Merry Christmas...

Wishing all my blog readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Here is a picture I found on the net. I love this room...

I love this vintage christmas picture. It reminds me of what I got for christmas this year..

My hubby and kids bought me a beautiful bracelet.

Photos to be posted soon but for now you can check out her website at www.lisaleonardonline.com

Here is a picture of the bracelet I got but mine is engraved with Chris & Melissa on one side and Laura & Jack on the other side.

Christmas photos coming soon...

More Christmas Inspiration...

I think this is a really cool idea. You can get lights at Big W for under $10 and they are battery operated. I bought the small star ones for Jack's room.

Christmas Inspiration...

Come on ring those bells....

I love christmas time and I love family memories... This was one of my favourite albums when I was a kid. I found the album at a garage sale a few months ago. I was pretty excited when I saw it. It bought back so many memories...

Christmas memories...

Awww... I'm the cute little fella in the middle. I can still remember that Christmas tree. When I was little I thought it was soooo big. 

Books beside my lounge chair...

I have borrowed these books from my library and I am really enjoying reading them in my rest time... I have a paper and pen handy and jot down ideas as my creativity bursts in my head with ideas for christmas and decorations...

Christmas...

I'm not going to get caught up in traffic jams at the shopping centres and writing 'to do' lists (of things that aren't important) that are way too long...

We are looking for creative ways to buy or make presents and stay within our budget. It's really exciting to come up with different ways and know that you aren't using the credit card.

And TIME spent together is so important...

Stopping to play a board game as a family...

Driving around looking at the christmas lights together with munchies in the car...

Making decorations or cards together.... (I can still remember as a child, our Grandma would give us a big shoebox of christmas cards from the year before and we would cut them up with zig zig scissors and make our own cards. They would be A4 size glued on old dividers or cardboard.)  

Going to the beach together and spending the afternoon bobbing in the waves and collecting shells...

Let's not get caught up this season being too busy. Stop and enjoy the season and remember it's about celebrating the birth of Jesus.