merry christmas cards

Last year James & I made our first Christmas cards as a couple & well, ever. So we decided that it would be fun to do it again!
Earlier this month on a Saturday evening we headed up to the state park to take some photos to pick from & although they were pretty in color I couldn't get away from switching them to black & white. So simple, so easy & really... that's what we're all about.
I absolutely loved designing these cards. So much so that I'm considering adding custom card designs to my services.
So lock that tidbit in your back pocket for next year (if you are interested!).
In all seriousness though, everyone knows that BLOOPERS are the best part :)   Happy Holidays guys! xoxohannah

DIY Advent Calendar

Over the weekend (we are slackers) James and I put together our first Advent Calendar. We may have been super excited to open two in one day because we were late getting it up. We had a ton of fun picking out candy, toys, and things to do for this. We even got scratchers because we live in a lottery state (growing up in Vegas means you have to drive to California or Arizona for lottery.)

We decided to make it super quick and easy. We used red paper lunch sacks, twine and cardboard to make these. Each bag has a cardboard tag with the number of days in cardboard chips. Day 1 has one, Day 2 has two... Day 20 has twenty, etc. A little time consuming, but it got the job done.

They ended up looking like upside down Christmas trees because the heavy ones were being difficult but I like it anyway :) This is our first Advent Calendar and I am so excited to countdown the days until Christmas! I hope everyone has something special planned this holiday season, even if you don't celebrate Christmas.

xoxohannah

**Note to self, just because it says Bubble Gum doesn't mean it is. If it's liquid, it's probably kids bubble bath. DOH! Oh well, it was Transformers and Spiderman shaped, I couldn't help it.**

a peep of my christmas

Today I'm foregoing Teal Tuesday (gasp! haha) so that I can share with you a little peep of my Christmas. We flew back to Vegas this year to see my Dad, brother and James' family, along with our old friends.

James' mom goes all out with her decorations around the house and here is a peek of my favorite and the most beautiful ones :)



















I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday with family and friends! If you have any awesome decorations I would love to see :) So link them up in the comments!

xoxohannah

our first christmas card

Being that it is our first year on our own I talked James into taking "Christmas Card" photos. I figured that it was only fair to show you guys the best of the best... We did take over 500 photos after all. It would be a waste not to show off our awesome photo taking skills! lol




I will forever, always be pushing up my glasses. 100% nerd status over here. I love it, truth be told :)



See... nerd status. Running strong at 100% and climbing. I make an awesome monkey face though, right?





We did a dance, had a tickle fight. The beer was inevitable. Really it's the best choice we made all day.



Don't ask what that face is below. I couldn't tell you if I tried.




This is the picture we ended up choosing. I think it was by far the best one because as soon as we saw it we both shouted out, "That's the one!!!".


                    Beer,

                          Thank you for making our first Christmas card perfect, possible, and
                    totally natural! I really can't thank you enough.

                   Love, 
                   Hannah 

We spent a great afternoon taking pictures and laughing our butts off. A memory I will definitely keep in our scrapbooks of 2011.





After we got that figured out we added a signature in Photoshop, got our prints made and I went to work on our card. All in all, it was a success. I am so proud of our first card and I hope that we have many more to come!

Have you guys sent out Christmas cards yet? 

If you made your own and did a post about it or have pictures I would love, love, love to see :)

I love to stalk other peoples Christmas cards for ideas and inspiration!

xoxohannah