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Merriest Little Christmas
Easiest-Ever Black, White & Green Holiday Tablescape
I like a pretty tablescape as much as the next fancy-pants, but what I do not like is buying items that I will use exactly one week out of every year. This holiday season, I'm going for a Christmassy table setting comprised entirely of items that I either already own or have plucked from my very own backyard, making it both completely practical and completely free, whee.
Black, White & Green Holiday Tablescape
1. Pull every single white, black and gold piece of china you own out of your cupboards, and layer 'em up. If you've got any Jadeite or other green serving pieces, throw a couple of those on there, too.
DIY Christmas Cards For Kids
Well, this is an adorable little project.
The problem with crafting generally - and Pinterest crafting, specifically - is that normal people don't have cabinets full of stuff that they can use to effortlessly whip up DIY-ed whatevers. And adding a run to Michael's to a craft transforms it from "fun and affordable alternative to store-bought" to "abject misery."
Anyway, I'm all about the crafts that you don't need to leave your house in order to do. In other words, the actually cheap and actually easy ones that just use stuff you've already got lying around.
I Put Together A Stocking For You
Trying out a fun new tool for this segment where you can click right on the video to go to the products that interest you - let me know what you think??
Also: goodness I am excited about these stocking stuffers (which, incidentally, are not just for the ladies; there's some great guy stuff in there too). One of them is even inspired by my new ink, and another is inspired by the fact that my feet are tragic.
Holiday Entertaining Hacks (Using Stuff You’ve Already Got Handy)
I'm not big on shelling out tons of money on holiday decor. I mean…that stuff can get expensive. And only gets used for, what, three weeks a year?
Nothankyou.
But for real: you totally don't have to do a massive decorating run in order to make your home look like Christmas exploded inside it. Presenting: some holiday hacks that let you get good and festive without stepping one single foot outside your door (or laying down one single cent).
Crucial Information For Your Christmas
I'm going to miss this house SO much.
I was definitely one of those people who resisted getting a faux Christmas tree. I mean, isn't the whole experience of lugging a tree home, sweeping up pine needles every day, and having a home that smells like a forest a huge part of what makes it feel like Christmas?
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
By which I mean, of course...
Ugly Christmas Sweater Time!
Presenting my annual picks for Ugly Christmas Sweaters That Are Actually Cute (plus a couple of truly heinous ones that go so far beyond tacky that they take a left turn into awesome).
Little Holiday Tradition
My favorite of our holiday traditions (which only became "a tradition" last year, but still): a family trip to a Christmas shop in Nyack, where we each pick out an ornament that symbolizes what the past year meant to us.
For Goldie: An old-school My First Christmas ball engraved with her name and birth year.
For me: An ornament with the sun on one side (to symbolize our summer in California) and a moon-and-stars design on the other (to symbolize Goldie's birth during the Supermoon and Indy's first spoken "sentence," which was "moon…stars").
The Ramshackle Glam Gift Guide For Kids
Obviously the most fun list to put together, this list is a whole bunch of things that I feel confident my children would obsess over…plus a few items that the moms on your list will most certainly be into (gold Wookie slippers and '70s-print headwraps, anyone?).
1. What. Are these. (Things that I can't believe I don't already own, that's what they are.)
2. Every cool little girl needs a cool leather jacket (and this one is red, making it even cooler).
