Holiday Creative class

Last night was a holiday kick off of creative fun!

These gals came ready for some holiday cheer and creativity.

Check out the taper candles they painted. 

I showed them how easy it is to paint right onto the tapers and boy did they paint some beauties. 

Some painted trees, candy canes, wreaths.

All so pretty. 

They painted these sleigh ornaments and as you can see green was the choice of color.   These are a good size sleigh at about 9" long.

Once they were painted they glued the "snow" ornament right on top of the sleigh.. So easy. 

Here are my samples,  my tapers with little green trees with white lights on them. 

Red sleigh ornament. 

You've seen this little guy before. 

And these little wood ornaments. 

Such a fun filled night! 

Fall Gnome wreath

Happy tuesday!

What a great Thanksgiving weekend!

The weekend prior we had a girlfriend's weekend away

where we made some cute crafts and this was one of the crafts we made. 

One of the gals sent me this picture of her front porch with her gnome

on her door. 

How did we make these you say?

Well, I started off buying these halloween witches hats at the dollar tree.  After Halloween they were marked down to 50 cents each.

Such a steal!

We started by cutting off the black covering

making sure you get it all off the cage of the hat. 

It will look like the one below once you clean it off,

it does come off easily.

You will need some burlap, I found a roll at Walmart

for $7.99.  You lay the cage over the burlap to cut enough

to cover it.  Use a glue gun to adhere the burlap together. 

Make sure before you cover the cage to cut away the lowing half 

of the hat, it's not needed. 

I just used some wire cutters to cut it away.

Like you see here. 

Now take four leaves picks and start to glue

them from the back to create the beard of the gnome. 

To make the nose you will purchase a small styrofoam

ball that you will cover with a flesh colored 

nylon or ped. 

As you wrap your hat around the cage adhere it hot glue,

you can add nose just under the hat to complete his face. 

You can add some leaves or twine to the hat to finish it off.

There you go! Isn't he a cutie! 

Christmas Decor time!

Happy sunday!

Starting little by little to get out the holiday decor.

Going back to my roots this year with incorporating more of the 

"hygge' Scandinavian style christmas decor. 

It's much more of a minimalist, natural approach to decorating

where you use the outdoor elements as well as simplistic ways to

style your home. 

For the most part I have had the cute deer head and greens for 5 or more years now, but the glass trees, so new and I picked them up

at TJ Maxx and the small one Target for such a decent price. 

The wood tray is from Ross and the black candle holders from dollar tree.   Completely simple and doable. 

The artificial greens are from Hobby Lobby for a mere $2.00. 

I will share with you some more of my decor as I get more put up this week.   How is your decorating going?

Paper gingerbread man treat

Let's have some fun!

Get out a roll of kraft wrapping paper

(found mine at dollar tree, of course~)

I attached a picture of a line art gingerbread man that I googled

online to trace. 

Fold your paper over and trace as many of these cuties as you like.

Once you've traced them cut them out and using elmers glue, glue

all away around the gingerbread leaving the top of the head open to drop your candies into.

I used some clothes pins to hold them together. 

I even did this once I applied the glue to make it easier

for them to dry. 

Here's a few happy men!

Below are the products I used to make them.

You will need kraft paper, glue, scissors, a white chalk marker

and baker's twine and some candy. 

Once you've drawn in his face and frosting.

You can start to add some of the candies to your 

gingerbread man. 
Now glue the head closed. 

Now you can gift them away and they can be torn open

to reveal all the treats~

You can be creative as to what you put in them.  

I was going to put M&M's in them for people you know.

But for instance if it's for a classroom, then the candy would have to be wrapped.   You get it....

Send me your pics!  

Can't wait to see your gingerbread men!!! 

  

Little wooden gingerbread houses

Happy wednesday!

I decided I wanted to add some cuteness to my Christmas

dinner table so I had some help cutting these mini pieces of wood

into little houses.  Thank goodness my husband has patience with me!

These lil cuties are 3" high and once he cut them he then cut the roof line at a 45 degree angle.

I used a white acrylic pen to draw on the gingerbread house.

For the roof line I added some glitter to look like snow.

Now to add them to our Christmas dinner table next month.

Stay tuned!! 

Your Creations

Happy monday!

You know I love when you send me your creations

I have shared with you on how to diy.

Well this gal has made sooo many of the items

that I have shared with you all.  She was getting ready to

pack everything away when she decided to send off

to me the items she has made over time!

I am so expressed how you have kept these this long!

Thank you! 

Do you recognize any of the projects in either photo?

So funny~ Takes me back.

I hope you've enjoyed the pics~ 

Rosemary Sea Salt

It's that time of year again!

Time to harvest some rosemary and make sea salt rosemary for 

Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts.

These are so fun and easy to make and I tell you what,

everyone that I gave them to reached out for more!!!

Seriously,  you can do this!

Get some sea salt and rosemary,  I use fresh from my garden

and put it in the oven at 200 for 20 mins to dry it out.

Once is dry cut it into small pieces and add to the salt. 

That's all there is to it!

Except,  putting it in a super cute small glass container.

These I found at Amazon, links below. 

Mini Jars - HERE

Mini spoons -  HERE

I had some other olive jars and others that I had saved throughout the months and decided to use them as well.  They look good! 

Snowman Ornament

Here's a little cutie you can give a go.

Grab some clear ornaments either plastic or glass.

Some faux snowflakes, little pom poms. some black 

pipe cleaners, orange paper and a black sharpie. 

First fill your ornament with the snowflakes and attach

the top piece of the ornament back on.

Run the black pipe cleaner through the hole on the top of the ornament and glue to each side of the ornament. 

Take your pom poms and glue on each on on each side.

Now using your black sharpie draw your eyes and mouth on.

Cut a carrot for your nose and add with glue.

Use some silver cording or ribbon to tie on so you can hang your ornament. 

You are done!

You have a cut little snowman ornament!

Amber candles

Happy monday!

How did you like my fall holiday roundup?

Above are the beautiful amber candle votives I shared.

The are so pretty and also come in other colors so be sure to take a peek.  They come with the wooden tray as well.

I styled mine with a elevated wood tray, but either looks amazing. 
 

I always get asked on instagram where I get these

plumes.  They are from my yard.  I have two large zebra grass plants and come fall they turn to seed.  If you cut them and dry them they

sprout these gorgeous plumes that last long.  These ones are actually

from last year.  I like to tuck around my table scapes. 

Here are some of the votives up close, they are a bit bigger than

they look and the colors are rich. 

 Beautiful for your Thanksgiving table. 

Such a pretty set, if you missed the link it is below. 

HERE