Hostess Hacks for NYE!

           

                                             Hi all!
Sharing our most recent live segment on Facebook for Zulily!
We have some great New Year's Eve hostess hacks for you to try.  
We came up with a few fun ideas to start your night or day off getting creative whether you are staying in for the night, having a party or headed out somewhere.   You can make and take them with you!
I hope you try one or all three of them!  We made these super easy for you to try out.   Let me know what you think!  

Wood Beads and Towels

I love to get to share the way you all use my wood beads to

decorate your spaces with!

Here are a few recent pics in different decor spaces

where you have decorated with my wood bead garlands.

I like to get to show you these ideas as I get many 

questions on how to use or decorate with them.

As you can see they fit into many types of home decor....

The kitchen below has one of my kitchen towels 

adorning the dishwasher.  

I love how traditional the kitchen is and how this customer

incorporated the farmhouse towels.

Looks fabulous!

There are still towels available in my shop 

for you to browse as well as the wood bead garlands.

Look for new towels coming in the month ahead for 2019!

Looking for wood bead garlands?

They are still available as well

Come check them out here

       Thoughts that Stick: 2340 West Newton

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas sweet friends!

John 3:16  .....

 My idea of Christmas,

 whether old-fashioned or modern is very simple: loving others.  

Come to think of it, why do we have to wait

for Christmas to do that? - Bob Hope

Living this truth everyday......

Wishing you all wonderful day!

Christmas is a necessity, there has to be at least one day of 

year to remind us that we're here for something else 

bedsides ourselves.....

The other day we did a quick morning hike

to Gold Creek Pond Trail 

Like my silly emoji glasses?!!!

Our Daughter was here 15 hours prior taking photos of a lake 

that was clear as glass. 

 Today when we arrived (as you can see in the pics)

The lake has completely froze over, AND.... 

of course my husband decides to stand out on it! 

I told him I would NOT save him!  (haahaha!!)

Completely froze over and stunning views

To family and friends near and far 

Merry Christmas from the Pitta's!

DIY Oranges

Kick off your sunday trying out a hand at making these

diy oranges.   You can see my step by step video below

that went live with Zulily on Facebook yesterday

You guys these are super fun and easy and smell soooo

delish! 

For this votive one that I made I just cut the very top of

the orange off and took a spoon and scooped out just a bit of the 

orange inside and then tucked the tea light inside.

Using the fresh cloves, you just slowly add them

around the orange. 

These oranges will last for a good month.

They dry out very slowly.....

Check out the video below to view how

to make the smell good oranges

In the video I give you three different ideas and ways

you can peel away the orange peel.

Above you will see the Rollerball that I use to make

my designs in the orange.  Make sure and view the video

to hear the others ideas for you.

I hope you had fun watching the video and getting new

ideas for home decor and gifts for christmas.

DIY Wreaths

Sharing with you today another one of our DIY segments over on

Zulily on Facebook.  Be sure to go to their page to see many of

the video DIY segments Shelby and I have been filming.

Super easy projects for you and your family and kids to make.

Here we are on the set preparing for our shoot.

It has been so much fun working with my girl!

Below is our video showing you three different

ways you can decorate your wreaths

Take a look!

DIY Ornaments

I'm so excited to share with you the segment I will be doing live

today with Zulily!  If you follow them on Facebook you will be able to watch me live showing you how to make these super easy ornaments!   If you head over to Facebook and click on Zulily I believe we will go live at 9:30 am pacific standard time!!

**** The video is up, you can view below! *****

I will be sharing this super easy clear ornament you can make simply by just adding snowflakes, ribbon and a vinyl word to.

The next ornaments will also be made by using

clear christmas ornaments and acrylic craft paint. 

I will be posting the live video here later today so 

you can go back and view how to make these beauties.

The one above is made with white and metallic copper paint.

I wanted to use a little vintage color vibe on this one.

I started with white then the red and blue.

Each one turns out so completely different just by swirling 

the paint around in the glass ball.  

I hope you try to make these.  I also will be showing on the live 

how to make these super easy glitter ornaments too.

Once you get started you won't be able to stop!

JOY box

These little 2 x 2" boxes would be cute on your Christmas table, or for your co-workers or just to give out!

They are filled with wrapped dove truffles.

I used some buffalo plaid paper to wrap the boxes with

and using a 1 3/4" circle punch for the outer circle, for the inner

circle I used the 1 1/4" punch.  

You can stamp any work in the circle you have on hand.

I used the new sprig punch to create the greens.

These are very easy to create and make great little gifts

DIY Ornaments

These ornaments were made at the last 

creative class.  They are fun a quick to make

You can by the half globes at your local

craft store, I found mine at Michael's

I used the Big Shot machine to cut out the scalloped

backing to the ornament.  The size of my ornament

globe required me to cut my scallop circle at 2 1/4"

I then separately cut a piece of white cardstock for inside

scene at 2" then stamped the trees for the winter scene.

Use a craft glue such as Tombow liquid glue to attach the

paper to the clear globe.  If you tried to use a hot glue gun you 

would be bubbles of glue along the side of the ornament.

I put a teaspoon of snow flakes in the ornament

make sure you put them in before you glue it together!

Here are the pieces you will need to make these ornaments.

Annual Christmas Luncheon

Our annual luncheon was this past weekend, 

we have been getting our kids and selves together

now for over 18 years. 

Most of us live an hour and half away from each other, but

for one day a year we are all able to come together to 

eat, laugh, share and make some projects to celebrate the

season.   

For those of you who have followed over the years, 

you can see how grown up they all are!

This year we were missing two as my girlfriend Susan

has moved to Arizona, and her daughter, (insert sad face)

The oldest girl is now 26 and the youngest in the group 12!

And well us,

we are still a bunch of spring chickens!  hahaaa!

My husband is usually mia for the luncheon but smelled

the lunch food and got detained at the table for a bit.

All smiles, plenty of food, laughter and lots of cheer!

Love this continuous tradition!

Mini Starbucks Cups

Hello sweet friends!

First I want to share with you these crates that one of my 

followers Marcie Brozovich sent to me.  Look at

the beautiful way she decorated these crates!

I love the different plaid papers she used as well as the delicate little pine cones with hollyberrys.

But I think what caught my eye most is the clever way she created the handle, take a look closely.....

she used a little wood branch!!!  Love everything about this!

Way to go Marcie!! 

 Thank you for sharing your creative mind with us!

Sharing some of the mini Starbucks cups that I make annually

for different pop up shops I partake in.

Yes,  they are also for ordering, so if you would like to order

some email me at juliepitta@rocketmail.com

They are $3 each and make great table placement gifts, teacher gifts, co-workers, etc!! 

They are filled with Hershey kisses....

Reindeer Socks

I found these adorable reindeer socks at Old Navy

and picked up quite a few pairs for gifts and to sell

at my pop up shops this past week. 

Aren't they comfy and cozy looking?

I packaged them up in a 4 x 6" cello bag

that I folded over in the box and stapled shut.

I added the reindeer paper clips and used

glimmer red brads that I cut the backs off

and glued them to the deer heads.

Soooo cute!

Reindeer paper clips......