The Christmas rush is through.

But still we have one wish to make, our apartment tour for you.

The logs on the fire fill us with desire to see you and to say...

Merry Christmas, darling. 

Boxing in a Winter Wonderland.

We're crafting up to the last minute!

We made this mini shoe box diorama using an old iphone box.

Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

Now craft away! Craft away all!

Merry Axe-mas!

We had the amazing opportunity to attend Blue Point Brewing Company's Logger Lager Lumberjack Festival in October.
We were decked out in full lumberjack attire including axes that we found at the dollar store.
The axes were plastic and cheap looking so we painted them to give them a more realistic look.

We loved them so much, we knew we needed to use them in our Christmas decor...and who doesn't love an upcycled craft?

Some ribbon and sprigs did the trick!

When lumberjacks and Christmas unite!

I'm yelling timber to all and to all a good night!

You would even say it glows.

Oh deer, we are in love with this little nightlight we made!

Here are the materials we used:

We cut a hole in the back of a mini cardboard shadowbox we found at Michaels to fit our nightlight and then got crafty!

 A little glue, paint...

...and lots of glitter! 

It's the perfect addition to our reindeer room!

All is calm, all is bright.

Vintage Card Wreath!

We love these vintage style cards!  
Every year we try to decorate with them.

 This year we made a kitschy little vintage-y wreath!

We used an old wreath frame that we already had. 

To add a little dimension, we used corks to make some of the cards pop.

And of course, a vintage wreath wouldn't be complete without a little tinsel garland.

Here are a couple of ways we used these cards in Christmas' past:

1. Cards & Ribbon.
2. Cards & Yarn.

Greetings cards have all be sent...

Festive Flourish!

It's the holiday season! Time to add festive flair anywhere we can!

Drink tree toppers!

We cut off the tip of the skewer with a wire cutter to fit our glasses. 
Drilled a small hole into the tree base to fit on top of the cut side of the skewer and glued it down with a bit of craft glue.
If you don't have a drill, a little hot glue will do just fine. 
We wanted to add a little gold on the skewers to match the base of the trees.  
A sharpie did the tick! We wrapped a small piece of washi to get a nice clean line.

These would make a great gift!

Drinking around the Christmas tree...

Last Looks!

It was a great holiday season for us, how about yours?
We just took everything down but we're taking one last look.

Where are you Christmas?
354 days away.

Let's Sparkle this New Year!

The holiday's are about family, friends, great food and of course tradition!
For us, New Year's would not be complete without fondu and watching the Times Square ball drop!

This year, we are ready to watch the ball drop with these Times Square ball stirrers!

All it took was small styrofoam balls, glue, big glitter, "Happy New Year" confetti, skewers...and drinks!

Many drinks! 

The best part about making these was when our 4 year old nephew told Uncle Andrew, that he had sparkles on his balls!

5, 4, 3...open sesame.
Happy New Year!!!! 

Kevin!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!
This Home Alone candle came out even better than we we're hoping!

We had an idea to make candles with all our favorite Christmas movies, but the holidays got the best of us and we never got around to doing any others.

Maybe next year!

We went to Staples and printed an image of the movie poster on transparency paper.

Then we trimmed the image to fit around the candle and taped it with double sided tape.

Check out our "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal" sign!

Keep the change, ya filthy animal!