We are now two weeks into the New Year and I totally missed wishing everyone a happy one. A bunch of us spent the New Year in the Pocono's to celebrate my brothers belated birthday (from last year - it was a big one). Good times had for all.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Christmas Traditions
Every family has their own traditions for the holidays. As a family we have a gingerbread house decorating contest, hayride with hot chocolate, decorate ornaments, take family pictures in front of the tree (for cards of course) and we're constantly adding as the kids get older they change a little.
Last night we did the gingerbread house decorating competition and decorated ornaments.
I ❤️ these fun evenings. It relieves some of the stress that can sometimes be felt this time of year. Here are the houses, the ugly Christmas sweater sugar cookie I decorated and the ornaments.
What do you do with your family during the holidays to keep them festive and less stressful? Share in the comments.
Christmas Decorating
Hi! I'm Laney and I ❤️ Christmas! The decorations, the music, the activities with my family. There is nothing better in my mind.
So how early do you start decorating for Christmas? Do you wait until after Thanksgiving or do you start beforehand because you decorate every room in the house, front and backyards?
As kids, we didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving. We ate dinner at our dad's restaurant together and we would decorate on Black Friday before we knew what Black Friday was.
Now that we're older and a lot has changed, we have a large Thanksgiving dinner with together. We have some family visit from Boston. We do dinner, plan our shopping and head out about 8pm Thanksgiving night. Typically we're out all night, come home to regroup about 3am, grab a bite to eat and either hit a new set of stores or make a plan for later in the morning.
After all the shopping is done we hit our respective homes to decorate.
This year, before Thanksgiving, my sister made a couple of wreaths and sent me a text with them. Got me thinking "why have I never done this before?". I have an entire room in my house set up for crafts and sewing yet I've never made my own wreath.
I promptly hit the store to buy what I needed to make wreaths for the inside of my doors since I already have them for outside. I also bought a 'believe' sign from A.C. Moore that I wanted to paint. My daughter and I put up the tree, the garland and all the other decorations. Then I got to making the wreaths and realized I have two hurricanes in the living room that I normally tie ribbon around with an ornament hanging. 😀
This year I decided to change the ribbon on the hurricanes because what I normally used covered me in gold glitter. It was everywhere!! I measured the ribbon, sewed snaps on the back so next year all I need to do is snap it back on - so easy!!
Check out my finished projects...
❤️ them all, especially the red bow on the wreath.
Share your projects in the comments. I'd love 💕 to see your creations.
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