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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.
Christmas has come to the coffee shops and after a quick grocery store run this morning, Mr. Michie got me a gingerbread latte at Costa. It even came with a little gingerbread man cookie and was just delicious!
Well, its that time of year again. It is time for me to start working on my Christmas card. Which sounds just plum crazy when you say it out loud, but once I decide on a design and then shoot the photographs or make the piece, edit it and get it sent off to the printers, it is a process that needs to be started sooner rather than later.
I gave Goose Girl and Foxy a break this year and decided to go a completely different route. One of my favorite artistic mediums to work within is collaging. I was inspired by the lovely Phoebe Wahl and a set of Christmas cards she made (see below). Now, when I collage, I don’t normally make all of my pieces myself, I am inspired by other things and I use those to create the elements of each piece.
With my love of vintage patterns I set to work, finding just the right pieces to put the puzzle together. Finding bits and bobs here and there, in vintage wrapping paper and post cards, I slowly formed a collection. Below are the the first few bits I created. I played around with the potential design, but I have now settled on one and my Christmas Card is really starting to take shape.
This was the first of my weekend projects. The wind howled around the house, the rain poured down, causing a mini flood at the end of our street and the lightening lit up the sky like fireworks.
Inside, I stayed cozy and dry and slowly began to cut up the first felt pieces of a project I have started for a little someone. Part of her Christmas gift this year, will be a little menagerie of animals to play with.
Stay tuned, there is more to come!
We worked extremely hard yesterday putting away all of our Christmas decorations and giving the house a thorough cleaning.
Next week, I am going to really tear apart our bedroom and get the closets more organized. I know that we will most likely end up with a bag of items for The Salvation Army and a bag of items to be turned into fabric scraps and dust rags.
The house looks so bare now, but it feels clean. I have decorated for Valentine’s Day and left one little tiny tree up, that I have adorned with Valentine hearts. Nothing wrong with a little twinkle and glow.
Our weekend in pictures:
Goodbye Genevieve see you next year!
Mr. Michie took out the garbage and recycling and we saw a double rainbow the complete full arch, that was a nice gift.
Potato Soup for dinner. I kind of followed Paula Deen’s recipe for it, but then went off the rails and made it completely my own. It was warming to the soul and we sat on the couch like vegetables, completely worn out and watched “Two Mules for Sister Sara”. Happiness!
Well, my friends, I have a secret, I am not even embarrassed about it and I have admitted it here and there in some of my January posts: I still have all of my Christmas decorations up.
Okay, I am now giving you a moment to gasp and compose yourself again.
Moment over, here is my reasoning: it is dark when we leave for school in the morning, dark when we come home at night. The cupboard has no windows, so I rarely get natural light within my day. So, the thought of coming home to the warm twinkling glow of lights, makes me smile.
We came home tonight and laid in bed with our little Christmas tree on, watching big fat flakes of snow billow around outside. It was heaven!
I will work on starting to take everything down this weekend, giving the cottage a truly good “Spring Cleaning” and decorate for Valentine’s Day.
However, I have one little tree that is too cute to put away. It shall stand with its white lights and I will hang Valentine hearts on it.
I read a very dear someone’s blog today and I am delighted to know that I am not the only one with a hint of Christmas still up (although mine is much more than a hint)!
Twinkle lights are good for you, they are good for the soul, don’t let anyone tell you any different!
I got a sweet miniature Mary Engelbreit desktop calendar from my Mom this Christmas. I wait with anticipation in the morning to see what the next cheery little page will be.
This was my page yesterday. It was beautiful. It looks like snow is coming our way next week. Fingers crossed for at least one snow day. A day to just stay inside and be cozy.
Here’s to the weekend, long may it last!
Before we left my Sister’s house to head home to our cottage we shared one more afternoon snack together. Salted caramel hot chocolate and snowflake sugar cookies. The cookies were purchased at the delicious Our Daily Bread Bakery, where we had eaten breakfast that morning and hung out.
We sat on the couch, drinking, laughing, munching away on cookies, I can’t think of a better way to end my time there then sharing a moment with my sister.
I think that because they were served in her little owl mugs, the hot chocolate even tasted better, the whipped cream sitting on top of them like little fluffy hats!
Wishing you a very Happy and Healthy New Year for 2013. I hope this year ushers in many joys and blessings for you all.
Jennifer x