It's Getting Chilly Out There

Well it's beginning to feel more and more like Christmas time because of the very cold temperatures outside. By the time you read this post it may be even colder in the Savannah area - it's supposed to possibly drop below 20 degrees. INSANE - stay bundled up and keep warm.

Holiday Blog Banner

I had to decorate my blog for Christmas, so I grabbed one of my banners from last Christmas, I will have to update it for this christmas but in the meantime Feliz Navidad! We're in the holiday spirit here that's for sure.

Make Your Own Pom Poms

Well if you haven't guessed or figured it out by now I'm on a pom pom kick this holiday season. Here is a quick little tutorial on how to make your own pom poms out of yarn.

I used my handy dandy Martha Stewart Circle Cutter to cut out the templates to use to make the pom pom.

Here are the simple templates you'll need to use in order to make a pom pom.

Then wrap the template all around with yarn, you'll notice that Zico Biscuit was watching this pom pom making process very intently. It was hilarious he kept trying to grab the ball of yarn and run off with it.

And voila here is your finished pom pom. There is actually two more steps I need to show you - one is cutting the yarn around the template and the other is tying all the yard with another piece of yarn. Stay tuned for an update and a flurry of pom poms to hit the scene.

Have a great weekend, whip up a pom pom or two.

Pom Pom Wreath

Well the little Pom Pom tree has a buddy now - the Pom Pom wreath, don'tcha just love it. I can't get enough of Pom Poms this year. I followed the same procedure making this wreath as a I did when making the tree - just a styrofoam wreath form, lot's of pom poms and hot glue.

How is your holiday crafting going?

Holiday Subway Art

A few days ago I came across the blog eighteen 25 and saw this awesome Holiday Subway art that the gals of eighteen 25 were giving away for FREE, how awesome is that! I have been wanting to make or buy some subway art for our house and this is just a cute way of incorporating that type of art and something for the holidays in our home right now. You can find the post about that download here.

Here's how it looks framed in our kitchen:

and a picture of Zico Biscuit in his Santa sweater - looking at me like what are you doing?

Some Weekend Baking

How was your weekend? I did a lot of decorating, a lot of organizing, some shopping, a lot of watching decorating and cooking shows and a little baking. I was hoping to whip up all my Christmas cookies this weekend and freeze the dough for later baking but that didn't happen, oh well. But I was watching Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa on Sunday and was inspired to try this pound cake recipe. It uses Buttermilk which was great since I had some that I needed to use up, but I don't remember ever using buttermilk in a pound cake recipe before. It came out delicious, not to heavy, very light and fluffy. We indulged in one and froze the other for use during the holiday.

Hope you had a great weekend.

Christmas in Savannah

Here are some recent pictures from the downtown Historic District of Savannah, GA all dressed up for the holidays. In a previous post I told you that we've moved and that now the Savannah area of a Georgia is our new stomping grounds and I hope it will remain that way for a long time. We love it here, it's a smaller town feel but has everything we need. One of the things I really like about Savannah is the fact that there's always something going on to keep one entertained.

This particular weekend we went down to the Historic District they were having a festival called Holly Days. In one square they were carving ice sculptures, in another (somehow) snow had fallen and piled up for kids to be able to run around in and make snowballs. :) And then on Broughton Street they had closed down part of the street and had an ice skating rink for people to skate on. It's just so fun and so nice to be a part of all of these activities.



I hope you're enjoying the holidays in your neck of the woods. We also managed to make a stop at Leopold's Ice Cream Shop for the first time when we went down for the Holly Days. It's a traditional old ice cream shop and it's delicious. All the ice cream is homemade. I had butter pecan and Fer had cinnamon. YUMMMY.
Have a great weekend.

The Countdown has Begun

Only 23 days till Christmas and SO much to do! What are you doing to prepare for the holiday? I know I need to make a list first... make cookies, buy gifts, decorate house, plan holiday dinner menu and table setting.... I'm sure there's more. Have a good day.

The Tree is Up

We put up our tree this past weekend. There are still a few details to be added but for the most part it's up and it looks great. It's a simple little tree but works for us; it's all about peace love and memories. :) Little by little the house is getting into Christmas mode and I love it. This year we are going to have a FULL house for Christmas and I am getting so excited but that means we have a lot of work to do between now and when our guesst start arriving. Hope you're enjoying the Christmas season in your home.

The Christmas Season has Begun

A quick and crafty post of something I created over the weekend. For some reason I am all about pom poms this holiday season so I started by making a little red and white pom pom christmas tree, it was super easy all you need is a styrofoam tree form, pom poms and a hot glue gun. I decided an ornament on top of the tree was better than the original single pom pom I had on it so other than that it's all pom poms. :)

I wanted it to be mostly white with just touches of red as you can see from the pictures. Easy peasy I hope you have time to whip one up and I hope that this inspires you to get crafty this now this holiday season.