Snapshots of Christmas

Well, I'm back to work today after an amazing 10 1/2 day Christmas vacation (I know I know, I am so lucky!) I had an amazing week going to 4 family Christmas parties, meeting up with old friends, shopping, watching Christmas movies, baking with my mom and sisters, and eating so so much good food! Bliss!  We have a Christmas Eve tradition of cooking a nice meal together and eating it by candlelight. This year, Matt joined in by making the main course- scallops and shrimp risotto with asparagus! It was delicious! Everyone else helped with the salad and bread. Mom made the dessert~ warm chocolate melting cake with peppermint yogurt. omg...yum!!
I took a few snapshots of my family on Christmas eve. Would you like to meet them?

My little sister who wanted purses and clothes this year instead of scooters and toys, who will probably be a Rockette someday, who saves up her money all year to buy her family gifts for Christmas,and who we lovingly nickname Bu Bu.

My beautiful mom who always goes above and beyond to make Christmas amazing, (I mean, seriously, we're like a freaking Hallmark commercial).

My dad, the real "kid" of the family who really enjoyed his remote control helicopter as well as belting out "O Holy Night" throughout the week. :)

Haha~ My beautiful sister Brit who was so excited about her new PJ's that she did a hurkey!

And my sweet sweet hubby, Matt, who puts up with all of our cheesy traditions~even the one where we run down the staircase on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought us (yep, we still do that).

My new shelf table thingy to fill one of the many the empty corners of our new house!

I am so blessed to have such a great family! I hope your Christmas was as great as mine was!

Tweet

Christmas Tour of Homes

I'm linking up over at Kelly's Korner today for "Show us Your Life: Christmas Tour of Homes!" I love seeing how other people decorate for Christmas so I thought it would be so fun to join in!

Here is our lovely little tree. I did a color scheme of red and silver. The silver and white butterflies were used as decor in our wedding. They are a perfect touch to our little tree. ;)


This was my first year to have a mantel to decorate! It sort of became a hodge podge of various decorations. I'm hoping to find the time to make stockings~ maybe next year. ;)

I've been collecting this Christmas village since I was about 12 years old. I just love it! It's always been displayed at my mom's house, and I was so happy to finally have a place to display it in our new home. All I needed to do was buy a table! ha! Meet my new side board Christmas village display table. ;)

Here is my winter wonderland themed dining table! I found the little glass plates, runner, and and napkins at Target~ they all have snowflakes on them. I just used the candlesticks from our wedding, and I filled a parfait bowl with left over Christmas ornaments.

Even Matt and I are dec'd! We hosted a tacky sweater party for our small group Bible study. I had trouble finding a tacky sweater that wasn't $35 so I just sewed a stocking on a sweatshirt for me and sewed part of an apron on a T-shirt for Matt!
Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Tweet

Curtain Reveal

Curtains are to rooms as scarves are to outfits...........except you can change your scarf daily, but curtains you keep for years! Talk about outfit pressure! I've been scouring for the perfect pair of curtains, and I found a lot of great ones, but I mean, $70+...per panel? Annnnd I needed 4 panels. It was about that time when I decided to make my own!.... Sound impressive? Oh no~ don't be that impressed--it's really quite simple! Annnd I got to use the most to-die-for fabric!

I've come to the realization that I'm obsessed with this fabric company, Premier Prints. I realized I had unknowingly used that brand several times in the past. You can find Premier Prints just about anywhere, but I bought the fabric for these curtains at Fabric.com. I mean this fabric kinda makes me wanna pull a Scarlet O'Hara and make a dress out of my drapes! :)

Now, if you can cut a rectangle and then hem the edges in a straight line, you can sew a curtain panel! I decided to make a tunnel at the top of mine to put the rod through but you could also go even easier and buy those clip-on curtain rings. I love the way they turned out. The Suzani print is so cute, but the colors are subtle enough to be sophisticated.


Next up: throw pillows and roman shades for the breakfast nook... in coordinating Premier Prints of course.

Tweet

Toomer's Corner

Matt and I recently took a trip back to our old Alma Mater~ Auburn University~ for the homecoming football game. The game was fun, but the best part was getting to see all our old friends again. We always just pick up where we left off. :)

In case you're not from around here and wondering what all this toilet paper is... this is a famous Auburn tradition. When we win a game we run out of the stadium and head over to Toomer's Corner to roll the trees. It's a fun and crazy tradition! Imagine thousands of people screaming in celebration and covering the whole corner in white. Nothing like it! :)

Sadly, these trees will soon be gone so this may have been our last picture with them. A crazy Alabama fan poisoned them last year. :(

We also ate at one of our favorite local restaurants, Big Blue Bagel. Aren't hole in the wall restaurants always the best?!

The Tiger Melt is voted one of Alabama's top 100 dishes~ honey mustard chicken salad with melted cheese on top of a bagel. And a side of bagel chips of course! Mmm!

And as we say in Auburn....Warrrr Eagle!

Tweet