An Straightforward Hands-on Christmas Card Idea

With family arriving tonight for our first ever Christmas in Richmond, we hoped to be sure we shared our holiday card with you folks first (you know we enjoy ya like family). We could not do this little journal-thang (look at me getting all twangy) without you. And we sincerely appreciate you for dropping in on us.

We shot this earlier in the month with the assist of a bunch of ribbon snagged on clearance from Michael’s last Christmas (some of which later ended up on our tree). It is in fact two pictures photoshopped together, since getting Clara and Burger to sit still that close to one another without doing something weird (like synchronized diaper sniffing/tail grabbing) is beyond unrealistic. You can in fact see a bunch of outtakes over on the house Life today. Like this one we like to call “The Peeper.”

We hope everyone has a lively/joy/family/food/relaxation-filled holiday weekend! And although we figure many of you will be busy with miscellaneous chaos over the upcoming week between Christmas and New Year’s, we will still be dropping in with a swift post every day from Monday through Friday for ya (and yes – we hope to have some cabinet priming/painting peeks for you folks with a big reveal sometime around the first week of January if all goes well).

We simply found out that we have a big book deadline of January 4th too (the whole final manuscript is due- yikes!!!) so at any point if you are wondering what we are up to, you can likely count on us to be holding a paint brush, a laptop, a toddler, a chihuahua, or a cookie covered in sprinkles. And perhaps a few of those things at once (let us find out if I can eat a cookie while priming, shall we?). Glad holidays to every last one of ya!

Update: You can check out all of our go-to holiday decor finds here – many of which are under $15!