Frosty Votive Candles

Spray votive candle holders or the battery lit candles (protest the flame by wrapping or however you choose) with spray adhesive or clear spray and roll in mica snow.  Will make the candle glimmer.

Cabinet Decorations........

Use cookies cutters to tie onto some of the kitchen cabinet door handles.  Look for them at rummage sales.  I use gingerbread man and they are all different and sizes.  Use ribbon, or fabric.  Buffalo check would be in to use.

Bar stool decorations

How cute would this be with using small homemade holly wreath or pine branches---can smell the pine!

Christmas Yard Decorations

When I was younger I remember my dad in the summer time when we'd be in bed looking out the windows and seeing dad with a projector and tracing a picture on plywood.  He would cut it out and paint it and it would be Christmas decorations.  He did several over the years and LOVED decorating the yard for Christmas.

I remember Charlie Brown and friends, Santa in a rocket ship, candy canes, trees, reindeer, presents and etc..

We keep thinking we will get time to do some in the summer months but.....lets get real---never any time.  I buy color books with pictures I like of things thinking we will get to it.

Guess my daddy instilled the Love of Christmas in me!!!!

Candy Canes

Use PVC pipe and red tape and make candy canes to line you driveway or sidewalk.  Put lights from one candy cane to another to make a path on both sides.  Use a straight piece and elbow of PVC pipe to make the candy canes.  Or straight piece for peppermint stick and still use lights.

Twig Stars

5 twigs of equal length
hot glue or thick craft glue
twine or jute--optional

 A.--Make upside down V glue with ends overlapping
B. --Glue third stick across upper portion of triangle
C.--Glue 2 remaining sticks into place--making points
D.--When glue has set, wrap star points with twine (or jute) for a rustic look if you like

Chair Decoration

Fill Victorian-style paper cones with old fashioned hard candies or tiny surprises (lip chap, lotion, bubble baths), ornaments.  Then hang from a chair with ribbon for a charming welcome at a holiday meal for family/friends.

Twig Decorations

Brush craft glue onto twigs and sprinkle with frosty silver or white glitter.  Epsom salt can me used too. Arrange twigs in a vase.  Maybe put some lights down inside or a few light up twigs you buy.  lights down around the vase on a twig wreath.

Plywood Decorations

I can remember when I was very young and several summer nights when my sister and I were in bed you would see dad outside with a projector and a Christmas picture blown up on a piece of plywood and he would be tracing it and then cut it out and paint for Christmas decorations.  Had Charlie Brown characters for awhile and several other things.  I keep buying coloring books with big pictures in order to do this sometime BUT..... time is never there for it!  Would love to do cartoon themes from what my granddaughter watches.

Decorating

Don't forget to decorate your mailbox for the holidays.  Alittle greenery with pinecones tied in.

Line a walkway with mason jars filled with rock or Epsom salt and put in a votive candle to light the way.

Don't forget to have an elf of some type out and moved around daily to spy on the kids.

When our kids were little we would decorate the tree and that night we would order pizza and then eat by the lights on the tree and around the cabinets and doors with candlelight.  They always looked forward to that.

Silverware

For your silverware wrap in colorful napkins and tie up with bakers twine. Then lay on a tray on put in a basket.

Decorated Table

If you have a special table for food, desserts or a table that you put gifts on for game prizes run a ribbon the full length and then another one the other way about a fourth of the way on the table and then put a decoration or greenery and bulbs over where they meet.  Could be a tiered plate with either decorations on it or sweets or little sandwiches and put greenery around the bottom outer edge of the plate.

Christmas Decoration --left out

This is the one decoration I have left out all year!!!!  Teigan loves to push it and dance with Jingle Bells.

Teigan on the computer desk yesterday.  It is always a mess with her helping me on it!  She was 18 months yesterday.

 

Centerpiece

You have a tiered stand?  Put fresh greenery on it and add on some vintage or any glass ball ornaments.

2 gifts in one

I brought these a couple years ago for a pattern.  They can be hung on the tree or door knobs and you can put a gift inside.

Christmas Pictures

Some years I wrap all the pictures on my wall with paper and then put bows are ribbons on with theme of paper.  Santas, I may put a small (mini) hat over the side at top, etc..  Some years I print out vintage Christmas pictures by searching for them, forest animals in the snow or whatever I want.  Also, as we all know Pinterest has the words for the holidays and I print some of them.  Have one in a Christmas tree shape with a story of Jesus.  I put the items I print out over the top of my pictures and then store it behind picture at the end of the season.

Gift Sack Picture

I know I have posted this under Christmas before, but thought I would post again for CIJ.  Back in 2012 I found this gift bag at Wal-Mart and I cut the front off, purchased the picture frame at Dollar General and had the snowflakes at home.  It is a large gift sack so a nice size picture.  My mom took the back of the sack and made her one so 2 pictures from 1 sack.

Would make a nice gift and could use any type of sack for year round decoration.

Ornaments from beads

It has been several years ago now that we made these ornaments from beads.  They would be pretty on a tree too but I hand ours on our curtain for the sun to hit them. (other snowflakes are cling ons from Dollar Tree)

Door Decoration

I love the little tidbits on the bottom of Gooseberry Patch Cookbooks!

One of top favorite Christmas decorations

 

My grandparents gave us this at our first Christmas when we were married, which would of been 1980.  You turn it and it plays Jingle Bells.