Oh, the Glitter!

Now, on a high level I am opposed to the Christmas before the Thanksgiving sort of thing. BUT – I can’t help it. I am so excited this year.

I’m excited for a lot of reasons, but I’ll tell you one. This year will be our first Christmas in our first home, which means the focal point of decoration – the Christmas tree – will be brand new. What will it look like? I will (Tyler probably won’t…) remember it forever and have the decorations for years, so I feel like it has to be GOOOD.

I’ve gone to my favorite decorations store, (heard of Rod Works?) three times this week, just to get some ideas. I didn’t buy hardly anything, because you see, I’m not made of money and that store is. But I could spend hours there; it really does have the greatest things. I also went to the new place in town – Hobby Lobby – so I can try my hand at homemade decorations. For starters, I bought ceramic snowflakes and bunches of glitter.

I’ve never used glitter before. My sister says it will be everywhere in the house before I know it, so maybe I’ll revamp that opinion come holidays. But for now, you should see my snowflakes! I glittered away through Tyler’s night class and Family Night on TLC. It was so fun. I wanted to glitter other things, like cupboards and doors and counter tops, but I held on to my senses long enough to realize that mistake. What about you? How will you decorate? What ornaments might you make?

The Thanksgiving browns and rusts and deep reds will always be my favorite, so I’m glad we have a few more weeks of them. But come black Friday – the holly jolliness and all that green and red and glitter will make its debut. Can you wait until then?!