Decorating for Christmas - Blogmas Day 2

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. I have decorated my apartment for Christmas and it is not completely decorated yet, but I want to share with you how it looks so far.  I still want to set up the Christmas village my parents gave me and need some fake snow to put down under the village first to make it a wintry village for Christmas. I have put up and decorated our Christmas tree and it has been so wonderful having it up to celebrate Christmas early. Lately every morning I come into the living room and turn on the Christmas tree lights before I start having my morning coffee and breakfast and doing my morning routine. It feels so heart warming walking in the room and seeing the tree all lit up. At night almost right after I come home, I turn on the lights of the tree to enjoy them in the evening.

I have been enjoying the decorations in my living room as well that I set out around the room.I have some new decor this year. The Santa clause and 'Twas the night before Christmas...' sign are from Michael's and I really love them on the windowsill behind the couch in the living room.

I have these two decorations on our windowsill in the front of the living room and they are the ones I bring out every year.

The shelf in the living room has quite a few decor items on top of it. I love the little Santa Clause decorations and the vase of floral pieces. I love the Christmas tree I got from the Springridge farm store last year. I also set up my vase with the holiday arrangements of the joy sign and the other festive candy cane and cranberry floral pieces. I also like the DIY mason jar tree decor I made last year infront of the photos.

I have a bit more to put up and may share some more photos as I go along. How early do you start decorating for Christmas?

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Thank you for visiting my blog today for day two of Blogmas. I am enjoying Blogmas a lot already and have visited some other blogs participating in Blogmas. It is such a fun time to visit new blogs and see how others are celebrating.

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It's Blogmas 2019!

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. Happy start of Blogmas! I can't believe that this day is finally here I am so excited to start it off. I have planned out some of my future blog posts and to get started I'll share my plan of the kind of blog posts I have in store for Blogmas this year. I will also be holding link up parties daily so feel free to post your holiday related posts to the parties. You can post even if you are not doing Blogmas daily, but would like to share some Christmas or holiday related content with others. It would be fun and I will be sure to visit all of your blogs. Below is a schedule of what I will be posting this holiday season and I hope that you like the topics. I will also be sharing my knitting progress throughout these posts on my scarves and reading progress.

It is going to be a snowy  and wintry day today in Toronto, so I plan to stay in all day reading, knitting, and preparing for Blogmas. This morning is already so windy and dark and it is freezing rain right now with snow on the ground. I am glad I don't have to go out today. I am also starting to eat the chocolates from my advent calendar today. I got the Lindt advent calendar againm we always enjoy the Lindor chocolates, they are so good. I also got a calendar for my fiancé Liam so we can both have the chocolates together.

Time to start opening today

I went to the One of a Kind Christmas show in Toronto yesterday and I bought some gifts for people and I bought myself some sleep stones scented with lavender. They are porous stone infused with this lavender oil. I bought them from Finesse Home Fragrance. You put them in a bowl by your bed and shake them before bed and it is meant to relax you and the scent helps you sleep.  I bought the refresher oil so I can add the oil to the stones to refresh them every few months. I have been wanting to get more sleep lately and I was curious about these. I am looking forward to giving them a try and get more sleep this holiday season.

The One of a Kind show in Toronto was wonderful this year. It was so nice to walk through and see all the lovely items the artisans had created. My mom bought me a lovely sign with an inspirational quote on it and my sister also bought one. I bought a few treats as gifts in the food aisle and the stones. We had lunch at some food trucks that were indoors, it is a big space! They had the Toronto Raptors super fan there as well and he gave an uplifting speech. I can't wait to go back next year already, we always have the best time going each year.

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Thank you so much for visiting my blog today I am so excited that it is now Blogmas and hope that you enjoy the upcoming month of posts! I will post daily until December 25th, and then resume my regular posting schedule of 1-2 posts each week after Christmas.

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Scarf Knitting Progress and Reading On

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. I have started getting into the Christmas spirit even more now. This year I thought about Christmas a lot more and I was getting excited way earlier (September too early?). I am so happy that it is now the Christmas season. I have already gone to a Christmas parade, decorated my parent's tree, and gone to our annual Christmas shopping at a mall to get ideas and start shopping together. Last weekend we put up our Christmas tree and I have decorated our tree. I have also bought decorations and ornaments. I will share all this with you next week for Blogmas I can't wait for Blogmas, it is only 2 days away now! It is on a Sunday which is the perfect day for the start of it because it is not a work day and I can get into the spirit and work on blogging and getting ready for a busy and fun month of posts. If you are also participating are you ready for Blogmas? Leave links to your blogs below and I be sure to visit your blogs this holiday season.

I have still been knitting the candy cane scarf. I found the pattern on Ravelry by Kristen Retigg. I used US 9 knitting needles and used Red Heart Supersaver yarn in white and red to knit up the scarf.

Modeling the scarf in progress

I haven't knitted more of the shawl because I have been busy knitting the candy cane scarf so I can finish it and enjoy wearing it during the Christmas season. I am really looking forward to getting back to it soon. I am using size US 6, 4mm circular needles and the yarn I am using is Lion Brand Vanna's Choice in the color of dusty green.

Shawl in progress

I am still reading Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin. I am loving how she focuses on the main habits that we should work on and and that improve lots of aspects of our lives.  Some important ones are getting more sleep, moving more, healthy eating and drinking, and living more cluttered-free. I have been recently working on getting more sleep and going to bed earlier in order to get more sleep during the week.

Currently reading: Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin

Joining along with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On and As Kat Knits for Unraveled Wednesday.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I want to wish everyone in the United States a happy Thanksgiving and hope you have a great time spent with family and friends.