January 5, 2012

Organizing the Christmas ornaments creatively. We take turns each year with our Christmas trees. Here are the ornaments for Patrick's tree which are blue, silver, clear, black, a touch of purple and white with snowflakes.


Also a small stack of beautiful blue lighting. Here you can also see the old ornament boxes which were scratching up the glass balls from their paint jobs.


Here you can also see the old ornament boxes which were scratching up the glass balls from their paint jobs.


I cut up sheets of silver foil address labels which I had that were unusable since ink did not want to print on them and pen would also not work. I used them to separate the glass balls and protect them.




I used up a small stack of small Christmas wrapping boxes I had been holding onto for years and have never had a use for to reorganize the glass balls.


I taped the boxes to give them more stability.


We take turns each year with our Christmas trees. Here are the ornaments for my tree which are red, gold, bronze, moss green and copper.

December 30th, 2011

The first three photos are from me and Patrick going to see Tannenbaum Madness on Alberta Street in Portland and the rest are us going to see the lights at the Portland Zoo.

December 28th, 2011

Patrick and I wandered to Peacock Lane and did two drivethroughs which is always a lovely sight which is the first photo. The rest of the pictures were from our annual visit to the Grotto in Portland which we definitely want to go to this year to wander through the gardens when everything is in bloom. As it is the walk to the chapel itself for the Festival of Lights is, as you can clearly see...beautiful. It was nice to do this after Christmas since everything was way less crowded and far more peaceful.

A new year! Project 365 - January 1st through January 8th

January 1st - We went to Ben and Rachel's house for NYE and Ben lit this off to celebrate at midnight.


January 2nd - My new very hot shoes I managed to get at a great price.


January 3rd - Our cards finally stopped coming in...thank you so much everyone for thinking of us.


January 4th - Our wonderful new shelves in the living room.


January 5th - Reorganizing all of the Christmas decor.


January 6th - Taking down my tree ornaments.


January 7th - Post pedicures and manicures with Danelle.


January 8th - After midnight at Heidi's birthday party and the booze is still flowing.


Robert trying to take a photo of me trying to take a photo of Ben trying to take a photo of the desktop taking shots every few seconds through out the night.