Organizing Christmas Decor

It's that time of year to start taking down all of the beautiful Christmas decorations and putting them back in storage! Is anyone else ready to do this just yet? I just packed up all of my holiday decorations and put them away. It was a bit sad to take everything down but I am very happy to start the new year off with a clean and organized house. I was surprised to find it only took me 3-4 hours over the course of 2 evenings to put everything away. The 1st evening I did everything but our 2 Christmas trees (main and children's) and the 2nd evening I had lots of help from the littles in taking the trees down (thanks kids!).

Ultimate Gift Guide for Men

Hello Friends! Can you believe Christmas is just 15 days away?! I am so close to being done with my Christmas shopping!!! Are you? I only have gifts for my dad and brother left to buy and it is so hard! I think shopping for men is always so challenging. Do you feel the same way? 

Well, if you do, than today's post is just for you! It is the Ultimate Gift Guide for Men! Cue the excitement bells! It is a post that will hopefully help you find the best gifts for all the menfolk you are buying gifts for this year. As men are usually the hardest people to buy for (just get me t-shirts and socks!), I feel like this is a very appropriate post to do right now.

If you are looking for more gift ideas, check out the Ultimate Gift Guides - These are packed full of great gift ideas for every single person on your list!

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Women

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Kids

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Toddlers

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Babies

The Ultimate Christmas Decorating Guide

Ultimate Gift Guide for Toddlers

Who has started their Christmas shopping yet? Who is ready to start shopping?! Who feels a bit overwhelmed or has no idea where to start?! Well, this is the PERFECT gift guide for you! I have rounded up a ton of gift ideas for toddler and early elementary boys and girls! Fingers crossed that they help you with your holiday shopping! 

Have you checked out the other Ultimate gift guides yet? 

The Ultimate Guide to Decorating for Christmas

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Women

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Kids

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Babies

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Men

Each one is packed with tons of ideas for everyone on your Christmas lists!

Ultimate Gift Guide for Kids

It's officially Christmas time!!!!! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by love, family, friends, and food! I actually had 2 Thanksgiving dinners at my house this year, the 2nd was totally unplanned but it worked. I also had a fabulous 2 hour nap to top it off. That was wonderful! 

Now it is full steam ahead for Christmas! All the gift shopping, buying, wrapping, and giving can be stressful trying to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list, which is why I am putting together the ultimate gift guides for Christmas! My hope is that they give you ideas for each and every person on your gift buying list and that it's helpful to you during the busy holiday season. 

Ultimate Guide to Decorating for Christmas

Ultimate Gift Guide for Women

Ultimate Gift Guide for Men

Ultimate Gift Guide for Babies

Ultimate Gift Guide for Toddlers

Ultimate Gift Guide for Women

Christmastime is here!!! Or at least, shopping for Christmas is here! I have put a gift guide for women together to start us off with Christmas shopping. This is the first of many, ultimate gift guides that I am putting together for you to help you with your Christmas shopping this season. Because lets face it, sometimes we need a little help in picking out that perfect gift for someone special on our list. My hope is that you find these gift guides incredibly helpful to you and that it is a resource that you'll be able to use this holiday season. 

I have several gift guides coming  - men, babies, toddlers, kids, and stocking stuffers! Be on the lookout for each one of those in the coming days. I put together a decorating guide earlier in the week, make sure to check that out as well. You can also subscribe to the blog so that you don't miss a single gift guide. Trust me, they are all so incredibly good and packed full of awesome and affordable gift ideas!

The Ultimate Gift Guides

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Men

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Babies

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Toddlers

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Kids

The Ultimate Guide to Christmas Decorating

Ultimate Guide to Decorating For Christmas

Hello friends!! Can you believe that the holidays are almost upon us?! Christmas is my very favorite holiday. I love every single thing about it! The gift buying, wrapping, and giving. The lights, the parties, the food, the decorating, and of course spending quality time with friends and family! What more could a girl ask for?

I know the holidays can be a stressful time with all the things that we have to get done before Thanksgiving and Christmas rolls around, which is why I created a free Christmas planner with you in mind! I highly recommend you download it and fill it out this week! There is still time for you to do the 15 days to an organized Christmas if you want more step by step guidance as well. But make sure you get the Christmas planner now and get started jotting down all the holiday  to-do's!

Christmas Countdown Calendar

Today is December 1st! It means that we are officially starting the countdown to Christmas. I can't really believe it myself. Christmas is in 24 days. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I've gotten a really great start on my shopping but not quite done yet. I'm also just about done with my Christmas decorating. Have you seen all the cute things that Target has for Christmas? 

Christmas Favorites At Target

Since it is officially past Thanksgiving, it is now time to start the Christmas decorating and turn on the Christmas music! I am about 95% done with my decorating and only have a couple of things left to do before calling it done for the Christmas season! Have you started yours yet? 

If you are looking to brighten up your Christmas decorations with a couple of things that take a look at Target. Target is one of my go-to stores for seasonal decorating. (Like with my fall Target decorating picks) I was just in there last week and y'all, they have so many cute holiday decor items! I was oohing and awing my whole way through the store. I ended up with this trio of bottlebrush trees, a paper Joy wreath, and a couple of other cute things from the dollar one spot.

The Master List of Affordable Gift Ideas

Welcome back to the 15 days to an organized Christmas! Today is day 15, which means that this is the last post in this series! Now that we've gone through 14 days of things to do to get you ready, organized, and prepared for Christmas in advance, I thought it would be fun to close off this 15 day series with some shopping! But before I get too ahead of myself, let me do a quick recap on all the different things you have done over the last 15 days. Because you are amazing! Simply amazing! You are so ready for the holidays to start because you have a solid plan in place of how your Christmas is going to be this year. Way to go!

Come up with a simple cleaning plan

Welcome back to day 14 in the 15 days to an organized Christmas! Thank you for joining us today. If you have been following along this entire 15 day series, you are awesome! You are going to be ready for the busy Christmas season to start. For those of you who are just now joining us, here is a quick summery of everything we've talked about so far.

What Needs to Be Organized & Deep Cleaned?

Welcome back to another day in the 15 days to an organized Christmas! Can you believe we are already on day 13 with only 2 more days to go?! You can see that by doing a simple task each day, you can be ready well before Christmas gets here. This in turn allows you to enjoy the holidays instead of rushing through them. It also puts you in charge of your holiday season instead of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out! As the saying goes, if you fail to plan than you've planned to fail.

Set Up a Gift Wrapping Station

Welcome back to day 12 in the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas! For the last several days, we have been talking about different things that you can do now that will get you organized and ready for the upcoming Christmas. On day 1, you downloaded a pretty Christmas planner and organized everything in one location. Than you filled out your December calendar with all your social events and made a to-do list. Next, you decided on your Christmas budget and who you are buying gifts for. Then you brainstormed for gift ideas for those on your gift list. On day 5, you made decisions about your Christmas cards and picked the day that you are sending them out. You then made out a list of the different crafts that you want to make this holiday season and all the traditions and activities that your family will be a part of this year. You decided on your Christmas baking and gathered the recipes up. You also made a menu plan for Christmas dinner and a shopping list to go with it. You made black Friday and cyber Monday lists. Lastly, you made a plan of what you are going to decorate this year.

Make a Plan to Decorate the House for Christmas

Welcome back to day 11 of 15 Days to an Organized Christmas. We have been taking 15 days to talk about all things related to Christmas and what we can do now to start getting ready for the upcoming holidays. You have taken 15 minuets each day to do a small task like deciding on a Christmas spending budget or writing out what crafts you are making this year. To help keep you all organized, I made a Christmas planner that you can download for free and use throughout the holiday season!

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Shopping

Welcome back to the 10th day in the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas! For the past 9 days, we have talked about all the things that you need to do right now in order to get prepared for the upcoming holidays. On day 1, I gave you a beautiful Christmas planner (you can get it right here if you still need it!) and we have been busy bees filling it out list by list over the last several days.

Plan Out Your Christmas Dinner

It is day 9 of the 15 Day's to and Organized Christmas challenge and today is all about that yummy Christmas dinner! But just a quick recap for those of you who are new and are just now joining us.

We are taking 15 days to get organized and prepared for Christmas. So far you have a festive Christmas planner all organized in a binder (download yours right here!), the December calendar and Christmas to-do list are both filled out, you know what your Christmas budget is and exactly what you can spend and who to spend it on. You have started brainstorming for Christmas gift ideas, you started gathering up addresses for Christmas cards, you have written down what Christmas traditions and activities that you are doing this year, you have written down what crafts you are making and have a shopping list for needed items, and you have already written down your Christmas baking list and gathered the recipes together.

Plan Out Your Christmas Baking

Welcome back to day 8 of the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas series! I am so glad that you are here! Because you are taking the time right now to plan out your Christmas, you are going to enjoy the holidays so much more because you won't be rushing around trying to fit everything in!

For those of you who are new, we are taking 15 days to get ourselves organized and ready for the upcoming holiday season. You started by gathering all of the supplies that you need for Christmas and organizing them into a binder. You downloaded the free Christmas planner to keep all of your lists, budget, gift lists, and everything else in. You know what social activities and events are going on and already wrote out a Christmas to-do list. You know the exactly amount you can spend for Christmas and have that budget in place. You know who you'll need to buy gifts for this year, you have a master list of gift ideas, and you've already compiled the list of addresses to send your Christmas cards too. You also have lists of traditions and activities that your family will do this year and you also have a list of crafts that you want to make this year with a shopping list for those crafts. You are getting closer and closer to having everything ready for the holidays! Today we talk all about baking yummy Christmas treats.

Crafts to Make for the Christmas Season

Hello there and welcome back to day 7 of our 15 Days to an Organized Christmas! At this point, we have gotten ready for Christmas by having all of our thoughts complied into the Christmas planner (get your free planner right here if you still need to!) and know exactly where everything is concerning Christmas. You have the month of December planned out along with a master to-do list. You know what your Christmas budget is and how much you can spend on each person, you have a Christmas gift ideas list going, you've decided if you are sending out Christmas cards and when it'll happen, and you have a written list of what Christmas traditions and activities that you are going to partake in this Christmas season as well. Things are looking pretty good! You have a plan in place and and will know exactly what to do and when you are supposed to do it! If you've missed a day in this 15 day series, than you can get caught up right here.

Christmas Traditions and Activities

Welcome back to day 6 of 15 Days to an Organized Christmas! We are taking the next 15 days to get ourselves ready for Christmas by doing a smaller task or two each day for 15 days. So far you have an awesome Christmas Planner that has everything all compiled together in one place, you know exactly what activities are taking place because you've filled out the entire month of December. You have a master to-do list that you've written out. You know exactly what your Christmas budget is and how much you are spending on each person. You have brainstormed gift ideas for those on your gift list. You also have started compiling your address and getting your Christmas cards ready way before December gets here! Good for you! Way to go! You are well on your way to having an organized and stress-free Christmas! If you are just now joining us you can get caught up right here. Today is all about Christmas traditions and activities that you will do during the entire Christmas season.

Get Your Christmas Cards Ready For Christmas

 

Welcome back to another day in the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas series! Getting ready for Christmas can be a challenge, but it doesn't have to be that way. If you do things step by step and have a written plan than you can plan to do just about anything and get it all done. That is what this series is all about. So far you have put together a Christmas planner, you have the month of December filled out with all the different activities taking place & you have your to-do list written down (remember to keep adding to it as you think of things), you know how much you can spend because your Christmas budget is in place, and you've brainstormed different gift ideas for those on your gift giving list. If you are just now joining us in the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas, you can get caught up right here.

Get Organized for Christmas by Thinking About Your Gift List

Welcome back to the 15 Days to an Organized Christmas series! So far we I have given you a free Christmas planner that we have gotten organized and all put together. We have also filled in the upcoming month of December, you know what tasks you have to do during the busy holiday season, and you know exactly how much you can spend and who to buy for because we did the Christmas budget yesterday. So today is all about gifts!  If you missed anything in this organizing series than you can catch up here.