Showing posts with label a beautiful mess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a beautiful mess. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

DIY Advent Calendar


For the past couple days I've been working on making my own version of A Beautiful Mess' Advent Calendar.  I don't have any wooden pallets just laying around the house.  I mean I love all these pallet DIYs, but seriously where do all these people get them?  I actually saw some nice ones earlier today, but when I was able to go back to get them, they were already gone!  In less then three hours they disappeared!  Wooden Pallets are in high demand!  

Anyway, since I didn't have any wooden pallets I used some scrap pieces of wood flooring from a section we had to replace in our bedroom.    My tree is about four feet tall, and it has seven 'branches'.  I bought a bunch of presents from the dollar store, and wrapped them with craft paper, and cheap plastic tablecloths.  I used yarn to hang them from the little nails.  I did this all in one go, and man was it exhausting!  Who knew wrapping 25 little presents, and hanging them from a little wooden tree would be so much work!?!  

To make it more festive I stuck these 3D stickers on the wall.  Aaron got them from Pier1 last year, after the holidays they were deeply discounted.  One of the (few) benefits from my husband working at P1, we have first dibs on all the freshly marked down merchandise.    

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas. We also got our outdoor lights up.  We still need to get a tree though.  

Happy DIYing, chris!  

Friday, November 30, 2012

Fun Friday Fascinations #33



#1.  I love homemade soup.  Soup from a can just doesn't compare, and tomato soup is one of my fave go-to-soups.  This Tomato Basil Parmesan Soup from Delightfully Tacky looks amazing.  

#2.  You can never have too many dish towels, and this set form Target is totally my style.  

#3.  I've been thinking about homemade advent calendars a lot, and I'm torn between this one from A Beautiful Mess ...

#4.  and this one from the Norwegian blog Englemor.  Though I'm cheap and might not make either, so I don't have to buy 25 little gifts.  Even if I only bought stuff from the dollar store, that's twenty-five bucks that could have been spent on more necessary items.  

#5.  This ornament is beautiful from A Subtle Revelry, and I think I have all the needed materials already.

Happy Fun Friday Fascinations, chris!