Sweet Little Gals

Monday, December 3, 2012

Trendy Tuesday #15

Back with Trendy Tuesday!! I thought this would be a great time to start the party
again since I especially enjoy seeing all of your Christmas projects. {grin}

I'm not going to do features this week as it's been WAY too long since everyone has been here for the party.

I've been having my very own fun making cool stuff for Christmas. The problem is, it seems like as soon as December hits, life turns into high gear!!

Will I have time for everything I planned? Who knows, but I figure if I try to do something fun every day, I'll at least get some stuff done!

You will see all of my recent projects here linked up. Hope you enjoy them!

Also, wanted to let you know that I have a FB page that I would love for you to like. It's a great way for me to keep in contact with you all.

Time to start the party!!

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1) Please follow Sweet Little Gals
2) Link up your projects, one and all, big and small
3) Try to comment on at least two other posts.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

DIY {Snow Globe} Centerpiece

I have always adored snow globes, especially the homemade ones.

Last year I tried making my very own, and they turned out great except for one thing.
The colors from the items inside ended up bleeding into the water and made colored water.

So this year when I decided to make a centerpiece out of my snow globes, I decided to make dry ones.

And I like how they turned out!!

I used small trees, figurines, some holly, confetti snowflakes, fake snow, and glitter inside of the jars. And then I tied twine on the outside to finish them off.

Linking up with these great parties

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sweet Christmas Trees

There's nothing sweeter to me than Christmas trees at Christmas time.

Having a Christmas tree is my absolute FAVORITE part of the holiday season.

I also love little Christmas trees in all shapes and forms. There are SO many of them around bloggy land right now.
So I decided to make my very own version.

{I may as well admit it now, I am HORRIBLE at making tutorial pictures...usually when I have time to do the project, it's only for a quick minute and I don't like to waste time taking pics of all of the steps. So I am sorry for a lack of pics in that area...some of you moms out there may understand!}

All I did was used styrofoam trees, some turquoise, gray, and black rope, pretty sparkly diamond garland, and a few cute little pushpins to make my trees. (All materials were ordered on Amazon)

I glued the top of the rope on the trees then wound it around the tree till I got to the bottom and then glued it again. That was quite simple. I added the garland the same way.

And the pins are just pushed right into the foam all over to look like decorations. (My Ally thought of that one, I was SO stinkin' proud of her!)

And here they are, lookin' all pretty for the holidays.

Linking up at these parties

Inspiration found here

Sweet Little Stocking {Advent Calender}

Are you all ready for the Christmas countdown? I can't believe its almost here.

My girls are ready...Ally keeps asking me if tomorrow is the day she gets to start finding her surprises. Yay!! Only two days now!

I'm so excited about our advent calender this year. It's was SO super easy to make and simply adorable I think!

Last year we had a really fun ladder advent with buckets that I didn't think could be matched, but this one turned out pretty fun too.

All I did was add stockings to the ladder instead of the buckets. I got the set of homemade stockings from here. I love them and think there will be a lot of uses for them throughout the years.

I used twine and small clothespins to fasten the stockings to the ladder. It was super easy!

And then I added a variety of fun treats and goodies inside for the girls to have fun with.

Here's some {overload again!} pictures I took of it. Happy December!