Merry Christmas!

 

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Holiday wishes!

 

With only a few days until Christmas I am ready to finish up getting ready and get down to enjoying.  I think that the rush of shipping packages and orders is almost finished up... now time to do a little baking with the kids and wrap up all of the Christmas joy!

I want to say thank you to everyone who reads the blog and shops with us as well as all of my clients and advertisers!  You make it all possible and I truly appreciate your business and support as well as your great inspiration throughout the year and into the next.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

Holiday magic..

Ahh.. it's Friday.. This weekend we will be attending a small holiday party (I hope they are serving that yummy little appetizer) and just trying to relax and enjoy the holiday magic!  

There has been so so much going on and I truly need a break (until Monday comes and the kids are home and the shipping of orders begins once again).  

I want to say Merry Christmas to all of you wonderful readers and wish you the very best weekend ever!

What are you up to this weekend??

 

I am hoping to have this kind of smile by Saturday morning...

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Dressed up for Christmas..

We had some freinds over on Saturday night for a holiday dinner party so I spent most of the morning with my daughter decorating the tree and the rest of the house.  We are ready now.. bring on the Christmas.  I just have to wrap up some gifts and finish a bit of shopping before I can completely relax and kick my feet up (as if that will ever happen).    I changed things up a little this year but it is generally the same as the last..

Wishing you a lovely start to a very busy week!

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Greige Christmas

 

I love the dining space above so wonderfully simple and festive with candle light and vintage grey finishes!  How is the holiday decorating going?  Are you all done?  Or are you like me and have not quite started yet?

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Getting ready to add a little green

 

 It's time for some, so I thought we could see some very clean simple Christmas decorating ideas.  I like to keep it pretty simple around our house for Christmas.  We always have 2 trees though, one for the kids one for the mom!

Happy decorating!

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Happy greige Christmas..

Wishing you a day filled with wonderful things...

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Merry Christmas Eve....

I hope you are in for a relaxing Christmas Eve...

There will be too much rushing around here to really enjoy it..  I do love to watch the kids though...

Merry Christmas my dear readers...

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Home for the holiday.. details details

Just a little peek at the details in our holiday decor..  With all of the rain the lighting was a little lower than I like.  I might try again when the sun comes out again (if that ever happens)!!

I hope you are enjoying the holidays..

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Wrap it in grey

I am not a huge fan of wrapping... don't get me wrong - I love it I am just not that good at it. My paper is never quite as tight as I would like it to be... or straight!  I thought these were so pretty though.  This year I am wrapping in white, green and natural.  Do you theme your papers under the tree?  My tree is pretty neutral so I can change my wrapping each year.  {We just picked up our tree last night- so it is not decorated just yet- hopefully I will get around to taking a few pictures to share}.  Getting in the Christmas spirit over here...

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A little bit of greige at Christmas time...

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Holiday cheer...

 

Are you ready??  I know I know.  I should not forget that next week is Thanksgiving... but I am ready to toss out the pumpkins and bring in the greenery...  You?  Have you started your Holiday shopping??

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Best. Christmas Present. Ever.

As I've mentioned before, I am Facebook married to my friend Joanne Ballagh. It's a very modern thing and was mostly based around us being ridiculous and also trying to blow our friends minds via Facebook, but it has kind of stuck because we oddly like it.

While we've been friends for over a decade now, Joanne and I have an extra connection that works for us based around a movie: Pixar's Up. We saw the movie twice together in theaters and have since watched in on Blu Ray as well, and we quote the movie incessantly back and forth to each other. If you've seen it, one of the primary plot drivers is a book the main character's wife kept from childhood - her adventure book.

Well, when Joanne said she made me something for Christmas, I had no idea what it could be. She was worried I wouldn't like it, but when I opened it I immediately fell in love with it. She made me my own adventure book! It looked exactly like the one from Up and inside its pages were pictures of things we've done together along with quotes from the movie printed and pictures from the movie. The last pages were blank for me to fill in myself, which I cannot wait to do.

To say I was enthused with it is an understatement - this was without a doubt one of my favorite presents I've ever received. See below for pictures from it.

Thank you so much Joanne Ballagh. You put the Jo Lagh in Jovid Harplagh, and I love you for it my dear.

Favorite Christmas Present

So my favorite Christmas present this year (amongst a number of excellent contenders) is without a doubt the print of a piece by James Jean my mom got for me. James Jean is the artist of the covers of one of my favorite comic series (Fables) and he's a brilliant artist. It's called "Maze", and I absolutely love it. It even has an awesome etched in emblem on it, and has an autograph. I treasure it, and seriously cannot wait for it to be done being framed so I can look at it every day on my wall.

Christmas, Christmas Don't Be Late!

If thinking the Alvin and the Chipmunks song "Christmas Don't Be Late" is the best Christmas song ever is wrong, I don't want to be right.

The Weekend Edition (It's party time)

I think it's been pretty much decided that December 2008 is the busiest month of my life. This whole month has been wall to wall insanity, and this weekend was definitely no different. What went down?

• Dad's 60th birthday party
• Coffee with my sister
• Snow City and a Bosco's adventure with Hannah
• Seeing Milk with my mom
• GCI's Christmas party
• Lazy Sunday with Middle Way Cafe, finishing my book, wrapping up season 3 of Dexter, and some serious ballin' with Colver

So the whole weekend was most definitely awesome. The two big highlights were the parties of the weekend, starting with my Dad's 60th birthday party. Hannah and myself were two of the first to show up, arriving around 6:15 or 6:30, and we ended up staying there until past midnight. Tons of people showed up to celebrate my Dad's birthday, and it was great times shared by friends and family alike. There was me dominating in Scene It, the cigar smoking crew on the deck, Colver thinking family friend Penny was my sister (to her delight), excellent gag gifts (I got my Dad adult diapers) and just good times to be had by all.

Sadly, I don't have any pictures because I forgot my camera, but still, it was a memorable occasion that pictures were unnecessary for really.

Last night's extravaganza was GCI's Christmas party, and this was the first one I'd been able to attend. It took place at the Dena'ina Center and had 1,600 or more people there. Essentially, it was a party put together for employees to eat great food, drink a ridiculous amount of alcohol, and have a ton of fun. Knowing me, I of course drank a bunch and did my standard quota of stupid things, but I had an absolute blast doing it.

Plus, I got to see all kinds of coworkers drunk that I'd never seen happen before, Cate and I got to dominate the dance floor for at least three songs (running man + fishing pole dance = gold mine, I have video proof), and it was all for free. I always like to say, everything is better when it's free. This was no exception.

I always said that I would prefer just an extra day off every year (that's what we get on odd years instead of the Christmas party) but I don't know. It's a pretty great night and one where you get to see all the business people you're used to seeing only in a formal way be very, very not formal. I could get used to having it yearly, that's for sure.