Tag: holidays

By this point, I believe y’all know how much I love owls! I’m just missing them from blog itself which my hubby swears in coming in 2011. I’ve had this little, crazy, bright green, wiry tree since right after college (I believe it was a day-after-Christmas Stein Mart find!). It works awesome for the owl ornaments I’ve found or been given other the years. I usually put up the tree on a stand next to the real tree. But my mom mentioned that our tall pub table would be a cool place. It’s great because it gives the kitchen area a Christmasy feel and I’ve been able to display our Christmas cards around it.

Here’s a few of my newest/most favorite owl ornaments. I bought this quilted owl from Crate & Barrel this year. I bought my mom (another Chi O & owl lover one as well). My good friend Kelly gave me this gorgeous owl for my birthday last weekend. I love it! This Santa owl is a couple years old, but it’s definitely one of my favorite! It’s perfect for this tree!

You might have noticed in earlier this weeks photos that our wrapping paper is owls too! I found it in the Target Christmas section. It was $2.50 for a really tall roll so I bought two! Looks like I might be rocking the owl paper again next year!

Speaking of Christmas cards, ours are owls! I would have loved to do a photo card…I had this idea of doing one of us in front of the tree you know with the hubby hugging the pregnant me…but yeah that didn’t happen. My mom actually gave me two packs of these cards last year in my stocking! She’d found them at Borders and bought all they had for me. I thought they were perfect for us this year. I wrote inside “Wishing you & your family good times, good cheer… Then the inside said AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. Please consider this my Christmas wish to each of the awesome readers seeing this too!

I thought I’d do a few posts on our Christmas decorations. I’ve seen them on a bunch of others blogs and I got inspired to do one of our own! I thought I’d spread it over a few days instead of one LONG post {especially since I learned to schedule posts today!}.

You might’ve seen our getting the tree post. We decorated the following day and then I’ve wrapped a few different times so there are packages under the tree. Fingers {& toes} crossed, Moe has not bothered the tree at all this year.

I’ve never not had a real Christmas tree. I can’t image not having one! I love the smell, the twinkling lights, how it really changes the look of a room & how just seeing it can better my mood. Growing up with used colored lights on the tree. I’m not sure why {maybe we just already had them?}, but we use white lights on our tree. I think they give a *classier* look which is funny since we have so many unclassy but super fun & memorable ornaments.

We usually receive or buy a few new ornaments each year. I looked to take a photo of my current new favorites. I love the Lilly frames {up to the tree photoless} that my brother gave me over Thanksgiving weekend for my birthday. The other favorites I’m spotlighting below: my NCSU football player {I’m proud of the pack even though we aren’t ACC champs} & the HUGE snowman. I believe the snowman was my mom’s but she passed it down. It’s 3-4 times bigger than any other ornament but I love it!

Next up: owl Christmas love :}

The best birthdays last for a long time. Being a December baby, my parents always tried to be sure that my birthday & Christmas were celebrated separately. I’ve shared with y’all that my birthday celebration started over Thanksgiving weekend. Then hubby & I celebrated the big day Saturday.
Sunday we met up with 2 other couples who are some of our best local friends. We all enjoyed delicious food {& a fresh apple martini for me!} at Bonefish! Can anyone go there without getting the Bang Bang Shrimp?! Not me! B & K, thanks for joining us guys. We really enjoyed it & spending time catching up with y’all & your guys.

Notice my necklace in the photos, I bought it Thursday night at a Stella & Dot party. It was my first party but I found so many things I loved! This necklace came with the flower pin (shown attached to the neckace) as well as a bracelet that can be attached to the necklace to make it longer. It was a sample that’s been discontinued so they Stella & Dot rep sold it to me for $49. Which turned out to be the perfect amount because I got a birthday check in my card from my in-laws Monday!

On my Stella & Dot wish list now: the gold drop earrings & soiree pave bracelet in black! Oh & for the summer, how cute are these starfish earrings?!

I finished up my birthday celebration with my work group doing a birthday breakfast break Monday morning. mmmm Panera! 🙂