Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Our Christmas Crafting Party

 

Last week, I teamed up with my friend Carey to host a holiday crafting party a few days before Thanksgiving.  We had both seen an article about a similar party in this year’s BH&G Christmas Ideas magazine and thought it looked like great fun.  Carey has a cute design studio where she creates beautiful floral designs for weddings and events (check out her site here), and we were able to host it there.

 

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The whole process was a bit of an experiment for us.  We each invited a handful of “guinea pigs”, all with different levels of craftiness, and set up three different stations with the themes of paper, moss and nature.  (We also set up a hot drink station and served mini-desserts at each table.)  Each guest was able to make and take home two different projects. 

 

 

Here are some photos from our fun night . . .

 

 

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Tomorrow, I’ll show you the specific crafts we did at each station (and what we learned).

 

 

Monday, November 26, 2012

Festive outdoor decor

Hola! How was your holiday weekend? Great I hope! Ours was lovely – got plenty of time in with the family, did some holiday decorating (still tons to do), saw a GREAT movie (Rise of the Guardians – amazing) and just enjoyed being home. (Thanks so much for your wonderful comments on last week’s post by the way. They meant a lot to me.) I actually started the outdoor decor last weekend when it