pompompompom

If you're anything like me, you're just now wrapping all of your gifts and trying to figure out how to make the most of one roll of wrapping paper. Fortunately, my amazing friend/bff/sister Anastasia was here to save the day. Anna has always been an amazing knitter and I just adored the idea she brought of wrapping gifts tied up with yarn. But to top it off, she made a little pompom in a jiffy as the perfect piece to draw it all together. Well done, Anna, well done :)

1. wrap the yarn around your fingers in a nice little bundle.

2. take the end and loop it through the middle of your bundle a few times and tie it off in a knot.

3. snip the yarn across from the knot

4. floof the yarn and there you have it! Use the still attached end to tie around your package.

tralalalala lalalala
Merry Christmas!




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its time

We finally had a snowy day last week. Well, it was more of an icy day than a snowy one. But still, just seeing the snowfall outside my bedroom window made it feel like its finally Christmas. We live somewhat in the woods, so trees fill up the window and our yard is the perfect wintry setting. I'm loving the light flooding our house and beautiful feel of the snow under our boots. Its such a rare thing for snow to last in Maryland, so we're enjoying it as much as we can. We also got our tree and we were just happy to have some time to get it ready for Owen and place it in our house. It smells so good every time I walk inside and Owen can't get enough of it. He actually does have some self-control when it comes to the ornaments too. Also, as you can see below, he loves chocolate almost more than we do. I love seeing his excitement and cannot wait for Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas!

Make your own rustic ornament - 1. Saw off the bottom of the tree. 2. Write your little note, initials, etc using a sharpie or some permanent pen. 3. Drill another hole for the twine, or if yours has a hole, just take the twine through and you're done! We have one for each year we had a tree:)

Horace took this on his large format and then developed and printed them for our friends and family. I love how they turned out! (Owen is stunned by the dancing Elmo on top of the camera:)



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You can find that awesome Mercator K55K knife at Best Made Co. Such a cool shop.

Instax Christmas

Wow, what a fun Christmas! It was so much fun having Owen around this year to be a part of the celebration. We got him a couple of little toys and I am still surprised by how interested he is in each and every one of them.

  Owen particularly loves the little wooden whale his dad gave him. And can you believe it, it actually snowed, not on Christmas, but just one day late:)

I remember being pregnant last Christmas and thinking about how the next year we would have a baby with us and just how crazy and far away that seemed. God sure did bless us with a fun, happy and excitable little guy to join in the fun.

 Here's to wherever our little family will be next year! I know it will be some place good:)

P.S. All of these pics were taken on my wonderful Fuji Instax Mini 50S. You gotta get one.