Holiday Home Tour

Merry Christmas my lovely readers! I hope you're all enjoying your holiday. Today I am sharing with you a quick tour of my holiday decor. Thank you so much for coming along on this blogging journey with me. My holidays are brighter because of this blog and the love shown by my readers. Have a blessed holiday my friends!

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

DIY North Pole Sign

This weekend my family came to visit from Wisconsin so we could celebrate the holiday together. My guest room is upstairs and I like to make that space festive too. This year I added a little something to the top of the stairs, a sign for the north pole!

 

I had some leftover PVC pipe from a different project that I used to create this. I wrapped the pole in some holiday ribbon I had on hand and I glued an ornament to the top. Using my Cricut I cut the North Pole sign from cardstock.  I wrapped the base with some white felt I also had on hand.

Pretty cute hey?

 

 

  

Merry Christmas!

Santa Wreath

I love holiday wreaths. I currently have 4 on display in my house. This year I wanted something fun for my front door so I made this Santa wreath. I took an old wreath form I had and wrapped it with red garland that I got for 99 cents at Wal-mart. I used a scrap of black fabric for the belt and some glitter scrapbook paper for the buckle. I also had a pack of glitter ornaments from the Dollar Tree, and added that for an extra sparkly touch.  All in all this entire project cost me less than $2 to make about 20 minutes to put it together!

 

How many wreaths do you have on display in your house?

Christmas Nails

This year for Christmas I chose to do the Santa belt idea, similar to this one that I did last year. I paired it with green for a simple holiday look!

 

Merry Christmas!

Baking Soda Ornaments

This year I wanted to make custom ornaments with my dog's paw prints, so I was cruising the blog-o-sphere for a good method. I found this recipe for baking soda ornaments and decided to try it out. This works a lot like salt dough ornaments but the white is a lot brighter.  I personally chose to let mine air dry because I didnt want to risk any browning. They took a little over 24 hours to dry.  Check them out!

Baking Soda Ornaments

Recipe adapted from Full of Great Ideas

Ingredients:

1 cup Baking Soda

1/2 cup Cornstarch

3/4 cup Cool Water

Fine Glitter (Optional)

Directions:

Mix cornstarch and baking soda in a pot. Add water to the mixture and stir into a runny mix.

 

Turn the stove onto medium heat. Stirring constantly mix until it becomes thick.  Once it starts forming a ball its done cooking.

 

Turn the ball over into a bowl, cover with a damp paper towel and allow to cool.

Once cooled, knead the dough until smooth. If you would like, at this step, pour in some fine glitter. I did this to add a little extra sparkle to the dough.  Knead the glitter until its incorporated into the dough.

 

Roll the dough out, use a little extra cornstarch if you need to.  Cut with cookie cutters of your choice. Don't forget to make a hole using a straw so you can hang them.

   

Let the ornaments air dry and then decorate as you see fit!

   

   

  

I used a sharpie to add the details to the Eiffel Tower

  

  

A little gold spray paint and some glitter made these sparkly keys. They might be my favorite.

The possibilities are endless! Make some fun ornaments or even turn them into gift tags!

Merry Christmas! 

Rudolph Manicure

I was cruising Pinterest (surprise, I know) and saw this great idea from Blanket Print Nails for some festive nail art.  I had to try it myself!

 

I didnt use all of the colors mentioned, I used what I had at home already, but there are some great instructions on their site if you wanted to try this for yourself!

 

Christmas Randomness

Now that I've shared my Christmas Table and Hot Cocoa Bar, I'll share with you a few more random photos from my holiday weekend.  Then I promise I'll move onto another subject!

This is a photo of the ornament I gave my boyfriend this year. (He gets one every year). I was experimenting with my holiday photo taking, and I really like how this shot turned out.

This is one of my Christmas displays. I guest blogged about this over at Life in the Thrifty Lane!

Again, working on my holiday photography, this is my Caesar int front of the Christmas tree. I love how this turned out!

Same shot...different dog. This is my Sookie.

Santa Caesar

And Sookie the Elf.

Rocking my Santa Leg Warmers in front of the Channel 45 Yule Log.

My tortilla pinwheel Christmas Tree.

My cranberry candles

My Dollar Store Nutcrackers

And finally, my Christmas Tree.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this photo tour of my holiday weekend!

Holiday Hot Cocoa Bar

On Christmas Eve afternoon, we were watching Christmas movies and I set up a small hot cocoa bar.  We enjoyed hot cocoa on a stick, homemade marshmallows, chocolate dipped candy canes, peppermint bark, peppermint oreos, and chocolate dipped pretzels.  The perfect compliment to any Christmas movie!

I also made a small Christmas cake with these fun holiday characters. I'm obsessed with polar bears and penguins this season!

Hmmm....now that I've posted all of these photos, I may need to go make myself a cup of cocoa!

Red, White and Gold Holiday Table

Greeting everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend.  Today I'm sharing with you my Christmas holiday table. I was inspired by this table from Hostess with the Mostess and I took advantage of the spectacular printables they offered!

 

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I made a variety of Christmas topiary trees with candle holders I had around the house.

I love the red swirl glasses from Pier One, but $7 per glass was more than I wanted to spend. Instead I bought Dollar Store wine glasses and painted swirls on with Martha Stewart craft paint!

Stay tuned tomorrow for more of my family holiday weekend!