christmas do

 

step one       -     make sugar cookies

step two       -     decorate them

step three     -     eat them

christmas in dixie

No snow in these parts. 

It feels like Spring outside. 

And it is oh, so lovely.

deck the halls

I may or may not be living next door to relatives of the Griswold family. The lawn decorations multiply by the day, but the real kicker is the life-size Santa mannequin. You can see him standing in between the windows with lights draped around him like a frightening Christmas lei. A closer picture is in the works once I drag out the nice camera with the great zoom lens. He's particularly scary in the daytime. Sometimes I swear he's inching closer and closer to my yard. Kidding. Maybe.

one day more

video found here.

Christmas needs to really hurry itself up and get here. This movie seriously looks all kinds of amazing. When the preview has me in tears, the movie has to be great, right?

i'll just keep it to myself in the sun, in the sun.

Does anyone else think the white coke cans are the best ever? 

Those polar bears are all kinds of adorable. 

the twenty-fifth day.

happy christmas

from us to you

xoxo

thankful.

About thirty minutes ago Anthony Rapp said this on Twitter:

"All right, I need to acknowledge that it was just December 24th, 9 pm, EST. #alwaysgratefulforthedifferenceRENThasmadeinmylife"

And soon it will be December 24th, 10 pm, EST.

Thanks, Anthony, for reminding me.

And thank you, Jonathan Larson.

You have no idea how much you've impacted my life for the better.

"No day but today."

merry christmas from dixie.

courtesy of wistv.com and weather.com, respectively

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feel free to come visit if you need to warm up a bit.

steal of a find.

amazing, right?

 

 

 

 

Yes, that's a golden snitch ornament. And yes, I'm allowing my inner Harry Potter fangirl nerd self to come out in full force with this one. I'm making this and putting it on my Christmas tree. Soon. As in, as soon as I can get to the craft store to get what I need for it. Oh, the joys of what you find on Pinterest.

'tis the season

image found here

well, almost. 

i love christmas so much. all of the decorations already up in the stores make me so happy. and while i don't start listening to christmas music until after thansgiving, i couldn't pass up this adorable picture. everything about christmas is just so magical. the anticipation is killing me.