Merry Christmas!

Hope your holidays are happy, healthy, and full of fun!

 

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Perfect Last Minute Homemade Birdie Gifties

Lisa Rupp, a wonderful artist, drew these lovely little birdies (there’s a cardinal, too!) and thought she’d share them.  Her blog is That’s Happy and these make me happy.  Download the JPG, print it out on nice paper, a little string or ribbon and voila!  Instant gifties.  Lovely.

There are also generous artists donating free gift tags to be printed out.  There is a great list at Bella Dia.

What about free printable gift wrap?  Creature Comforts has a cute paper and tag set that’s holiday appropriate AND bird inspired.  Perfect!

Enjoy, maybe this will help with the last minute rush!

Merry! Merry!

An Annual Tradition

We usually get our Christmas tree after Thanksgiving.  We go up to Crest Ranch in Bonny Doon, California.  It is on the ridge above our house.  It’s a beautiful location.

We have to examine each tree.

Carefully.

We have fun along the way . . . all of it totally safe and legal.

(Or not . . . oops!)

In the end, we are successful in choosing a beautiful tree.

And have some special family time.

And some eye-rolling good jokes . . .

Still, I can’t imagine a better way to spend a cold, blustery Saturday morning. Fueled with hot chocolate and donuts, we drove up the mountain and found our symbol of the season this year. Success.

Happy Christmas, everyone!