Ok.. for those of you who know me, you know that I LOVE Christmas. Love Christmas so much that Christmas decorations go up on 11/1. I was clearly meant to marry
+Jimmy Ho because his last name makes Christmas so much more fun. Since before 11/1 I started working on making some Christmas decorations, but I'm all finished now! Because it is December, I don't feel so crazy putting up a blog about all of my decorations.
So here goes - First I'll do the things that I didn't make but still make me happy. We have 2 trees. One is downstairs. It's our Ho Ho Ho tree.
Here are a few of my favorite ornaments -
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| A gift from my best friend. |
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| An ornament from our Austin wedding shower. We got married in Vegas! |
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| Just a favorite from Pottery Barn. |
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| I love how the light reflects off of this one! |
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As you will see, most of my decorations are red and silver or white. For a while I have been wanting to do something a little different. This year I decided for the upstairs tree (this tree is placed in the middle window and is the one people see when they pass our house), I decided to buy a white tree and do something completely different for me. It is a peacock tree. Whoa, I know. But, I really like it!!
That tree is a little crazy right? I can't help but love it. Ok.. here are a couple of other decorations around the house before I get to the things I made.
And now to the things I made!!!!
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| Ok so these are canvases that Jimmy and I painted, and we added silver ribbons. They are hung on the wall like a picture and are super fun. The picture did not turn out that great, but it looks awesome in person! |
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| One of the things I do not love about out house is that we don't have a fireplace. The first thing I said is, "where are we going to hang the stockings?" Seriously. Well, problem solved. I may this cute sign! It is just plywood that I spray painted. I bought some stencil letters and pained on the letters which took forever because you had to wait until the one letter was dry before you could start the next letter. We used black hardware for the knobs to hang the stockings on. And yep, there are stockings for Bentley and Lily. Love my corgs! |
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| These were plain glass candle holders from Costco that I bought a couple of years ago (omg love Costco!) So I put ornaments in them and wrapped candles in ribbon. |
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| This one is my masterpiece!! I love this one SOOOO much. I taped the plate in this pattern and spray painted it. That took FOREVER to get it to look right oh my goodness. And thank you Heather for cutting out those acrylic Hos for me! It looks fab. |
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| I bought a wooden H from hobby lobby and painted it to look like Santa. No.. the lines are not perfect because I freehand painted it, and it was my first project I think. Whatever, I still like it! |
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| This is a Christmas Card holder made from a sewing/quilting hoop and clothes pins with ribbon! It looks super cute when it is filled with Christmas cards, and we already got our first one! Thanks Eileen and Scott! |
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| So this one was super easy. Scrapbooking paper and a printer.. some frames. You get it. Super easy and cute. |
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| Exactly what you see. Milk jugs, felt, pipe cleaners, poms, and Christmas lights! They make for a great "lamp" on our entry way table. | | |
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I hope you enjoyed the pictures as much I liked making everything. I have really started to love crafting and cooking. I see many more crafts in my future!!
Side note - I went to Zumba for the first time tonight! It was a little strange, but it was good to move around for an hour. Getting stronger every day! Have a great week!
