Okio B Designs

I bought a few ceramic Christmas houses at the Dollar store a couple of weeks ago. They had a lot to choose from, but I settled on these four.

Once I got them home, I immediately painted them white. It took 3-4 coats of spray paint for each house.

Over the weekend, I finally got around to adding some German glass glitter to the tops using Mod Podge.

Easy peasy and more suited to my tastes! I paired them with some mini bottle brush trees I found on Etsy last year.

For $4, I have some pretty new holiday decorations!

Jeanine

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I've been wanting to make Scrabble ornaments for our Xmas tree since last year. You've probably seen them all over Pinterest and in the blogosphere, so nothing really new here. I was just happy that I had everything I needed to make a few of them for this year.

I used an old ruler for mine, but I've seen crafters use everything from clothes pins to Jenga pieces (Susan at Homeroad!). I simply picked out some holiday-ish words and glued the tiles onto my ruler pieces.

I added some rhinestones to the snow and noel ones. Beer can tabs came in quite handy for this project: I used them on the backs so I could add my baker's twine.

This project literally took me 15 minutes from start to finish. Can't wait to add these to our tree in a couple of weeks!

Jeanine

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An upcycled violin ornament.

My 9 year old plays the viola and he picked this up at a garage sale over the summer. I painted it white, added some glass glitter and a hand-stamped noel tag. Waiting to be added to our Christmas tree.

Happy White Wednesday!

Jeanine

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When I saw these mugs at the Dollar store last week, the wheels immediately started turning.

I broke out some faux moss (from a previous Dollar store trip), tea-stained seam binding and some of my hand-stamped French candles.

Add them altogether and you get a quick Xmas touch to add to a bookcase, shelf or, in my case, a staircase.

It adds just the right touch of holiday-appropriate colors: white, red and green.

And it's a super affordable way to add to your Xmas decor!

Jeanine

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I picked up this little apothecary jar at a church fair last weekend. When I saw it, I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it.

Voila! I added white and gold buttons galore. I never realized just how many buttons I've accumulated through the years! There are probably anywhere from 750-1,000 buttons in there.

I also added an I heart Paris bracelet and faux string of pearls to the mix.

The tea-stained seam binding was the finishing touch. So excited that now I have a pretty way to display my buttons!

Jeanine

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...at Walmart. I stopped in there yesterday and grabbed some of their skeleton key ornaments ($1.97 each). You can see the before picture on my Instagram - kind of a gunmetal color. I decided to give them a Frenchie makeover.

I gave each a couple of coats of spray paint. It was actually pretty mild here today, so I was able to get some outdoor painting in.

While the paint was drying, I made some pendants using some French dictionary paper. One reads joyeux and the other noel. I also hand-stamped an enamel tag with a festive star.

Because I removed the thread used to hang the keys before painting them, I had to find something else to hang them with. Some vintage lace to the rescue!

I then used some grungy red safety pins to attach my pendants and tag to the lace.

I can't wait to hang these for the holidays! What's nice is I can switch out the pendants to use them for other holidays or if I decide to keep them displayed all year.

Happy White Wednesday!

Jeanine