November 2025

Oct 31

Written By stacy julian

Where are we headed?

The theme of a story (or in our case a page or project) is the ultimate message—the destination. Please don’t let less vital details or side stories get in the way of where you truly want to go. **Stay on the path set by your theme.** This way, you can enjoy the creative journey and still document your most important stories!

Print the Calendar

November Dates & Details

New Month Meet-Up: Saturday, November 1st at 11AM PT, Watch Replay HERE
This month we celebrate ‘Tongue Twister’ day and depending on where you live, this one might apply, “November’s naughty north wind never needs a nap.” No matter the wind or the weather, let’s be grateful we get to gather for conversation and creating—what a blessing! Remember, you can watch this session on this link—live or anytime it’s convenient for you!

Project Play #1: Monday, November 3rd at 11AM PT, Watch Replay HERE and read the Recap HERE
We’re kicking off our final seasonal project early in the month—to maximize our time and effort to completion. This is your chance to create a quick & easy photo book for gift-giving this holiday season. Bring your topic ideas and we’ll set ourselves up for success—AND—don’t worry, we’ve got time as well as another ‘get-it-done’ session this month!

WWW: Wednesday, November 5th at 3PM PT, Watch the Replay HERE and read the Recap HERE
The holidays are HERE, but before we charge ahead, we’ll look back at special days last year and make sure we’ve got ‘Favorites’ marked and details captioned. We’ll do some FUN sharing of course!

2nd Saturday Saturday, November 8th from 10AM PT to 2PM PT, JOIN HERE
If you haven’t yet attended a 2nd Saturday, you’re missing out! This quiet, productive time in the same virtual space. What’s on your list to finish before the end of the year? Come work with your LYS friends! You can pop in for 10 minutes, two hours or more! NO REGISTRATION required, but you do need a personal Zoom account and you will need this passcode: LYS25

Do It Together: Thursday, November 13th at 10AM PT, Replay HERE and read the Recap HERE
Positive psychology recognizes the role of gratitude, achievement and challenges in the quest for personal success—AND—all three are universal storytelling themes! Your opportunity this month is to locate and print photos that would illustrate one or more of these themes in the successful outcome of an experience.

Story Coaching: Tuesday, November 18th at 6PM PT, Replay HERE and Recap HERE
Our Topic: How to push back on overwhelm, use an Enough Quotient and stay motivated. We’ll talk through all of these topics!
Print your EQ Interest Spectrum

Project Play #2: Friday, November 21st at 9AM PT, (2 hour work party!) Replay HERE and Recap HERE
Ok, you’ve got your quick & easy photo book plan, let’s make progress on filling it up, so we can get it ordered in time for Christmas. This BONUS 2-hour session!

📬 15 on the 15th Message See my 2012 Year Book album on my blog!

Download the ✅ Monthly Tracker. Click to PRINT

Hue & Me

Be sure to share what you find and create! Remember, you can download a folder with the full set of 2025 color swatches HERE!

The Wizard of Oz—in all its iterations—is one of the most beloved stories of all time, and a perfect blend of fantasy, reality and good vs. evil. Themes include friendship, courage, the idea that you already have what you need to succeed and of course, a love of home.

Our colors this month reflect these themes. Green represents the promise of growth and new life. The yellow-brick road of course leading to the idealistic destination, but that also mapping out the journey which allows Dorothy to realize that she in fact prefers her rather mundane, but cozy life in Kansas. Yes, there will be storms, but she’ll take that chance—she wants to be there, living and working with those she loves.

🧡 Six Stories in Six Words 🧡

At the end of July, in our Story Coaching session I committed YOU to telling SIX additional stories—each with a SIX word summary—before the end of this year. You can download a FUN story tracker for this effort HERE. As you complete these pages, post them to Facebook to be entered into a monthly ‘Happy Mail’ drawing in November and December.

Sketch This

This sketch can be easily adapted to ANY theme.

There’s room for multiple photos, a simple title and journaling to share your ‘BIG idea.’

Adaptable elements are waiting to be customized with color and pattern. Additionally. you can use a mirrored sketch to create a 2-page spread!

Working On Video

I’ve been working on creating Keynote presentations for She Loves Color and my volunteer work at church. I love this application and thought I’d share some tips for using it and other slide-deck building platforms in your memory keeping!

Story Process Video

My StoryDeck cards this month invited me to create a 2-page, 12x12 layout with the category of THINGS and starting with WORDS. I had to say it with a LIST and the Go Wild card called for a MIX of photos.

If you need a StoryDeck, it’s HERE.

p.s. If you’re looking for a great color to use with our Hue & Me, try purple!

Our wrap-up in this community is starting to feel exceptionally real and close. I hope you know how much I LOVE and appreciate each of you, whether or not I see you in our monthly sessions, my heart is genuinely filled with gratitude for an incredible community of friends that have been such a huge part of my memory keeping career. And, don’t worry—we will find ways of keeping in touch!

I have prepared a FINAL Live Your Story survey HERE. I would really appreciate your ideas and feedback. 💚💛 AND, please know you can reach out anytime! stacy@stacyjulian.com.