Looking {kinda} Like Christmas

We’re a little behind in our decorating this year….but at least we got a good start today! Tree is up and lit and decorated. The entry hall table is starting to come together, just a few more items and hopefully some garland and maybe a banner, we’ll have to see if there is time (I’ll probably just look for a printable out there from the gobs of talented ladies in blogland).

I did make 2 items for my table that I have not talked about yet. The large letter “H” courtesy of my fabulous sister (she gave it to me as a Hanukkah gift) and the card holder. The “H” is available at JoAnn (unfortunately we don’t have JoAnn in Charlotte) and there are a million and one ways to decorate it. I tried mod podging beautiful Paper Source paper to it, but that didn’t work out so well, so luckily, since it’s an H, I was able to turn it around and just paint the back side red, it will do for now.

The card holder was a last minute (well it took about 10 minutes) project that was totally {FREE} and who doesn’t love free! I had seen something like it in a link party along the way, I tried to find it again and I can’t, I totally thought I had saved the link, but I guess I didn’t. I feel pretty bad, I don’t want to steal any one’s thunder or ideas, so I am sorry to whoever you are for not properly linking back to you, my bad! I will keep on looking and if I find it I will link it back for everyone (or if it was you, post a comment so I can give you your cred!)  It is a really easy project, just find an old frame you aren’t using (paint it if necessary), some ribbon, and a hot glue gun. Open the frame and take out the backing and the glass and set aside so you can possibly use the frame again if you want. Cut lengths of different (or the same) ribbons the length of the opening plus an inch or 2 extra in case you want to make some diagonal like I did here. run a bead of hot glue along the joint of the frame where the glass rests and attach one side of the ribbon. Run another bead of glue on the other side of the frame, pull ribbon tightly and adhere to opposite side, trim excess ribbon. Easy!! I just used 2 nails to rest the frame on the wall since it didn’t already have a hanger. I found cute mini clothespins at Walmart (12 for $1.88) that I am using to hang the cards onto the ribbon!

So that’s about it for now, hopefully I will have some finished pictures soon! Hope you are enjoying your holiday decorating, or more likely, enjoying the fruits of your labor by admiring the decorating you already did!