Now, normally I make the Christmas ornaments but this year I decided on a special ornament instead. The requirement was that it HAD to have the year on it. So whilst on our honeymoon in Disney, we picked up this cute ornament!
I have been a busy bee making Christmas presents, so photos to follow on that, but the whole point of this post is something I read, firstly on Craftster, yesterday. Then again today on the Silhouette blog lol.
Something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read
How cute is that idea? Sometimes people can get a bit carried away (I must admit, I'm generally one of those people!) and the idea of 4 presents under those categories is something I'd like to try... Of course I'm sure my wonderful husband might have something to say on that matter! He's just like a big kid! There's also something about HANDMADE gifts that I adore as well. Knowing that someone took the time & effort to make it, just fills me with warm fuzzies :) Something as simple as a bottle of bubble bath, or some handmade chocolates. Sadly not everyone GETS that. My family do, they don't even expect a present & sometimes that whole appreciation & the concept are completely lost on some people. For my parents I made them a simple ornament, (well it was a clear premade ornament) and I had a photo of Oliver (My nephew) & on the other side with the help of some digital scrabooking kits, I had "OLIVER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS 2009" on the back. They adored it, and it has pride of place on their tree this year too.
I'm not religious in the slightest, and some might argue "Why do you celebrate Christmas then?" For me, it's about being with family. Spending time together doing things like playing board games and such that you wouldn't normally do, and fully appreciating each other. That's what it's about.
Saturday night... What a HOOT! I got into my clean jammies, into bed with my clean sheets just before 10pm, chatting with my Hanson friends ready for a Live streaming on the Hanson website. We were all so excited (Hanson became a trending topic world wide on Twitter!) I was thankful Gareth had the new Expansion on World of Warcraft to play on, as though it was supposed to start at 10pm we were on Hanson time after all! Just before 11pm GMT the guys came on and me and all my friends were messaging each other and in complete hysterics. They played songs from Snowed In, they baked cookies, opened presents... and just generally had a laugh. I'm not getting a Christmas party this year, so for me that more than made up for it, and best of all I got to spend it in my PJs nice and cosy at home, with some of the best people you could be with, and with my favourite band in the world, singing along with them & having such a laugh my stomach hurt the next day :) you just can't beat it! It all finished about 1am which was just LUSH. Though I was thoroughly tired Sunday, but oh so worth it ;)
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