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• A few last minute Christmas links (free printables):  Naughty or Nice gift tags from Brooklyn Limstone and  Christmas boxes from The Pretty Blog
• Wouldn't these be fun to collect?  What a clever display: Vintage tree toppers   (sorry for the Pinterest link – I can't find the original source)
• Love these curtain tiebacks – you could totally do them with actual vintage glass doorknobs (UO price seems reasonable though)
• How totally clever:  Ironing mat that you just slap on your washer or dryer
• Adorable hair pins

Today marks the anniversary of the arrival of a lovely and cherished young woman.  Happy Birthday Lizz!!  May all your birthday wishes come true!!  

I hope everyone has a calm and happy weekend.  

Happy Winter Solstice everyone!  Here's to brighter days ahead!

(Dave sweetie – if you read my blog avert your eyes.  Come back tomorrow)

I think one of the best things about Christmas are the stockings.  Another best thing is having extra people join you for the holidays.  Particularly if their own families are far away.

This year we will have a couple extras on Christmas day and I wanted to do stockings for both of them.  At first I thought I would just buy stockings but the choice was either to spend a lot of money on a temporary stocking or buy a really ugly cheap one.  

Then I spied these pretty red boxes with glittery tops.  To get the point across that they are standing in for stockings I made stocking tags with everyone's names on them.  

I thought it was a nice alternative to typical stockings but in keeping with the spirit of them.

Tree is up!