Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season. May your days be merry and bright, your stockings heavy and your hearts full. I'm going to take some time to relax and spend with my family, but I will be back in the new year.
Thank you all for the great year.
Kerby
Hello and welcome to my super special after Christmas tour of my Christmas decorations. I originally had this posted planned a few days before Christmas, but a surprise put that post on hold. Not that I would change getting my baby girl a few days early.
But since I already have the pictures edited and ready to go, I want to share the little bit of decorating that I did this year. It wasn't as much as I usually do because with a two year old and being 9 months pregnant, I just didn't have it in me to make anything new. Hopefully I can work on my to do list over the year and have more to share next year. Now how is that for wishful thinking?
First I will start with my table display, which was very minimal due to the fact that we use this table every day. A big arrangement would have interfered with our everyday life and would have driven us crazy.
I found a cute metal tray at our local Dollar store for $3 that had a cute picture of Santa and the North Pole on it, with snowflakes embossed on the sides. Luis bought me some flowers in seasonal colours, paired with some simple white snowmen and some candy canes in a white mason jar. Very simple and so easy to move out of the way to use the table for meal time.
On the shelf over our television upstairs I changed out a blue decanter for an elegant reindeer and a plush snowman. I added some red beads to my candle and a little winter birdie to finish it off.
I had planned on changing out the flower art for a holiday printable that I made but I ran out of ink while printing pictures for a Christmas present and never got new ones. Hopefully you guys can forgive me for not jumping on the Christmas printable train this year.
Above the pantry in our kitchen I filled the apothecary jars with red, gold and silver ornaments and fake poinsettia blooms. As well I added the snowman family lamp, which looks much better at night than it does in the picture below. The red buds in the black stone vase is a year round feature.
And on an end table beside our upstairs couch I added a few cute seasonal touches, including my white feather tree, snowman tealight holder and a lantern with some ornaments and garland.
I didn't want to put too much out because of the little hands that wander when I am out of sight, but Braxton did really good this year. As far as I can tell, he only went after the Christmas tree and left everything else alone.
Every year in our bay window I put a small amount of garlands and lights to help add light to our living room and some decoration to the outside. I only took pictures from the outside because it's hard to take a picture from the inside without removing the furniture.
I also added the ribbon trees I made years ago, some grapevine trees I bought at a craft sale forever ago, fake berry sprigs and fake red poinsettia blooms. It's hard to see all of the elements, but it's breathtaking at night when walking or driving by our house. Next year I may try incorporating a little bit more colour with lights and ornaments, but we'll see.
And last but not least our Christmas tree. I love a Christmas tree that has traditional colours on it, like red, gold and silver. I won't bore you with a description, just enjoy a few pictures.
Luis keeps telling me that I need to add more fun elements to the decorations now that we have kids, so that's my goal for next year. I will do my best to add more fun colours to the room and decor and especially the tree. I am hoping to start doing some fun crafts with Braxton next year, which I can't wait to add to the tree!
So there's my late Christmas tour, hopefully you don't mind a little holiday spirit in the new year. I expect next year to be just as crazy as this year was with two (!!) December birthday's and Christmas but I can't wait. Bring it on 2016!
Kerby
Wishing everyone a safe and Merry Christmas. Hope your holidays are full or family and fun, laughing and good cheer. Don't worry about the amount of food you eat or gifts you receive, be thankful and enjoy the season.
From our family to yours.
Kerby
Merry Christmas from our family to yours. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday filled with love, laughter and family.
I will be taking a few days to spend some much needed family time together. See you in the new year.
Kerby
Hi everyone, hopefully you guys aren't sick of crafts yet. I have been busy as a bee (is that even a saying?) trying to get everything ready for Braxton's birthday as well as getting ready for Christmas. Lots of crafts going on over here (and panicked cleaning and paint touch-ups).
Today I want to share another easy craft you can do in a short amount of time, that would be a great addition to any Christmas tree. It doesn't hurt either that it is fairly inexpensive if you already have a paper puncher. If you do not have a decorative puncher, you can get them with a coupon to Micheals or Hobby Lobby for roughly $15.
I made some paper ornaments:
Happy Monday to you all! I want to take a minute here for my "holy smokes my baby is almost a year old!" moment this week. Seriously, where has the last twelve months gone?
Today I want to share another fun craft that I did for Braxton's upcoming first birthday. But this could easily be a fun craft you could do for Christmas decorations or even just because it's winter. They are pretty snowballs that don't melt!
Hi everyone, today I want to share a great and easy gift idea for the upcoming holiday season. I'm sure you have seen these everywhere, but they are such an easy gift!
They are cookie gift jars. I know, I know, but just hear me out. Who doesn't love getting goodies? And around the holidays everyone is baking, so there is an overabundance of goodies everywhere. So this is a way to give baked goods, but allowing the recipient to choose when they will have the goodies. Pretty sweet deal.
Hi everyone, can you believe that there are only 37 days until Christmas! Crazy, I can't believe how fast this year has gone by.
Today I want to share with you a quick and fun way to dress up the goodies that you give to people around the holidays. I have found that it is always nice to have recipe cards either included or ready to hand out in case people ask for them. It is also a great way for the giftee's (is that even a word?) to know what they are receiving. It doesn't hurt to be ready, and why not make them really cute and fun?
I found these recipe cards at Micheals last year in the dollar bin (I looked again this year, no luck):
Morning everyone, today I want to share another craft I have for Braxton's upcoming birthday. I found the idea on Whipperberry .
They used them on Christmas presents as part of the wrapping and decorations. But I thought they looked really cute as snowballs.
(Please ignore the baby toy in the background, I can't help it)
Hey everyone, hope you all are staying warm!
Today I want to share a fun craft that I did as a decoration for Braxton's upcoming (first) birthday. It is a great craft to do in front of the TV or with older kids. And it's also great as a winter or Christmas decoration! First you need to gather your supplies:
