After a late and slow start, Christmas has arrived at the McDaniel house! Since I have a tendency to overwhelm myself in DIY projects, I've picked a few this year to focus on(christmas apothecary letters, the mantle, a Christmas card holder and table settings).
Word to the wise, shop early if you want wooden letters for Christmas projects. I had to go several places, several times to find the letters I needed.
How cute did these turn out? Definitely thinking about combos that would work for year round(Easter, 4th of July)
After seeing a plethora of beautiful and stunning Christmas mantles on Pinterest, I decided I wanted something fabulous too! It's still a work in progress but I combined a bunch of designs I liked and tried to incorporate some of the things we already had.
I grabbed a bunch of old window panes from the MIL's antique booth a few months back and knew that one would be the perfect centerpiece for this Christmas display. I attempted to buy snow spray but ended up with frost spray(which doesn't show in this photo but is really neat). Bought various letters to spell out hope and also found a wintertime bough and tree for half off at Hobby Lobby to complete the look. The snowman nutcracker, star, cross, holiday scent warmer and pinecone Santa's were already ours.
I knew I wanted a better and easier way to display all our Merry Mail we receive. I love getting mail and I save all photo cards I receive. I knew there had to be a cute way to display all the holiday cards we get other than playing Tetris with them on the fridge. So I got on Pinterest and this is what I found.
DIY Christmas card holder inspiration:
This is what we ended up with.
I think this turned out really cute! It's probably my favorite DIY project of the season(prolly cause Mac got really into helping me with it). The picture doesn't do the sign justice, the letters are a beautiful green glitter and it just makes me happy to be able to look at all the people we consider blessings in our lives.
All the dishes I have so far were bought at the dollar store. I wanted to go elegant for the dining room but colorful and bright for the kitchen. Things I would like to add in the future (maybe ill stumble into some great after Christmas sales): table cloths for both tables, cute cups, serving dishes and silverware for the kitchen, elegant bowls/salad plates and monogrammed napkins for the dining room.
Some additional Christmas decor....
Looking forward to a wonderful Christmas. I'm sad I will be missing my OH family, but how lucky to have wonderful family in TN(Memphis & Nashville) who make me feel so welcome! The hubs and I are just doing stockings this year(though if you've seen the size of our stockings, that's still a lot!!) because we bought ourselves a GIANORMOUS king sized bed for Christmas(pics to come when we actually get our bedding).
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
Upcoming projects: replacing the mantle and decorating the TV wall in the living room.
