Can you believe it's almost Christmas?! I am super duper excited! We got the house all Holidified. Is that a word? It is now!! haha. Everyone has their own family traditions that they do to celebrate Christmas. Here's some things that we do in my home. First thing we do is pick a theme and colors. One year we had a snowflake theme and everything was blue, white, and silver. Last year it was poinsettias with red, gold, and green. This year we decided on pears and doves with pear green, purple, and gold. Instead of buying a whole new set of decorations we made some homemade ones. Check them out!
We found really cheap purple balls for a dollar! A dollar!! All you need is some glitter glue to make them fancy. Design them however you'd like. I put our names on some and the rest had random dots, stripes, or swirls.
Pears: My mom had some plastic pears that went perfect with the theme. I used curling ribbon and glue dots to make into ornaments. That's it! We tested it out and the glue dots peel right off without damaging the pear.
Doves: I'm sure you can find a template or stencil online for a dove, but we just drew the shape of a dove and cut it out. Use it to trace more onto cardstock or scrapbook paper. I used a pale shade of purple. Try using paper with designs and patterns on them. That would probably look nice.. but this is all we had. There's two ways you can make this dove.. the simple one: trace, cut out, decorate, hole punch at the top to tie ribbon or string. And the 3D one: the same as the other dove but you fold the paper in half and use the folded side as the dove's belly. Then trace and cut out, fold the wings down and secure with glue where the wings meet. I used gold glitter glue again to decorate. I'm going crazy with that stuff!
Tada! Other homemade ornaments.. Pine cones spray painted gold and pearls, cut the strands and fasten with a wire hook to make them dangle like earrings.
More decorating: A lot of things that you already have can be used for any occasion. I filled a trifle bowl with pears, pine cones, and birds. And a mini one with tea lights. Hope my mom didn't need them for food! :X
Christmas Wreath:
Willow wreath, ribbon, flowers. All of our supplies we already had. They came from Dollar Tree. Wrap the ribbon around the wreath and tuck the flower stems in between the ribbon. It started out simple but my mom got our decorations from last year and went a little ribbon happy.
Gift Wrapping:
No need to spend money on wrapping! When we moved we got a box of packing paper that we never used. Now we use it for everything but packing! Projects, drawing on, making sewing patterns, making treasure maps! haha. The box is still full over a year later. In this case, we used it as wrapping paper but other things to try are brown paper bags, newspapers (especially comics) magazine pages, fabric scraps. Decorate with ribbons, flowers, buttons, just about anything!
And don't forget the tags. I cut out holly leaves on green scrapbook paper and glued red pompoms for the berries.
Or just draw your own tag right on the wrapping itself. It works.
The Holidays wouldn't be complete without something sweet! Well, that's every day in our house. Can't wait for Christmas Eve when we make cookies for Santa. That's a whole other blog to be.
Sweet Treats:
chocolate dipped fortune cookies and pretzels
White Chocolate covered Oreos
Wrapped up and ready to go!
Rudolph cake pops: His HUGE gummy nose makes me laugh! hahaha
Rice Krispy Treat Present Pops
Brownie Xmas Trees
Reindeer Cupcakes with crushed candy topping
Mini Cherry Cheesecakes
Banana Bread Muffins and Cinnamon Rolls with cream cheese Icing
For our friends
Hot Cocoa with Holiday Marshmallows
Mocha Lattes with whipped cream and sprinkles
My little brother thinks that the holidays are all about getting toys. But I know it's much more than that. It's a celebration for Baby Jesus. You don't have to buy expensive presents. Everyone appreciates gifts from the heart. Hope you get inspired to make some handmade and homemade goodies for your family and friends. Merry Christmas everyone!
Love, Lana
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