I hope you have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas, wherever you may be today.
Jennifer x
Category: The Holidays (page 22 of 38)
As you drink your first glass of eggnog, trim your tree, wrap your final present or hang your Christmas stocking, I wish you a joyous and peaceful Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas Eve!
Jennifer x
The Holidays are almost upon us. Below are a few things I have been pinning lately to my Christmas Board. Enjoy!
1. Felt Ribbon Candy – The Purl Bee
2. Jingle Bell Wreath – Whipperberry
3. Scandinavian Inspired Clay Ornaments – A Field Journal
4. A Honeycomb Wreath – Oh Happy Day
5. Glittery Gumdrops – The Sweetest Occasion
1. Classic Mulled Wine – Style Me Pretty
2. Nutella Hot Chocolate – Merry Thought
3. A Wintermint Cake made by Baked in Brooklyn – Sweet Paul Mag
4. Candy Stripe Meringues – Twigg Studios
5. Gingerbread Men Ice Cream Sandwiches – Beekman 1802
1. Norwegian Style – Vibeke Design
2. A Cozy Entrance
3. Christmas German Style – Hearth and Made
4. I’m Dreaming of A White Christmas… – found
5. Holiday House Walk – Jennifer Rizzo
The last day of school has arrived! Christmas Break is finally here!
Last night I worked on packing up a few Christmas goodies for work and snapped this pic on Mr. Michie’s phone (sorry for the grainy pic, I was doing this by the glow of twinkle lights). I found some adorable red and white polka dot bags and these very cute cupcake boxes, which I thought would perfectly hold my cookies and it worked!
I filled each bag with a jar of homemade apple butter and a box of snowballs. Today I shall deliver them to their intended recipients.
The snowballs were made from a recipe by the lovely Serena Thompson of The Farm Chicks. I started making them 2 years ago and they have become a tried and tested favorite in the Michie household, perfect for gift giving and eating with a cup of tea.
I love Christmas! I have been listening to Christmas music off and on since October and one of my favorite albums is, A Charlie Brown Christmas. It doesn’t get much better than Vince Guaraldi and his jazz piano. I listen to this album almost everyday on my way to and from work. It makes me happy!
Here are a few of my favorite songs from the album, for your musical enjoyment!
I think I felt like this for about 5 minutes Saturday morning and then we took a deep breath, started to clean and got out the decorations!
Well, for one reason or another this week has gotten away from me. I did take down all my Fall decorations, but they are waiting to be put into the attic and my Christmas things are waiting to be taken down. So tonight, when I get in from work, I plan to dust and vacuum and get everything in order for Saturday morning.
I have decorating to complete this weekend, and a toy to finish sewing and a few more to make, I have Christmas cards I need to start writing and a package to get ready to mail to someone special. And, in all of this I want to make sure that I take a bit of time to breath, because I haven’t been able to do that this week.
Here’s to the weekend! For with it comes the glow of twinkle lights from our soon to be festive holiday cottage!
P.S. Happy St. Nicholas Day! I hope you were good and he left a little surprise in your shoe!
i just love Anthropologie’s films! This is festively sweet! Happy Tuesday!
I have a pumpkin pie in the oven, bread torn and drying out, ready to be turned into stuffing, Christmas music playing and I am cleaning the house and beginning to put away Fall in preparation for decorating for Christmas.
This afternoon we will celebrate Thanksgiving. We are a few days late, but it still counts!
I can’t believe that today marks the first day of Advent and the first day of December. Where has this year gone? It seems to have vanished with a blink of an eye! We are trying to keep things a bit more simplified this year. We even bought a chocolate Advent calendar instead of using Eglantine.
Which doesn’t sound like such a big deal, but it is for me. I love Christmas! Our house is usually decorated within every square inch of itself. However, I don’t think it will be that way this year. I love my new job, but it is keeping me very occupied. So something’s gotta give somewhere and that means that this year we are keeping the house decorating elegant yet simple.