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It’s our first home, and the first Christmas in our new home. The first strand of garland, the first sprig of mistletoe, the first time our sons ever decorated for the holidays, making it that much more special and memorable. This was definitely the most fun I ever had decorating for Christmas! I took photos […]
I was sent the area rug featured here for the purpose of review. All opinions are 100% mine. Our home is a warm and lovely place to me, and while there is still work to be done, it’s coming along nicely in terms of renovations and decorating. Something was missing in the living room though, […]
That rug is gorgeous! It’s amazing how an area rug can really transform a room.
That is a beautiful rug. It’s great how much it covers and adds to the room.
I love patterned rugs like this, since they are so forgiving of spills. With kids, we all get spills.
That’s a beautiful rug! I think every room without carpet should have a rug.
That is such a gorgeous rug! They have an overwhelming, yet beautiful amount of rugs!
That is beautiful! I would love to have one in our home. It makes the room look so warm and inviting.
Your living room is gorgeous.
This looks great and compliments your home perfectly and so much nicer on those tiny bare feet!
That rug is absolutely gorgeous! I would love it for my dining room!
I eventually want to take out the carpet in our living room and put in wood floors – a rug like this would be awesome for the open area, especially for the feet in winter!
How pretty. I will need a new area rug as soon as my sunroom is finished. 🙂
Hubby has been wanting to get an area rug – love the color combo. We have all wood floors and we miss that cozy feeling from rugs/carpet.
That rug is very, very beautiful and it goes with your loving room perfectly.
That’s an awesome Freudian slip 🙂
I love that rug, Penelope! It looks absolutely beautiful in your home.
An area rug is essential for us since the entire downstairs level of our house is tile. The beautiful rug you chose is both classy and practical!
Lovely! We have hardwood flooring now and need a rug to warm things up.
I would love a long runner for my entry.
What a great rug – I love how it ties the room together!
I love the rug you chose, it’s so pretty! That would go great in my living room.
🙂 Sorry about that lol.
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cooper Cheese for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. We are pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas. On Christmas Eve we go to church, and on Christmas Day we celebrate with our big, extended family. It’s a lot of fun…a lot! There is […]
Two great recipes here, thanks for sharing!! I think it will be fun to test these out!
Those potatoes are SO cute & I bet they are delicious! I hope you have a great Christmas, how fun to be hosting!
Both of those look amazing! And I bet they reheat really well, which is an added bonus.
Oooh those potatoes would be perfect for the hubs – he’s not a bean fan but I love them and so does the fam! I’m bringing dessert this year 🙂 well, I do every year!
I think my family would love the stuffed potatoes.
Twice baked potatoes are on my Christmas Eve menu. I might have to try your version. Yum!
Those little potatoes look delicious, I love baked potatoes but never thought to add meat to them! The bean look yummy too!
I’m a cheese freak, so these sound awesome to you.
Cheese makes everything better! I love both of these recipes, especially the potatoes. YUM.
Yum! I love twice baked potatoes. I am a bit spoiled because my mom always cooks Christmas dinner, so I know we will likely have her mashed potatoes.
Those are two yummy and easy recipes.
LOL — your husband sounds like mine; mine would definitely polish off an entire casserole!
They both look toothsome and delicious!
Those potatoes look delicious.
These look so good! My husband and I love loaded baked potatoes.
They both look awesome! I’ll have to try them – thanks!
That looks absolutely delectable!
Oh wow they both look delicious! Going to have to pin them!
Yumm, These look great! I love cheese too and would love to try this.
Cheese certainly makes everything better. I especially like the fun twist on traditional baked potatoes.
I’ve never heard of this brand of cheese before, but will look for it Your recipes look delicious! Merry Christmas, Penelope!
I love baked potatoes and those just look delicious. I don’t think I’ve seen that brand of cheese near us.
Those look really good! I’d love to nosh on them right about now 🙂 Seems like that’s a local brand? I don’t think I’ve heard of it before.
I thought the same thing because it was new to me too, but quite a few local markets carry it now that I know to look for it.
Those look so delicious! What great comfort food recipes!
Anything with cheese, I’m in!
Children can be very artistic and creative, and it’s a great joy for me as a mom to have my son come home from school with presents for me that he made in school, or to spend an afternoon creating some art or doing a craft project together. Overtime, my almost four year old son […]
That’s hands down one of the best pictures I’ve seen come out of a printer. Ours does a decent job on photo paper, but I think on regular paper it’s just so/so.
What wonderful quality! We recently bought a new printer, but I wish I’d seen this first!
It looks like this printer does an amazing job! We print a ton of things, but these days it’s usually coupons and random paperwork. I know that will be changing soon as my kids begin to create more reports and school projects.
That’s a creative way to scrapbook memories. 🙂
What great photo quality and such a great way to keep memories.
We have a Canon printer and the quality of the images it prints is outstanding. I don’t think we’ll ever own another brand in the future.
The Canon looks like it prints out really great photos! I really need to get back into scrapbooking, I haven’t touched our family scrapbook in years!
That is such a great idea! I have a giant folder in my filing cabinet full of things from my son’s preschool class that I’ve been looking to do something with- I need to make those a collage & then start taking pictures of him crafting at home! You do the cutest things with your kids. 🙂
Oh my gosh I just love the scrapbook idea! My parents tossed all my things but a few stuff that they really wanted to keep and by the time they passed it was all torn, discolored and all. This is great for preserving all those beautiful memories!
This looks like such a great printer.
I seriously need to get back into scrapbooking as I use to love doing it. This printer looks amazing and I love how clear the images came out.
This is an amazing printer.
Your son is so beautiful! I take pics al the time too but I don’t do ANYTHING with them. 🙁 Every year, I intend on making photobooks … this printer would make it so easy!
We have a Canon PIXMA and it does a great job printing photos.
Fun idea! I need to do a better job of scrapbooking our memories.
I love my Canon Pixma printer! Looks like you are putting yours to good use.
Wow you can do some great things with this printer!!
This post brought to you by LEGO. All opinions are 100% mine. We were always a LEGO family, and now we actually ARE a LEGO family. LEGO created an online experience where I was able to create my own custom holiday card featuring my family as LEGO Minifigures, and I can even use it as […]
I may have made one of these the other day by myself- I just love making customized stuff! I am going to have my son help me with one too though.
These LEGOs cards are just adorable! Our family loves LEGOs, I will have to make us a card too!
I really need to make one of these with my kids.
That is so cute, I am going to have to do this with the boys tomorrow, they will think it is the neatest thing.
I love this. My kids had a blast making a little lego family and it is now the background on my macbook air 🙂
My kids loved making our family too. We’re huge LEGO lovers.
I just saw this on another blog! I’m going to do this later on today with my kids!
I can definitely see my kids having a ton of fun making LEGO versions of us!
Seeing that we should buy stock in Lego we have so many Lego bricks and Lego sets, I should definitely do this!
This was fun to make! So many options!
We made our little LEGO family, I just love it. I adored all the little customizations they offered.
I made one of these and did attempt after attempt with my daughter sitting next to me. I didn’t get it “right” until I made her minifig a Ninja… ! LOL
I need to have B help me make one. He loves Lego’s!
This is so fun! I’m going to make my family.
My son is a LEGO fanatic. I’ll have to share this with him.
Very cute! Everyone I know is a fan of legos! Have to share 🙂
I absolutely love that photo collage. You captured some beautiful moments.
Your photos came out ah-mazing!
What a great printer, I love this collage that you made. I also like that everything is so kid friendly when it comes to decorating. We are going to have to be that way again next year when we have a toddler.
I just printed out some photos today using my Canon PIXMA. They came out great!
That collage that you made looks great, and I love your stockings! Very cute.
You are SUCH a creative photographer- I always envy how you can capture objects like the ornaments or the garland. Also I totally laughed out loud about the baby eating the collage!
Ha — my boys did the SAME thing when we got our stockings out. 🙂
Gorgeous collage!
I love this idea. I think I will do a collage from our Christmas pictures and maybe frame it.
Such beautiful pictures to treasure forever! <3
Lovely collage. Congrats on your 1st year in your new home.
Oh I love that you can print through a ‘cloud.’ I often want to print things from my phone and have to go through three or four different steps in order to do that.
I don’t think I’ve ever owned or used a Canon printer. I’d be curious about whether they’re better than the old HP printer we have.
All those firsts…beautiful!
Love your collage and I totally love my Canon printer it has the best quality out of all the printers I own.
Great collage! I decided not to decorate this holiday season, mostly due to the fact that my daughter would probably have had knocked down the Christmas tree within no time (and would have had too much fun with the ornaments). She’s at the stage! 🙂
That printer is really neat! Love the collage feature.
Such gorgeous photos of beautiful memories. I was just able to start adding fragile ornaments back onto my tree a few years ago, now that the boys are older. They have such beautiful child safe ornaments now though, not like the plain ugly ones they used to.
You are right, I should look for some child friendly ornaments that they will enjoy helping me put up next year!
Love all the pictures great way to save memories to look back at :-)! Love it!!
I love your decorations. I have the a Pixma printer and I love it.
I love the collage – what a fun way to remember the holidays!