this year too
as she loves scrapping and taking pics too!!!
Please can I be on Santa’s nice list?
We are having a very simple ‘homemade’ Christmas this year due to circumstances.
Ive been bad and not used my camera for months and I need motivating to get back into taking lots of photos again – especially as we are expecting our first grandchild in the new year!!!!!!!!!
I should be on Santa’s good list as I’m would like to actually get a useable photo this year at Christmas. I can get most other sitiuations but Christmas still defeats me and as a scrapper no scrapable photos is almost a crime. I’ll leave you a mince pie and warm milk as a bribe!
I’d like to be on Santa’s Nice List because I’m fed up of my boring Christmas photos and this Christmas I want to take the best photos ever! You’re the one to show us!
I would like to be on Santa’s list because I want to take more Stylish,Artistic,Natural,Thoughtful,Ambitious photos.
I would like to be on Santa’s Wish List as this is my Son’s first christmas and i’d like to be able to record it in the best way possible and I think your phtography is fab and you’d be able to help me in my quest
Dear Santa – I have been a very good girl this year because I turned 40 and have been doing lots of new things for myself in 2009. I’m really looking forward to Xmas and can’t think of a better way of ending the year than having a great selection of festive photos courtesy of Cheryl’s brilliant 12 Days of Xmas course (ok is that enough??haha!!!)
Lainey
XX
I should be on Santa’s nice list because as well as giving myself permission to use my camera ever day I will share the knowledge and skills with my children who love to be like mum and take photos. It is a great activity we can all share, despite the difference in ages of the children. We have been decorating and working on the house forever!!! (well since Spring) and all my craft stuff is packed away and the camera is only out for special events recently. It would be great to have a project to work on now and great photos to scrap once the house is finished! For us Christmas, like everything really, the children come first, but I would like this little bit for me please Santa.
I would hope that Santa would add me to his list as Christmas is my favourite time of year and I always get asked to take the photos. As my husband comes from a large family there is 45+ peaple to photograph. 25 of those being children. So any tips would be great to help me calm the chaos!!
I should be on Santas nice list because i have been trying hard to use my lovely camera properly this year and not just in Auto! I would like to do 365 in 2010 so it would be great to learn some fab new camera skills.
PLEASE select me Santa, its at the top of my wish list to take better photos!
I would love to be on Santa’s list because I have been a good girl !! I have been struggling along for the last 2 years and my photos are very hit and miss. So Santa please be nice to me
Sue
Christmas is such a magical time of year when all the family gather together at our house ( I cook Christmas dinner for 20 people), including son and his wife and 3 young children who we get to see very little of. I took numerous photos last year none of which captured the special memories. Please help me Santa and put me on your Nice List
To be on Santa’s Nice List would be heavenly – I desperately want to be able to take some different & exciting photos from previous years, I certainly need the help & practice! x
oh well far too slow i’ll try again next time…hope you all enjoy this course i will follow you with excitement x
I would love to be on Santa’s Nice list becasue…. I LOVE Christmas, all of it, the shopping, having my family around, decorating the house, cooking a giant meal, being totally exhausted from doing all this and working! – and this year I want to document all of the above.
I would like to be on Santa’s nice list, because my son will finally allow me to take photos of him, and i’d love to get some special pics of my daughter when she’s visiting. And of course plenty of photos of everything pink in the world! xx
I would love to be on Santas list. I really have been a very good girl this year.
My most special thing that I have done this year is to help with my daughters wedding which is on Monday. To date, I have made all the wedding jewelery for her and her matron of honour, her tiara, my jewelery also all the invites day and evening, favour boxes and menu cards etc. I hope she has a beautiful day!
I would love to take photos of my beautiful daughter and maybe sometime soon the grandchildren!
I would like to be on Santa’s nice list because I want to be able to take photos just like you, have lovely phots that stand out on my scrapbooking pages, and I can’t afford ‘Venture’s’ prices !!
I was so disapponted that all places were gone at 9.30 am yesterday I want to be on Santas nice list because I am totally addicted to CJs classes and have had severe withdrawal symptoms
I would love to be on Santa’s Nice List as I have been a very good student this year and graduated from Bootcamp and PWL The Sequel! I’ve tried to watch out for new photo opportunities, I didn’t cry when CJ’s courses finished in the summer and I won’t pout if I don’t get on the List! Well maybe just a little
Good luck everyone and Merry Christmas!
i would love to be on santas nice list, as im always looking for ways to get the best from my camera, and know i have so much to learn, i love experimenting with techniques and most of all learning and sharing with others
x maxine
Because if I’m not picked I might whine and cry and make my family miserable. Please don’t make me make my family miserable.
i wish i wish that i could be on santa (i mean cj’s!) nice list as cj is my number 1 inspiration and i would love the chance to do another of her fabulous courses, christmas is so special to me and i would love to be able to master better photos this year
i wish everyone a fab xmas and new year and hopefully a fun packed 2010
oh and just to say i cant wait until the big news comes out about 2010 bootcamp as loved this years x
I need to be on Santa’s Nice List to enable me to make my scrapbook pages sparkling and shine over this festive period and beyond.
I would love to be on Santa’s nice list because my OH and I are starting our own new Christmas traditions this year and I would love to be able to capture the experience perfectly. It would also be great to take the perfect birthday photo of my christmas kitten.
I would love to bve on Santas Nice List because this year has been the worst ever starting with being made redundant from the best job I ever had and wanted due to the company going into administration. It would be fantastic having a wonderful opportunity to be able to end the year with a wonderful chance like this.
I would love to be on Santa’s nice list because I always end up with dreadful christmas photos every year and it would be really lovely to get to scrapbook some beautiful Christmas photos for a change instead of blurred, out of focus, dark, cluttered, unimaginative ones;)
I want to be on Santa´s nice list so I´ll be able to capture some of the special memories of my niece and nephews first Christmas, and have wonderful photo´s to scrap.
i would love to take part in another of your fab classes Cheryl, although i’m not sure if i’ve been good enough this year!