Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Christmas Card Display

Nothing brings instant holiday cheer like reaching into your mailbox to find a pile of Christmas cards from family and friends. I love to send cards and I absolutely love receiving them. This year I decided to festively display my cards on a few strands of ribbon in my kitchen. These clutter-free card holders were super easy to make and I love how they decorate my home!
You will need:
10 feet of 3-inch wide wire ribbon
9.5 feet of 2-inch wide ribbon
Buttons in various sizes
Mini clothes pins
Hot glue gun

1.   Cut a length of the 3-inch ribbon to fit the height of the door or space you will hang the card holders on. I cut my center ribbon to 4 feet, and the right and left pieces to 3 feet.
2.   Cut your 2-inch ribbon to almost match the length of your 3-inch ribbon pieces. I cut these pieces 2 inches shorter than my other pieces.
3.   Carefully glue your 2-inch pieces down the center of each 3-inch piece.
4.   Glue your clothes pins down the ribbon. I used a Christmas card to measure the distance between the pins.
5.   Add buttons and bows to your ribbon.
6.   Hang your cards up!
  

To adhere the ribbon to the wall, I used Command picture hanging Velcro.

 
How do you display your Christmas cards?
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Monday, December 17, 2012

Christmas In Our Kitchen

Lots of you have asked for pictures of our new home. Truth be told, I just don’t feel like it’s in any shape to present yet. We haven’t purchased any furniture, hung anything on the walls or finished any of our DIYs. And guess what? I don’t think any of that will be happening any time soon either. I’ve given myself a one year timeline to get the house perfected to prevent myself from making any hasty purchases or rushing into decorations that I will later regret. Not to mention, I need to save up for all my projects because dang, furniture is expensive! Sheesh! 

So anyway, I’ve decided to at least give you a kitchen tour since this room has made the most progress. And by “progress,” I mean it’s decorated for Christmas!

Of course I have to start with a "before" picture...
And here she is, decked for the holidays…
Do you spy a DIY project in the corner? The hubby has been hard at work building me a farmhouse dining table! Not quite done, but it’s getting there so stay tuned…
Still looking for the perfect rug and new bar stools…

I need to figure out how to decorate those open cabinet shelves post Christmas…

I love festive towels! In fact, I think I own more Christmas themed bath and kitchen towels than regular ones, which explains why I am always doing laundry.

{Our framed 2011 and 2012 Christmas cards}

I love that we finally have a perfect spot to hang all of our sweet Christmas cards from family and friends in our new home!
 Poor Charlie. That little Santa on the ledge of the counter absolutely tortures him. He thinks it’s a toy for him and patiently sits and stares at it for hours sometimes. 

Hopefully I can share another room soon!
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Charlotte Blogger Ornament Exchange


Last night a fun group of Charlotte bloggers got together at Aria for a Christmas ornament exchange!  We had so much fun stealing each other’s ornaments, drinking some bubbly and catching up.

All of the pretty wrapped presents!



Afterwards we headed to Founders Hall to take snag some pictures in front of the gorgeous Christmas tree. After all, that’s what bloggers do! 

As soon as I got home I couldn’t wait to hang my ornaments up on my tree! The sparkly ornament on the left is from the blogger swap. The adorable ornament on the right was a sweet housewarming gift from Laura! I am so thrilled with my two newest additions to my tree!

Happy Friday Y'all! I am heading to a wedding for a very dear friend {who also happens to be family} in South Carolina this weekend!

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