Christmas banners

Can you believe Christmas is only 10 days away!  How did that happen?!  The month has gone by so fast and I have to admit I haven't done all the Christmas stuff I would like to do (like getting lights hung on the outside of our house), but I was able to do a little craft to add to the Christmas décor at our house before the month flew by. 

I've had some vintage music sheets in my craft stash for a while and finally decided to do something with them.  I just needed a little ribbon and glitter from the craft store and a few other tools I already had on hand to make banners!

 

I first made a mini banner to drape across the Christmas tree.

 

 With all the other "natural" and glittery decorations, I think the banner adds a little extra vintage charm

 

I then made a banner that was a little bit bigger to hang in the living room and add a little extra shine to our entry mirrors.

 

It's just a little craft, but cost only a few dollars and I think adds some great sparkle and vintage style to our Christmas.

Have you done any crafts this Christmas season to add a little shine to your home? 

A "little" announcement

There's some exciting stuff going on at our home these days...we're getting ready for a baby!  That's right, we're expecting our first baby in April!  Throughout the last two months we've slowly been breaking the news to family, friends, and co-workers so it seemed like it was finally time to make the announcement to the masses. 

Of course the first people we told were our parents.  We told my parents over a game of Scrabble, which is a family favorite game to play together. 

 

Our first ultrasound of the baby made me say, "we're having a gummy bear!" since the ultrasound looked less like a baby and more like a little gummy bear in my belly.  So, for about the first month we called the baby our gummy bear.  It was fitting when I saw this huge gummy bear at a store in the mall to take a picture of it with my "gummy bear".

 

And just this week we found out that we're having a girl!  It felt like Christmas that day being able to see an ultrasound of a cute little baby and finding out we're going to have a little girl this Spring!   Our pictures for our Christmas cards this year catch our growing baby girl (aka my growing belly). 

 

So, that's a little update on the big change that is going on with our family as well as the reason I've been slacking a little with blogging in the past couple of months!