Slices of Life

 I began making my own photo challenges for each season; I often consul with other photo challenges on Pinterest and pick and choose those prompts that I think I will have a somewhat easy time fulfilling. I always have the intent that I'll take beautiful photos with my camera, lining up the shot just so but more often than not I treat these challenges much like the 52 book challenge. That is to say I take photos and ten see which ones fit which prompts AFTER the fact.    Autumn Leaf Music    Fog Pumpkin Yellow  Delicious Fall is Night Lights Loud Peaceful Frost Books Candle   Outside Trees  Flowers Recipe Animal Wild      Feast   Christmas lights   Linking up with:  

 We took one single year off from celebrating Christmas and that made it so much harder to decorate this year. We could not remember where much of our decorations used to go; adding in the help of my husband and Ian and I was pretty blazé about the whole thing this year. I think the house still looks fabulous though. And best of all it took us under an hour and half to get it all done!  Front Door:   Front entry way:  one of my high school friends and her husband made this reindeer for us our first Christmas in this house before we even had kids!  The sleigh my grandmother painted by hand is on the side of our bench on prominent display and the metal wreath will get filled in with holiday cards as they arrive. My candy cane wreath went on the back of the front door this year  Our great room:   I had fun tucking all sorts of little decorations in with my plants  The kitchen just got a few small touches:  Our formal living/dining room:  Ba...