So this year is my first Christmas in my own little flat, I can put up as many decorations as I like and they can be as classy or as tacky as I want! With the uni girls and their other halves coming for Christmas Dinner the Saturday before the big day and then Mum, Dad, Ali and Harry here for the big event there is definitely some serious decorating on the cards.
Was at home with a migraine today (very rare, I hardly ever take time off ill) and have felt a bit better over the last few hours so put up some of my massive paper snowflakes hung above the dining table (have seen these in lots of shop windows already) and dug some fairly lights out of the cellar to go round the bookcase. Next thing is a tree and some decorations and something nice for the table to go with the felt runner from Paperchase. I'm sticking with as much white as possible as I don't know what my colour accent will be in this room yet so dont want to get loads of decorations that I can only use for one year. Thinking a bit of red for good measure wont hurt as its generally Christmassy! I've printed off SJs free dowloadables and plan to get some frames for them tomorrow to hang them along my picture rail and thinking I might make one of these sweet garlands and one of these banners. Can you tell I'm feeling crafty!
For the last few years I've been avidly reading Shimelle's take on Journal Your Christmas and Ali Edwards December Daily projects. I love Christmas and this year am going to give a hybrid of the two a go. I have Ali's daily templates to use to try and keep it simple but am going to be inspired by Shimelle not to necessarily do a story a day (I think thats how Elise is doing it too!). With going to work and coming home in the dark five days a week I think taking a daily good photo might be a bit of a tricky order! That being said I have just spent twenty minutes trying to get Ali's layered template to work in Photoshop with my pictures and I just cant do it, arghhhh, I have no patience. So I'm going to have to revert to good only cutting and sticking, nothing wrong with that anyway :o)
Will be trying to blog a bit more to keep me going and update with progress. Have a lovely shopping day tomorrow, hurray for long weekends :o)
Rach xxxx
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