The holidays are often a time for long-held family traditions, as well as creating new traditions and holiday memories. My Mom and I have a Christmas tradition every year, where we go through all of the Christmas and holiday (even birthday, etc) cards we’ve received throughout the year. We keep every card in our ice bucket in the kitchen cupboard which helps us to store them, and keep them all together for a year to enjoy them once more and reminisce. We pick an afternoon...
Practically Perfect Planner has made up a list and is checking it twice…on Wednesday we went into a CCM Learning Center and started setting up shop. At-risk kids in low-income housing were earning “Good Behavior Bucks” to give Mom and Dad something special…all sponsored by Practically Perfect Planner! I had such a wonderful time playing “store keeper”, helping kids wrap gifts from the heart, and giving out goody bags. I was...
Many have the tradition of “Secret Santa”…where you draw names and each person is assigned someone to buy a secret gift for. As a young family, we did what we now call: “Secret Santa…with a Twist”. With four kids who were all pre-teens and teens – the parents decided the gifts and commercialism needed to be toned down and the thoughtful actions and kindness to each other needed to be pumped up. This is our take on a tradition that encourages family time and thoughtfulness...
So, we’ve made our “Snourds and Snowkins”…we’ve started putting together our Holiday Home Decor….now it’s time to add the finishing touches with Holiday Wreaths, both fresh and perfectly preserved! One fantastic event basic that is affordable, easy to do, and unique…is to use wreaths to ground your favorite pieces in high traffic areas. The wreath used below to ground our Christmas candles and a fresh pot of poinsettias, was a fresh...
I know you all saw how saw quickly we were able to pull together our Fall Décor, and we had so much fun with it we honestly didn’t want to change everything for Christmas! But, we love the holidays and part of our traditions during the week or so after Thanksgiving, is to commence “the changing of the gourds”. But before we go into the fun we had decorating the house…my mom created something really “out there” the other afternoon, and we’re so excited to share it...
The simple pleasures of life this season…a few of my favorite things: – a small package in the mail – the aroma of Christmas – a favorite holiday mug totally filled with hot cocoa and marshmallows All of this combined with taking a few “me” moments…yes, it’s going to be a very merry day! My dear friend Patricia sent me the perfect little holiday package (she even used wrapping paper to make the cute envelope!), and inside was everything I needed for...
With Chris and the kids lighting up the house for the holidays, it motivated me to pull out the Holiday Boxes as well as pack up the Fall Boxes and officially commence “the changing of the gourds”. After collecting all of the autumn décor, Jessi packed up the event containers while I wiped up and cleaned all of my focus areas in our home. Starting off with a clean canvas helps calm me, and is also an event basic that continually keeps high traffic areas deep cleaned and orderly. Then...
My Mom never counts the days until something happens; she counts “how many sleeps”. Such as, “how many sleeps until I get to see you?” It’s something she’s always said, that’s always made me smile. So, when I think about my “Holiday Happy”, the first thing that comes to mind is my favorite Christmas decoration that helps count the “sleeps” until Christmas! We’ve had it in our home for as long as I can remember, and it’s always been a source of a little...
I would like to introduce you to my friend and business associate Renee Ursen from “Get It Together LLC”. Renee is also a fellow organizer but specializes as a professional organizer for the home. From time to time we will be bringing Renee on-board to share her home organizing tips. I have used her myself for a few challenging areas in my home and she is awesome!! Below are Renee’s words of advice as we hear the craziness of the season calling our name. Along with some...
I don’t want to sound like the Grinch, but I find it a little hard to get into the “Christmas spirit” until we’ve all had a chance to first celebrate Thanksgiving together. Immediately after that though, as we are fortunate to usually have all or most of the kids here for that weekend, that makes Friday and/or Saturday perfect time to start in on one of my favorite first “Holiday Happy” things to do – put up the outside Christmas lights! It’s...
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