Pom Pom Garland + have a magic Christmas!

This was simple and quick to make but made me oh so happy and brought a little handmade Christmas cheer to the apartment.

This was not made by me but is my favourite new addition to my Christmas decoration collection. i am not religious but belief is very important to me.

i apologise for not being around the blog as much in the latter part of the year, lately i've been trying to make room for myself. In the next week or so i am going to focus on making peace with 2010 so that i can move forward into 2011 with a fresh outlook. A big thank-you for reading! i see all my comments and they mean a lot to me! i have been scrapbooking here and there so i have a little stack of layouts to share in the new year & hope to be around here a little more, i miss blogging!

i hope that you have a most magical Christmas (if you celebrate it!) and that you can be with your loved ones. Be safe, keep warm, share stories, remember, have hope, believe.

Christmas Tunes

Last year i shared some indie Christmas tunes, so i thought i'd do the same this year. i do love Christmas songs, they make me feel nostalgic, but it grates on me that they start getting played SO early! It's refreshing to have some new songs to listen to and some alternative takes on some oldies but goodies.

Coldplay have a new song out called Christmas Lights. The video is as creative and magic as always.



The Maccabees  have done a cover of Walking in the Air. Which i love. love. love.



Future of Forestry have done lots of covers (they have 2 Christmas EP's available) but i think Joy to the World is my favourite, it's pure magic.

The Hurts have a Christmas song out too (which happens to be the free single of the week in the UK iTunes!). You can watch the video here.

The Killers release a Christmas Song every year in order to raise money for RED you can watch the video for this years song here. If you like it you'll be doing a good thing by buying it.

SC Sunday Sketch

Just stopping in to share a page i made using this week's sketch from Studio Calico.

It's been a while since i used a sketch and i'd forgotten what a great jumping off point they are. i had so many ideas for this one but i knew that paper from Basic Grey would go perfectly with these pictures. And i'm in love with that graph stamp.