I survived Thanksgiving! Hope you did too! Our Xmas decorations are in full swing now given that according to my 6 year old, there are 26 more days til Xmas. This was a Pinspiration. I found something similar on Pinterest but now I can't for the life of me find the pin to show you. I believe the pinner used metal letters to create their banner. Mine are wood (from A.C. Moore) but I painted...
Image courtesy The36thAvenue.com Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving! Jeanine ...
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Of Snow Globes & Cloches
Brrrrrr...it's been bitterly cold here and we're waiting to hear if we're going to be hit by this crazy storm that is headed towards the East Coast. Since the theme of the day seems to be snow, I thought I'd share some of my wintery snow globes and Christmas cloches. I have these all about the house this year. This one is housing a glittery church ornament I picked up at Walmart. No, that is...
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Petite Christmas Vignette
I love dressing up this vintage school desk we have in our diningroom. Of course, 'tis the season for some Christmas touches. I did a Pottery Barn knock-off with the noel letters. I've been wanting to do it for literally two years. I finally remembered to pick up the letters during my last trip to A.C. Moore. The snowman and reindeer are from Home Goods. I made the framed holiday sheet music using a graphic...
We have this itty bitty piece of wall in our livingroom. It's hard to dress up because it is just so, well, small. It is, however, the perfect size for these JOY picture frames. I picked up the frames at our local Dollar store. Never mind that candleholder sticking out. It's on the opposite wall and I just couldn't get a good camera angle with it there. You can see it below too - doh!...
I always have a bunch of Dollar store prayer candles lying around. Each year, I try to do a new style for Xmas. This year, I started by wrapping each candle in vintage sheet music. I picked up the glitter stars from Michael's. They are self-sticking so I added one to the front of each candle. I added some rhinestone bling above the stars. If you remember, I picked up a French dictionary over...
I was able to hit a couple of garage sales this weekend. The season seems to be winding down here so it was slim pickings. I did find a bunch of holiday items. A white ceramic Xmas tree, another wreath, gingerbread prims and some vintage glass ornaments. I really love this tree. You probably can't tell but it's a little sparkly. Not sure if I'm going to leave it as is or dress it up....
I popped into our local Dollar store earlier this week. They had these adorable reindeer ornaments. I scooped up two and gave them a quick Xmas makeover. You've probably seen similar reindeer on Pinterest. I know, I myself, pinned a few different glitter versions. For mine, I snipped off the cord that you would hang them with. Then, I printed off the words wish and believe using my favorite carnival font from DaFont.com onto plain...
I never realized how late Thanksgiving was this year. Quite funny that our holiday decorations will be going up before turkey day. I don't think that's ever happened before. Anywho, I was tinkering with some skeleton keys over the weekend and decided to make some into Christmas ornaments. I chose some festive ribbon to start. Then one by one, I started adding little embellishments to each one. I hand-stamped the Joyeux Noel onto plain white...
I have to thank my sister Kathy for pinning this great technical drawing of a Lego onto Pinterest. My boys are both Lego fanatics and I knew they would love something like this for their rooms. The one that was pinned, I believe was from Gilt.com and was $65. Ouch! My version cost about $4. I picked up the frame from our local church thrift store for $1. I spray painted it black and cleaned...
One of our local churches - literally steps away from our house - had its annual country fair yesterday. I popped in and scored some great goodies! I scooped up some vintage books, some ornate wine stoppers, a Santa ornament and a bag of vintage calendar pieces. And... A Frenchy jug (originally held chocolate malted balls) and a vintage mini muffin cutter (I'm guessing that's what it is - see it with the wood handle?)....
For some reason, I'm wild about reindeer this year. I've never used them in my holiday decorating before but there is so much cuteness out there that I can't resist. I made this super easy reindeer print using a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy. I printed it onto some craft paper I picked up at Michael's for 29 cents. The frame is from the Dollar Store. Using the same image, I made some tags...
Although I'm definitely not ready for snow, found this little cutie in the $1 aisle at Target yesterday. They have some really adorable stuff this year. Check it out next time you're at Target! Jeanine ...
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Upcycled Santas
Away went the Halloween decorations and out came the Xmas decorations this weekend. No, just kidding! Although I did hear Xmas music on the radio already, which was perfect for my trio of upcycled Santas. Well, the Santas themselves aren't quite upcycled. The pieces I used to make them are: a Pringles canister, an old Hershey's tin and a random tin we had floating around the house. I really love how this guy turned out....
Hope everyone survived the madness of Halloween. If I never see another piece of candy again, I would be quite happy! I'm still getting over a nasty sinus infection so I didn't have much time to craft this week. I did, however, finish up this wood tray that I started painting last week. I had picked up the tray at our local church thrift store. It was an ugly brown so first thing was to...
