1. Putting up the Christmas tree! Ours went up a few weeks ago, we had purchased a new one, it is white and some new decorations, red and turquoise is the colour theme this year, so I was anxious to get it up and decorated.
{ Dodgy iPhone photo of the tree}
2. Christmas cards! Since having our children I have always enjoyed taking a "christmas card photo" and having the christmas cards made to send to all of our friends and family. This year we had a few photo shoots until we got the right photo. I was thrilled with how the cards turned out. I put them in the post yesterday so they would arrive on the 1st December.
3. Gingerbread cookies! I love eating gingerbread, so love this time of year as it is an excuse to make lots of it for gifts, and there are always leftovers :) I seem to gather more Christmas themed cookie cutters each year, from very small to very large - trees, stars, gingerbread men, angels, christmas baubles. I tried out some gift ideas a few weeks ago. The flint jar is from Sharnel Dollar Designs.
4. Buying Christmas presents! Each year I vow to be more organised when it comes to purchasing the presents. I do a lot of online shopping, as living in the country it is just easier. The adults always prove to be the most difficult to choose presents for. I love coordinating the wrapping of my presents, this year I have purchased glossy red paper and pretty turquoise organza ribbon to tie pretty bows on the presents.
5. Christmas carols! We have had carols playing in our car for a few weeks already, I love singing along to them with the kids.
6. Spending time with family and friends! The festive season is a wonderful time for catching up with everyone. I find that everyone is so busy in our everyday lives, that it is a nice time to relax and enjoy good food and company.
7. The countdown to Christmas day! Now that the children are a little older they are so excited about christmas, so the countdown has been on for about 65 days now! Today marks the first day to open the advent calenders, so the real countdown begins. They were asking at 6:20am this morning if they could open them :)
I now have to pass this onto a few other fabulous bloggers :
Ez from Life...Style'n
Trish from A Dream House for Trish
Karla from Ironmum Karla
Claire from Scissors Paper Rock
Enjoy the rest of the week.
Tick, tick, tick, I give all your things listed the nod as well. So many great ideas whipping around the blogging community at the moment that I find I am finding myself getting unusually creative. We put up our tree today and the advent calendar comes out tonight after dinner for my eldest too!;)
ReplyDeleteThanks katina!!! I love christmas especially the decorating. Your cookie jars are going to be a real hit, they look fabulous!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Katena! I've already passed the award on - I'm a little excited!
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