Category Archives: Christmas

Displaying an Outdoor Nativity

Last year we displayed the outdoor Nativity scene on the front porch, but it just looked a bit too cramped and didn’t do it justice. So this year we put it in the front yard. Here are a few details we had to change…

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Antler Candle Holders

Last week I showed you my attempt to embellish a deer antler mount for a Christmas ornament on the wall. So continuing on with that antler idea, I made these antler candle holders and learned a few more things along the way…

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Deer Theme Winter Wonderland

A pair of glitter deer are the center and central focal point of this year’s Christmas display on the built-in sideboard, but here are a few more details about this fun deer theme Winter wonderland vignette…

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Deer Antlers for Christmas

I’ve been loving decorating with deer themed things this Christmas, so I thought how perfect to actually use real deer antlers for a Christmas decoration too! Nope, hunters we are not, so we didn’t come by these antlers that way… But they are real, and here’s how I did get them and what I did to embellish them…

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Hanging Christmas Lanterns

This, in the final post in a 3 part mini-series of creating a Merry Christmas welcome on the front porch, features hanging Christmas lanterns.

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Rustic Deer Themed Christmas Tree for Front Porch

This is part 2 of 3 creating a Merry Christmas welcome on the front porch… Once the summer wicker furniture was moved off the porch to protect it from the winter snow, I decided to add this Christmas tree, albeit not your traditionally decorated Christmas tree, to the front porch. I opted for a rustic deer themed Christmas tree! Fun, right?! Here are a few tips and an unconventional Christmas tree stand.

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Create a Merry Christmas Welcome

I had a lot of fun this year when I went to create a Merry Christmas welcome on the front porch of our 100 year old home. In most of the rooms or areas I decorate, I tend to pick up on a detail of some sort and repeat it in a few ways throughout the design, and this front porch Christmas design was no different…

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A Sweet Little Christmas Diorama

I have been pinning some inspiring Christmas Dioramas this season, and believe or not, when I emptied a box of mushrooms I was inspired a little more to try my hand at making one.

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Using Pallet Wood for an Outdoor Nativity Display

This year for Christmas, we had to re-think where and how we would display the outdoor nativity.

This is how we displayed the nativity at our last house, where we lived in the country and had a huge expansive yard. The logs we cut out of the woods from downed trees and I roughly painted ‘wood boards’ on 2 sheets of plywood. It was great for a large yard. But over the years the logs completely rotted out and the lag bolts that held the construction together had nothing left to hold on to. So that, combined with the new very tiny ‘in town’ yard we now have, at our new 100 year old house, the old wood nativity shed served one last purpose… my husband chopped it up after our last Christmas in the country and burned it in the outdoor wood furnace we had there.

 

Which bring us to present day…

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Kitschy or Sweet? 65 year old Ceramic Nativity

Merry Christmas greetings!

What a perfect time of the year for me to start a little blogging again, so many pretty and inspiring things during the Christmas season to write and take pictures of.

Last fall, (2013) I wrote what I thought was going to be my last post, because at the time I was very overwhelmed with life’s projects… (we sold ‘Our House’!! and refurbished an old house and are absolutely LOVING it!) but now that I’m over that crazy, busy, I’m not in my 30’s anymore and don’t have the energy I used to, I hope to actually be able to start blogging a little bit again. I’ll share more about our new place

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