Undecisive: Holiday Cards

I decided against making my own holiday cards this year because I have other DIY plans for the holidays.  Minted is offering 40% to former customers (I did my wedding invites with them) for one product, so I'm highly considering using them again.

The only thing is I can't decide which card!

Jerry likes this one more.  I do too, but I'm worried that it's a bit too cheesy lovey dovey?  I think I've made it clear that I'm not really one for PDA in any shape or form!  Or maybe I'm just being too paranoid.  It is awfully cute!!  And the pale blue is so pretty.

The picture is not as cute, but I like having two picture slots.  And it's "safer." 

I just realized that I could probably solve the snowman card problem by creating a collage out of 2 pictures and uploading it as one image onto the website.  But I'm worried about the quality, picasa tends to lower image quality when making collages, grrr.

I think I'm leaning towards the snowman one...but I don't know!  I'll have to sit on it for a week or so.

My First Real Tree

I've had a fake tree my whole life so it was such a treat this year to get a real tree!

Home Depot has reasonably priced trees.

They smell lovely!

Gotta load them on the cart

Lines weren't too long, we had fun watching other families pick out trees.

Tree needs to be trimmed and prepped

Assembly line style



Jer said that when buying a real tree look for one with a hefty trunk.  It'll be trimmed later, but best to buy one that is big in the first place!

For easy transport

That "tree skirt" is really a vinyl tablecloth from the 99 cent store.  Waterproof, yeah!

Slowly opening up

I bought all my xmas decorations after xmas last year, so they were massively on sale.

I forgot to buy hooks, and I was too lazy to go out, so we used paperclips.  Does the trick!

So pretty! :)

I love clear ornaments with stuff inside.  After xmas I'm going to find clear fill-able ornaments on sale and fill them up with cute stuff!  I'm thinking about making an ornament for every year.

I need to figure out how to show bokeh on the tree.
For those of you who are curious, this is the tree I had growing up.

I still decorate it for my parents every year.  Same ornaments too!  While new things are nice, I also embrace some traditions that haven't changed. :)

Happy holidays!