SHARING TIME!
The box and tags shown in the photos below are a workshop that I put together for the Holidays 2012. We have been busy making Christmas tags/ornaments in my home studio at the Creative Hearts Workshops that I hold four times a month. I am presently putting together the schedule for new workshops and classes starting in January 2013. I can't believe the new year is approaching so fast! I thought you might like some tag ideas to attach to gifts as Christmas is less than a week away!
The following are a little gallery of close-ups for you to peruse.
Below is the embellished pillow box to store them all in!
Here are some little Reindeer that I created last year. I think they are fun!
So! Here is my Christmas card for you! We traveled to a tree farm up by Silver Falls, Oregon to pick out our tree. We shop at this one every year for our tree and love the family that owns the farm. It gets us in the Christmas Spirit!
We walked through the forest of Christmas trees, looking for the perfect nobles to take home with us! My daughter Lauren found the tree this year.
It looked about the right height and was a lovely tree! Think that is the one!
So, below she is marking our tree by tying a ribbon around a branch. We also picked out a smaller tree for our family room. As the years pass, I have to indulge my sentimental side by having a tree to accommodate all of the decorations that mean so much to me! The smaller tree is a "country" theme and many of the homespun ornaments go on that tree. I don't have a picture of it to show on here.....
Ok. So we get this tree home.......and go to put it up......and guess what?! It is a huge freaking tree and bigger around than we usually get. It just didn't look quite this big in the forest. It took a ladder to add lights and decorations. The stool that I usually use to decorate just wasn't cutting it as you can see in the photo below! My husband spent about four hours getting all of the lights on....just right.....had to be perfect! Lol.
Viola'! Shown below is the tree after we added the lights and decorations. This is the living room and everyone gathers here to watch the TV when it is movie time. BTW, my hubby got a new television that now takes the spot of the one in the entertainment center for Christmas. It is already installed...we have the 3-D glasses ready to go and now I need to fill in the big hole that is gaping under the new television set. I could use some ideas.......Had to move my Nativity scene too.....drat!
We like lots of lights at Christmas time. They makes things merrier and brighter and also...cozier! Funny though, as good as they make me feel, it seems like we are always ready to take them down and put them away when it is all over. :-(
The final picture I will leave you with is the one of my "fake" tree in the dining room. I love romantic country chic, so there has to be a little of that to look at as well! I use boa on the branches and I love the way it kind of looks like snow and fluffs up the tree!
From my house to yours, I send wishes for a very happy Holiday Season and a Blessed Christmas! May we all find joy in the little things and not forget to be thankful in all of it!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Blessings!
Marilyn
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LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR TAGS! They are so darling. I'm going to print this out and use for next year. Most of my wrapping is done now and had to really scrounge for tags but no time to make my own! such a shame.... also love your tree story... happens to us every year too. Why does the tree GROW after we get it home? happens all the time.. such a mystery. Love your cottage chic tree too... good idea to have one for traditional stuff and one for MY crafty and handmade stuff. Our tree this year, that we got in the mountains west of La Pine, is very thin and scrawny.. yet tall.. so I call it my Charlie Brown tree! Thanks for the neat post.
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