Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Posted by terrepruitt on January 2, 2025
Many of you may have heard of SAD, I posted about it in February of 2012. According to the Mayo Clinic’s website “Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons — seasonal affective disorder (SAD) begins and ends at about the same times every year. If you’re like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody.” If you have wintertime SAD the symptoms usually disappear in the spring.
I have a different kind of SAD, I love winter so it is not a depression of the CHANGING of the season, it is the ENDING of the HOLIDAY season. I get sad when it ends. I love all the decorations, I get sad when I have to take my Christmas decorations down and pack them away for another year. It is a bummer when we don’t have fun Christmas lights to light up the living space. I think that is one reason I like to keep “Christmas” up as long as possible. I miss the decorations and what goes along with them—the festive feelings. To me it seems like a collective vibe. People are anticipating parties and time off, and when it is over, it is as if the energy goes down.
I feel the same way when local sporting teams are in a championship game. I don’t care about sports at all, but when a local team is going to a game of all games the city seems alive with positive energy. And when they lose it is like a blanket over things.
So, I think I have a form of SAD . . . but for the Holidays. My SAD can be helped by keeping Christmas decorations up, but I still miss the collective energy.
What about you? How do you feel about taking things down?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Holidays, positive vibe, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 22, 2023
Here is a close-up of the Christmas tree. There are always so many ornaments I enjoy looking at, so I end up posting pictures of the same ornaments. 🙂 Ahh, the joys of Christmas trees and ornaments.
Star ships, icicles, candy canes, tea cups, glittery bulbs, crosses, and all kinds of stuff adorn our Christmas trees, so here is another shot for today’s Friday Photo.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: 2023 Christmas, candy canes, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas Tree, crosses, Friday Photo, glittery bulbs, icicles, Star ships, tea cups | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 25, 2022
I have decided to do some homemade Christmas gifts. Crafting never goes as planned. But I have fun. I love the paint, the glitter, and the glue. I don’t, however, like cork. It does not behave. Here is our dining room table a mess with “crafting”. How was your Thanksgiving weekend? I am squeezing in my Friday Photo post and back to painting and glittering I go!
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas crafts, Friday Photo, glitter, glue, homemade Christmas gifts, ornaments, paint, sparkles, trees | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on January 13, 2021
So these Christmas gifts might not go in the category of helpful . . .but maybe. A friend of mine gave me some nail polish recently that started an avalanche of nail polish “needs”. Since it is more expensive than I would normally spend on a bottle of polish – and I haven’t painted my nails in years! – I thought it was the perfect “ask” for a gift. And I recently fell in love with a purple pen which started an avalanche of me wanting colored pens . . . again . . . pens are not something we need so to me it was a good “ask”. I asked for a set of pens. I was telling one of my friends that I got them and she asked if there was anything I planned on doing with them and I had not. I was just looking forward to writing with them. When I had picked them out I hadn’t really paid attention to the fact that there were GLITTER pens in there. Yeah, I am a middle aged woman that gets excited about glitter pens. So that is one of the reasons why I was so excited by the recent idea of logging a daily task by coloring. I have a fun way to use my pens.
So . . . I feel so very blessed that I am able to really just get simple things I want for Christmas. When all my needs and wants are met, it is fun to be able to get some fun stuff.
Did you get any fun stuff for Christmas?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2020 Christmas, Christmas, Christmas gifts, daily log, gel pens, glitter pens, Live Love Polish, nail polish | 8 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 7, 2020
Oh, I am so surprised with myself. I don’t know how I missed this ALL these years. I love when restaurants, offices, etc have their wall hangings wrapped. It looks so festive. I always marvel at the time it must have taken someone to wrap the hangings. And yet I have never done it myself. WHAT? I don’t get it. How could I have missed this opportunity all these years? What a great way to decorate and re-use/recycle wrapping paper. I just don’t get it. This year I was looking at my purple and blue plates (don’t match red and green) that are in my plate holder and I was trying to think of something to do with them. I have Christmas dishes, but we didn’t get them down this year and I am ok with that because we have so many other things to decorate with. Then it dawned on me . . . I could just wrap the plates.
YAY! Now several things; my hubby let me do something this year he doesn’t normally let me do so I was so excited I didn’t give a lot of thought to wrapping. I figured we are not buying a lot that needs to be wrapped this year so why have the boxes with the wrapping supplies down in the way. So I just grabbed some wrapping boxes and the bag of “to be shredded for bagged gifts” paper. So I didn’t have a lot of paper that would match the bows I hang on the plate holder. So it is not the best paper, but the idea was that no one would see it. Ha! Now you are . . . but oh well.
In case you were wondering what I got to do that was so exciting to me – you are not going to think it is exciting, but I was sooooo happy – I will tell you. I got to pull stuff out of boxes and then put the boxes back up. Normally we bring all the boxes in the house and then I empty them and they stay in the house until will put them back up. And usually we put them all back up at the same time. So to be able to empty some and not even bring them in the house – such a relief. The amount of stress that alleviates is amazing. May sound silly to you, but I was happy.
Anyway . . . this post is me being excited about recycling wrapping paper to decorate and to have a “new” decoration”. I can change the paper every year. Well, not really because I often put my Christmas china up there. But this year . . . . a new decoration!
Well, it is December. So that means a lot of posts – A LOT – about the Christmas tree (wait till you see the skinny guy we got this year), the decorations, and the season. Yeah, still celebrating and grasping at the Joy of the Season!
How about you?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas papper, Christmas plates, re-use, recycle, the Joy of the Season, wrapped wall hangings | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 27, 2019
I posted this on Facebook already, but everyone thought it was gorgeous so I wanted to share it here as my Friday Photo. I didn’t ask permission so hopefully they won’t mind. My aunt and uncle always have a BEAUTIFUL tree. It takes days to decorate and the ornaments are just fabulous. This year it was just as spectacular as the years before.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Here’s to the New Year that is around the corner.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas Tree, Disney Ornaments, Facebook, Friday Photo, Merry Christmas | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 23, 2019
I am sure many of you are busy with Christmas stuff, whether is it shopping, cooking, or just enjoying yourself and your family and friends. I will make this brief. I love candles and I am pretty sure that those of you who love candles run into the same thing I experience – sadness when the candle you are burning stops burning. I mean, “Whaaaaah! There is so much yummy smelling wax left why can’t it just continue to burn?” Ok, some candles are excellent and they burn pretty much to the end . . . but even then, I often find myself wanting more. Well, there are two ways I eek out more yummy scent from my candles and I thought you might want to try them.
With some candles I put a tealight with a metal cup in the remaining wax. When the tealight burns the metal heats up a bit and melts the remaining wax causing is to release its fragrance. Recently one of the candles I have been enjoying this season stopped burning. The wicks are gone, there is no hope, but there is a huge chunk of wax still left in the tin. And I found some of these HUGE tealights – I am not even sure they are called tealights when they are this size – in my closet that I had purchased and had forgotten about. They are perfect for this tin of wax. It is allowing me to enjoy the fragrance from the candle even though it will not burn any more. This is the number one way I eek out scents.
The other day I was burning a three wick candle that we had inherited from a friend. It doesn’t have a scent. My current favorite candle stopped burning, but it still had a small layer of wax at the bottom of the jar and it still smelled GREAT. Well, I decided to shave the wax into the three wick. Ahhhhh, YES! Success! I was able to smell the scent by having it melt in the three wick candle. YAY! Now I can eek out some more of this lovely winter aroma until I can get to the store to get more.
Not only do I like to continue smelling the fragrance I have enjoyed from candles that stop burning, I feel like I am not wasting so much when I use these methods to get more out of the candle. With the shaving method I will be able to use all the wax, but with the other method I am not sure it will melt away.
If you are really crafty I am sure you can melt the wax from your favorite candles and give them new wicks. I haven’t gotten that determined yet.
So . . . am I the only one that wants to use up the last of that wax and keep smelling the candle scent or do you want to, too?
Remember to follow all instructions on candles and use common sense and be safe when burning candles!
Posted in Misc | Tagged: candle burning, candle ideas, Christmas, great smelling candles, keeping the scent going, metal cupped tealights, tealights, three wick | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 20, 2019
I was thinking of painting some gifts this year, but I waited until the last minute. Not smart. Someone might see their gift here, but probably not. I was happy how they turned out. The glitter is especially fun.
I am sharing my hand painted snowmen candle holders for today’s Friday Photo.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas, Friday Photo, glitter, Hand painted candle holders, red scarf, Snowmen | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 6, 2019
Do you have any movies that you watch over the Holidays? Or movies that you watch for specific events? Last night my husband came home and he said, “Do you want me to wait or should I start the movie without you?” I had forgotten the date so I didn’t know what he was talking about, then he said, “It’s the 5th.” As he was saying it I realized what day it was and what we were going to watch. We had talked about it on Saturday. So we watch V For Vendetta on the 5th of November.
I am listen to a book and their family tradition is to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Thanksgiving. I know, from posts on Facebook from my friends that some people watch Love Actually over the Christmas Holiday.
What about you? Do you have any movie traditions? Do you have movies you watch on specific days or specific events?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Holiday Movies, Love Actually, movie traditions, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Thanksgiving, The 5th of November, V for Vendetta | 12 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on February 1, 2019
Here is a pretty blue ornament I received for Christmas. While it is an ornament, it is not necessarily a Christmas Tree ornament. Not all ornaments are just for the tree. I have this hung in my office. I am not really sure about the “grow true”, but it a heart, it is blue, it is sparkly, it is shiny, and it has an additional blue “gem” in it. I like it. It makes me smile.
Sharing a picture of my blue ornament for my Friday Photo today.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: blue heart, blue ornament, Christmas, Christmas Tree Ornament, Friday Photo, grow true, sparkly blue gem | Leave a Comment »
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