Holiday Photo Diary

Painting progress: Glitter and finishing touches to her little peppermint wonderland.

So many little faces in the studio.

Hot chocolate!

Pretty Mab Graves Christmas card from my beautiful friend and Editor-in-Chief at beautiful.bizarre. Thank you, Danijela! I love it!

After a long day of last minute Christmas shopping, this was my snuggle time view.

Calorie free goodies and antique polkadot mushrooms trimming our tree.

We had a wonderful Christmas filled with love, happiness, and complete silliness... there was also a lot of kitchen dancing to a musical soap dispenser that Alex and I confiscated from Mom's house. I'm so grateful for every cherished moment.

Comments

Allison said…

I love all of these pictures and hearing about how you spent the holiday season. Your preparations are gorgeous, that hot chocolate looks delicious, and I'm glad there was lots of dancing in the kitchen! xox and Merry Christmas, dear Bella!

11:25 AM

Daisy said…

I love seeing your work, it's beautiful and I simply can't get over it! I really enjoyed seeing these photos and was pleased that I'm not the only one who enjoys decorating my Christmas tree with mushrooms.

1:52 PM

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