Merry & Bright

Christmas is something I look forward to all year. Covering the house in garlands and lights just automatically cheers everyone up. Living in such a cold climate we have to stay indoors about 90% of the time during winter so I try to surround us in fun, colorful things!

This is our first Christmas in our NEW house and couldn't wait to see how our little cottage looks in the wintertime.

However my husband is also deployed this Christmas which is huge bummer. I have to do the shoveling and cookie baking. De-icing of the car and hot chocolate brewing. You get the picture;) Not having my best friend here during the holidays just makes it incomplete. It pretty much stinks without him here, but I have to make the best of things in situations like this.

I thought I should take photos of our house decorated for the holidays so my husband can see bits and pieces and pretend he is here with us.

Most of our decorations were thrifted, from the dollar store, or from the Target dollar section.

Come on in and enjoy a little peek into our house!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I so didn't pose him there..he is just that stinkin cute!

 

Oh just vintage christmasy goodness everywhere, we are just missin' you know who!

I hope you liked a little peek into our home for the holidays.

 

-Georgette



Christmas Bordom Buster

Supplies needed:

 

Popsicle sticks

glue

acrylic paint

string

2 bored dollies;)

 

We had a really heavy snow this weekend. It was so cold out all we wanted to do was cuddle and watch movies. Well..only my husband and I wanted to bum around. My two dollies get bored really easily. Arts and crafts are the only things that keep them still and calm. So while making some yummy, warm stew I scattered glue and sticks on the dining table and told them to make me the prettiest snowflakes they could make! I remember seeing these stick snowflakes on the CraftyNest.

Can you tell whose is whose? :o)

 

 

 

After the paint dried I just strung them with string and pinned them to the wall. It was a VERY bare strip of wall and I don't mind displaying their cute wall art. As I was standing on top of the stool hanging these, praying I didn't fall, I had a very strong feeling of gratitude for my children. Children make the holidays glow. Its the little things.

 

 

Now go and look in your craft corner for anything to keep your kids entertained while making dinner. Trust me they'll be happy with anything:)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

*hugs*

Georgette



Holiday Family Photos

My little family and I have never had photos done outside of the studio. I attempted once during the summer by doing it myself, but sadly it was unsuccessful. I'm just not that skilled:(
I love drooling over the natural, candid photos online. I just think they are so much more personal that posing and staring at a camera. I even researched some photographers, but another disappointment was that they were not in my budget. One sleepless night I was browsing the facebook handmade and businesses group page for my military base. And guess what? There were about 10 pro photographers who are military spouses. Not only were they amazing, but they were affordable and local! I fell in love with Lauren Gibbs Photography. She had some skills and she is the most adorable girl ever. She was very professional and made my family feel so comfortable. I HIGHLY recommend her if you are in the northern Salt Lake area. Here are a few photos of my little family:)

daddy wearing estate sale vintage flannel&levis/mommy wearing thrifted mexican dress&target cardigan/big dolly wearing thrifted vintage poncho&old navy jeans/little dolly wearing thrifted peacoat&target jeggings

I just couldn't be happier! These are just a pinch of all the photos she gave me and I just can't decide which to use for our Christmas Cards! Well stayed tuned because I think I may have found a winner:)

Thank you so much Lauren for capturing my family. These pictures will be cherished forever.
I really love supporting local businesses and military wives when I can.

Thanks for stopping by!

*hugs*

Georgette

Oldie but Goodie

Now that the holiday season is upon us I thought I would share a Christmas wreath I made 3 years ago. I made this and entered it in a contest over at Dollar Store Crafts. I didn't even have a blog at the time, but really wanted to enter my little wreath just for the fun of it. I was competing against like 15 others wreaths with serious bloggers and really didn't think I was going to go far. Little did I know that my $5 wreath was going to be involved in a pretty intense contest! You can read the insaneness here. To make a long story short I had more votes, but due to time of the contest not ending when it was supposed to I had "illegal" votes and didn't win:(  

 I thought it was so cool all the people that took the time to vote, even military wives from other bases loved my frugal little wreath. That felt really nice to have that type of support!

 

It's been 3 years and I still don't think I'll enter anything crazy like that again..ha!

Just thought I'd share this craft with you guys if you're on the look out for an easy Christmas craft.

 

 

 

1. Wrap and hot glue wide ribbon(spool of red x-mas ribbon $1) all around a $1 wreath form
2. Pop off the tops of poinsettias (just the flower part, $1 for a bushel) and hot glue all over wreath
3. Fill in the gaps with ornaments(tube of all red ornaments $1) I found it easy to hot glue if you popped off the top of the ornament as well so it sits flush with the wreath.
4. Wrap a piece of twine or string and hang.
5. That's it! Enjoy:)  

A pack of glue sticks was a buck too, but if you have them on hand already this would cost you less.

I remember getting the inspiration walking around Target and saw a similar one for like $40! I just loved the monochromatic theme, it looked very classy.

 

 

Hope you get inspired to start your holiday crafting!

 

*hugs*

Georgette

 

IKEA Giveaway!!

Oh I love Christmas time. I'm just in the giving spirit!

I've been really excited about this one!

At the conference we were all given these cute JULKUL IKEA christmas cookie cutters! They couldn't have come at a better time with the holidays and all. As soon as we put our tree up you better believe I busted out those cute little guys:)

 

 

They are soo cute! Look at the little reindeer!!

 

 

My girls love making cookies. I have a feeling we are going to be using these a lot this month..heck all year!

 

 

I love how crisp they cut the dough.

 

 

Plate O' Sweetness. The icing is my little girl's handy work ;o)

 

 

I am so in love with the little deer<3

 

 

Well you guessed it! I have one for you too!!

 

 

Just enter below! Up to 6 entries per person! Goodluck!



a Rafflecopter giveaway

Eeeek SO excited you guys!

 

*hugs*

 

Georgette