We had a wonderful Christmas this year! The girls were thrilled with their Santa gifts (American Girl Dolls), there were lots of yummy cookies and eggnog, and the Wii was a hit for all of us!
Christmas Eve (Lauren was being a pill and did not want to cooperate, but she had to pucker up to keep from smiling!)
Christmas Day and the new dolls with matching dresses!
Lots of snow...
I love decorating the house for Christmas! This year I have a new addition to my holiday decor. My Mom made me this fabulous wreath!
I love the dragonflies and the key that she added to the wreath!
It took me over a week to figure out how to package the gift card for Megan's teacher. I saw the idea over at Beneath My Heart, and knew I had to try it!
It all started with a can of Pineapple, which was opened from the bottom and cleaned. I added some Hershey's Kisses and a Gift card, some patterned paper, ribbon and a little bling...
And this:
Yeah... you can see the hot glue mess that I made on the bottom of the can...
I added glitter and flock to the PP with double sided sticky tape. The bottom tag says "Pull my tab".
One of our holiday traditions is making homemade hot cocoa. Of course the girls get to help (and yes they washed their hands first)
Saturday night we attended my company holiday party, and it was a blast! The hotel was gorgeous, the food was actually really good and the DJ rocked! Carla stayed the night with the girls, and we used hotel points so that we could stay at the hotel, which would have been more enjoyable had I not overindulged in wine. I should have stopped when the bar turned to a cash bar, but I had to have one more drink... oh well. It does not happen often!
Here are a few more cards that go in the set I posted about yesterday. Again.. most of the supplies are PTI.
The lines of glitter were made with sticky strip/ red line tape/ whatever you want to call it. I just put the tape on, removed the red stuff and poured glitter on top of it. I let it sit for a min and then burnished the glitter into the tape really well.
I have one more card and the box to take a picture of.. but I can not post the box until after the gift is received since it would totally give away who it is for!
Wednesday the girls had their Christmas Program for Kindercare. They both did great!
I finished a gift set for a friend this weekend and I love it! All of the materials are PTI except for the Nestabilities and the Martha Stewart glitter and punch. I am not sure where I got the bling...
