Christmas Tablescape

For a pretty Christmas tablescape we have added feather boas tucked into the silver bowl with pinecones glittered silver and Christmas balls along with a string of lights. Tucked around the bowl is another white boa and silver poinsettas.

Silver chargers with the peacock colored plates and napkin rings finish off the table.

Rustic Burlap Blocks

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I liked this idea and decided to make some of my own. First off I stenciled onto a burlap ribbon the words that I wanted on my blocks, then I got my husband to cut some 2x4's the length that the words were plus 1 inch. I painted the wood white then sanded the sides and edges and top for a shabby chic look.

Staining Fiberglass Doors

Wood doors are beautiful but very expensive so we opted for a fiberglass door which was a little less expensive. I stained it using minwax called "aged oak" and minwax varathane.

I was careful to make sure that every coat was completely dry before doing the next coat. In all I stained 4 coats, then 2 varathane coats.

Getting ready to stain. These doors have a wood grain built in.

When you brush on the stain, do it in sections and don't let it dry before wiping it off. Use a clean cloth. 

Brushing on the stain.

Wiping off the stain.

Candy Cane Snowman

For this cute little snowman you will need a 3 x 7 inch glass jar, 15 - 20 candy canes (I used 16), 2 elastic bands, ribbon of your choice, and a snowman Christmas tree ornament (I got this one at the dollar store and it is a Christmas tree ball decorated as a snowman head wrapped with a scarf)

Put the elastics around the jar then start inserting the candy canes in upside down. I wanted some of the jar to show so I didn't put the candy canes all the way around.

To hold the candy canes firmly in place wrap the ribbon around the jar and tie with a bow in front.

The snowman's head was just the right size to push into the jar, no glue required.

The snowman head Christmas tree ornament has jingle bells on it so they are inside the glass.

He's kinda cute don't you think?

This tablescape is such a fun kids table. The tablecloth is wrapping paper, the chargers are a blackboard slate with chalk, the plates are paper plates bought from Pier 1, and the plastic cutlery is put in a red and green stocking sewn from felt and tea towels. The candy cane snowman is set on top of a melted candy tray. The cups are paper and the straws are red and green stripes. The name tags are three little candy canes glued to stand with a name tag placed in the hook.

Painting my wall Grey and DIY Pictures for the Wall

Going from a brown taupe

To Elf Grey

I decided that it was time to switch up my colors in the living room. I had a hard time deciding what color of grey that I wanted to put on the wall and if I should paint them all or just one wall. One wall won out and the color that I chose was called Elf - CL 3215 D. I didn't want to get the grey with blue undertones and this paint is brown undertones.

Once the color was chose I knew that I needed something big to put on the wall. What I did was buy a roll of wallpaper and a couple of oversized stretch canvas'. I had to cut the canvas down to fit the wallpaper width but I left the length of the canvas.

Here is showing the one canvas made into two. I made three on them so I had to buy two canvas.

I papered the canvas just like I would have put it on the wall.

The brown and the grey compliment each other quite well. 

End of Summer Wreath for your Front Door

The cost of this wreath was under $25.

For this wreath you will need a roll of burlap ribbon. beige netting ribbon with gold sparkles, one cattail bunch, some berries, three sunflowers with clips on the back and a wire wreath.

I cut the ribbon in lengths of approximately 12", as you can see they don't have to be perfect. 

Tie each ribbon onto the wreath.

When the ribbon is all on, snip the cattails off the bunch and hot glue them into the ribbon.

Snip about 4 pieces of grass at a time and hot glue both ends together.

Set them in the wreath while the glue is still hot.

This is not a fussy wreath and it only takes a couple of hours to complete. I added 3 sunflowers that you get at the dollar store. They have clips on the back so you just clip them to the wreath.

I think it looks really nice!

Cupcakes Bouquet

These cupcakes and cupcake bouquet were made for a wedding shower, the wedding colors were purple and green and she loved gerberas and cala lilies, so we decided to incorporate both into her shower and make a cupcake bouquet and then individual cupcakes besides. I loved the way that it turned out!

Use gum paste with purple food coloring.

Shape the flower by using the ball tool to thin out the edges.

To make 1 gerbera cut out 2 large, 1 medium, and 1 small. Use a yellow middle mold for the center. For the bouquet you will need 7 gerberas.

Pearl dust each flower to give it a shimmer.

To make the bouquet buy an 8" diameter bowl. We couldn't find a big enough styrofoam ball so what we did was bought a circle foam to fit the bowl and cut the styrofoam ball to fit inside of it.

Making the calla lily.

Use gum paste glue to hold everything together. (a little ball of gum paste with a teaspoon of water and mix till it becomes a paste.)

Gently fold down the edges of the lily.

This is the bowl covered with tulle held together with toothpicks. The cups are to keep the cupcakes from falling off the bowl. We couldn't find the right cup size for the cupcakes as the plastic glasses were all too tall so we cut them with scissors and melted the top with a match, just so they wouldn't be sharp. Drill a small hole through the middle and skewer them to the styrofoam bowl.

Even if we didn't put the gerberas and calla lillies in and just left the cupcakes like this I think it still looks pretty.

The calla lillies were not put in the cupcakes but just placed between them. There were 7 cupcakes with gerberas in the bouquet.

Next we decorated the individual cupcakes with the same color scheme.