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welcome to a pinterest christmas 2013! for the past two years i have done this blog series of DIYs during the holiday season – the first season you can see here & the second season you can see here. there are a few other bloggers participating in the series whose blogs & posts are below. … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: envelope advent calendar.”
welcome to the fifth & final week of a pinterest christmas! {see the first, second, third, & fourth week posts} i would like to share two final pinspiration projects with you before the end of the year {eeks, that is close!}. first up, etched mason jar monograms. i adore monograms {as you can see here} … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: etched mason jar monograms & ornament cluster.”
welcome to the fourth week of a pinterest christmas! {see the first, second, & third week posts} even though it is the day after christmas, i wanted to share two projects with you because it is still the holiday season, right? first up, magazine bows. every year i try to re-use as much as i … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: magazine bows & chalkboard art.”
welcome to the third week of a pinterest christmas! {see the first & second week posts} this is a project that i completed over thanksgiving weekend with amanda during our crafternoon date. {see amanda’s tree forest in the blog links below} {original pinterest link – handmade christmas trees} the original tutorial mentions that you don’t … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: paper tree forest.”
welcome to the second week of a pinterest christmas {see the first post here} – very exciting! this week i was able to add more ornaments to our family christmas tree. first up, a house key clay ornament. i really liked the idea of preserving our first house key as there is a {slight} chance … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: clay ornament & pom pom santa.”
last year i did a series during the holiday season that was called a pinterest christmas {you can see the first post here and the rest of the posts are under the diy tutorials page here}. i am doing this blog series again this year, but this time i recruited a few blogging friends to join in … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: reindeer wreath & felted garland.”
you read it right: a pinterest christmas. yes, i know its mid-january. i promise i am not crazy, just hear me out. this was actually part of my pinterest christmas, but because we gave these to our family as gifts, i didn’t want to post them in december with the rest of the christmas posts … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: chalkboard glasses.”
i thought it might be nice to do something for a few of our neighbors for the holiday. i was told by someone recently that if you don’t know your neighbors very well you shouldn’t bake them anything – who was that? – but there were so many yummy goodies on pinterest, i couldn’t resist … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: gifts for neighbors.”
i made a stocking for sadie this year. it just didn’t seem right that any member of the family wouldn’t have a stocking hanging from the mantle. i followed pretty much the same tutorial as for the other two stockings, minus the ruffled ribbon on the cuff. i also cut the stocking pattern (the paper … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: stockings, the sadie edition.”
christmas stockings are one of my favorite holiday decorations. maybe its the joy tied to the gifts that fill christmas stockings or the fact that they are just really big socks, who knows. since we are still a new-ish family (this is only our second married christmas after all), my husband and i don’t have … Continue reading “a pinterest christmas: stockings.”