Day 9 of 12 Days of Christmas Countdown

I love the holidays and I love each and every tradition that is part of my family. It's hard to choose a favorite! I've always loved our Christmas Eve traditions though. Every year on Christmas Eve, my family gathers in our living room for snacks, nice drinks and we spend quality time together. Towards the later part of the night everybody is allowed to open one gift. As a child it was always so exciting, to open a present before we went to bed. It made having to wait until the morning to get into all the other gifts a bit more bearable.

What is your favorite holiday tradition in your family?

Day 10 of 12 Days Of Christmas Countdown

An old Christmas photo of me! If I was at home I could dig through some photo albums and dig up a really old one and scan it up, but I happen to be not home tonight. However I happen to have a few on Facebook. I like to share my baby pictures, sue me! I think this picture was roughly around 1995.

Me (left) and my older sister Nancy (right)

This Christmas is going to be my first Christmas morning where I won't be sharing it with my sister since she's moved out and has her own Christmas morning to do! It's going to be strange, but I'm glad I'll get to spend some time on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day with her and her family. The holidays are a great time of year to spend with family, I hope everybody enjoys every moment of it!

Day 11 of The 12 Days Of Christmas Countdown

Now my favorite Christmas carol isn't really a carol, and it's far from your traditional Christmas songs. Well, that depends on what kind of Christmas music that you listen I s'pose. My personal favorite Christmas song is a great gem from the glorious years when boybands were all the rage. I'm taking you back to Christmas 1998 with *Nsync's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
We've been waiting all year for this night
And the snow is glistening on the trees outside
And all the stockings are hung by the fire side
  Waitingfor Santa to arrive
And all the love will show
'Cause everybody knows
It's Christmastime and
All the kids will see
The gifts under the tree

It's the best time of the year for the family
It's a wonderful feeling
Feel the love in the room
From the floor to the ceiling
It's that time of year
Christmastime is here
And with the blessings from above
God sends you his love
And everybody's okay
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays

Bells are ringing
It's time to scream and shout (scream and shout)
And everybody's playing cause school's out
Celebrating this special time we share
Happiness cause love is in the air

And all the love will show
'Cause everybody knows
It's Christmastime and
All the kids will see
The gifts under the tree
It's the best time of the year for the family
It's a wonderful feeling
Feel the love in the room
>From the floor to the ceiling
It's that time of year
Christmastime is here
And with the blessings from above
God sends you his love
And everything's okay
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays

No matter what your holiday
It's a time to celebrate
And put your worries aside (worries aside)
And open up your mind (open up your mind)
See the world right by your side
It's Christmastime
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays

It's a wonderful feeling
Feel the love in the room
From the floor to the ceiling
It's that time of year
Christmastime is here
And with the blessings from above
God sends you his love
And everything's okay
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays

There's nothing like a cheesy pop Christmas video, am I right? The premise of this video is that it's Christmas Eve, but Santa is sick! Naturally *Nsync ends up passing out the gifts and spreading Christmas cheer to everyone.

If I haven't convinced you into watching the video yet, maybe these screencaps from the video will change your mind!

12 Days Of Christmas Countdown

In the spirit of the season I've found a 12 days of Christmas countdown blogging challenge which I'll be doing on here. I urge you all to join in with the holiday fun!

Last Saturday evening I helped my mom decorate our Christmas tree. It's slightly crooked, but hey, nothing is perfect! Our tree is always decorated with decorations we've had for years, many of which are personalized and handmade from my childhood. I love seeing beautiful well put together Christmas trees, it's nice when people make everything tie in together. However I would never give up how we decorate our tree. I love that it is full of memories and life. Every year when it's time to decorate the tree when I'm going through all the ornaments I just get a huge burst of nostalgia for all of the Christmases past.

Stay tuned this week for more 12 days of Christmas fun! :)

The Fashion Of His Love

If you know me it's no secret that I adore Lady Gaga. Her songs make me want to dance and sing along (especially her Born This Way album, I can listen to it on repeat for days!) and I love her fashion sense. I'm always curious to see what she's wearing next, and I love it all.

I decided to put together a post of some of my favorite Lady Gaga looks. Just because I'm lacking on words to write in here doesn't mean a picture post can't help me out of my funk right? I hope you enjoy, and feel free to share your own favorite Lady Gaga looks!

Things I Love Thursday

I love doing posts for Things I Love Thursday, but sometimes Thursday comes and goes and I completely forget! There's some cute holiday goodies involved in today's post, I'm finally getting into the holiday spirit. This weekend we're putting our tree up, do you have yours up already?

How cute is this sterling silver fully functional snowglobe bunny ring from RomanticEccentric? You can also purchase the ring with a brown bunny or a fawn if white rabbits aren't your thing.

I'm not sure how likely I would be to use these, but I can't stop thinking about these Beautiful woodland Moss Place Mats from MissMossy!

This time of the year I'm always thinking to myself how I don't have enough festive clothing. How is this for festive? Not only does this Frosty the Snowman dress from coyotepeyote look super cute, it looks like it would be equally as comfy for your holiday fun!

I can't stop browsing different styles of terrariums lately, and I love this Modern Globe Manzanita forest Moss Terrarium from from TinyTerrains!

I love pigs. I love Babe, Miss Piggy, Piglet, and even real life pigs, so of course I couldn't help but fall in love with this cute little pink piggy clutch coin purse. Check out Misala Handmade Bags and Purses for more cute!

I've been in the market for a nice, cheap, preferably vintage broach lately to go with this cute dress I'm wearing later this month. I wish I would have bought the dress earlier so I would have had time to order this cute little fabric flower broach from joannafelt!

I've always liked things that are kind of creepy. In grade 9 ceramics class I painted a clown bookend, but gave him red skin and made him as creepy as possibly. I have clown plates hanging in my room that people think I'm crazy for, and I've always enjoyed reading serial killers and creepy things. This would be perfect to keep on my desk (if I had a desk with desk space that is!) It's a chalkboard skull, how amazing is that? If black is a little too morbid for you, no worries check out iamhome's shop and they have chalkboard skulls in a variety of colors!

I wasn't lying when I said I loved pigs! This ceramic pig planter from fruitflypie is so adorable, and with yellow being my favorite color it's too cute not to imagine it sitting in my future home for a nice burst of color.

I love thrifting and making old things new again, and this fits right in with that. This is an upcycled magazine wreath, yes it's made from recycled magazines and cardboard, how cool is that? Check out Annette's Etsy shop for more environmentally friendly gift ideas for any time of the year.

I love being warm, I love being cozy, and I love slippers. These cute bow slippers from BabushkaDesigns look like they'd be so comfy on my feet for just lounging around.

That's all for this edition of Things I Love Thursday, I hope you enjoyed :)

What's new pussycat?

I love cats. I always have, and I am 100% that I always will. Life has been nice enough to me that I am blessed to have two adorable black cats in my life. Sirius is my baby, he joined our family in 2007. He was the first cat I ever had, and my first pet in general. I would give my life for him. My boyfriend Daniel also has a lovely black cat, Loki who I'm glad is part of my life. I have a decent collection of cat t-shirts, books about cats, and even a few framed cat pictures on my walls that I found at thrift stores. I'm not even ashamed to say that I find the term "crazy cat lady" a compliment!

Why is it that some people think there are only certain people who can be crazy cat ladies? You don't need to have twenty cats running about, it's all about the love you have for the cats! If you smile when you walk by a cat outside, or desperately try to befriend your friend's cats, or decorate your home with cat decor and you want to call yourself a crazy cat lady, then do it! I remember once when I bought a new cat shirt from Value Village and I was all excited about it and simply stated that I felt like a crazy cat lady this person told me that there was no way I was a crazy cat lady because I only had one cat. Excuse me? If I have a crazy love for cats, and I am a lady then I have every right to declare myself a crazy cat lady.

I think there's a bit of crazy cat lady in us all, don't you think?