More is More

I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since I posted.  This time of year is just so jammed packed and I always seem to be behind no matter how I try to plan.  For example I had originally planned for us to get our Christmas tree over a week ago, but stuff just kept happening.  We finally went and got one on Wednesday, brought it in the house on Friday night, put lights on it last night and decorated it today!  Growing up we always got rid of our tree the day after Christmas (sometimes it was gone before I even got up in the morning *shock*), so we usually got it fairly early in the month of December.  It kind of bugs me to get it this late, but we’ll probably keep it up now until almost New Years.

Here are some ornaments I made for our tree this year.

The plain glass balls were 50% off at Michael’s.  I got 2 four-packs of the large size and one six-pack of the smaller size (not all of my ornaments are pictured here).  The balls are filled with curled pieces of Dashing and Cerise designer papers.  Such an easy project – great to do while watching tv.  And really quite inexpensive as well.  For the small balls I used a 1/2 sheet of the 12 x 12 paper and cut strips 6″ x  1/2″.  For the larger size I used almost a full sheet of strips cut 4″ x 3/4″.  Strips were just rolled around a pencil and dropped in the ball.  I don’t know who first came up with this idea, but I really like it!  if you’ve made some of these please post a link so I can check them out.  Although I’ve seen them several times before, when I got ready to make mine I couldn’t find any photos.

It’s going to be a very busy week.  As much as I love Christmas I’m really looking forward to Pajama Day which is a well-loved tradition at our house.  It usually occurs the day after Christmas but sometimes has to be put off one day.  Curt cooks a huge breakfast and we stay in PJ’s all day and watch movies and read and play games.  I’d better have my brand new Stampin’ Up! catty by then so I can devote a good chunk of time to making my wish list.  Some SoCal friends already have cattys, so I’m thinking mine might come tomorrow – that thought makes me simultaneously happy and sad – I’m dying to see it, but honestly do not have time this week to really savor the joy of it.  I truly love making it an *event*.

I hope you are enjoying the Christmas season!  I will post as much as I can.  Thanks so much for stopping by and sticking with me during this busy, sporadic time.