Pumpkin Door Decor

A friend of mine loves Halloween and invited me over to help make some 

super spooky pumpkin "trees" for her front door. Here's what we came up with...

Supplies: 

Sharpie Pens

Pumpkin Carving Knives similar here

Dremel 

Hot Glue Gun

Plastic pumpkins (Michaels or Target) 

1. We stacked up our pumpkin "trees" to make sure they would balance. 

2. We took our handy dandy pumpkin carving tools and started to cover out the tops of the bottom two pumpkins 

so that they would stack easier when glued together and most importantly, so that the light would shine all the way through all three pumpkins. 

3. We carved out a star/moon in the smallest pumpkin.

4. We took sharpies and drew our own "spooky trees that went all the way up our pumpkins. 

5. We took a dremel and drilled holes on the the bottom two pumpkins 

around the trees to look like "stars." 

Ta-DA! 

Christmas Warmth...

It's that time of the year again when we can go to our Christmas storage boxes and pull out all of our wonderful Christmas finds. This year, I really had fun trying new and different ways of bringing some Christmas cheer to our household. Hope you enjoy looking as much as I had fun decorating. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!~

A taste of traditional...

...and untraditional...

This tree was a centerpiece from a wedding I attended and traveled from CA to AZ in our backseat. I found some silver leather samples and made them into some simple but fun ornaments to help dress up this tree. I also put an old necklace to good use by recycling the pearls and stringing them up. In the traditional tree I found some great deals on many of the ornaments including the "Q" ornaments which were actually gift tags but of course who ever has a name with a "Q" in it. Thus, I bought a ton and if you look at it in a non-logical way they just add a little more sparkle to the tree.

... traditional...


...and untraditional...

I bought this garland and just made it into a circle and it filled the perfect spot on my wall!~

...centerpieces...

...remembering family and friends...

I put the most time into this project but really had fun doing it. It really only took a little bit of glue, glitter, ribbon and fun clips to make this all happen. Enjoy!~

Thankful

I know Christmas is quickly approaching but there I believe that it is important to be thankful every day for the little and big things that we are blessed with in our life. This year we didn't have the traditional turkey but I sure did have fun decorating our table and just enjoying the season. Thanks to my friend who gave me some beautiful linens last year I was finally able to use them for these festivities.