We put our Christmas tree up the day before Thanksgiving this year. Yes, it was very early, but due to family travel plans we decided to celebrate a day early with my family and on Thursday with my hubby’s family. \u00a0I wanted to have the tree up for the dinner with my family. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Last year was the first year my hubby and I\u00a0actually ever had a tree because prior to that we lived in a small apartment in NYC where there just wasn’t the space. \u00a0So we started from scratch — we had zero ornaments. \u00a0I decided I would fill the tree with ONLY handmade ornaments. \u00a0I did a whole series (an ornament a day for 30 days!) and many crafty friends sent me beautiful ornaments as well.<\/p>\n

So this year, it was just a matter of unpacking and selecting (I thought limiting the colors might help make the tree look a little more cohesive). I also decided to not be so rigid, and I added some soft pastel ornaments I had picked up at Michaels’ after-Christmas sale last year. The following is a video share of my tree this year\u00a0(it also has a link in the drop down box to my YouTube ornament series playlist):<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nToday I also decided to start my first December Daily! I wasn’t thinking my holiday life would be eventful enough to merit a December Daily, but I’ve been watching so many wonderful YT videos that I was inspired\/convinced to try. I’m doing a small 6×6 album and not even using pocket pages! I’m just punching a couple of holes in each page and adding it to the binder album. How easy is that?! I am loving trying something new, and so far there is no stress at all. \u00a0The following is a video share of the start of my album and the December Daily numbers I made:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJleWLvpm9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nThe cover of my December Daily is being entered into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/wednesdaychallenge\/simon-says-anything-goes-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>\u00a0and \nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/blog\/category\/events\/work-it-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday Anything Goes Holiday Challenge<\/a><\/p>\nThanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a great day! WOOF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We put our Christmas tree up the day before Thanksgiving this year. Yes, it was very early, but due to family travel plans we decided to celebrate a day early with my family and on Thursday with my hubby’s family. \u00a0I wanted to have the tree up for the dinner with my family. \ud83d\ude42 Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41,13],"tags":[935,934,937,106,936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}