Christmas post #1 There's room for everyone on the nice list!

 Hooray, it's finally December! 

Which means Christmas time is here!

I'm especially excited because I have compiled 25 Christmas inspired crafts/ blog posts.

I love Christmas and decorating, but decorations can get kind of pricey.

So, this year I decided to thrift, upcycle and make my own!

Last month was pretty much spent planning and crafting for this holiday extravaganza 

so I'm hoping you won't be disappointed.

The first craft of the month will be a pair of scalloped Christmas trees.

You will need:

A hot glue gun

Paper of your choice and a large hole punch

You will also need these: 

Styrofoam cones. I bought this pack for $4 at Walmart 

then found them for $1 each at the dollar tree. 

Don't you hate when that happens?

Either way, I bought two more for $1 each but haven't used them yet.

Moving on, after gathering everything I would need, I started punching out the holes.

I sorted out the circles that I cut out by color

 and figured out how I was going to lay them out.

I decided I was going to go from light to dark, so starting from the bottom I used the dark circles 

and worked my way up to the lighter shades.

Easy enough, right?

Once he saw how much fun I was having, Levi decided to make one too.

There they are!

His and hers Christmas trees.

They took about an hour to make and were super easy.

I'm thinking about letting Mia make one only substituting the hot glue for some Elmer's glue.

Well, that concludes the first Christmas post!

I'm excited to have more posts coming soon!

Until next time, farewell!

Quick, cheap and easy Halloween decorations.

I haven't quite been able to go all out with Halloween decorations like I planned on.

However, what I did accomplish was done in a single day.

It took a trip to the dollar store and a trip to the thrift store.

All of my inspiration was from Martha Stewart.

 Martha Stewart does Halloween it right!

I started out with the pumpkins that I painted here 

and some owls(Mia likes to photobomb)

 and glass jars that I already had up on the shelves.

From the dollar store I bought a few bags of plastic eyes, a package of small spiders, a package of spider silhouettes, two large spiders, two crows, spiderwebs and some red candlesticks. 

(Sorry I didn't take more pictures!)

I purchased four brass candle holders for $2.00, two large brown candle holders for $4.00

and a small, gold frame for $1.00 at the thrift store.

Since we use it so often, we have a large collection of spray paints.

This is one of my favorites.

It's Rust-oleum's flat, black enamel.

Since it's flat it sticks to pretty much any surface.

If you don't like the matte finish, you can also get some of Rust-oleum's Crystal Clear Enamel 

and it'll be glossy, just like that! 

I really like using matte colors and then spraying over them with clear. 

The matte paint works as a primer and makes the gloss stick better and look just a bit shinier than your average gloss spray paint, it also runs less so you wont have as many drips on your surface. 

There I go getting carried away with spray paint.

On to the more interesting things.

Here are the shelves I decorated.

Project cost:

Red Candles =$2.00

Brass Candle holders = $2.00

Large Brown Candle holders= $4.00

Gold frame = $1.00

Bags of Eyes = $4.00

Two bags of eyes = $2.00

Bag of Spiders = $1.00

Two Large Spiders = $2.00 ($1.00 each)

Two crows = $2.00 ($1.00 each)

Pumpkins = Already had ($1.00 each at Walmart)

Package of Spider Silhouettes = $1.00 

Gold Apples = Already had

Spray paint = Already had

Wreath = from previous post!

Total money spent:  Around $21.00 plus tax 

Just under $30 if you count the pumpkins.

This is the first year that I decided to get creative with our decorations.

I planned on doing more, but more projects just kept popping up.

I'm pretty happy with how the shelves turned out. 

I've got a few pumpkins and spider silhouettes around the house, but otherwise I think I'm done with decorating for Halloween.

You can bet I'm gonna go crazy for Christmas.

Mia's going to love it just as much as I am!

Speaking of Mia, I realized I didn't mention her in my last post and that just wont do!

So without further ado, here's my baby posing for all of you!

*Also, I'd like to mention that October 16th was the 1 year anniversary of my very first blog post.

You may view that here.

Thank YOU for keeping up with all of my posts and for finding what I say type interesting.

I hope I gave you some kind of inspiration or at least entertainment.

I'd love to have a guest blogger sometime soon so if you have any crafts, diy's, recipes or even rooms you wanna show off let me know! 

Thanks again everyone! <3