Welcome to December, dear friends!
The countdown to Christmas is on.
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Are you finished decorating and shopping, or have you even started?
No matter where you are, we hope you enjoy the journey.
We are busy preparing for the festivities and attempting to have fun between all the work!
What We’ve Been Up to This Week
Decorating Gingerbread houses
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, the boys and I decorated gingerbread houses.
Usually, we do this the week before Christmas with all three of our boys.
Unfortunately, our oldest son was diagnosed with celiac disease and cannot ingest or touch gluten.
Since gingerbread has gluten in it, he does not want to decorate houses this year.
So we switched up our tradition and decided to decorate them on Thanksgiving weekend instead.
The bonus is that we can enjoy them as Christmas decor the whole season.
We will share the finished gingerbread houses with you when we post our kitchen Christmas decor!
Christmas Tree Stroll and Shopping
The boys wanted to go Christmas shopping over Thanksgiving weekend, so we headed to Disney Springs, one of our favorite places.
Besides shopping, we were able to do the Christmas tree stroll.
We enjoyed seeing lots of Christmas trees decorated with Disney themes.
This tree is themed from the movie Coco.
Thrifting Finds
I hit a thrift store on Thursday and scored several great finds!
I will use most of these items in my Christmas decor, except the candlestick and the birdhouse in the front.
Those I will save for a springtime DIY!
What We’ve Been Doing on the Blog
DIY Christmas Ornaments
On the blog this week, we made DIY Christmas ornaments with unfinished birdhouses and lanterns!
They go perfectly with our winter woodland theme!
You can see how easy they are to make here!
Living Room Christmas Decor
Speaking of our Winter Woodland theme, we finally finished decorating our living room and shared this warm and cozy space. See the reveal here!
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Inspiration from around the web
It’s time to get inspired by our other blogging friends and see what creative ideas they came up with for Christmas.
- Learn how to make a Christmas scroll wall hanging!
- You have to see this bedroom decked out for a woodland Christmas!
- Discover different Christmas decor styles and pick your favorite!
- I might make this DIY for neighbor Christmas gifts!
- A different take on gingerbread!
Favorite Seasonal Finds
Do you have someone on your gift list who loves to entertain? Here are some great gift ideas!
A New Recipe to Try
Our boys love to make and decorate sugar cookies, so I need a gluten-free/dairy-free recipe.
I will try this one because it’s gluten-free, and I think I can modify it to be dairy-free.
Posts You Might Like From Our Archives
Christmas Decor in the Kitchen
Next week, we plan to share our kitchen decorated for Christmas!
You can click here to see what it looked like last year!
DIY Vintage Cone Christmas Trees
This is one of my favorite Christmas DIYs!!
I adore these vintage-inspired cone Christmas trees!
We hope you have a wonderful week and look forward to seeing you again next Saturday!
Blessings, Donna and Rich
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That Christmas tree stroll looked so fun!! What a cool thing to do as a family!
Hope you had a lovely weekend!!
Hi Rachel! We had a blast! There were so many fun trees to look at! Thanks and have a great week!
Hi, we make our gingerbread houses out of cardboard using a hot glue gun to hold it together! A gluten free alternative.
That’s a fabulous idea! I’ll see if they want to do that next year! Thanks so much for sharing! Have a great day!