My Christmas In July Infatuation

My newest Temp-tations…

Hmmm….what shall I do with these beauties? I have yet to bake in them! Here it is July 1st and you know what that means, or maybe you don’t? QVC Christmas in July! I blogged about this last year. I get it! I get the concept of doing a big promotion of Christmas goods in July! I am a Gram to 7 G-Kids. I am now raising one of those kids and my teenager. Getting started on shopping for Christmas early, only makes sense! Budgeting between decor and gifts just makes sense!  By Christmas this year, our adoption of Alissa will probably be done. I think she will get a kick out of all the decorating that we do. She has never been a part of Christmas with us. We have always taken gifts to her but she has not been here with us. I’m thinking that she is really going to enjoy our first Christmas together! I will try to ensure that Alissa enjoys this holiday season.

My tradition has been to bake a gingerbread candy cake rather than a gingerbread house. I bake this for our big Christmas family get together. The G-kids seem to look forward to it.

Alissa asked me the other day if she could do a Christmas song with me for my YouTube channel. I thought that was precious and I look forward to doing that. Another benefit of thinking about and planning for Christmas in July, plenty of time to learn a song together!

The Many Hats We Wear, Mine Is Of Christmas Elf Today.

It is shaping up to be a busy week! I have been decorating, shopping, wrapping, visiting and today, baking! I will be baking like a mad fool for the remainder of the week. I am making loaves of bread to go along with my warm and cozy gift platter theme. I bought hot chocolate, international coffees, tea and assorted nice jams.

The only thing missing is the bread that I am going to bake later in the week. I am also going to throw in a movie for each family.
As you can probably see, I bought these Christmasy platters at the dollar store. You can of course buy very nice ceramic or glass platters. This is just a cozy platter for my own family.

I have plenty of baking ahead today. I am making several different cookies for my friends and relatives. I fully enjoy the opportunity to bake, decorate and spread good cheer. If I could create a paid position for myself it would be in the realm of good will ambassador lol.
I leave you with this link… My yuletide video Christmas greeting…I’ll Be Home For Christmas

So, This Is Christmas…What. A Day…

I spent the day trying to post my latest cover song, So This is Christmas written by John Lennon. I had a frustrating time of it . I had a fly harass me. The tormentor was landing on my mic and my nose lol. I bet the outakes are funny. I found this fly highly annoying lol! It was comical I’m sure. I finally got a decent two covers done, uploaded and posted. You can see my need for better equipment to record with lol. I only have a week left on my FundMe project. Lol, I tried!

I also posted a cover of  I’ll Be Home For Christmas written by Bing Crosby.

 

All and all the day went fast and I feel that I have achieved my goal of posting two different Christmas cover songs. Both of these covers are near and dear to my heart as I arranged them and tried to make them my own!

I am looking forward to baking and getting my gift platters assembled for gift giving. I have really been enjoying the spirit of the season this year. I hope you are as well!