Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! We sure did. It was so relaxed and uber laid back. Which made it all the more wonderful! Here's a few photos of what our Christmas Day and Eve looked like....

My parents and I on Christmas Eve.

Our nephews ready to open presents....

 Creed Baby.

The whole fam on Christmas morning...

  

 Santa was very good to Tils:) We were blessed with an amazing Christmas! After the holiday shin digs were over we did manage to use the rest of our time off work to be VERY productive. SO many house projects to share in the next week!!



Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope you all have a safe and blessed Christmas!

Door Jam.

I updated our front door with some Christmas goodness. I made these wreaths last year using this tutorial. They were really easy to make and are very easy to update from year to year.

 I did just that this year. I added a little more silvery bling to each of them. I'm debating the addition of some fun blue ornaments...just to get crazy with it:)

Our front door is ready for the holidays!

Christmas Card Display

This year I wanted something pretty to hang all those Christmas cards that come in the mail. Luckily, not to long ago my Dad gave me an old frame. I painted it white and it had been leaning up against a wall on a dresser for a while. I kind of new it would get it's real makeover when Christmas came around. I started by nailing 4 rows of nails equally across from each other down both sides of the frame. In the beginning I tied the string in straight lines across the frame. The twine wasn't strong enough to display cards and not droop down to far....

So, I went to plan b. Which was connecting the twine in a criss cross pattern across the frame. This was so much easier and looked a 100 times better.

Once I was done...I thought it needed a little extra something....bring on the big bulbs... 

 

I'm using clothes pins to hold the cards on the twin and lights....

Such a fun way to display cards from those that we love this Christmas season:)

This has gotten me so pumped for other holiday crafts! It's officially December...Merry Christmas everyone!

AHHH. Christmas Cards.

SO excited for the holidays this year. We do not have many plans in December and I think that adds to the excitement. Just hanging out together by the Christmas tree is all I can think about:) Especially, now that I have knocked Christmas cards off the list. These things stress me out! There are SO many cute ones out there to choose from...The thought of so many people getting your photo on the card you chose....it stresses me to no end. I'm so weird. I've been browsing Shutterfly for two weeks in search of the perfect card. I've chosen to use Shutterfly because they seem to be the most reasonable in price. Especially after you use a couple of the million discount codes they send you. This is ours from 2010. It was also ordered from Shutterfly. We got so many compliments on the quality of it. So I did not hesitate to use them again.
I can't wait to start getting cards from everyone in the mail! If they just weren't so hard to pick out...