Christmas Table

Candy and Christmas just go together. I've always loved peppermint stripes at Christmas and found a way to incorporate them into our tablescape this year without purchasing a new tablecloth. We had this round glass table topper for a side table in storage which I drug  out and  cut a matching circle out of heavy-duty Christmas wrapping paper. We dropped the glass topper on top of the paper in the table's center and piled on the candies, candle, and picks.

Let It Snow

Each year in early November, we drag out, dust off, and crank up the Christmas music sound tracks and have Andy Williams and Mannheim Steamroller send us decking our halls. We start early so we can take our time and enjoy the whole experience; plus, we need to be finished by Thanksgiving if we plan to have any Christmas parties.  That's what we are doing now and that's what had me wanting to try digital scrap booking again, too. While under the influence of all that Christmas music, the song "Let It Snow" stuck in my head as a good one to scrap if I could temporarily feign non-existent the South Georgia eighty degree real world temp.

The thing about digital scrap booking that is whipping my butt is allowing some negative space on the page. I tend to pack all my pages so full of junk they just look like a collage. Gotta get a grip on that.