crafts
This week, on top of everything else, I had this obsession to put together and "Thanksgiving Tree." Pretty much a tree with leaves that say what we are thankful for. Since a few people asked, I thought I would share the final outcome....
Of course, I ended up with a "thankful wreath" as well...
And when Zoë wrote that she's thankful for "family," my heart melted
ETA:
I totally forgot about the "sign" I bought early in October at TJ MAXX. Love that I thought so far in advance.
I didn't get off to the running start with this year's Journal Your Christmas. I had a book I was thinking of using, then didn't want to. I thought I had enough supplies, but then couldn't start until I had a couple of KEY items (in my head only, they were all in my head).
I also make quite the mess during this process.
and this is only the table.
So, Sunday turned into a craftastic craptacular as I spent 4+ hours organizing, printing, looking though things and jumping into this year's book. But so far, so good. I think I'm off to a rockin' start.
While it's no secret that we live where we do because of the weather, for 6 weeks a year we do admit that it would be nice to have a snow flurry outside our window... well, in theory that is. Since we live in a 1950's-era PRE-INSULATION house with a tar and rock roof and north-west (towards the ocean) facing windows, actually having a flurry of any type would translate into frostbite. Alas, we can "dream"...
And make fun "snow flake" decorations!
I got this idea off some craft site that I can't find now in my bookmark maze. But simply, it's various size labels in white, off-white and silver, stuck front to back in random patterns on clear fishing wire.
When hung over glass they move and "sparkle" a bit.. creating a perfect modern snow flurry in your window. I hung ours over the glass of our door - just taped to the top and hanging freely to blow in the breeze. I used labels from The Paper-Source but any round labels would do. You could also use a craft punch for perfect circles.
Fairly simple and I'm loving the look on the front door.
Oh, and if you head into Paper Source (Heaven!) pick up a pack of the paper doves to put up around the house. Another super simple "hand-made" decoration (in "parentheses" since really all you do is punch them out of the paper) that look adorable but are easy to do.
