Okio B Designs

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...

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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!...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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