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Christmas Cheer

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It’s very Christmasy over at the Tong residence these days.

I realized that I never really took many pictures of the rest of the decorations, shame on me, for our first Christmas together, too! I’m a terrible wife. At least terrible about documenting anyway, at least it got decorated!

Our teensy tree. It’s super tiny, but we loaded it down with ornaments. We actually spent this evening with P’s parents looking through old boxes or ornaments and trying to figure out which ones were his. We came home with a pretty cute assortment of random old ornaments (Including a glass Energizer Bunny?)

Some Christmassy lighting

I also made another set of snowflakes for an ornament exchange at work

*** Don’t forget, there are still 2 more days to enter into the giveaway if you haven’t still!***

Giveaway!

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So, I thought I might shake things up a bit and host a teensy little giveaway! So, here’s the deal. Leave a comment for a chance to WIN BIG! The prize is the Martha Neck Scarf.

You can also add another vote for yourself by linking this on your blog, just leave me another comment telling me you’ve done so. Your choice of color and of course it’ll take me a week or so to get it out to you. Any color, stripes, whatever you want!

These scarves are cute, fun and warm, and super fashionable.

The giveaway will be open until next Thursday (Dec. 24th) 5:00 pm, so make sure to leave your comments and tell your friends!

So excited.

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The Shalom Sweater is in the home stretch! I am done with the body and already done with one sleeve! I am so excited to be done with this so I can work on more projects! (I have made myself not work on anything else but this, just because it HAS to be done for Erika’s Christmas present.)

But, also!!! There is a bunch more Cascade Yarn leftover, I may just need to make a little sompin’ sompin’ for myself. The problem being WHAT to make. So many ideas, so little time. Well, time and funds.

It’s snowing!

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Well, not outside, but it is in my house! Remember those snowflakes I was making last week? Well, I made a few more and decided to do something with them. You can look up crocheted snowflake patterns online, but I thought it might be more fun to just make one up. They were a little too… soft? looking, in my opinion.

Eh, who likes soggy snowflakes?

So I went to the store and picked up some Heavy Duty Laundry Starch and pinned them just so, and really laid it on thick.

Seriously, I doused these suckers with starch. And they are the better for it. Trust me.

A view from the living room into the kitchen

From the kitchen into the living room (don’t mind the pine needles on the carpet, or the pillows/blankets stacked high in the chair… it’s COLD here, we need those blankets it we stop moving!)

I don’t really have any decorations in any other rooms but the living room, so it kind of makes it feel like more of the house is decorated this way.

And by the way, the Shalom Sweater is coming along very nicely.

The hard part is done, now it’s just knitting straight rows and purling straight rows. I am glad that the triple yoke is done.

Tomorrow is our six month anniversary and I can’t even believe it! SIX months we’ve been together here in Moscow.

It’s been an awesome six months, and I can’t wait for the next sixty years.

Merry Christmas!

Brr and yikes.

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It’s cold here. I mean, really cold here. Like, possibly in the negative degrees this week. Today it was 7. Yes, 7 degrees. Brr! We woke up to a pretty thick sheet of ice INSIDE the windows.

Ok, so it’s kind of pretty, but really? INSIDE?

The First Tong Christmas

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I wasn’t about to let some stupid shoulder injury keep me from decorating for Christmas, so today Paul and I went all out and got the house decorated (and kind of torn apart in the process. We’re purging some of our bigger items and made room for a Christmas tree (although it’s a tiny one)

Even the wheel got some Christmas Lovin’

Our very first Christmas tree!

A few of my favorite ornaments

I also made a few crochet snowflakes, and I’m planning on making a garland to hang between the kitchen and the living room.

I think I am going to block them and starch them so that they hang a bit nicer and not as bunchy. But we’ll see if I get around to it. I only have 3 done so far, but they are pretty quick and easy.

Merry Christmas!