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Each year at Thanksgiving the women in Dan’s family exchange small Christmas gifts – just to get the season started.  These are just fun, little, inexpensive things we each manage to find.  This year I gave everyone a pair of Christmas-y earrings.  Some were little jingle bells, some were little Christmas bulbs.  I always like to have some fun Christmas jewelry to wear and I figured everyone else does, too.

As I was making the earrings, I was disappointed that I didn’t have a pair for Maria.  She loves to dress up and be “fancy” and she would have loved to have been included.  She doesn’t, however, have piereced ears.  Well, it dawned on me as I was browsing at Hobby Lobby the other night, that if they have the makings for pierced ears, then surely they have the makings for clips, too, right?  Some people still wear those, right?

I figured my chances for finding something were slim, but I was not disappointed!  I found some small clips that would work perfectly to make Christmas bulb earrings for Maria.  As soon as I returned home, I showed Maria what I had bought and she was thrilled!  So were the boys, but call me what you will, I did NOT make them any.

Maria pranced around all evening in those earrings.  The base color doesn’t match the gold on the bulb and they’re too big for her.  And the green doesn’t go with her PJ’s in the least, but she didn’t care!

I also managed to capture these pictures that night.  After, of course, I put the Christmas cards in the mail.  I know – there’s only three here instead of all four, but still.  Why can’t they look like this when I want them to?