I got this idea from my friend Jackie who was trying to figure out how to decorate her tree.  When she was home for Thanksgiving we looked thru magazines and stores getting ideas for her.  It was fun.  That is how I came up with this idea, plus I thought it would be neat for my blog readers to participate in a blog post so here is what you need to do….

Send  an email to jayme@photographybyjayme.com put Christmas Blog in the subject, attach a photo of your tree, an ornament or you could even send me a pic of your Christmas lights outside of your house.  I would rather people not be in the photo so we don’t have to worry about someone’s picture getting posted without their okay.

What I will do is create a blog post that will go up on Christmas Day that will have pictures that are sent to me,  I will put the name of the sender and where they are from along with their photo.

Depending on how giving of a mood I am in, I will send one or two people a gift card for a free session just because I like giving it is almost as much fun as receiving.LOL

Make sure you send it to me by Tues. Dec 22nd at noon central time because I want it all done and ready to go before Christmas.  The post will be made early Christmas morning.

I think this will be lots of fun and neat to see how everyone decorates their tree.  To kick it off here is a photo of my tree.

We have an eclectic theme going on.  Firefighters, angels, stars, snowmen, and lots of homemade ornaments.  The kids did most of the decorating.  Brandon has a bunch piled in one area to the right.  I left it that way.  To me it doesn’t matter as long as the kids had fun and they like it.

We have some meaningful ornaments on our tree, one is a cardinal bird there up top, that is for my Grandma Jernas that is no longer with us, there are a couple from Bob and I first started dating, and a mother-to-be ornament my Aunt gave me when I was expecting Samantha.  There is one of mine dated from 1992 on it.  I like to look at them and think of certain times in our lives and certain people.  Seems like we add at least one new ornament a year to our tree.

This ornament I like because it has a horse on it, and riding horses with my dad is one of my favorite things to do…

I can’t wait to see everyone’s tree.  You have about a week to get this done, but don’t put it off, because I am excited to see pictures.  PS this isn’t a photo contest.  The gift card give away will be totally random.  I will probably just have Brandon look at the pictures and tell me which one he likes.  So I guess if your photo will appeal to a 3 1/2 year old boy that might be an advantage.  LOL

Tags: Indiana Photographer, Northern Indiana Photographer

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