Starbucks Cocoa & Christmas Music

I'm so glad it's Friday. I think most people like Fridays because it's a break from their jobs. But being a mom is a job and I like to have some family time (and a break). I'm still trying to convince my husband to take Monday off too.
For now these are a few things getting me through my day....

Starbucks Peppermint Cocoa, Peppermint Star Peeps and Rosanna's 12 Days of Christmas Mug

Box of beautiful Rosanna Mugs! 

I love anything Rosanna makes and I've been collecting her dish sets for awhile now. By far my favorite set by Rosanna is the 12 Days of Christmas. They are so cute and whimsical! Don't be jealous but a few years ago Macy's had the appetizer plates on CLEARANCE for about $30 a set!! Needless to say I picked up a few!


One other thing to make my day Merry & Bright is a Christmas playlist I created on Playlist.com
A mix-up of old and new, classic and non-traditional songs. I pretty much have this one on play the whole day long.
(And if you are a Pandora fanatic, She & Him Holiday Station is by far the best one out there!)

Merry & Bright Christmas Playlist

Star Wreath

the stars were brightly shining...

 Tis the season for Wreaths! We have our standard evergreen wreath hung on the front door. But I wanted to make a wreath that was more unique. I bought a foam circle at Micheals along with some Burlap. I wrapped the burlap around the foam and secured it with a tack. I had a string of wooden stars on a metal wire that I wrapped around the wreath. This would be totally easy to make yourself  now that I come to think of it! Get some wooden stars and some wire and there ya go.  easy peasy!
 I also had some vintage stars and a Merry Christmas glitter sign that I attached to the wreath. Tie it up with some red ribbon and Bada-Bing Bada-Boom, there's your wreath!

Merry Christmas to you...

Linked up around the blogosphere...

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7 Months!

7 Months!

My little Christmas Elf is 7 Months today! He is no longer a quiet little baby that lays on the floor staring up at the sky. He is now crawling and pulling himself up onto anything he can reach. My day just changed drastically... and dramatically. With standing and holding on to furniture comes the rocky unsteadiness of little legs. There is a lot of falling over, followed by a lot of tears. He is also eating more and more solids. We are following a mixture of purees and baby led weaning. Where basically we give E some bits of food and let him feed himself. But I can be a nervous nelly about choking, so we are just going slow with this. Right now food is for fun and experimenting, so we are really laid back about solids. So far he loves everything he is eating. That's my boy! 


With Christmas right around the corner, we are so excited to share this holiday and all the beauty of it with our little guy! We have some traditions we are going to introduce him to and new traditions we will start as a family of three. 

Glitter House

I'm obsessed with glitter houses! Especially old vintage ones. I have a nice little collection of them, but I also thought it would be easy to make my own.  My mom ordered a bunch of cardboard houses from Hobby Lobby online. Sadly, there are Hobby Lobby stores in MN, but they are in the southern part of the state. One day I'll have to make a special trip down there! 


You can really do whatever you want with these houses. I painted mine first with acrylic paint and then sprinkled some mica snow flakes on them. I got  2 huge bags of Mica Snow Flakes off of Ebay last year. On the roof I painted glue on and then put a ton of glitter and snow flakes. 
I had some vintage glass balls I used on the wreath and trees. But really you can use anything you like!

Aqua Glitter House! 

Houses from Hobby Lobby. Trees, glitter, tinsel, and ball ornaments from Michaels.

Hobby Lobby houses (They come in a set of three, but I didn't photograph the largest one)

Martha Stewart Glitter from Michaels

My collection of Glitter Houses! 

Liked up at Design Dazzle!

and The Shabby Nest

{aka} design

tatertots & jello

Happy Thanksgiving!

6 Months!

A half of year has flown by since this little guy entered my life! Just the other day I was playing with him and I looked at him and said, "I've waited my whole life for you!" I've always wanted to be a mom, but I never knew how amazing it would be!

I love you E!

In other exciting news, we are now owners of a MINI VAN! And I'm not afraid to say... I LOVE IT!!! Thanks to my Grandpa Joe for selling us his sweet van!

House Love

Happy post Halloween. I'm ready for the other Holidays to be here. Now that I have a child, holidays somehow seem more fun and magical!! I can't wait to decorate for Christmas!

I've been busy around the house. Little tweaks here and there to make the house look more lived in. The realization hit me the other day that we might be in this house for awhile. I have been treating this house as a temporary dwelling place, but in reality, this is our home and I need to love it up. It's hard because this is a house I would've never picked out if I was house shopping. I really dislike so many things about it and I miss my old cute house.

The other day it really struck me at how ungrateful and bitter I have been about this house. And that is just wrong. I am thankful to have a roof over my head, a wonderful husband and a healthy sweet little boy. So I am working on accepting what I have and being thankful everyday for this house.

Thank you to Pinterest for giving me so many ideas to help make my house into a home.

Here are a few things I've done around the house....

Homemade Banner and a Chalkboard made out of an old picture!

Photo Collage

Baking Nook

New Curtains and Pictures

Cute Kid in a Wig