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 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...
Have you been to Save on Crafts? They have these sweet little Joyeux Noel metal tags that are so perfect for a Frenchy Christmas touch. I ordered them a few weeks ago and put them out over the weekend. A few here and a few there. And look at this adorable tea towel from my sister Kathy's Etsy shop. I love the little boy on the sled and of course the Joyeux Noel. Jeanine ...
I swear, I'm not making Xmas items yet. I swear! This project happened quite by mistake. You see, I was trying to make a bat ornament of sorts and it ended up like this: Burlap angel wings! I'm not quite sure what went wrong with my original bat design, but the head just wasn't coming out right. So I chopped it off and have the first of many Xmas projects. So you see, I am...
We're planning on putting up our tree this weekend, but in the meantime wanted to share some more Christmas touches about the house. Cindy from Cottage Instincts helped with the inspiration for these mason jars: I had filled them with some shredded vintage sheet music but that's about as far as I got until I popped over to Cindy's yesterday. I loved her jars so much that I immediately went to the Dollar Store to...
I popped into my local Goodwill earlier this week and came back with a lot of goodies: The bucket was only 99 cents. The candle holder was $6.99 - pretty pricey for Goodwill but I couldn't resist considering it came from Target where it was probably originally double the price. I also got 5 little bottles that I plan to embellish. First makeover is the bucket: Can you tell I ran out of white spray...
