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{merry christmas}

Hoping that all your festivities find you enjoying this beautiful time of wonder and love...

Merry Christmas from our home to yours!

{this moment}

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A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Happy Weekend! {only two left till Christmas!}

more :: {this moments}

the smell of an evergreen

Every morning this week I have been tickled by the new aroma in our home. It's one of those pleasures that reoccur every holiday but always take you by surprise once again. Of course I'm referring to the scent of our Christmas tree. 

The experience of buying a tree, full size, and placing in the living room with treasured keepsakes attached to it is a beautiful tradition. This year we were a bit out of our element in that the idea of "shipping" trees to a lot was unnecessary. They indeed could be custom ordered from the forest of the surrounding vicinity! Sad to say we ended up resorting to the much less romantic tree selection of the local home improvement store.

But the tree is beautiful and we all enjoyed our evening of each ornament being lovingly placed in a home amongst the fresh branches. In good tradition we had a rousing debate over the tree topper and a climatic excitement over the old train set rounding off the finishing touches.

{I love Christmas}

cardboard cut-outs

Need a Christmas gift idea? Have I got the thing for you!

Over the weekend George was pleading with me every hour to get out the box that had been sitting in the corner for weeks. The picture on the front of it was hard to resist such begging. But it also would involve some specific moments carved out to accomplish.

Thus on Saturday morning we were ready. We cleared out a nice space on the living room floor and went to work. The more directions I followed the more enamored I became with such an incredible design. George and I were creating our very own Great Wall of China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a wild success since its creation. Turrets have been claimed as personal houses and battles have been fought the like of Narnian epics. We've even had a few levers and pulleys devised for authenticity. My only problem...

I'm not quite sure where it's going for the holidays.