This year did not disappoint. After a big dinner on Christmas Eve, we went to the 11pm candlelight service, my favorite service of the whole year. It's filled with lots and lots of singing and, of course, candles. I adore it.
The next morning, we went to church again, having been there only nine hours before. Afterwards, it was time to open presents.
(This was my present to MeMe...I was rather proud of the wrapping)
Much to the chagrin of my siblings, I made them wait a few seconds longer while I photographed the wrapped presents before their pretty packaging was ripped off. It probably seemed like an eternity to them at the time, but they got over it ;)
(one of my presents - Japanese masking tape)
(Lightroom! I had been using the trial version, but it expired a few weeks ago. My parents surprised me by buying me the full version! I'm one happy girl.)
After the multitude of presents were unwrapped (which consequently left the living room a disaster despite our best efforts), the rest of the day was spent playing with new things and laughing until we cried. It was a good day.
How was your Christmas? Did you get anything special? Do tell!
-carlotta
It sounds like you had quite a lovely Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I woke up to a white Christmas, played Christmas songs on the piano while my sister and mother laughed in the background and my father cooked breakfast for us, and then we opened up our gifts together next to the tree (in our pj's of course!) I received a lovely HUGE box that contained a CANON REBEL! Yes, I am one happy girl too! =)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a good Christmas, :)! I was entirely shocked when i opened my present to find the 75-300mm lens inside. I had just reached enough money to buy it and then i got it for Christmas! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds fun! I got a new phone this christmas. :) so excited!! Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like you had so much fun! Merry Christmas; though it's slightly late!
ReplyDeleteAnd a very happy New Year to you too:-)
I am glad you had a good Christmas! I got a laptop! It was totally unexpected, since I hadn't even thought about one! But, I am a very happy girl right now! :) I love the wrapping you did. Very beautiful!
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Merry Christmas! You will LOVE LOVE LOVE lightroom...I use it daily! No big gifts here, but my favorite--call me simple--was a camera strap from mod. I'm in love...
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you had a great Christmas! I was so, so, *so* shocked (so very happy!!) to find that I had received a Dell Inspiron One Computer for Christmas! =D
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Sounds like you had a great Christmas! Congrats about Lightroom! :) I got lots of new clothes-yes! :)
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ReplyDeleteOur family room was nightmare too! We are stilling cleaning up today!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great christmas!
God Bless :)
Glad you had a happy Christmas.It's cool that you went to church Christmas morning.I got a external hard drive,which leaves more space for photoshop, yay!:D
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good Christmas. Ours was pretty good. I got some money so I am going to buy a new camera bag and a new lens. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great Christmas! :) That wrapping is beautiful. Love it.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty wrapping! I have to be honest and say that I sad and stared at it for at least 30 seconds wishing mine were that pretty. I do the worst wrapping jobs ever.
ReplyDeleteI am not allowed to wrap anymore because they are so ugly. Thank you gift bags!
I got my Nikon D3000!! (:
So excited and I am so grateful for your help forever ago and for answering all my questions really helped me decided what I wanted! (:
-Mikayla
I love the second picture...It's super cute. You must have a natural flair for decorating and designing stuff like that. :)
ReplyDeleteI got a super cute camera necklace from my grandfather. It's probably my favorite gift ever. I also got a CD that I've been wanting for a while. :)
Lightroom!! Yay! That's going to be my Christmas gift to myself...I'm ordering it tomorrow, and I'm waaaay excited about it!
Merry Christmas! :)
Merry (late) Christmas Carlotta! Sounds like you had a fun one! :) I was thinking about downloading Lightroom for free, just to see if I like it! My sister (a professional photographer) has Lightroom, but since she's a photographer and uses it for her business, I have never asked to use it. Is Lightroom easy to use? Please let me know! That'll help me to determine if I should download it or not!
ReplyDeleteWe had a nive, relaxing Christmas. My parents got me the Cricut Create. I LOVE it! It was TOALLY unexpected!!!
Oh, here's my sister's wevsite, if you wanna take a peek- www.emileefuss.com
Sorry for leaving such a long commment!!!
~Abby♥
Glad you had a great Christmas !
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What a fun time for you! I'm going to post about Christmas at my house if you want to have a look! wwww.rosesandbluebells98.blogspot.com
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~Holly
Oh, the packaging you did is pretty!! And I LOVE that shot of the berry branch... beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas! :)
Sounds lovely! And good job on that packaging.. its beautiful! :) I love bakers twine.
ReplyDeleteAbigail - Lightroom is basically like a (very) advanced version of Picnik. You can download tons of free presets of the internet, as well as create your own. On a scale of one to ten (one being the hardest and ten the easiest), I'd give it about a six. It takes some time figuring everything out, but once you do it's pretty simple. I'd definitely give it a try - or get your sister to help you ;)
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