I find this a great place to document what goes on in our lives if simply for the fact that it helps me remember what I did and when I did it.....
Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Waiting for Santa...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Our Christmas Tree - the other stuff
My Sweetheart and I are both big football fans, so I managed to sneak in my AZ Cardinals ornaments on the tree. Actually My Sweetheart will claim that he 'allows' these on the tree:
We are HUGE superhero fans so we have a few superhero ornaments on the tree as well. A couple years back we found these next two Hallmark ornaments at Kohl's. There's Clark Kent's suit-jacket hanging on a hanger with the Superman suit hiding underneath:
And we have Wonder Woman's suit, cape and headband hanging on a hanger:
And the star of our tree, Superman:
Our Christmas Tree - Dallas Cowboys
My Wrapping Party - solo
This year, I kept my wrapping simple. I bought three rolls of wrapping paper from the dollar section at Target. Each roll is 40 feet long. It's only about 2 feet wide. The normal wrapping paper is what about 4 feet wide? I had reservations about buying it but I had a lot of shirt and robe boxes to wrap so I figured it wouldn't be too bad. Turns out it was great! I didn't have all the extra cutting and excess paper. There was absolutely no waste whatsoever! Whoever designed that was brilliant! In the past I would also buy different paper for all the different families. My older sister and her family would get one, my younger sister and her family would get another, my cousins would get another, etc. It was cute but expensive and wasteful. This year everyone got the same paper.
I decided in order to make the wrapping special, I would make home-made gift tags. I used my Cricket Expression to cut out tags. I used a stamp with silver ink and a red gel pen to write my to and from names. Then, I attached the tag to the present with red rope ribbon that I got at Walgreens for 99 cents:
It looks cute. It's very simple, but I love it.
And transporting will be easier. Usually I add bows to every gift and by the time we get to my sisters house they have fallen off or are squished beyond recognition. This way, the gift will stay neat and clean:
My Sweetheart was a little surprised that they all looked the same. But when I told him I spent a total of $4 on wrapping paper, he was pleased. The labels didn't cost anything since I used scraps of paper that I had from other projects.
Now that my shopping is done and the wrapping is done I can sit and relax and enjoy all the sappy Christmas movies that are on the Hallmark Channel this week!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Global Home - Candles
She bought me this candle and candle holder for my birthday. It has a "Christmas Spice" scent. I smells wonderful!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Christmas lights!
It's so hard to get a good picture of the lights. My Sweetheart loves to put lights on the bushes and on the ground and on the trees. He goes ALL out.
My contribution was the green light bulb in the outside lanterns:
When I get get better pictures, I'll post them.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Coach Site DOWN!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Christmas decor, part 3 - living room
These Christmas blocks that I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby last year were arranged by My Sweetheart. I always line them up neatly in a row and he comes by and sets them askew:
I love this. Not a great picture but I placed these red branches in a vase, added a silver bow and a string of lights and it makes for a very festive hallway:
Even The Aerial Assault got in on the decorating:
Christmas decor, part 2 - Christmas Village
This tree sits between the dining area and the living room:
Here's some of my Christmas village. It's hard to take a good photo of it. There are 6 houses in total. This year I put put a string of lights down and then placed the house around the lights. Then I covered the entire surface with the fluffy white stuff. I don't know what it's called but it looks like snow. It's super cute:
Christmas decor, part 1
The little trees have red berries, pine cones and Christmas lights on them:
I got this Christmas countdown calendar at the $1 section at Target last year:
I got this cute tree and the little ornaments at Pier 1 last year:
Living room and Christmas Tree and Christmas wreath to follow!