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Welcome to Throwback Thursday!

Last night Topher and I attended a meeting at the unnamed child’s high school, all about financial aid, grants, and scholarships since the unnamed child will be starting college courses this summer. To say this was a dry meeting is the understatement of the year, and I didn’t understand half of it.

My big takeaway:  I can’t believe she’s old enough to be starting college courses! If we ever had any doubt it has been confirmed that we are officially old.

Topher and I are running around today, picking out carpet for the basement. I had no idea how freaking expensive it is! It is desperately needed, and I can’t wait until we get one selected.

We are also hosting our yearly holiday party at our house on Friday night, so we will be cleaning like crazy people of the next two days.

While putting up my Christmas decor, I realized I didn’t have a Christmas wreath. I did have my Pumpkin Topiary, and I needed something to match that.

I  wanted to do an ornament wreath last year, but I didn’t have the time … and wasn’t sure quite how to do it. So I decided to go ahead and wing it this year.

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Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Tour!

Some of my most creative and talented blogging buddies and I are doing our interpretations of one of the 12 days.  I don’t know about you, but when I think about the song 12 Days of Christmas … I think of the Muppets version.  And of course, the highlight of the song is when Miss Piggy belts out  “5 Golden Rings!!!“.

So naturally, I had to chose 5 Golden Rings for my project.

I chose to make something to go across my mantel….

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This time of year, I’m so busy it’s not uncommon to see me running around like my hair is on fire.

Topher has two holiday parties, I have one for the store, we host a couple of different family parties ourselves. Not to mention all of my Christmas tours for the blog and eight million custom pieces I’m doing for clients.

But here’s the thing, even though I have zero time, I still want my house to look cute. Since I don’t have 3 hours to sit and make a wreath, I had to think of something quick and easy.

Here’s what I did:…

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Welcome to the Secret Santa Blog Tour!

Some of my blogging buddies and I decided to chose names and make a fun holiday gift for each other. The name I chose was Therese from Fresh Ideas Studio.

Now making a gift for someone whom you have never met in real life is very challenging. You have never seen the way they dress or have seen the inside of their home (except what you have seen on their blog). I had noticed that a lot of Therese’s projects on her blog contain fun vibrant colors. so I decided to go from there.

First I started off with this plaque that I got at Michael’s along with the wooden deer head….

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