I hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas this year. Thank you for reading my blog these past few months and I hope to see you around here in the new year as well. 

Merry Christmas!

{card from here}

Christmas decorations...

Since we're not home to decorate the tree, I guess I'll have to decorate myself. I love all of these Alexis Bittar pieces, but I think that the 1st and 2nd pair are my absolute favorites. 

Made a list...checked a few people off!

Keeping with my decision to buy as many handmade gifts as possible this Christmas season, I found these darling pieces on Etsy in Michelle Chang's store. She's a super sweet designer out of Brooklyn and I've fallen in love her dainty take on the big bad snake. My best friends and SIL will be soon gifted a snake necklace or three...I know they'll love them. I've included the pieces I bought and some of my other faves. It was hard to narrow it down and if anybody would like to send me a gift, I'll take the sterling snake bracelet with diamond eyes. Isn't it fantastic?

Those are some really cute snakes!

{buy these here}

Christmas lists...

This is on the top of my Christmas list for Lillie. I want to get one custom made in the fabrics in her room. Anybody have any luck with the Alchemy feature on Etsy? Or have any other ideas of places I could try? I want it to hang from the ceiling like the first one, but I love the details on the second one, so I posted that too. I want her to have a place to hang out, read, nap, etc. and where better to that than in a fancy canopy?

Come sail away...

Come sail away, come sail away with me...

    

Well, sail away with my husband to be more exact. Because this is his Christmas gift! Ok, not the boat, I'm not completely nuts, but I'm giving him a gift certificate for sailing lessons in Tortola! It's a 10 day class that gets you ready to be able to charter your own monohull or catamaran and he's going to LOVE it. He's sailed before, but not in a long time. It'll make me feel much better about sailing the open seas with him this summer as well. I am not a huge fan of open water and small boats, but I'm going to try for him. Yay! I love it when a plan comes together!