Seattle Christmas Market

Well this was magical!

Are you local and looking for something festive to do?

Head to Seattle to the Seattle center for the Christmas Market.

And calories don't count at Christmas right?

They had the most delish  "naughty" or "nice" drink,

can you guess which one I chose?

The whole Seattle center was glistening in lights....

All the vendor booths had incredible wares and decorated so authentically. 

The food?  it was the bomb!

This was a most delicious baked potato....

There's a wishing forest you walked through and could write on a snowflake 

your wish for the Christmas season. 

There are so many spots with photo ops, this was the 

holiday christmas tunnel.

It was a magical night! 

Diy decoupage vintage jars

Do you save your old spaghetti or olive glass jars?

I do!

I never know what I might use them for.

I found these super cute vintage napkins at HomeGoods and knew

I wanted to use them for this project. 

Napkins come with two layers, so you first will want to 

separate the layers so you just have the one layer to 

work with. 

Just peel it away and set it aside.

Take your glass jar and using some acrylic paint, put two coats of

acrylic paint on the jar and let dry.

Get your modge podge out and begin to brush on the modge podge

adding the strip of napkin for coverage.

Keep going til it is covered....

Let dry and add some ribbon and twine.

Whipped Honey diy

Morning!

Looking for a fun quick and easy homemade gift for family, friends or co-workers?

These are so fun to make!

Get yourself some small ball jars, some honey and some ribbon or these cute rubber ribbons.

You can find these Michael's...

They look like this......

Aren't they adorable! 

I printed out these cute labels for the tops, but you can easily 

hand write homemade tags...

Now for the how-to's

Start with at least 3 cups of honey, put

into your stand up or hand mixer and mix for at least 1 minute 

until white and fluffy.

This is how it looks at the beginning

I purchased my honey from Costco

Now pour it into your jars, you can see how much lighter 

it is when it's whipped.

Make sure and wipe down the jars and put your lids on.

Add your labels and ribbons and now it's time to gift them!

Diy Dollar Tree frame makeover

I found these little frames complete with the beading at the Dollar Tree

and thought they would be great for a makeover. I got online and searched for a 

image of a lamb and found this one with three little cuties. 

Grab some glue and an image for a makeover. 

Print out your image and cut to fit,  I used Tombow glue

to attach it to the inside of the frame. 

Looks too cute! 

Perfect little christmas picture! 

Christmas packaging idea

Happy sunday!

Grab yourself a bag, some candy canes, some greens.

Let's get started!

Using your xacto knife, in the center of the bag cut two slits 

on each side to create a pocket for your candy canes. 

 

Slide some ribbon through the bag and tie a bow.  Now add the creme

christmas ornament and it looks evetter!

Fill the little pocket with some candy canes and add a little piece of  cedar greens 

That's it!  

You could also add some bells or pom poms to t he ribbon too.

 

Hot Cocoa whip cream bombs

Happy friday friends!

This is fun!

Give it a try,  you need some whip cream in a can, some cookie cutters,

they can be plastic or aluminum, and cookie sheets.  

Line your cookie sheet with parchment paper and lay the cookie cutters

bottom side up on the pan.

What are we making you ask?

These cute hot cocoa whip cream bombs!

Take your whip cream and add it to your cookie cutters generously

to fill the cutter to the top like you see mine are.

Now for the fun,

add any sprinkles you'd like, I happen to have on hand these

christmas sprinkles, but use what ever you like. 

Now for the magic,

pop them in the freezer for at least 2 or more hours or til you need them.

Take them out and pop them out of the cutters and drop them into

your hot cocoa!  so fun!

I totally forgot to take a picture of them in our mugs!

The are so cute and festive!

Give them a try! 

Out of the freezer ready to use.....

Christmas wine bottle bouquets

Happy wednesday!

Here's a fun and easy way to dress up any type of bottle for the holidays to take to a dinner or to just gift to a friend.  Also looks so pretty on the sparkling cider bottles too! 

I found these floral baubles on Amazon that are just the right size to use,

you can go wild with loading it up with a lot of greens or flowers or just keep

it on the simple side. 

They measure 2" across and 2 1/2" high.

There are two ways you can attach them to the bottles...

You can see here on the back of the floral green that they

can be stuck right to the bottle by removing the adhesive backing,

OR you can run ribbon through the sides to be able to tie them

to the bottle. 

Like you see here....

I cut the greens for these bouquets from the yard which included

fresh rosemary, cedar, holly and some added greens.

I went to the grocery store and bought the little mums too

add and had the christmas balls on hand. 

To make these start by sticking the christmas balls in the center then the longer stems into the top and sides of the floral base and just keep going. 

There is no wrong way, the more the add the beauty just

happens!  Add your mini mums at the very end.

I tried to find only small flowers to use instead of larger ones as

this is a small bouquet.

Have fun trying these! 

Christmas treat holders diy

Happy monday!

Don't throw those empty containers from Costco away!

You know the ones, candy holders, peanut holders, you know what I mean.

I always keep them for something.  In this case it was to make these little holiday gifts filled with the chex muddie buddies. 

These are easy to make, I take extra left over Christmas cards and used

them to cover the label on the container.  I cut it to fit and corner punched

the sides and glued it to the front. 

ready to gift.......

extra christmas cards...save them, use them!