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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....

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I can't believe there are 10 more days until Christmas!  I made a couple of last minute holiday pieces yesterday.  Both from the Dollar Store: These itty bitty candles are maybe 2 inches tall.  I printed out the great vintage image from The Graphics Fairy (wallet-size!) and used Mod Podge to glue them to the glass.  After the second coat dried, I simply added two little red rhinestones which I think work perfectly with the vintage...

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In the midst of all of my holiday shopping madness, I sat down over the weekend and made myself a little something for all of $2!  Yup, I'm such a big spender - lol: This is a simple Dollar Store prayer candle with a fabulous Keep Calm and Carry On image that I got off of Etsy for...$1 (graphique.etsy.com) that I Mod Podged on.  I am keeping to a tight Xmas gift budget this year but...

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***You still have time to enter my giveaway here!*** 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...

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Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday.  We enjoyed a nice, quiet, peaceful day at my Mom's.  I needed the relaxation because today I officially started to decorate for Xmas. These are just little packages to put under our tree (which hasn't gone up yet) while we countdown to the 25th.  With two little boys who still believe in Santa, I can't have the actual gifts under the tree so I decided to do some faux...

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Because sometimes you just want to keep it simple: Vintage scale, petite cloche with bird, white Xmas tree and a simple white candle which reads: I am at Peace. Linking to Faded Charm: White Wednesday.  There is still time to enter my giveaway here! Jeanine ...

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I'm pretty sure I saw this idea in Martha Stewart Living.  I had the bags.  I had the number stamps so it was really a no brainer and the kids think it's the coolest: This is just a temporary hanging place.  I'm still not sure where to hang them from nosey little hands.  I got the striped bags off of Etsy over the summer and wouldn't you know it - there was exactly 25 of...

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First I wanted to send a big thank you out to Karen at The Graphics Fairy for featuring my sled on today's Brag Monday.  It really made my day!  And thank you to everyone who left such lovely comments about it! And now onto today's project.  I had a ton of leftover Dollar Store matchboxes from two years ago.  Yup, you read that right.  I bought them two years ago to do a copycat Country...

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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...

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Got to play Martha Stewart yesterday.  Well, not really but I did use the fabulous stocking template mentioned in the December issue of Martha Stewart Living.  You have to go to: marthastewart.com/stocking-template to download and print it, and then you get to make one of these: I used the larger template for this stocking.  I have been wanting to do a burlap stocking for the past two years.  I don't know why I never did one...

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I'm still happily transforming some of the goodies I got at my local church's thrift store sale a couple of weeks ago.  The sled was my first transformation, and yesterday I put the finishing touches on these cute shaker boxes: I spray painted both of them black.  Once they were dry, I added some vintage sheet music to each top. Then I tied them together with some of the plaid fabric I also got at...

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I was at my local Marshall's last week and could not believe the gorgeous wrapping paper they have this year!  Lookie what I picked up.  It's so pretty that I actually framed it: I really am a sucker for sheet music and I can see lots and lots of faux presents under the tree wrapped in this paper. I have some other plans for it on some petite boxes and such.  And of course I...

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It was a bit mild here today so I was able to get outside and do some spray painting.  First up was the little wood sled I got last weekend at a church thrift store fall festival.  I gave it a few coats of black paint: Then I sanded some random edges to give it a more shabby look.  I traced some sheet music around the "seat" part and cut it out.  Break out the...

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Yup, it's snowing here today.  Can you believe it?!  No real accumulation but enough to make it messy.  It wasn't messy enough to keep me from my favorite church thrift store's annual fall fair.  Popped over there this morning and it did not disappoint: How cute is the snowman?  I got it for $1.  One booth allowed you to fill a bag for a buck.  I could have gone to town but I tried to...

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