Christmas in Our Home

Welcome to our home! I almost forgot to show our living room this holiday season.

 



 

Yesterday I showed what I learned about making a book page wreath. These pictures

were taken before I redid the wreath because I wasn't happy with the end result.

 

 

This year I seriously thought about not putting up a Christmas tree or doing any decorating.

And that is because we aren't having Christmas at our house this year.

But then reality hit and I knew I'd miss not seeing my holiday things.

 



 

The goodwill terrarium holds my crystal trees, and a couple of them came from Goodwill.

A few weeks ago I saw another crystal tree and I didn't get it!
Sometimes I wished I just grabbed and thought later.
 



 

With little hands around now, I wanted to try to keep things as safe as possible for Macie.

 

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

If you're traveling, please stay safe!

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What I Learned While Making a Book Page Wreath

 

Last weekend, I decided to make a book page wreath for Christmas. So when Macie got up from her nap, she helped me roll the pages. Well, not really - I was already working on it while she was napping and as soon as she woke up, crafting time was over.

 

 But she was interested in what I was doing. It's hard to get Macie to sit still for very long to get a

decent picture.

 

 

So this is what I was able to get rolled and ready to make my wreath.

 

 

I used a CD that I found without the case, my kids played this so many times when they were

in elementary school.

 

 

And I started hot gluing the rolls around the CD.

And just when I thought I had enough of these rolls, I rolled more.

 

 

For the second layer, I folder the bottom under so they were shorter and hot glued them around

the wreath until it was nice and full.

 

 

I had a great idea, or I thought so at the time...

how about making the wreath red with some glimmer mist?

That's when I noticed that the areas with tape didn't take the mist and it

stuck out really bad.

 

 

But I hung it up anyway, and it looked terrible.

My advice, don't try to change the color of the pages

and make sure the tape is on the back of the rolled paper.

 

 

From a distance it doesn't look so bad, but I knew it wasn't what I wanted.

So I took it down and torn off all the pages and started over.

 



And I am so happy that I redid it.

 

 

I'll be able to keep this wreath up even after Christmas is over.

 

 

And speaking of Christmas, five days away!

I still need to make a couple more batches of cookies.

Are you all ready for Christmas?

 

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Gingerbread Love at My Home

I've been decorating my kitchen with gingerbread men for several years now and it's all because of Goodwill. Many of my things are from Goodwill and I continue to watch for gingerbread items all year long. It's very easy to become a hoarder so I have to walk away from many things that are cute but too primitive or country for my home.

 

I pulled my mixer out of the pantry and have been putting it to good use this season.

The frame and the breadbox are both from Goodwill, I still need to put a picture in the frame.

The potholders are from Hobby Lobby, I think I got them last year?

 



 

One of the popular Christmas decorating things this year are snowglobes.

I took a pickle jar I was saving and spray painted the lid and placed a gingerbread man

inside and added some artificial snow, super easy project!

The gingerbread couple is from Goodwill from a couple of years ago.

 



This year I decided not to put up the Christmas tree in the dining room with

the gingerbread ornaments, instead I put a poinsetta in it's place and it adds a

nice splash of red.

 



 

 

The terrarium is also another find at Goodwill which I added some gingerbread items.

 



 

The top of the hutch is another fun space for adding more gingerbread things.

 



 

I added the primitive candy canes that I made.

 



 

I wanted to make sure to use the white platter that I got at Goodwill a couple of months ago.

I added a couple of flameless candles with a gingerbread man.

 

I love these little poinsetta plants I got at Target one year right after Christmas on clearance.

 

 

I made this wreath three years ago from gingerbread items and ornaments I got at Goodwill.

You can read more about it here.

 



 

I hang this wreath every year, usually needs a few thing hot glued back on

plus it's fun to see what's all on it.

 

Some of the ornaments are from Hobby Lobby and Dollar Tree too.

 



 

Even though Christmas is less than a week away, I've been loving the

paper cone wreaths. But I best get going on it!

 

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