Merry Christmas!

More Pinterest Crafting!

I recently made an ornament wreath following directions I found here. She gave great directions!
It was fairly simple but toward the end extremely frustrating. I hot glued most of my ornaments, but hot gluing 70+ ornaments is crazy. I should've listened to her and glued every last one because I've lost about 5 now. They're simple to replace (even once it's hanging) but annoying all the same!

I also made the Santa's beard advent calendar. The template is found here but I didn't love the look for my house so I just drew my own Santa. Starting on Saturday, Santa's beard will get one cotton ball per day until he comes to visit our house!

And last but not least, I made the reindeer found in this tutorial! I LOVE how it turned out! We completely did away with our giant Björk hanging that we had up for the last 4ish years. After Christmas I may take the red off of his nose and keep him up year round!
The HOLLY JOLLY letters I printed on red paper and cut out. They are attached to fishing line with a tiny piece of scotch tape on each letter.
I am planning a whole new wall design for after the New Year and I'm super excited to be decorating again!

Have you made any Christmasey crafts lately? I'd love to see them!

Wrapping Presents!

I've been trying to wrap presents differently this year. I (along with 204737 other women) am obsessed with kraft paper so I bought some several weeks ago to use instead of wrapping paper. I have been looking on Pinterest and racking my brain to come up with cute ideas. This is the first year of my life that I've seriously enjoyed wrapping presents! It's more like crafting instead of just wrapping. Next year I'll start earlier and all of our presents will be wonderfully wrapped.
The reason I'm tooting my own horn is because normally my presents look like a third grader wrapped them. My mom is the best present wrapper alive so I have a lot to live up to! I'm on my way, mom! 

Have you done any fun packaging this season? I'd love to see it!

Christmas is Almost Here!

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Kiiiiind of freaking out about how close Christmas is!!

I made the choice to make all of our Christmas gifts this year (except for Neely's) and I've only started on a few! I have my work cut out for me! Good thing I love making things!

How about you? Do you have all of your shopping done?

PS Don't you just love that reindeer? It's been with me most if not all Christmases in my life! It has a twin that has two broken legs which are now held together by Strawberry Shortcake bandaids! I love Christmas and I love bokeh!