Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Frame + Skates = Holiday Door Decor

I'm on a little roll here with my Christmas posts this week.
In case you missed them, they were:
Let's continue with this festive-ness, shall we?
Isn't this a fun wreath?
I saw this idea on Pinterest and wanted to try it this year.

Pinned from here.
I already had a pair of old ice skates that are usually hanging on a sled on the front porch during the holiday season.
{like this}
I took this picture when I checked out the lining of the skates. I was hoping it would be red plaid like Bliss' pair but alas, only hot pink.
Thank you Amber Bradley wherever you are.
Yes these were thrifted of course!

 

I used some excess trimmings from our tree and this faux garland from the the Store of Dollar.

 

I had this black frame too, it's usually up on the mantel.
I wrapped it with the faux garland.
I bought this sprig of green berries at the Dollar Store too.
I wrapped the sprigs in floral wire to make little bundles.
Then I wired it to the frame.
I had two floral pick from an old display. They add a little color.
 

I draped the skates over the frame by their laces.
I added some leftover red ribbon to the top part of the skates.

and some candy canes and greenery.
I used some floral wire to attach it to the front door.
It's heavy so make sure you have a good hanger for it.
Prepare to be dazzled....
From the inside....
and the outside...
It really pops on the front door!
Especially with my new house numbers.
So if you're keeping track of such things, I've spent $2 on this whole project.
I just had to gild the lily a little bit more and add some yarn pom poms.
What do you think, pom poms or no pom poms?
I can't decide!

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Christmas Mantel 2012

It's so nice to have most of our decorations up and in place.
The mantel is one of my favorite places to decorate.
This year's mantel is pretty similar to last year's with it's red and white color scheme.  
I did get one new piece-the Santa subway art- that I found on this trip.  I have it propped up with a cookbook stand.
The rest of the pieces are things that I had and have collected and used over the years.
I added my thrifted Skotch Kooler and thermos to the hearth that I got for my daughter's graduation party decor.
 

The decorations on the garland are all from Ikea

The puffy fabric stars are new this year (also Ikea).
I think it's finally done.
 I've been tweaking it here and there but at some point I need to stop and just enjoy it.
Did you check out my Starbucks Cup Angels?

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{Get Crafty} Starbucks Cup Angels

I'm pretty sure these are solely my own creation (not sure I should be proud of that?).  Not many people look at their cup of coffee and think "this would make a great angel!".
  I don't know what made me think to make angels out of the festive Christmas Starbucks cups but the idea came to me a few years ago. Sadly I don't have any of my originals but I think I've improved them.
Start by carefully rinsing out your cups and drying them.
The only things I had to buy for the angels (besides lots of Starbucks coffees) were the wooden disks from Michael's.  I bought some solid and some with cut out stars in them.  My previous angels had Styrofoam heads but I wanted something that was easy to draw on.
I practiced drawing some simple faces on paper first.  The simpler the better, if you ask me.
To make the angel's wings, take off the cardboard sleeve, fold it in half and cut into a wing shape. 
Make two folds on either side of the center so the wings will stick out once they are attached.  If you want the wording to show, add the hot glue on this side.
If you don't want the wording to show, add the glue to the other side.
Draw faces on the wooden disks.

Attach the heads onto the cups with hot glue.
I used Sharpies to hold them up until they are secure.






To make halos out of the star cut out wooden disks-
Spread a thin coat of Elmer's type glue a foam brush
and sprinkle glitter onto the wet glue. 
I used my Martha glitters and some other glitters too.
Let the glue dry. Shake off the glitter and see if you need any more.

Here's a shot mid way through my group of angels.
When the glue and glitter are dry,attach the halo with hot glue, try not to let the hot glue drip down onto the face if possible. 

 

You can also make the halos out of twine and glittery pipe cleaners (or anything else you can think of!).
I love the rustic look of the twine.
You can keep the lids of the cups to give your angels a little height and a finished look to their gowns.
I like them either way.
 It was easy to incorporate them into my holiday decor.  
(though normally I wouldn't keep a lit candle so close to them--just for photographing).
Two look sweet just hanging out on the console.
Or for a bigger impact, put a whole flock of them together like I did here on my china cabinet in the dining room.
I can almost hear them singing!

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Friday Phone Dump - Week 48

How was your week?
Here's a snippet ours in phone pics...
 row 1 *our tree with just the lights (I was playing around with the LensLight app*Teen 2 babysitting our niece*celebrating my sister's birthday*
row 2 *beautiful early morning sky*kitchen decorating*living room tree*
row 3*hall tree and bannister*fireplace*SNOW!!*
row 1 *Breaking out the Christmas china*another early morning sky*current craft projects*
row 2 *Trying out a Pinterest sink cleaner*Basement tree*trying some chalk art*
row 3*Photo-A-Day December*some of the Irish Dance hardware won *time for beers in the hot tub*
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