Our First Christmas Tree

Oh the holiday season… so glorious… so joyful.

From the neighbor boy’s mini snowman

To the torching of the Christmas trees on New Year’s Eve

It’s been an exceptionally great season, especially since it’s the first one I’ve spent with The Husband.

I was a little overly ambitious and decided that store-bought Christmas decorations were for cop-outs (don’t worry, I’ve since changed my tune) and that I needed to go crazy with the Pinterest Board and make our little Christmas tree the best. Ever.

Well, I certainly wouldn’t say that I succeeded, but I DID end up with some cute stuff (like, a bajillion man-hours later).

My colors/materials were burlap, peach, and pearl (very Christmas-y, I assure you), so I started making ornaments:

with some help from The Husband

and then used some peach tulle to spruce up the lights

and voilà!!! Our poor, little, ghetto tree became our favorite little beacon of joy.

PS a burlap and peach-tulle ruffle tree skirt is in the making, more on that later.

Mega Frame

Ok, project post #1. Here we go.

I always saw this post on Pinterest and thought, "How adorable! Someday I'll be that good at DIY and my whole house will be awesome and everyone will admire my cute stuff and..." and then after I had a million pins on my idea board I decided it was time to jump right in. Because, you know, you gotta start somewhere.

So I started with a laaaarge picture frame that I got for 50% off at Hobby Lobby, and then let it sit in my room for over a month.

Great start, eh?

Finally I got motivated again, and I got myself a program that turns your regular ol' pictures into polaroid look-a-likes. I used this one. It's great. And hilarious. And annoying. You drag your picture into the "camera," and then you wait for the pictures to fully "develop." It's a hoot.

Anyways, then I went and printed them off as 4x6 prints. Cuteness. Then I bought mini clothespins and black twine. I hot glued the twine across the back (I used two dots for each one, you know, as a backup) and then pinned the pictures onto the twine.

So after all that, about when I was thinking that I was giving up on crafting forever, I admired the finished product:

and then once I had the husband hang it on the wall:

Then I decided that I LOVE crafting and want to MAKE ALL THE CRAFTS!!!!




PS these pictures are from my phone.. so sorry they suck. I'll work on that.