New Ornaments This Year - Blogmas day 3

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I hope you are doing well. Buying new ornaments each year is something I really enjoy to do and I like getting ornaments on trips I take during the year to hang up on the tree and think back to the wonderful memories and experiences I had that year. We just attended the Santa Clause parade in November and I bought a few ornaments at Ten Thousand Villages afterwards. It is a fun tradition to go there after the parade and buy a few Christmas decorations. I also love how the money goes back to the people who make the items in different countries. If you are interested in looking at their ornaments, click here to visit the Ten Thousand Villages store.

 In the fall I went to Springridge Farm with my family and my mom bought me a couple of adorable wooden ornaments with a polar bear and a penguin as a gift.

This year I took a trip to Myrtle beach with my Fiancé Liam and his family and I bought a sand dollar ornament with Myrtle Beach on the front. We were in one of those stores that has everything with Myrtle beach on it, shirts, hats, stuffed animals etc. Of course I went right to the ornaments.

Last year Liam and I were gifted a few ornaments for our engagement. My parents got us the one with the two hearts with our names, the one on wood from my sister, and the ball ornament is from Liam's cousin and his girlfriend. They are all so sweet and are all hanging on our tree this year. It was such a special time getting engaged near Christmas last year and we are looking forward to getting married in May 2020!

I also was gifted a knitting ornament from Liam's Dad and stepmom last year who know I love to knit. It is so fun and I love how it looks hanging on the tree. I found it on Amazon if you would also like to get one.  Link to knitting ornament.

All of these wonderful ornaments help us to feel the Christmas spirit and as we hang them they bring back good memories of the year passed and also spread some holiday cheer. Do you buy new ornaments every year? Do you have a favourite ornament?

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Decorating for Christmas - Blogmas Day 2

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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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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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