Christmas Time is Here!

Today is December 1st, and Christmas time is here! I love this time of year, with all the cold classes of egg nog, classic Christmas tunes playing on the stereo, and eating candy canes. I love curling up on the couch and watching my favorite Christmas movies. White Christmas is one of my favorites, and I look forward to watching many others, including the Santa Clause series and Holiday Inn. I love drinking steaming hot cups of cocoa. I love all the twinkling lights everyone puts up. It's such a wonderful time of year.

What do you love about this time of year?

  

P.S. If you haven't already, I'd love to have to join my Christmas Link Up!

Christmas Link Up - Decor

Today begins the Very Merry Christmas Link Up! To join, post a picture relating to this weeks theme on your blog. This weeks theme is decor:

Week 1  - Christmas Decor

Every year I love geting out the Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. Pulling out the Christmas mugs and dishes, stockings, snow globes, nativities sets, and everything else. 

 Make sure to add the button to you post, then link up below. Then go ahead and blog hop a bit, and check out some of the other entries. The linky will be open till the end of the month and you can submit as many times as you'd like, just remember to follow the guidelines. 

At the end of the week, I'll feature some of my favorite entries from that week. So go ahead, and enter you best Christmas decor photo(s)!

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Giving Thanks

First of, I'd like to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! Families all over America will be eating  delicious dinners with their family and friends. 

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

-1 Chronicles 16:34

In honor of Thanksgiving, Rachel at Finding Joy is hosing a link-up, where you post something your thankful for, for each letter of the alphabet. Below is my ABC's of Thanks:

What are you thankful for?

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening...

...IN THE LANE, SNOW IS GLISTENING
A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT,
WE'RE HAPPY TONIGHT.
WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND

I'm linking up to Hannah's Lovely Photo Wednesday and Carlotta's On Cloud Nine. I love the snow we got here, even if it was only about an inch. Every time I look outside, everything is all white and pretty. It's been a bit colder here than usual as well, as it got down to 11°F last night. Brrrr! But with the snow, it's worth it. :)

I Heart Faces - Paper

It's been a while since I've entered in an I Heart Faces challenge, but when I saw this weeks theme, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Last summer I got into origami a bit. I got several books from the library, and made   hearts, fish, sailboats, dogs, hats, bows, cute dresses, birds, and penguins. I also made some cute little butterflies, which are one of my personal favorites. So, I used an origami butterfly as a prop, and my sister as the model. Here's how it turned out: