Merry Christmas

December 25, 2017December 18, 2017Leave a comment

Merry Christmas from our home to yours!

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Meowy Christmas!

December 22, 2017December 20, 2017Leave a comment

IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! WHO’S EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

Not me…definitely not me…

Before we actually get to Christmas I wanted to show off some pictures of my Christmas kitties! These first two I took myself. And it will be quite obvious haha.

I love their “backdrop”. I added so many pink Christmas items that I had and they looked so cute with it. Amelia (the calico) looks absolutely thrilled since I had to change the lighting like 5 times before I got that picture. I think she was losing patience. And Target (the tuxedo) was trying to get to the treats that I had in my hand. She usually does things for treats (main word usually), so obviously she wanted them as I was shaking the bag to get her attention.

And I also took them to work to get pictures done as well. If you don’t know, I work at a pet hotel in the local area where we can take our pets to work. How cool is that? We also get a small discount on all of our picture events which means I most definitely paid for their Christmas pictures.

They both look scared out of their mind! I don’t take them to work that often, so that’s number 1. Number 2, they normally just stay in their room no in the lobby where the pictures were taken. And number 3, they just don’t like their pictures taken. But I Love Them! The pictures…my love for the cats is questionable sometimes.

I’m kidding I love my cats.

So that’s it! I hope you enjoyed looking at my cats and laughing at their dismay in their photos. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and we will see you next week!

Star Wire Ornament

December 19, 2017December 18, 2017Leave a comment

Hello everyone! Here is a post from last year. Hope you enjoy!

This is a super simple project that my mom and I put together with the short amount of free time that we have had. Hope that you enjoy!

First of all, gather your supplies. You will need 2 gauges of wire, 20-24 gauge and a thicker one, around 18 gauge. You also need your cookie cutter and wire cutters.

Start by making a loop at the end of the thicker wire. I used a pencil and wrapped around it. Secure the end by wrapping it back around the wire.

Now you can wrap the wire around the cookie cutter. I ended up wrapping twice, just to make it stronger, but once will probably be enough. You want to be able to push it into the corners and around edges.

Once it is wrapped, secure it by wrapping around the part where the loop is. Then you can remove it from the cookie cutter. Cut off any excess with the wire cutters.

Now for the fun part! Start wrapping wire around the star shape. This is where you use the thinner wire. I just kept wrapping around all different ways until I felt like it was finished.

This will look so pretty on the tree! You could pick different colored wire too, like copper or gold. I tied a sheer white ribbon around the top. I did try with with a heart shape too, but it didn’t have enough edges to keep the wire in place. Too bad, because it would have looked really cute :(.

Aren’t these cute? They are so simple and are a quick and easy project. Hope that you all have a wonderful week before Christmas!

My First Ornament Wreath

December 15, 2017December 14, 20171 Comment

Hello everyone! Before we begin, I want to apologize for this post being short and not having as many pictures as I wanted. I literally started this project with the intention of taking more pictures to add. But I got so excited to get started that I forgot to take picture. Sorry.

So I have wanted to make an ornament wreath for quite some time now. And I finally felt like I had enough ornaments to make the wreath. Mom and I had been collecting them for a while from yard sales and thrift stores. So now that the time was right, I finally bought my wreath.

The first thing I did was wrap the whole thing in ribbon. I used one spool and then realized I greatly underestimated how much ribbon I needed. So off to the store I went to buy two more…

I then pulled out the ornaments and started gluing!

Yeah…I had a lot. Enough to fill the entire box. But I had a variety of pink ornaments along with some silver and gold. I started hot gluing the ornaments down and filled in where needed.

And here’s the finished product!

I know it’s not exactly circular anymore, but I really like it! And for it being my very first one I am very proud of myself. I wish I took more pictures while I was doing it, but I was so excited to finish that I forgot… And what’s even worse is that I still have enough ornaments that I can make a whole second wreath!

And even though I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures, I did still have time to take this one!

Festive Paper Christmas Tree Garland

December 11, 2017December 10, 20174 Comments

Good morning!

I have another craft for you today. I made this one a while back and I am just getting it posted. I see all kinds of garlands out there today, but this is definitely one of a kind!

Here’s what you need:

scrapbook paper
buttons
string, twine or ribbon

I started out by picking out some scrapbook paper that I liked and ones that coordinated together. I have quite a bit on hand, but there are so many pretty ones to choose from at the craft stores. You can make a garland in any color combination you like.

I drew some trees freehand, but didn’t really like how wonky they turned out, so I ended up tracing some others from a pattern I found online. I made 2 trees from 7 different papers, for a total of 14 trees.

These look a little more normal! 🙂

After cutting them all out, I used a hole punch near the top. Then I went through my buttons and picked the ones that I thought looked best with each color tree. The buttons with the shanks on the back worked best.

I placed the shank of the button through the hole and then threaded the gold wire through the button. I twisted the wire so the button wouldn’t slip out. I left a couple of inches between each tree until I had the garland as long as I wanted.