Exciting news! I am now a contributor for Celebrations.com. I will be making crafty projects for them in addition to the projects I do for this website. My first batch of assignments was for Valentine’s Day. I put together a tablescape with a modern, eclectic, and wintery look. You can can check it out...
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Welcome to our Christmas home! I already showed you the outside decorated for the holidays – And here are some snapshots from inside! I made a few simple boxwood wreaths to hang around the house using clippings from the yard. I default to scattering sprigs of evergreens and shiny ornaments. I don’t think I’ve...
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It’s time to start the Christmas house tour! Today I’ll just show you the outside, which probably isn’t deserving of its own post…but that’s all I have photos of at the moment! I didn’t hang any Christmas lights outside last year because we don’t have an outside outlet…much to my dismay. This year, I...
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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We were fortunate to be able to spend the holiday with our families & are still soaking it in. I thought I’d better squeeze in this little update about our fall living room before the season has totally passed. I got the urge to switch up...
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I am very excited to show you all my winter wreath! I actually finished it a couple weeks ago but decided to save it to share after all those little Christmas trees. Do I sound crazy when I say that I made a wreath out of trash bags, light bulbs, twigs, & bottle caps?...
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Today is the final segment for my handmade Christmas tree forest! You can read about part 1 here and part 2 here. Again, all of these trees were made from rolled up cereal boxes. (Sorry if you’re reading this for the third time now!) Hooray for no more styrofoam cones! The last trees left...
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Today is part 2 of my handmade Christmas tree forest! You can read about part 1 here. Like I mentioned in the first post, the cone base of all of these trees are cereal boxes. So there’s no need to run out to a craft store to buy those styrofoam cones. And really, my...
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Being our first Christmas as a young married couple, we don’t have many Christmas decorations. Just one little fake tree that I had from college, and the ornaments we bought after Christmas last year, but that’s it. So I wanted to make some of those cute little cone trees to sit around. But I...
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These guys are so easy to make, I probably don’t even need to explain it. But you know I’m going to blab on about them anyways At the beginning of December, Phil & I went out and picked out our first Christmas tree For ornaments, we stuck with colors that matched the living room...
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Phil & I had a great holiday weekend in PA with our family & friends. Just wanted to share the Thanksgiving tablescape from one of our family dinners at my parents’ house. Last Thanksgiving I dressed up the table at their house in a very eclectic look - I only...
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