The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for my blog so I wanted to share it with you!
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 330,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 6 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Click here to see the complete report.
Well that was nifty! Thanks for following along with me fellas 🙂
~Dot
I still have a hard time sleeping on Christmas Eve night. I wake up every 10 minutes and feel like 3 hours have passed… but it is only… 1o minutes. Do any other adults still do that?!?!!? Christmas is so darn exciting!!! I couldn’t wait for my kids to see what was waiting for them:
Such fun!!!
But not as fun as the other surprise!!!
WHITE CHRISTMAS!!! We had a snowfall a week ago but it was almost all gone by Christmas Eve, so we were pretty happy to see it back in action on Christmas Day!
This was my fave thing to see under the tree:
I got such cute little presents from my daughter!
I got her something extra special- and I couldn’t wait to see her reaction:
Her very own button collection!
She loved it so much. I took a video of her reaction since I knew it would be a good one- I will post that when the blasted thing finally uploads haha.
HERE IT IS- (pardon the quality hahaha)
Oh man, she is so silly.
Link was in love with the little mouse puppet I got him!!! He kept walking around saying “Hello, there.” and “High Five” in a leeettle mousey voice!
The neck pillow and slinky were a hit with Asher hahaa. You never know with him!
Captain loved every single thing he got… even his new toothbrush…and doesn’t he look cute in this beaver hat??
I even braved the snow. In ma slippers…
Then proceeded indoors to take photos from the window! Haahah!
I was so happy that it snowed for our family who was in town from Victoria (where it never snows!)
Anyways, I’m off to have my annual Christmas day nap! I hope your day is filled with loveliness!
Merry Christmas!!!
~Dot
If you haven’t seen my simple paper and button Christmas tree garland tutorial– check it out- and notice the part where I said to save your scraps? WELL that is because you can use them to make something equally as awesome!
It was such a beautiful day for Christmas crafting!!!
Here is how I turned some scraps into something beautiful!
All I did was I got a pile of uneven and messy looking triangle and stump scraps that were left over from making my garland, some watered-down white acrylic paint, and a piece of old wood. This happened to be a four foot long 2×6, but you could use anything!
Step 1: Paint some quick and simple hills on the wood with your watered-down paint. I watered it down because I wanted to see the wood peeking through. Oooh, rustic.
Step 2: Glue some trunks onto your green triangles with some plain old white glue. You will be using this glue to stick the trees to the wood as well:
Step 3: Glue the trees to the wood.
Step 4: Add a ‘Merry Christmas’ sticker if you have one kicking around! Or you could paint something or use a stencil… or you could just stick with the trees! That was my original plan! How cute would these trees look with little buttons glued on them like I did on my garland?!?!
Step 5: BABY BUMP!!!!! hehehehe.
Step 6: LET IT SNOW!!! I added some little snowflake cut-outs here and there. You could use spots of paint OR you could even use an evergreen branch to make snowflakes like I did in my Painting With Evergreens tutorial!
Such a pretty winter wonderland!
I’m so happy with this sweet sign, and I found a place of honor for it right away.
I hope this has given you some last-minute Christmas decorating ideas! ONLY FIVE MORE DAYS til the big day!
I don’t know if I’ll be sharing anything else on here until after Christmas, (although I’m sure I will be posting my brains out on Facebook) so MERRY CHRISTMASSSSSS from my family to yours! Wow, our fam seems a lot bigger when you look at us in the form of stockings! Although it is nothing compared to what I grew up with- let’s see if I can dig a photo out of the vault…
So glorious! We had the best Christmases ever- nothing too crazy so we weren’t spoiled brats… but Christmas with a dozen people under one roof is the best experience ever- I’d highly recommend it 😉
I have to say, I’m pretty darn excited to add a new stocking to our fireplace next year 🙂
This baby is already pretty unhappy with the size of his little stocking! Hahaha. Sorry, Link, maybe next year we will upgrade you.
(He was actually cranky because I wouldn’t give him my scissors… so naturally I had to take a photo. Mom of the year.)
Happy CHRISTMASSSSSSSSSSSSING AND CHRISTMASSSSY-NESS !!!!!
~Dot
PS. I HAVE TO SHARE my family’s Santa photo from a couple of years back… think of it as a card from me to you- You are so very welcome for this masterpiece!
Yes we were wearing makeup, and yes we paid our children not to smile. It was so very challenging, but it worked out pretty good huh? We were going for the ‘vintage zombie orphanage’ look.
And on that note,
Merry Christmas… again.
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