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My mom gave me a cute holiday book over the weekend: Deck the Halls from Country Living magazine.  It has a ton of adorable holiday ideas and pages that you can rip out, cut and use for decorations.  I spied a Santa and reindeer silhouette, and thought they'd look great in some of the glass ornament bulbs I got over the summer at a garage sale.
First, I scanned the tag images so I wouldn't have to cut the originals.  I printed them out on regular white paper.  Then I used my Cricut to cut them into an oval shape - to make them easier to add to each bulb.
I rolled them into a scroll to get them in, and then used splinter tweezers to un-curl them.  Next, I added some faux snow to the bottom of each bulb.  Tie on some tea-stained seam binding for a cute bow and then some baker's twine in red/white so they can be hung from the tree.
While I was at it, I used some miniature bottle brush trees for some simple ornaments too.  I used Glue Dots to secure them to the bottoms of each bulb, the splinter tweezers to get them in, and then added some faux snow.  I decided to skip the seam binding for these, and just added the baker's twine so we could hang them.

Super duper easy to make each of these! 

Linking to Between Naps on the Porch: Met Monday.

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I've been wanting to make these Anthropologie knock-off mason jars since last year!  You've probably seen them all around Pinterest.  While we were without power, I decided to make some - by flashlight.  =)
They are super easy to make.  You just need some mason jars, faux snow and mini bottle brush trees.  I fixed my trees to the bottoms of the jar lids using Glue Dots.
I added my faux snow to the jar itself.  Then I turned it upside down and screwed in the top (the trees will be upside down).  Then turn it rightside up for the snow to fall and done!  Can't wait to put these out for Xmas.
Meanwhile, this is the tree that narrowly missed our house during the storm.  It was a mere 8 feet from the house.  It brought the utility pole down with it which was terrifying.  The wires were in front of our house for almost 2 weeks.  My father-in-law's house sadly got flooded.  I salvaged some of my husband's mom's religious statues.
I knew she'd want them to be saved.  Hard to believe we are back to normal - thankfully!

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After searching just about every Dollar Tree in a 10 mile radius for bottle brush trees, I was just about to give up.  Luckily, I popped into Home Goods this morning and lookie what they had:
I'm so happy that I found these two pretties!  And I love the fact that I really don't have to do anything to them.  Right now they are on a shelf in my livingroom - right next to a Dollar Store birdie I picked up last year.
I also couldn't resist these little books this morning.  They were only $4.99 each.  I have them stacked on the diningroom table for now.
These are some other Xmas goodies I picked up from Home Goods last year. 
And here's a view of my Xmas kitchen window shelf which is kind of like a make-shift mantel since I don't have one:
A lot more Home Goods goodies from last year here too!
The Crown is a recent Home Goods find.  Not sure if you can tell but it's filled with some small Xmas bulbs. 

Am I the only one humming: "Oh it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." these days?!  =)

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