Posts by Sherry Petersik

Lights, camera, action! Ok, more like lights, wrapping presents, teacher gifts, action. Doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? But I have lots to tell you. Warning: this post is all over the place. A holiday smorgasbord if you will. We’ll cover: our somewhat non-traditional holiday tradition what we’ll be doing for Christmas dinner how we decorated the outside of our house for Christmas this year what we used to wrap all of our gifts (for zero point zero zero dollars) what we gave as teacher gifts for Clara’s preschool teachers Representing the “action” part of this post’s title, this year was going to be the very first year that we weren’t scurrying

Let’s talk about the festive-ification of various surfaces. Booyah. $herdog had some fun with the mantel… as she is apt to do. And since $herdog is also apt to share the play by play of her various surface-switcharoos with you guys, especially around the holidays, you better ho-ho-hold onto your hats. Because it’s about to get festive up in here. Spoiler alert: the console table and the built-ins weren’t safe either… The mantel makeover was pretty simple, I hung our stockings by the chimney with care, and stacked some faux presents that I made a while back on the mantel (more on how I made those here). Oh and see that glittered stag at the