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Merry Christmas!

Posted in Christmas, Christmas Cards, tagged Christmas on December 25, 2012|

Merry Christmas friends! I hope you are having a wonderful day full of warmth, cheer and lots of family and friends!

Thanks for reading the blog; I hope you have a Happy New Year! See you in 2013!

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Merry Christmas!

Posted in Christmas, Christmas Cards, Christmas Lights on December 25, 2011|

Merry Christmas!!

These are our Christmas cards this year (well, in progress, Shutterfly took two weeks to get these to us so we’re still sending them out) and I love them! Chevron, of course, and some fun Christmas lights.

We had to include the dogs, thank goodness for free space on the back of the cards! Enjoy this day, enjoy your family and friends and enjoy the reason for the season. Merry Christmas!

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

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Christmas Card Holder

Posted in Christmas Cards, Christmas Crafts, Christmas Decorations on December 16, 2010| 2 Comments »

I love, love, love opening the mail during December! Christmas cards have to be one of the best pieces of mail you can ever receive! I get frustrated though because we have never had a place to display everyone’s hard work and pretty pictures so after seeing an idea in this month’s Martha Stewart Living, I decided to try my hand at my own Christmas card holder.

To start this project, you’ll need a sewing/knitting circle loom thing (yes, that is the technical term), clothespins, ribbon and a glue gun. I chose to add glitter because I like things that sparkle and shine. Wow, that just sounded so blonde! Moving on…

It also helps if you have a cute little guy like Carl to help you sniff each item and make sure it is okay to use. Martha used mini clothespins but I wanted more weight and a bigger wall hanging so I used the regular sized clothespins.

To start, wrap your ribbon around the circle so you already have the hanging spot marked. Then, glue gun the clothespins around the entire circle. I did some on the front and some on the back. Martha (I say Martha…we all know its her staff, right? Right?) recommended just doing them on the front and alternating putting them out and in. I wanted to make sure we had plenty of space and plenty of clips, so I used the front and back of the circle.

Once those were glued and dried, I laid out the newspaper and went to town with the glue and Martha Stewart glitter from Michael’s. Everyone says this is the best glitter ever because it doesn’t get everywhere and is easy to work with…they are so right! It is super fine and hasn’t gotten all over the furniture this is hanging above. Love it!

Here is the finished project! I love it! It is exactly what I wanted and has just enough sparkle and shine to add to the kitchen. I’m glad I went with the clips on the front and back. The back ones face in to the circle and the front ones face outside the circle. We have plenty of room for more cards – can’t wait to see yours!