Well, with Christmas this week I have decided to take things
super easy. It’s so easy to caught up
in the business of the season, and sometimes miss
out on the most important things.
So I decided towards the
end of last week that I wasn’t going to much of
anything online this week, and spend
as much time with the kiddos,
watching christmas movies, making christmas cookies,
listening to christmas music,
and any other last minute prep stuff
before this weekend.
So if you don’t see anything from me for a few days,
it’s because we are cuddled up on the couch,
with the wood stove going,
just enjoying the holiday season in it’s simplicity.
And between get together’s and christmas
shopping we are filling our evenings with our favorite adult
christmas movies.
Tonight, we are watching
~It’s a wonderful life~
It’s a tradition from my husbands side of the family, so we will be curled up on the couch
watching this. And (secretly) I would love to have a
family photo like this one day. HA HA.
My husband would probably die knowing that, because it looks like pure
chaos in his mind, but there’s just something
about it I love.
Well, I wanted to share with you a super easy simple way to add
some holiday decor to your homes,
right in time before you start entertaining.
Have you finished all your decorating?
Is your tree up and ready?
Well, mine has been done for a few weeks now,
and something I do seasonally is change
out my vase filler.
You may remember these beauties (mentioned here.)
Well when I started getting the christmas decorations up,
these were one of the first things I changed 🙂
I grabbed pine cones, twiggy balls, white, red and silver
ornaments, and this twiggy garland that had silver buds on it.
I started by placing on end of the twiggy
garland in the bottom, and just started grabbing different
pine cones, and ornaments to fill it.
Spacing them out color wise to
look pleasing to the my eye.
As I filled the vase I wrapped the garland around the inside
of it, so it would kinda swirl up to the top.
It really is quite simple, so I didn’t take any in-the-process photos,
but here is a close-up look of the other one as well.
And a picture of who kept me company along the way.
I don’t know how this got in there, but she gives the best facial expressions,
I just had to give you a peak of what I get to
look at while doing all these projects around the house 😉
You may remember seeing this finished product in display,
found here,
But here they are on my dining room buffet.
.done.
Well, I hope you have a wonderful holiday with your loved ones.
We are pretty excited over here, to have
christmas with the kids this year.
It’s so great when they really start getting into the season.
~MERRY CHRISTMAS~
FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS
~BDD