{"id":5416,"date":"2013-11-09T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:09:00","slug":"christmas-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/christmas-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it is nearly Christmas? Over the past few years I\u2019ve done a series of posts about Christmas but this year I think I\u2019ll do things a little different.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m following along with Organised Housewife and her <a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/2013-organise-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Organise Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Series<\/a> so will be posting how I am going with that; sharing stuff I find on Pinterest and maybe, just maybe, sharing what I am making this year. Oh and the adventures of our Elf on the Shelf. Think Miss K is old enough now \u2013 if she hates it we probably won\u2019t do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways onto what I\u2019ve been up to in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Monday saw the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/2013-organise-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Organise Yourself A Merry Little Christmas <\/a>(&amp; it was our wedding anniversary) and I didn\u2019t do anything. Tuesday came around and I got stuck in\u2026.<br \/>(days link to the posts \u2013 go check them out)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/organised-christmas-2013-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 1<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>Christmas task: I printed out the pages I use for my Christmas planner and put them in my diary \u2013 the one place I know no one else looks. I\u2019ve even put in my diary (&amp; on my phone &amp; the main calendar) all the important dates &amp; events over Christmas like the day-care Christmas event, local Christmas parades, Christmas meals with friends.<br \/>Household task: cleaned &amp; decluttered bedroom surfaces<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1168651_202598736591789_878885933_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1168651_202598736591789_878885933_n\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1168651_202598736591789_878885933_n\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1168651_202598736591789_878885933_n_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/organised-christmas-2013-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 2<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>Christmas task: Created our Christmas station \u2013 well in reality it\u2019s a box with all my wrapping paper, sticky tape, tags and present bags<br \/>Household task: Lucky for me I\u2019d recently decluttered our laundry cupboard but I did give it a quick tidy up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2069\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2069\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2069_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/organised-christmas-2013-day-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 3<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>Christmas task: Christmas cards. I\u2019ll most likely buy some through <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixinternationalcharity.org\/australia\/charity-christmas-cards\/ovarian_cancer_christmas_cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Trading<\/a> as 50% of the money raised through Christmas card sales in 2013, will be donated to Ovarian Cancer Australia. So yay, supporting a charity I like to give as much to as I can<br \/>Household task: Declutter the lounge \u2013 this took ages as we\u2019ve been using it as a bit of dumping ground lately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2070\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2070\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2070_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/organised-christmas-2013-day-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 4<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>Christmas task: Set up your advent list. I love buying little bits and pieces for our advent calendar through the year. I\u2019ve created some printables that I\u2019ll cut out and use too on a couple of days. I\u2019ll be sharing my list in a couple of days so look out for it \ud83d\ude42<br \/>Household task: Declutter the pantry. I found this hard as I really, really wanted to pull everything out and reorganise. I did get rid of a few things that were out of date and have grouped stuff that is nearly out of date so I use it soon. There\u2019s no after pic as I didn\u2019t tidy it at all \u2013 as much as I wanted too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2051\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2051\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2051_thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorganisedhousewife.com.au\/holiday-seasons\/christmas\/organised-christmas-2013-day-5-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 5<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>Christmas task:&nbsp; Set up a gift wrapping container. Already done. I like to keep all my Christmassy bits together in one spot \u2013 on top of our wardrobe, out of reach of little prying eyes. <br \/>Household task: Declutter bathroom surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2073\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2073\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2073_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it is nearly Christmas? Over the past few years I\u2019ve done a series of posts about Christmas but this year I think I\u2019ll do things a little different. I\u2019m following along with Organised Housewife and her 2013 Organise Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Series so will be posting how I am going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/christmas-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-house","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}