Blogmas Day 2 - Decking the Halls

I just love decorating our house for Christmas and it takes me about a week as I do it room by room, we did the main tree and living room over the weekend and I did the hallway today!

We have an artificial tree (less mess) and we got a new slimline one last year as our old one was huge and took up half the room, add to that the Christmas Eve toy delivery and you have a tight squeeze....so I am much happier with our new slimline tree.

Anyone else with a toddler have this problem??? so sweet of him to let me decorate the tree EVERY night, although I'm sure the novelty will wear off! Ha ha!

I love this lit garland from Penneys which at this stage is very old but I still love it! It's the one thing I miss every year when I put away the decorations (because as much as I love to Christmas up the house I enjoy getting the house back to normal in January)

As soon as I saw this little guy in Carraigdonn last week I knew I had the perfect spot for him, I know he's not wearing the traditional red but I actually love the brown (and it goes better with my living room decor) 

Karen

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Blogmas Day 1 - Hello December

Yay December is here! The build up and the preparation for Christmas can sometimes be the best part of the holiday season. To add to the happiness I'm on a week off work and so I get to be a full time Mom for the week, I know being a SAHM isn't for everyone but that's definitely when I feel the happiest, I honestly feel every moment away from my kids is a moment wasted, I just love being with them, doing the school run, and making our home, cozy and tidy for when they get home.

So the first of December meant the arrival of the advent calendars, there was so much excitement this morning when they got to open the first door, well baby boy didn't really know what was going on but didn't care when he saw the chocolate sweet, then I had to explain it had to go back on the shelf until tomorrow, he was not impressed ha ha!

Miss 7 chose "Inside Out", for Miss 5 it was the Disney Princesses and for baby boy it had to be Peppa Pig (only slightly obsessed) - and there's Hollybell our Elf on the Shelf sitting amongst the calendars.

I also took a trip to Zara today and picked up another bits for the kids (of course, they are better dressed than me) my Black Friday haul also arrived today....I will probably do a haul post so stay posted!

See you tomorrow

Karen

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Shopkins Party

Miss 4 recently became Miss 5 and to celebrate we had a Shopkins Party. If you have a child between the ages of 4 and 8, chances are you have heard of these cute little supermarket miniatures. They are definitely the latest craze in our house at the moment. Her favourite character is Season 3's "Patty Cake" and so we decided this would be her cake.
Now I suppose this is one I could have attempted myself, seeing as I did have the giant cupcake tin from Miss 7's party in February you can see it  Here but I decided to leave the professionals take care of it and I was so delighted with the results and I know I would NOT have gotten the same look.

How cute is this cake???? and Miss 5 loved it!

Shopkins Party decorations are hard to come by so we just went with a yellow and pink polka dot theme and we made our own Shopkins garland using the shopping baskets and shopping bags and some pink and yellow netting.

This was pretty easy, I just looped the netting around some yellow ribbon and alternated with shopping bags and baskets. Simple but effective!

Spot the Shopkins: You can barely see them in this picture but I lined up her collection on top of the mirror.

A lot of the food was also pink and yellow and I scattered some more of the shopping bags and baskets around the table so it all came together very well and Miss 5 had a fantastic day (which is the most important thing!)

Side note: How is my baby girl 5 already?????  Waaaaaaaaaa

Karen

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