Christmakkah

Good Morning! New York during the holidays is such a beautiful place to be. Everyone really gets in the spirit here; Department stores go all out with decorating their windows, restaurants light up their windows and adorn their dining rooms, and of course there is the massive tree in rockefeller center. I LOVE all the excitement, the sound of bells and honking from pissed off cab drivers because there are too many out of state drivers who don't know how to drive. There is so much to see, do and buy (the sales are great!)

Tonight will be the 4th night of Hanukkah, and even though I'm Jewish, I love Christmas. I have always been jealous of my Catholic friends who have a big tree and get to decorate it with beautiful ornaments, and the presents under their trees!! Ughs, I bet that was so much fun waking up on Christmas morning and getting to open up all those gifts. Things have changed since I've lived on my own from my parents and I'm gonna come clean to them, over the past few years I have bought a Christmas tree for our apartment, sorry Dad, but I can't help walking past all the trees they sell across the street in front of CVS everyday without buying one. But you'll be glad to know that I have blue and white ornaments that I hang on the tree. I also have ornaments I've made for it as well. This year I didn't end up getting a tree because I was so busy scrapbooking and blogging. However I found a new passion for the holiday season and that is my Christmas Card making :) For a Jew I think I'm pretty good, lol.
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Every month I get a scrapbook kit from www.mycreativescrapbook.com
December's kit clearly was a "Christmas" kit. I figured what else was I gonna do, I don't exactly have any Christmas pictures to make Layouts with. I am going to my brother and sister in laws for Christmas eve, so it may after all turn out that I'll have some pictures to scrap.

I took a trip to Kate's Paperie yesterday, I've mentioned this place in my other posts, www.katespaperie.com they have several locations in manhattan. So I went up there, picked out a few things to buy, a photo album for my mother for Hanukkah, a photo puncher that makes the edges of your photos round, a few embellishments, and some letter stickers. I get up to the register and I forgot my wallet, ANNOYING! I told her to hold my stuff but I never went back, maybe tonight I'll have a chance. This place is so overpriced, but when you live on the upper east side as I do, the scrapbook retailers are limited, and when its pouring rain as it was, your not gonna travel any further to satisfy the urge to buy. I took a couple photos of the inside, even though your not allowed to take pictures.


xoxo
-Scrapaholic