December 12, 2012

• {a little spray paint. hot glue. button bling. and light!}

  
  
  is it just me or is december flying.
  so much so that we just started our advent book yesterday!
   
  i don’t know why i thought it was only day 4 or 5..
  so imagine my shock when the kids said it was the 11th!

  but whether behind and trying to catch up.
  or racing and trying to keep it.
  the main thing i’m trying is, “let’s do this part slow.”

  some of the in between parts though have had us getting our craft on round here~ 

  one of my favorite things to use are plain ole sticks!
  a little spray paint and ta-da.. you have a decoration.

  which i stopped just now and counted up in my mind how many places in the house i have sticks and branches as decor..
  i came up with nine! ten if you count the ones in the pots of greenery on either side of the front door outside.
  and eleven if you count the little pieces of some on the back of the upstairs toilet!
  ha. as i said. they’re favorites!

  when my girlfriends and i went into the forest {as they call it here} to get some greenery..
  we found some great branches too.
  with some of the extras i bunched them all up. hung them upside down and put some snowflakes in.
  nothing mind blowingly creative…
  there was a version of something like this on pinterest my sis in law told me about, but i could never find the pic~
  just makes for a nice little filler of something in the corner.

  
  
  a few weeks ago emma and i saw these cute mushroom ornaments in a store~
  she wanted to buy one for her teacher…
  though i’m not sure what in the world mushrooms have to do with christmas other than being created by the Creator!
  so, instead of spending the 9.99 on the store bought one. we made a few ourselves.
  all i bought was the styrofoam eggs. cut them in half. covered them with an old sweater i cut up and glued them on a spool of thread wrapped in yarn.

  
  
  the first sweater i tried to use. the one in the picture. was way too thin.
  they ended up looking more like lightbulbs!
  you need a thicker sweater to give a nice plump look.
  though they still look slightly like lightbulbs really. 
  but emma was pleased and wants to give them both to her teacher.

  
  

  
  
  then. we always seem to have a gazillion buttons everywhere from various other projects and such i guess..
  so when gluing the buttons on top of the mushrooms i was trying to think of what else we could do to get rid of a few more.

  i wanted to do a popcicle snowflake and maybe glue some on..
  but we didn’t have any popcicle sticks.
  so i just took one of the snowflakes i did have..
  like the pack of 4 you buy from the dollar store and we blinged it up, button style!

  

  back in the summer i found this light at a garage sale.
  the lady was asking 8, i told her i’d give her 5. sold!
  i had been looking for a light for my bedroom and it wasn’t exactly what i wanted.
  BUT. one thing was the reason i bought it…

  
  
  our old church had chandeliers that looked exactly like this. only gold.
  and i remember every christmas looking up at them and thinking how wonderful it would be to drape greenery from each.
  so, yes. i bought this light totally with christmas in mind~

  only, a few weeks ago i decided i’d rather replace the hideous green ceiling fan {that matched the hideous green counter tops} over the kitchen table instead~
  i’m happy with the results…
  though anything is an improvement over a 1970′s marbled green ceiling fan!!

  
  
  i’m thinking of leaving our christmas decorations up till spring!
  i love the coziness it brings to the house..
  and with all my sticks, the whole nature theme fits right in!

  what have you been working on this week?
  if there’s a fun project or great recipe post it in the comments if you want to share…
  or invite us over to your blog to have a look!
  we’ll swing by and say, hi. so go get your hair combed!.

  inspiration is like christmas lights .. there’s no such thing as too much!!! ~

  

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