Christmas here

I started putting my Christmas stuff up the week or so before Thanksgiving and am glad I did.  This time of the year goes so fast and I'm glad I've had it up to enjoy it.   

This window pane has been the best things I've found for our house.  (I found in someone's trash while I was on a run and carried it home.  Those things are heavy!)  I love adding garlands to it and finding things to put on the shelves.  I had pinned a cute Christmas print to put in the frame, but our printer is broken so there's scrapbook paper in there right now.  I cut out a bunch of circles from scrapbook paper and sewed them for the garland.  I bought the JOY letters at Hobby Lobby and painted them gold.  

I saw lots of similar things to this deer print on pinterest.  (1) I just freehanded it with pencil (2) outlined the black parts with a thin paintbrush  (3) Used a foam brush for the rest of the black (4) Painted the deer in gold.  I LOVE how it turned out!  

This vase was an old Target dollar spot find and I never ended up using it, so I painted it with a few coats of white paint, then used modge podge to pour glitter on the bottom half.  

I stuffed this box I found at Hobby Lobby with green garland and then broke apart the gold and red berry sticks and stuck them in there with some pinecones.

I looked online and in craft stores for a square wreath but couldn't find a cheap one.  I bought a $3 circle, plain wreath at Michaels and just bent the wire to make it square, then added a burlap bow! For the joy banner I cut out pendant shapes from an old text book and used black paint to do the letters.  

a little holiday inspiration

Normally I wait until the day after Thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas but this year I started a week early.  Every year I'm sad that everything is up for such a short amount of time so I decided I'd give it an extra week.  Plus I am extra excited for everything holiday because of Addilyn. Not like she will remember this year, but it seems like much more fun.
My favorite two Christmas decorations are my pinecone window and my glitter wine bottles.   For the pinecones I hot glued pine cones to ribbon and then tied them to another strand of ribbon that I hung at the top of the window, and then I added some bows.  (Sorry for the poor photos.  Someday, someday I will learn how to use my camera properly.)
For the glittery vases I spray painted wine bottles and then used spray adhesive and rolled them in Epsom salt.  Although quite the glittery mess to take out and put away each year, I love them!
I have most of our decorations out and besides needing to get our Christmas tree, we definitely need a stocking for Addilyn.  I also want new ones for Chris and I so that they all match.  I've been looking online for stockings and these would be perfect! I love that they can be personalized too! How cute do they all look hanging together?
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