A Whole New Perspective: All is calm, All is bright

Friday, December 16, 2011

All is calm, All is bright

I absolutely love this time of year!

Decorating, shopping for others, wrapping presents, baking! This year was definitely a little more challenging than the past 5 years, but I still have enjoyed every minute of it. Each year I like to come up with a few more decorations, either DIY'ed or bought on sale the previous year after the holidays are over.

Here are this year's additions:

Homemade Wreath

(I can see myself adding onto it next year)

Homemade Ornament Trees

Bigger Mini Tree

(our lights went out on the old one and it was starting to get crowded)

Ornament Hurricane

And a few shots of our other decorations:

Meanwhile, after some wrestling with the printing company and trying to track down our lost Christmas cards, they are finally out and in mailboxes right before Christmas, as opposed to a couple of weeks early as intended. Here they are, created by yours truly:

I had a hard time getting any great "Christmas pictures" of Mason because the boy will not sit still. And even though I had other hopes for the Christmas card pictures, the shots I took of Mason were definitely keepers for our family photo album. Here are a few from our photo op. I am sure he will love to see these on his wedding day... bahaha.