Category: Blogmas

Michael’s 2024 Sprinkle Shop Christmas Decor

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This holiday season there have been many viral Christmas decorating trends. One of the trends I saw online was using decor from Michael’s stores.

This year, Michael’s had four themes for holiday decor. They are Sprinkle Shop, Gala, Holiday Pines, and Night Before Christmas. At my closest Michael’s, they had three of the four decoration themes. The only one that was missing was Holiday Pines. (I just wanted to mention I’m sad I didn’t get to see Holiday Pines in store! It had some pieces I was interested in browsing and potentially buying!) After browsing the collections multiple times during the holiday season, I realized I have my favorite themes. The theme I didn’t like out of all the collections was Sprinkle Shop.

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Walmart’s Stitch Holiday Decor 2024

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In a previous post, I talked about Walmart’s The Grinch holiday decorations. Along with The Grinch, the Walmart I normally shop at also had decorations inspired by two other popular animated movies. The one I liked a lot was the Stitch decor.

I like Disney’s Lilo and Stitch, but it isn’t my favorite Disney movie of all time. Still, I sometimes like to browse Stitch themed items just to see how they look. This year’s holiday decor was cute and I even found some decorations I seriously considered to purchase! (I decided not to due to reasons unrelated to if I like Stitch or not. One of the reasons is if I felt comfortable purchasing more holiday decor this year or not.)

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Book Review: A Royal Christmas Wish by Lizzie Shane

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A few years ago, I read A Royal Christmas Wish from Hallmark Publishing. At that time, there were many things happening so it took me a while to finish the book. Years later, I rediscovered the book and decided to reread it in order to see if I would like it more a second time. Last year, I reread it for Christmas but didn’t get to finish it until after Christmas ended. This year, I decided to finally publish the review post I wrote about it! Continue reading “Book Review: A Royal Christmas Wish by Lizzie Shane” →

Swarovski 2024 Amazon Exclusive Annual Edition Little Snowflake Ornament

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This year, I decided to shop for more ornaments from brands I don’t normally shop for more than one ornament per year from. One of these brands is Swarovski.

I was able to purchase all my ornaments either on sale or for a really good price. One of the ornaments I was able to purchase is an Amazon.com exclusive little snowflake ornament.

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Walmart’s The Grinch Holiday 2024 Decor

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For the past few years, the Walmart I normally shop at has sold Christmas decor inspired by three different popular movies and TV shows. They are The Grinch from Doctor Susses’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Sometimes other popular movies and TV show inspired holiday decor is sold, but those are the three core movies and TV shows found at my Walmart.

The decor is different than what is normally sold in the Christmas section, so I really enjoy browsing it. This year, it seemed there were equal amounts of decor for each of the movies. I know many people enjoy read about my favorite Christmas decorations for the year, so I decided to do this for each of the movies. I decided to start with The Grinch because he is a Christmas movie while Stitch and The Nightmare Before Christmas are characters and movies that will work other times of the year.

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Book Review: Santa Stops at Disneyland- A Little Golden Book

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Ever since I was a girl, I enjoyed reading Christmas books. Even if it wasn’t Christmas time, I still would like to read them! As an adult, I still enjoy reading Christmas themed children’s books. Even though my collection is not very large, I still enjoy reading them!

For this year’s Blogmas, I decided to write some more reviews on some of my Christmas children’s books. I decided to start with one of my newest additions to my book collection: Santa Stops at Disneyland!

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Walmart 2024 Christmas Decor

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This year, Walmart had some Christmas decor I really like. This year, I am more selective of what holiday decor I purchase. This decision was spurred by multiple decisions, one of them is due to inflation. Even though I’m selective of my purchases this year, I needed to replace several Christmas decorations in my collection. Since I liked the decorations at Walmart, I decided to purchase a few of the things I show in this post!

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Kate Spade New York First Snow 2020 Tree Ornament by Lenox

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Kate Spade New York is one of my favorite fashion brands. Although the style of their bags can sometimes be out of my fashion comfort zone, I still enjoy browsing their website and looking at all the designs available for that season. I especially love their home wears and own multiple items from their home collections!

This year, I decided to purchase new ornaments that are not from Hallmark. I wanted to focus on crystal and ceramic ornaments, but they must be within a certain price range. On a whim, I decided to search for Kate Spade New York ornaments. I was surprised to find an ornament I loved but passed over years ago. It was for sale for a really good price, a price well within my price range, so I decided to purchase it.

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Tree Hut Candy Cane Body Scrub Review

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Tree Hut makes my favorite body scrubs. I really love the way they smell and they work really well.

For the past few years, Tree Hut released a holiday themed body scrub called Candy Cane. This year (2024) Tree Hut didn’t release Candy Cane. Instead, they have a scrub called Peppermint Pearl that smells similar to Candy Cane. Even though Candy Cane is no longer available, I still wanted write a review about it anyway.

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2024 Annual Swarovski Ornament Review

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If you are new to this blog, then you probably don’t know I’m a Christmas ornament fan. I’m not as big of a fan as others online, but ornaments are important enough to me to start browsing them in July. One of the ornaments I like to shop for is the annual Swarovski ornaments.

This year, I was happy to see Swarovski released their annual edition ornament in June. When I saw it, I decided to purchase it. I wanted to own the 2024 ornament for sentimental reasons, which is why I purchased it so early in the ornament release season.

Last year, I decided to write a review post about the 2023 annual ornament. (You can read that post here) I decided to write one about this year’s ornament as well, but I decided to publish my post much earlier than I would normally do. I wanted to do this in order to show off the ornament and give anyone interested in purchasing it a better idea what it is like from someone who owns it.

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