My Top Five of 2010

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Is this thing working?

Yep? Okay.

I know, I know I haven't been around. I think this has been the longest break I've taken since I started blogging a few months ago. Between putting away the Christmas things, visitors to my house, the snow, and just plain cabin fever from being in the house for so long --remember here in the South, if it snows, everything shuts down-- that I

After Christmas Snow

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! I don't know about you, but after blogging about crafts and my decorations for a month, I feel like I've run out of things to talk about until all the decorations get packed away and "real life" starts again. Once Christmas is over, I'm always itching to take the decorations down, but my family leaves them up until New Year's Day most of the time. Although I

Christmas Greetings

For those of us celebrating this special day, please remember the reason for the season.....



Wishing everyone a happy, safe and very Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

I hope that everyone is (or will be) enjoying Christmas Eve today. Mr. Weatherman has said it might snow, but if the weather is okay, I'll be visiting my Grandmother sometime today. Plus, my immediately family will open some gifts. Like many of you, I'll also be busy preparing for the big Christmas meal tomorrow. We didn't really plan out a menu this year, nor went grocery shopping especially for

All Lit Up

Not a lot of words since I'm busy preparing for Christmas, but here are some of my holiday decorations I didn't have time to share this season....... 

I've always had trouble decorating my mantel, but this is the first year I felt it looked good. Thanks to everyone who showed their mantels this year because I got inspired by you to make mine look better.



You've probably seen the Santa truck

Felt Cat and Scotty Dog Ornament Tutorial

A few weeks ago, I shared the handmade ornaments on my tree and said I'd try to make a tutorial for the felt pet ornaments. Several people wanted to know how to make them, so I finally found time to write the pattern up. I made these a few years ago, so I don't have any step by step pictures, but if you can hand sew, I'm sure you can figure out from the instructions how to make them.



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Shabby Chic Christmas Decorating

Today, I thought I'd share my cottage tv room during Christmas. This room is really small, so the good part is, I didn't have to decorate a lot. The bad part is because the room is small, I had to take out some stuff to be able to decorate for the holiday. At least this gives me a change so I won't get bored with all my stuff!

I cleared the long table in the room for my Christmas tree. The only

A Festive Living Room

I meant to do a few more tutorials this week including the pet ornaments a few of you asked about. However, I've been a bit under the weather and haven't felt like writing that up. Even though it will be too late to make them for this year, I will try to get that up next week. At least then you'll have a whole year to make them for next Christmas.

Today, I thought I'd share some pictures of my

How To Make a Bird Seed Jar

For those of you who are looking for last minute gift ideas, here is a very fast and cute gift for anyone you know who loves birds or nature. Or make one for yourself as I did. This is a much better alternative than leaving the bag of seeds on the porch like I used to do. As you can imagine, I started having some squirrel visitors on the porch!

I lucked out and found these great nests that

Make Your Own Christmas Cottage

My Pink Christmas Cottage

A while back, I saw a pink snow house while looking around the web.  Immediately, I fell in love with it and knew one would be perfect for my cottage tv room. Then, I remembered seeing some paper mache houses the last time I was at Hobby Lobby and decided to  make one myself.  Although mine isn't exactly the same as the one I saw, it turned out very similar, so I

Handmade Christmas ornaments

Since I already showed you the hand painted ornaments on my family's "main tree", I thought you'd like to see some of the other handmade ornaments on it.

Do you have any of those old thread balls that are looking shabby? Here is how we redid ours. Wrap a piece of fabric around it and cover the top with some lace to hide the raw edges. Finish off with a pretty bow. You could purchase Styrofoam

Edible Candy Wreath Tutorial

Many years ago, a family friend of mine was gifted with a peppermint candy wreath. She loved it so much that she removed the scissors, therefore no one has ever eaten the candy from it. Since I've always loved it, I decided to get adventurous and make myself one this year.

Perfect for decorating or gift giving, plus you can easily customize the colors to your decor by the colors of hard candy

Santa Comes In A What?

I'm sure you've figured out by now that my mom and I like to do crafty things. I think it stems from us wanting to have unusual things for our home instead of always buying something from the store that everyone else has.

Today I thought I'd share one of our favorite Christmas decorations that we put together by mixing store bought things with craft things that we like to do.

It all started