Ornament Feature: Rodarte’s Target x Neiman Marcus Glass Ornament

Earlier this year, while cleaning out my things from my parent’s house, I discovered a box filled with old ornaments I purchased years ago. I packed them away because I intended to move out of the house and take them with me, but eight years later they still sat in my parent’s house, waiting for me to pick them up and take them to my new home. Seeing them took me down memory lane, so I decided to pick a few ornaments from the box and talk about them and the special memories I have of them.

The first ornament I wanted to talk about is my Rodarte’s Target x Neiman Marcus glass ball ornament. Continue reading “Ornament Feature: Rodarte’s Target x Neiman Marcus Glass Ornament” →

Fragrance Gift Ideas for Her- 2019

Since this is the time of the year when everyone is trying to find a gift, I wanted to share my ideas for fragrances for gifts for 2019. All the fragrances in this post are aimed towards women, with a men’s list coming soon. Continue reading “Fragrance Gift Ideas for Her- 2019” →

Buying Christmas Presents on a Budget- Tips and Tricks

Christmas time is hard on anyone’s budget, especially if money is extra tight. I’ve had years when I couldn’t afford many gifts while other years I had money to splurge on Christmas presents. Along the way, I learned how to buy Christmas presents for someone without worrying about money as much as I used to. Since it’s the beginning of December, I wanted to share some of my tips and tricks for buying Christmas presents on a budget. Continue reading “Buying Christmas Presents on a Budget- Tips and Tricks” →

5 Things I’m Not Excited for This Holiday Season

Although this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, everyone can have a bad day. Keeping this in mind, I wanted to share five things I’m not excited for this holiday season that would cause me a bad day. Continue reading “5 Things I’m Not Excited for This Holiday Season” →

2019 Christmas House Interior Decoration Progress- Part 1

Last year, I did a horrible job decorating my house for Christmas. It was so bad, I didn’t even put up a tree! There was many reason for this (Including recovering from an antibiotic resistant infection I had for many years), but this year I wanted to put some effort into decorating. The problem is I didn’t like many of my old decorations. They worked well when I purchased them, but that was over 5 years ago when my lifestyle was different and I needed to take care of an ill family member. I did do some shopping for new decorations, but I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for. (I did find stuff for my home office, but that’s for another post) So, I made do with the decorations I did love an enjoy decorating with and decided to see if there was anything I could buy to add to this year’s decorations.

So, I even though I believed I would have all my decorating finished before today (The day this post goes live), I’m not. Despite this, I wanted to share everything I’ve done so far and talk about what I want/need decoration wise before I can call my Christmas decorating finished. Continue reading “2019 Christmas House Interior Decoration Progress- Part 1” →

It’s Blogmas 2019 & 5 Things I’m Excited for This Holiday Season

Today is December 1, which means it’s the first day of blogmas! If you never heard of blogmas, blogmas is when a blogger will post a new post every day for either 25 days, 31 days, or any other number of days the blogger wants to post for. I participated in blogmas last year and, even though it was hard, I enjoyed it and wanted to do it again this year.

Over the past few months, I’ve worked on blog posts for blogmas between my normal day job in order to give me some time to enjoy the holiday season. Although some posts required some planning, I wanted to give myself some days to talk about topics that happened recently. I hope everyone will enjoy my post this holiday season!

In order to start blogmas, I decided to share 5 things I’m excited for this holiday season! Continue reading “It’s Blogmas 2019 & 5 Things I’m Excited for This Holiday Season” →

Christmas Bucket List for 2019

It’s finally Christmas day! I’m so happy I made it to the end of Blogmas 2018. Well, actually I planned on continuing to post until December 31, but I know things will get busy for me near the end of the year so I decided to post until today, December 25. Since this is the last, or one of the last, posts I write in 2018, I wanted to share my Christmas bucket list for 2019. There are so many things I wanted to do this year that I was unable to. Because of this, I already have a tentative list of things to do and places to see during the Christmas season in 2019. Continue reading “Christmas Bucket List for 2019” →

Top 5 Favorite Christmas Movies

It’s Christmas Eve! I’m so excited! I hope everyone is ready for Christmas tomorrow! For today’s blogmas post, I wanted to share my top 5 favorite Christmas movies.

  1. The Santa Clause
  2. Christmas with the Kranks
  3. Jingle All the Way
  4. Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)
  5. Home Alone

I know I wrote an explanation about why I liked each Christmas song yesterday, but I’m afraid I’m very busy right now so I’m unable to sit down and type a lot.

That’s all for now! What’s your favorite holiday/Christmas movies?

Thank you for reading!

Top 5 Favorite Christmas Songs for 2018

It’s the day before Christmas eve! I hope everyone is ready or almost ready!

Since I’m winding down the Christmas themed posts for Blogmas, I decided to list my top 5 favorite Christmas songs. I need to admit, my favorite Christmas songs fluctuate depending on the year and the mood I’m in, but I decided to list my favorite Christmas songs for 2018. If I do Blogmas next year, which I hope I’ll have time to do, I plan on making a new list for that year. It will be fun to see if I’m in the same mood for the same Christmas songs!

Anyway, enough talking! Onto the songs! Continue reading “Top 5 Favorite Christmas Songs for 2018” →

2018 Christmas Holiday House Decor

I’m so happy I can finally post photos of my holiday home decor for 2018! Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to put my Christmas tree up, but I was able to put up a few decorations around my house. A few of the decorations I have on display are ones I purchased this year and wrote about in previous Blogmas posts. Continue reading “2018 Christmas Holiday House Decor” →