Putting on the Christmas Tree Star

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When we moved in on Friday night, the Christmas tree was one of the first things to go up. Granted it stood with no lights or decorations for a few days. But it was up! Yesterday Dean came home early for his birthday. Well really he came home early because he had to renew his [...]

Christmas DIY & Decorating Projects

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As you all know we’re moving…in 11 days! So obviously there are no Christmas decorations up at Chez Acheson yet. There will be – in about two weeks – but not yet. But I know loads of you are decking the halls right now, so here is a round up of our past Christmas decorating [...]

Are you ready for this?

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go! I know, I know. I need to apologize to our American readers. You haven’t even had Thanksgiving yet. But we just couldn’t wait. (If you want to go back and look at our fall and Thanksgiving posts, we’ll understand. They’re here, here, here , [...]

Chaos and Christmas Trees

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So the loads-of-potential-but-lacking-everything-else house was the one. We moved in on November 27th. Since the house only had 2 bedrooms and there are five of us, our plan was to turn the original living room into a third bedroom. We could do this because the addition at the back is plenty large enough for a [...]