Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Getting Ready

In our family, the week after Christmas is traditionally a week of relaxation, recuperation, and reorganization. This year - or, rather, last year :) - we decided to try something new, and followed Christmas with a crazy week of planning, preparation, and anticipation.

The Twinkles helped me make pomanders:



Which resulted in these:



Gracie did some major paper-cutting:


Which resulted in these:



Which were then hung around an (unusually) empty great room:


The Littles filled 30 paper bags with tea light candles:


Which resulted in this:


All of which came together in preparation for... (to be continued tomorrow)

2 comments:

Lauren said...

In preparation for...a gorgeous event! You all did such an amazing job--I can't even imagine how much time you put into it!

Jo said...

Such fun pictures! I love the rags in the Twinkles' hair... :)