Some Christmas in our house

Last night, Angie called to say Olivia had left me a present at my front door.

When I got home, this is what she had gotten me, with a really cute card that she had drawn a Christmas tree on.

Now everyone who knows me in real life, knows that this is me! This is my color. I can just hear her at the store.

"This one is for Seachelle, Gramma, Seachelle would love this one. Let's get this for Seachelle, cuz she would want to have it. Gramma, let's buy this one just for Seachelle."

In real Life, this would be perfect! It would match everything else on my tree, all glittery and purple and pretty.

In Real life! But I don't live in real life anymore.

I live in bloggyland, Where everything is perfect and beautiful and THEMED!

So, this year I went with a theme for Christmas.

Red, Gold, and Green. (why do I hear a Boy George song?)

And Santa.

But this little pretty does get its own place in this world,

A place of honor,

All by itself.

On this pretty little gold mosaic tree I got last year as a $6.00 surprise from

Princess House.

Sorry, this is the best picture I got of the santa on top of the tree.

More Santas, I really don't have very many yet,
So, I am showing all of them!

Oops, not a santa, just a frame I repainted and stuck a picture from a Christmas card into. I popped the easel off the back and stuck a wire hanger on it. Looks like I need to open it up and turn the picture a bit.

Well, Most of the Santas I have in pairs, except the two largest, so I guess I have more than I am showing.

But definately not enough to do a themed tree, so I have to get creative.

Last night, while catching up on my blog reading, I grabbed a hook and some white and red grocery bags and did this.

I think I am getting better at crocheting because the other night I read a very simple pattern and it made sense!

This is still off the top of my head, but I think I can tell you what I did.

Chain stitch 25, connect into a circle.

Single crochet into every stitch, going around circle about 4 or 5 tiimes.

Switch to red bag, half double crochet in every stitch going around circle once.

Double crochet around circle skipping every fifth stitch for about 3 rows.

Double crochet around circle skipping every third stitch for a few more rows.

Double crochet skipping every other stitch until you have only 4 stitches left.

Switch to white, Single stitch two stitches in each stitch,

Single stitch one stitch in each stitch,

Single stitch one stitch in every other stitch,

Tie off.

I painte mine with glitter, and it dried making it stiff. Then I rolled the white part up like a real Santa hat.

These were real quick, and I am already on my third one.

But now I am thinking....

Hmm. I need to find a glue that won't melt the plastic, and figure out how to paint a Santa face on the balls,

Cheap, easy (ish) and creative.

Look what you bloggers have done to me!!!

Now off to find my links..

Karyn

I linked this to Saturday Night Specials at Funky Junk Interiors, the button is on my sidebar. Click on it to see all the wonderful creative people who also have linked up.

CANNYN BROKE IT

The Santa wall sat as is all week while I focused on finishing my reapholstry project. Last night I took down the picture frame on the left, painted it, sparkled it, and hung it on the wall.

Below, you can see the cute Santa picture, I didn't get a picture of the finished wall.
From now on, I will take a picture as soon as I finish a project. BECAUSE....
Cannyn stood up from the dinner table, knocking off the first picture I had done, and broke the frame! I don't think it is fixable since it is a cheap plastic frame from the thrift store!
And I thought it was SO CUTE! Oh, well, the joy of raising boys (Right?)

I have been having fun with my glitter paint, I will get more pictures posted as I finish these projects up. I promise! .....~

Fiona and Twig: Fairy Blog Mothers#links

Fiona and Twig: Fairy Blog Mothers#links Head on over to get entered in her latest giveaway, An Anthropologie gift card and A surprise from her Etsy shop. I Love her style, she is very creative!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

We are spending the day with Mom, Dad, 4 of my brothers and sisters and their spouses.

(Tricia, Dave and boys, You are greatly missed)

AND somewhere in the vicinity of 16 or 17 grandkids! Hope your day is as full as ours!

Karyn

Rambling on and on and a “Blue Creek Boutique”And A Giveaway !!!

Blue Creek Home: Grand Opening Of “Blue Creek Boutique”And A Giveaway !!! Again, last day to enter. I am not doing this on purpose I promise! I just somehow missed linking this one last week when she started it. BUT- I don't want you to win it! You can go enter for me!!! LOVE


Personal note to Hissyfits; I went to visit you today, and you don't have a way to leave comments, so I tried to friend connect to you from my page, Forgive me, I am a technoidiot, so that did not work. I cannot wait to see your ottoman when it is finished. That may be exactly what I am looking to do! Thank you for your comments! "See" you soon, Karyn


And on to my give away, I am watching the followers list grow! 23 more to go, and I am working on a great giveaway.
Do you want a hint? It is black and white and recycled!!!

Speaking of followers, Have you seen this blog? I followed a link from Tricia's blog to see this creative person, and SHE HAS 900 Followers! UM, WOW! http://infarrantlycreative.blogspot.com/

Can someone please tell me how you link a persons name to their blog? I see you all do it, and I want to be able to do it myself, but I am a technoidiot, and can't figure it out, hey, I just figured out how to post a button this week. Give me a break, I learned computers in the 80's when they were black and white and DOS!!!

A great big TA DA!!!

I Started working on these chairs last week. (http://candarbrygarden.blogspot.com/2009/11/just-couple-of-makeovers.html )But I just finished the second chair tonight. Well almost finished it...Remember my placemat pillows? Well this is another placemat, I split it open and stuffed it and it looked HORRIBLE!!! So, When I was sewing pieces of the chair, I grabbed a scrap of fabric, and a pillow I had bought at Value Village for $2.00 and made an envelope style pillow cover. I just sewed the placemat to the fabric, then folded the fabric and sewed the two sides together and stuffed the (Down and feather) Value village pillow wrapped in batting right inside.

I don't usually buy pillows second hand, but this one was brand new, and feather!

This is the first zipper I have done in about 25 years. I am tired tonight from doing all the apholstery, and I am not good at sewing when I am tired, so the second one will have to wait until tomorrow after work.
(Amazing! It actually functions!)
And here they are in all their new beauty! Just pretend the second chair has her cushion cover on.

I set the chairs in front of the fireplace for a reason.
We have lived in this house for 9 years this weekend.
I have asked for a more traditional mantle and surround for 8 of those years.
I am going to tackle that myself.
POWER TOOLS SCARE ME!
But if you can do it so can I!
At least that is what I tell myself as I look at your blog pages!
It helps me sleep better!
Anyways:
This is my first attempt at reapholstering, and I think I have the hang of it now.
I am going to find a great big ottoman to go with them!
And maybe some wingback chairs,
Or a fancy little loveseat,
Then I can move the monstrosity of the couch back into the man cave!
Where it belongs!

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Telephone call at work

"Mom, Brystan is shooting me with your staple gun"

"I am NOT! Cannyn is shooting Me!"

"IF I HAVE TO CANCEL MY APPOINTMENTS AND COME HOME TO HOLD YOUR HANDS, YOU WILL BOTH BE SORRY! YOU ARE 14 ALMOST 15, AND 12 ALMOST 13, NOT TWO AND THREE YEARS OLD! "