12/23/07

christmas bounty

merry christmas to myself. 
I love the way this looks. Our little table laden with gifts to be given, under our mini Christmas Tree. 
I love this Santa. I call this little guy "Guardian Santa." He is a beautiful ornament we got from friends last year, 
but he is too big for our tree. 
He's pink. 
I love this present. Thanks to Sarah, my brown paper and twine presents for friends made me look hip and creative. 
I love homemade cards. I don't love that mine turned out like a third grade school project, but I still gave them out. 
I love pumpkin cookies. I made way too many, but I had fun doing it. 
I love friends. We had an "Ugly Sweater Christmas Party" saturday night. 
Britt, Jess, Me and Jade making memories the classy way. 
Thursday I spent all day organizing and cleaning so I could spend Christmas (which I decided started on Friday) wrapping, crafting, baking, and sweatering. It was the gift I gave to myself. and I loved it. 

6 comments:

Unknown said...

that very first picture is crazy, because at first i didn't know it was a mini tree on a table.. so it just looked like a full size tree on a wooden floor.. which made it look like you have 100 giant christmas presents, i started to get jealous.

and then i remembered, oh we have no christmas decorations at all. so i remained jealous. our house looks like the home of an atheist. its great.

sarah said...

i thought the same about the first picture. i couldn't believe all the massive presents.

i love your brown twiney packages. so darling.

kayleen said...

chels, can you come wrap my presents. i'm not a preset wrapper. i'm just not. all that work for it to be torn to smitherines (sp?) in a matter of seconds. it's sad. i think that's why i don't like cooking. hours of prep and it's gone in only minutes. anyway...your gifts look marvelous and i want to hire you as my personal present wrapper-er. you're not busy christmas eve, right? ;)

chelsea :: stock said...

ummm that made me laugh so hard. It totally looks like a regular size tree if I didn't know better. That would be a lot of giant presents.

trev - hard to decorate when you just moved! just remember... Christmas is in your heart ;) ;) ;)

sarah - I owe it all to you...

kays - ummm I'll wrap presents. I use to wrap all of dads presents for mom. if you got paper, I got the time. I think. Call me.

Tiffany said...

im sad i missed the ugly sweater party. i need to hear all about it. ill probably be calling you tomorrow. love ya! and i hope you had a fabulous day.

diana said...

i was about to say that the first picture made it look like you had a ton of big presents under your tree, but everyone else did so i won't.