Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Our Rustic Vintage Christmas: Mantle


Our Christmas Mantle...
It's a lil' bit country (CB) and a lil' bit vintage (Me) - the best of both worlds!


I made the wreath & rustic wood chalkboard. Both easy DYI projects.


Our stockings were a $5 Hobby Lobby find. I wasn't super excited about them, but decided they would do the job this year and maybe next year we'd find better ones. Well....after a lil' make over, there won't be a need to find new ones!



Details, details, details!
I love the fabric rosettes and they are so easy to make! The hardest part was picking out the perfect fabric. And the buttons....I'm so glad I decided to replace the snowflake with sewn on buttons!


Even our doggies got their own "personalized" stockings...well, I just added a cute dog print button to theirs.



There will definitely be a lot of family time spent around the fireplace this season.
  
Happy Christmas decorating everyone!


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Christmas Time Preparation!

We still haven't finished putting up all our Christmas decorations. I'm hoping to finish this weekend and post pictures shortly after. I took on a few DIY projects to personalize our decorations and hope to continue it each year. This may sound cheesy, but I have this picture in my head of our (future) kids putting up our ornaments and asking what the story is behind each unique one. Who knows, they may not even be interested in them, but at least I will be able to look at them and remember why they are special.

We are also trying to pick out the perfect Christmas card to send out, but have been slackers. Hopefully, those will also be ordered very soon. 

After searching the internet for the perfect Christmas photo card I came across Shutterfly's massive selection! I've been pretty picky about what kind of photo card I want to send out since after all....this will be our first married Christmas together! They have such a unique selection of cards to choose from….they’ve made it so very hard for us to pick just one! After a few too many hours of staring at my computer screen, we were able to narrow it down, and like I said, hopefully they will be ordered SOON.
Check out the massive Christmas photo card selection for yourself:

I even found myself browsing through all the other wonderful products they offer.
I really, really want to create a Photo Book with all our wedding pictures and pre-wedding events. It’s such a great way to display special photos and showcase on our coffee table for friends and family to enjoy.   

  They even have a great selection of invitations and thank you cards for every occasion. 

Shutterfly is offering 50 FREE Christmas cards if you blog about them. FREE is always good in my book!
Shutterfly: Blog & Receive 50 Free Christmas Cards


Decisions, decisions.....