I wish I could find a good place in the house for these. They’re too awesome to live in plastic bags in the basement.
(They were up in the old apartment for the holidays.)
Category: Holidays
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Sequin Balls
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Felt Garland
Brandon and I are starting to think about holiday decorating. Real tree or fake? If fake… silver, white, or pink? Such are the difficult decisions we’re contemplating. ;)
I’ve been seeing a lot of felt garlands around lately, and I think they’re adorable. Problem is, I can’t help but think “I can make that”. I’ve never felted wool, but how hard can it be to make lots of tiny little balls, right? Then I can have exactly the colors I want.
felt garlands from abitare and Crate & BarrelIf we use the little silver tree we have in the basement, we could go for this kind of look:
silver christmas trees from west elm (a few years ago)I’ve already started wrapping presents in green, red, and white paper. I’m eager to Christmas up the house!
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Happy Halloween
Brandon and I carved our pumpkins with a new technique this year. We tried doing the whole halfway carving thing, with mixed results.
I like mine, even though it’s not as perfect as I had envisioned.
Brandon’s not as pleased with his. Originally he wanted to carve “Palin 2012” with drippy, bloody looking letters because that was the scariest thing he could think of. He squished all of the letters together though and made it too difficult to carve, so he instead went with a robot. Then the pumpkin kind of dried out and now the mouth looks a little mummy-ish. Oh well.
They do look nice all lit up on the porch.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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Waitin’ for Santa…
As the next four days will be a blur of family and holiday hullabaloo, I thought I’d share our Christmas card with you today (instead of waiting until the 25th).
Alternately, you may be interested in the slightly more risqué version: Waitin’ for Santa.
Happy Holidays, everyone.
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Oh Deer, It’s Christmas
We started decorating for Christmas a bit early this year because we needed the tree up for our Christmas card photo. I won’t show it to you yet, but it’s good. The photo shoot involved Brandon, footie pajamas (complete with butt flap), and Jim Beam. Ho ho ho.
Christmas in our apartment last year was very silver, pink, and shiny. It didn’t feel right to deck out our 1920 bungalow the same way, so we went out to get a real tree a few days ago.
All of our ornaments are the same, but of course the tree makes all the difference.
last year
this yearI wish I had some cute pillows to switch out for the holidays. I’ve had my eye on the Swedish House Pillow Cover from Pottery Barn, but I’m hoping it will go on sale after Christmas and I can buy a couple to save for next year. The living room doesn’t look bad with our normal items, but a little change is always nice.
And now, my taste gets a little questionable.
When we were packing up our things from the attic of the old apartment, I added a little something extra to our Christmas decorations. Three deer. White ceramic deer. They were just sitting up in that stuffy attic, abandoned and unloved, and I knew nobody would miss them if I “liberated” them. So I did. Brandon found out as I was unpacking them a few days ago and…
He hates them.
Well, maybe he doesn’t hate them. Strongly dislikes? (Is that better, honey?)
I put them on the buffet, and I think they’re fantastic. Oh deer.
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Jack O’Lanterns
Brandon and I carved pumpkins tonight. Oh! I love the way they turned out!
My sister and I carved pumpkins with my mom when we were little of course, but I don’t remember ever adding a candle inside. Egads, it makes all the difference!
I started with a sketch (as I do like to preplan). I wanted a face – no black cats or witches on broomsticks for me.
The pumpkin was a little hard to carve with our steak knives, so we used our fancy Wüstof kitchen knives. We had a hard time making detailed cuts, and I was wondering how I was going to cut out the stitches I had planned. Brandon suggested an exacto knife, but as I was looking for it I remembered that I had a linoleum cutter. A ha! It was the perfect tool.
The stitches at the top of my pumpkin are a little hard to see, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out overall!
Whereas my pumpkin is a little scary, I think Brandon’s is just scared.
Boo!