On the fifth day...a little late!

we have Christmas stories! I didn't get a chance to do my fifth day post yesterday because I spent the day doing an awesome Harry Potter book with my friend Kriste who taught the class. You can check out this amazing class on her blog!
Anywhoo, this year we have already began reading Christmas stories with jen every night. Of course there are the classics:

We are reading these as well this week:

This book seems to be the favorite at the moment. I caught a quick pic of story time last night!

On the Fourth day...

 We have gingerbread houses! I’ve always wanted to make these ever since the first time I saw them years ago. Finally last year, when Jenny was actually able to help and enjoy the process, we did our first one. Boy, was that hard. I mean I’m a scrapper, and we should have some kind of patience for this stuff right? Yea right, it was the worst gingerbread house I had ever seen! Lol, but I guess we can check that one off the tradition list. You live and you learn, so no more Gingerbread houses for us. We will leave that one to the really talented folks, like these below: check out the fabulous houses!

 This one is over 16ft tall. It's displayed at Disney's The Grand Floridian Hotel

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And Sadly, here is ours from last year!

On the Third day....

I want to share some of my favorite December "countdowns," from amazing scrapbook artists and companies with you!
Here are just a few of many.
This first one is from a scrapper I've been following for a few years now, Christine Middlecamp. She is doing a Christmas notecard series. Her work is incredible, and this series is super inspiring.

Another long time favorite, and I'm sure for some of you too, Is Tim Holtz. He is doing his 12 tags of Christmas series. I have been drooling over these since he started a few years back, but have never actually attempted one on my own! He is beyond incredible, and just uber talented.

Pink Paislee, one of my favorite companies is also doing a 12 days of Christams countdown. So far it's just jam packed with beautiful inspiration.

And lastly, another of my favorite artists, Teresa Collins is also doing a 25 days of Christmas giveaway series, just awesome! Check it out, and maybe you will win!

On the Second Day....

So for today i chose Christmas trees since I'm still putting mine up! I'm almost done, but not quite. I can't believe it, I'm usually done on black Friday for sure.  Well here are some absolutely gorgeous trees I found. I've also included a not so great pic of mine from a few years back, as you can probably tell!

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On the first day....

OMG is it really December 1st? Wow and wow again. It's ridiculous how fast this year went by.

Well I think I'd like to try something new. I've been gathering ideas for this Christmas and I thought, I should do a 12 days of christmas series, so here it is. I will feature something different for the next 12 days or so {as close as I can get} of ideas that I'm looking at, thinking of making etc. for this year. So for Day 1, I've decided on Advent calendars, since they should be up TODAY!

Here are a few cute ones:

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I spotted this one at the Paper Niche last night, and had to have it, so I will be putting this lil beauty together tonight, and hopefully using it as well! See you tomorrow

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