Natural Ornaments

Holiday decorations can be especially beautiful when they're handmade AND all-natural.

Check out these ornaments, kissing-balls, wreaths and other decorations made by Allison from NHWoodsCreations.







She collects natural products either from the woods or her NH garden (such as, pine cones, foliage, flowers, bits of wood, etc) and uses them to create her designs.

I'm a big fan of her orange garland and her apple and pine cone wreaths. They look pretty festive, don't they?

Felt Stockings

I recenlty found some amazing felt stockings in rikrak's Etsy shop.

Unfortunately, they all got sold out (well, that's good news for Kristal Davis, a.k.a. rikrak), but you can still see how wonderful they are, and maybe get an idea of how to make your own holiday stockings.

Pretty Cards - ReCycled, ReUsed

I've been browsing though my holiday spam mail these days, and since some of the catalogs I've received had cute images on them, I've decided to re-use some of them, and create interesting holiday cards for my family and friends.

For example, the blue-red-white card above was made from blue colored card stock and some Netflix flyers I got in the mail. I thought the little ornaments on them looked too fun to throw out, so instead, I cut them out and made 2 cards (see the yellow card next to the blue one).



I made the other cards using cutouts from a Paper-Source catalog. I added touches of glitter-glue and glitter gel pens do add some sparkle, a few snowflakes, butterflies (left over from my wedding), lots of little pearly and jeweled accents, and voila ~ one-of-a-kind holiday cards!



They're green and unique, and they're going to the special people in my life.

Holiday Cards w/ TapeSwell

I recently got a few tapes from TapeSwell, and today I made a few holiday cards using the Partridge of Joy decorative packing tape.







You can find some of my new cards in my Etsy shop. The others will go to my family and friends.

Cheers!

Amazonite Chandelier

Usually I'm not a big fan of chandeliers, but I do like this creation by ChandiDesign. I think the Amazonite and Chalcedony stones give it a sort of casual elegance, which I find appealing.







It is a nice idea for a beach or a garden wedding, or even a winter wedding with aqua/white palette. It reminds me a bit of my favorite wedding decoration: a handmade crystal tree. (Especially since I used the same crystals for the tree for my wedding).