Happenings

In a three short days I will arrive in this happy place...Strolling down these streets...
Having dinner and drinks at the Allen Street Grill...
And resting my head at the Nittany Lion Inn...

Wishing you a Happy Holiday full of happiness and cheer!

Counting down the days...

Only three more days until I get to see this caaaaaute face!

Christmas Decorations - Living Room

Okay this is it, finally, the last of our Christmas decorations. There isn't really much in the living room besides our stockings and two silver Christmas trees. Since the dinning room is open to the living room the decorations from in there help bring the Christmas cheer into the living room. Hopefully next year I'll have a few more Christmas 'things' to add in here. Until then this is what we have...
I do want to point out that I did try to put garland on the shelf with the stockings, but I ended up breaking multiple ornaments because I couldn't get it to stay up there.

Christmas Decorations - Dinning Room

Christmas Decorations - The Tree

Christmas Decorations - Family Room

Snow Storm

Well the meteorologists were right, there was A LOT of snow coming into the northeast. From the time I woke up until I went to sleep, it snowed. We probably got 8+ inches. I thought I would take some pictures just so the rest of my family, who lives in the south, can see. See what you missed guys?

Chest of Drawers - Before & After

While visiting Pennsylvania back in September I ended up coming back home with a small chest of drawers that I thought would look perfect by our front door. The chest of drawers had a lot of marks and scratches, but with a little TLC I was able to give it a second life.

Before

With my free quart of Glidden Polished Pewter paint, a small roller brush, some polyurethane and four new drawer pulls, I am IN LOVE with the final result. Oh, and I can't forget the sander I borrowed from my older sis that helped smooth out the scratches. THANKS JESS!

After

It looks way better in person. Trust me! Oh and please don't think about the fact that it took me almost three months to do this. I'm a busy girl...sheesh!

I started this post last week and wasn't able to finish it until now so if you want to see my Christmas Decorations - Family Room go HERE.

Christmas Q & A

A fun post until I have a chance to upload the rest of my Christmas pictures.

Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper

Real Tree or Artificial? I always had an artificial tree growing up, but Sven and I decided to go with a real tree for our first tree and I love it.

When do you put up the tree? Right after Thanksgiving

When do you take the tree down? I plan to take it down after New Years.

Do you like eggnog? It's alright

Hardest person to buy for? My dad

Easiest person to buy for? Mabry

Do you have a nativity scene? No

Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail. This was our first year sending them out, so more will definitely be sent out next year.

Favorite Christmas movie? Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street

When do you start shopping for Christmas presents? Whenever I see a good deal on something I want to get someone.

Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No

Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Christmas cookies!

Lights on the tree? Of course. I want to know who doesn't put lights on their tree.

Favorite Christmas song? Silent Night

Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel, it's been so long since I haven't had too.

Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? YES!

Angel or star on the top of the tree? Star, It was my sister's

Open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Christmas morning, and sometimes one on Christmas Eve Night.

Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Trying to find a parking space at the mall.

Favorite ornament theme or color? I love the traditional red, green, gold and silver.

Favorite food for Christmas dinner? We snack all day!

What is your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? We would always play the new game that we got on Christmas morning after breakfast.

What is your favorite Christmas memory? Always making up plays with my two sisters to perform on Christmas Eve.

Holiday Treat

I think I might just have to take a short break this afternoon for one of these fun holiday treats. Yum!

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Christmas Decorations - Family Room

Since I'm a 'newbie' at holiday decorating I don't have much, decor that is. So this year I decided that instead of spending major dough on pricey before Christmas decorations I would work with what I had and only make minimal purchases. I also decided it would be in my best interest to create a list for what I would try to buy at the after Christmas super sales so I don't find myself in the same place next year.

Christmas Decorations - Dinning Room
Christmas Decorations - The Tree

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Christmas Decorations - The Tree

This past week Sven and I decided to go get our Christmas tree at one of the local tree lots near our house. When we got there two nice men greeted us and told us everything we needed to know about the different types of trees, how to care for them, etc. It didn't take Sven and I too long to find ours, which was good since it was F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G outside.

Once we got home we got right to work putting on the lights and ornaments.

Being our first tree I'm happy with the way it turned out. I do want to add some more lights though for next year.

Since this is our first Christmas tree together, Sven had the idea to make the left over trunk that he cut off (to shorten the tree) into an ornament. I added some red ribbon to it and wrote "Betsy and Sven 2009" on the back.

Yesterday some of my coworkers came to visit our house for the first time and they gave us a "New Home 2009" ornament, which I absolutely love. Tomorrow I will show you the rest of the decorations in the family room. Stay tuned...

Christmas Decorations - Dinning Room

Christmas Decorations - Dinning Room

So it only took ten minutes to upload TWO pictures. Therefore I am going to HAVE to break up my Christmas decoration post into multiple Christmas decoration posts, because I do not have the patience to wait for ummmm, EVER.

Anyways, here is our dinning room decorated for Christmas 2009. I still want to get some gold chargers, but if not this year I will definitely have them for next year. I like the simplistic look of our table...pat on back...so besides chargers I am very happy with it.



Oh and P.S. That is our new dinning room fixture. Sven and I got it a couple of months ago for a steal. I think we paid $24 for it. Not too shabby.

It's been awhile...

So it's been awhile since I last posted. I just haven't had the motivation to post, especially since I don't have much to post about. However, now that the holidays are here I should have more to talk about. To see how I spent my Thanksgiving vacation go HERE. Tomorrow I will post about my Christmas decorations. So stay tuned...