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I am full on decorating for Christmas!  I know some of you wait until after Thanksgiving to start, but breaking out our Christmas decor always puts me in a wonderful mood.  It could be something as simple as adding some Mercury glass acorns to a bowl filled with shredded vintage sheet music.
Or placing bottle brush trees into an old milk glass dish.
Adding a joy banner to our new flocked tree.
To even upcycling a wood plaque with a simple Christmas image.
It all makes me happy.  And at my age I feel if it makes you happy (but doesn't make you fat!): go for it!

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I love Rae Dunn's ceramic pieces.  I mean, who doesn't, right?!  After spying some copycat projects on Instagram, I decided to make my own Rae Dunn-inspired candy jars.

All you need are some jars (I bought two of these from Hobby Lobby and the the third is a pickle jar!) and clear sticker paper.  Download the Skinny font from DaFont.com and print out your words onto the label paper.  Cut to size, peel, stick and done!

Super easy, right?!  I filled mine with peppermints and candy canes from the Dollar Store.

Jeanine
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How are excited are you to be crafting for Christmas?!  I can hardly contain myself.  
Don't these Mercury glass bottles get you in the holly-jolly spirit?!  I picked them up from the Dollar Store.  I used my Cricut to cut out the noel and joy words, and added tea-stained seam binding and some vintage floral enbellishments to them.  I'm in love!  I have to go back for more.
This reindeer ornament is also courtesy of the Dollar Store.  I added it to a cute wood frame with some burlap as the background.  The peace is a self-sticking label from a package I picked up at Hobby Lobby.
And while I haven't started officially decorating for Christmas yet (well maybe I have...a little), I have started playing around with some ideas.  This is a sweet little vignette in our family room/basement.  I also added a small tree to the room.
It's still a work in progress, but I'm thinking of going with a red and white color scheme, and tags, tags and more tags!

How are your holiday decorations and projects coming along?

Jeanine
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I'm enjoying the last few days of our Halloween decorations.  Hard to believe I'll be packing it all away in a few days.
I didn't do a lot in the new she-shed/tea room this year.  Most of our Halloween decor is in the house or on the porch.
Sometimes less really is more.
I'm already itching to decorate for Christmas, but I'm going to pace myself.
And enjoy Halloween on Wednesday!

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Thanks to my friends at Realtor.com for including me in several home decor/DIY posts over the past few weeks.  The first was on utility fabrics and how to incorporate them into your home.
The second was on decorating with pumpkins! - one of my favorites!

Go to Realtor.com to read the full articles.

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Raise your hand if you've started some Christmas projects.  I know I have.  First one of the season is this Santa paddle fan.  Easy peasy when you have one of these...
We got a few of these at a local fall festival and I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it.  All I did was print out my image on sticker paper, cut to size and then peel and stick.  I finished up by adding the little noel and snowflake embellishments.  I also made one for Halloween:
This is one side and here is the other.
I have one fan left and that will also get a Christmas makeover.

I love that this project only cost me a little time and effort!  And I'm super excited to be starting some Christmas projects.

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