I know it sounds early, but I just sat down last night with the family to organize thoughts and the “to do” list for the upcoming holiday season. Between hosting events, celebrating birthdays, anniversaries and the traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, our days are packed through to the end of January starting next weekend. I love this time of year, but if I don’t start organizing now, it could get ugly… and that defeats what I love about it.
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We just put up a “Thankful Tree” over the weekend too, I’m pretty excited… it’s sharing thanks right on the wall, pretty cool. I’ll share a picture later. I’ll share a picture later. But for today I’m going to share some ideas of these we do around the holidays, DIY projects you can easily jump into also.
- Make your own greeting cards using holiday printables I’ve designed
- Favorite recipes.. Magic Cookie Bars and Easy Fudge. I kid you not, this is THE EASIEST fudge eva!
- Here’s a super simple project to make to help decorate your Thanksgiving table – personalized napkin rings and coordinating candle jar.
- Find more of my holiday craft tutorials in the craft tutorial section.
Tis the season to get creative
Get your creative thinking caps on
Carla Schauer Designs
Dawn’s Craft Place
Windham Design Studio
Creativity Stirs the Soul
Cool2Craft
Suzys Artsy Craftsy Sitcom
The Johanson Journey
Eileen Hull
Serendipity
The Country Chic Cottage
Laura Kelly Designs
Handmade by Hilani
Beth Watson Design Studio
Mel Designs
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So Fun Jen! Thanks for organizing and sharing ,off to hop
The vintage inspired wall art and the ornaments caught my eye…LOVE to see I’m not the only one already obsessing over Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win!
Thanks for hosting, I look forward to the inspiration:@)
Oh my gosh, these projects and treats are making me want Christmas NOW! Love all the inspiration to create. Sooooo much fun!
Ooops! I forgot to mention which projects inspired me most. It was hard to choose as they ALL were great, however, the colored popcorn #24 and #4 – Eileen’s suitcase really tugged at my me. I am a paper crafter at heart and always will be:) Thanks so much for hosting this hop, I had a terrific time. Happy Holidays to ALL!
Love the colored popcorn! So fun!
cupcake liner ornament
my daughter is going to draw our christmas card this year! she is SO excited now that we have a craft area set up JUST for her! i’ll be making all handmade gifts this year!
I put A LOT of work into my Christmas cards and Christmas blog post.
All that work gets my spirits high for the holidays!
I love all the items and would love to win…thanks for the great giveaway
I am excited about Thanksgiving festivities – we’ll be hosting our first “Friends Thanksgiving” at our first house we just purchased. I hope to do many creative things under the roof of this house.
Ohhhh, so many to choose from, so many talented people. I can’t pick just one so will list some of my favs – #2 Vintage Inspired Wall Art; #4 Eileen Hull’s suitcase; #12 White Chocolate Fudge mmmmm; #20 Beth Watson’s snowman; #25 DIY Birch Birch Candles; #29 Cupcake Lines Ornaments; #30 Thanksgiving Flower. Just a few!!!!
I am going to try the Easily Glittery Snowballs~
Very nice
I would love to try your personalized snow globe looks fun
I might just attempt making a gingerbread house this year.
The thanksgiving flowers look very homespun
I like most all of the projects I have seen . There is one I really want to try for the Holidays. I love making a wish list from playing cards . TFS and a chance to win .
Hi Jen! I saw the reindeer footprints and that is what brought me to your page! I love using paint on canvas and this year will be our daughters 1st christmas so we will have to start this craft soon! Thanks again for the idea. I will definitely check out more crafts on your page!
The projects on the blog hop are all so great. I am in the middle of making Christmas cards.
I am planning to make pine cone Christmas tree centerpieces for my family and friends for the holidays! It will be so much fun…I can’t wait!
Thanks!
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I am challenging myself to design a new holiday door decoration for the front of our house. We always have a traditional wreath but this year the colors of our house have changed. Repainted the outside of house shade of light yellow with white trim and black shutters. Here is the challenge–use something other than a round wreath and instead of traditional red/green/gold color ribbon another color bringing in the front door which is now a pretty shade of rose color. Not a pastel but deeper shade of rose. My thoughts are using white iceskates with greens or a large half basket or even painting some small wooden skis X with ribbon and greens in center. I love these challenges. Any advice? Happy Thanksgiving from New Hampshire.
Love the vintage art
I am making St. Lucy crowns with my little girls’ club at church. Really need to find some holly leaves die cuts otherwise I’ll be cutting out a whole lot of them by hand.
I would like to make the easy glittery snowballs. Those would be alot of fun to make with my daughter and the grandkids.
I am also going to try to attempt some Christmas pins. I like the look of old pins and would like to make maybe a Christmas tree. We also usually do glitter on pinecones each year, which the little ones enjoy and decorated paper chains.
Popmpoms with holiday colors is something I bought yarn for to make with the kids also.
I love doing crafts with my grandson & making ornaments for the Christmas tree!
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i can’t wait to try the popcorn craft
My mom knits new decorations and stockings
I want to creat a scrapbook
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we do ornaments every year
We havent been home the last two years at Christmas and this year we will. So my plan is decorate the whole house this year. I have missed decorating since we were gone. I have been on the hunt for crafts for my daughter and I to do to add to our decorations. Cant wait!
We are going to make a snowflake tree. We came up with the idea after making snowflakes in our classroom. I teach first graders and a lot of them have never seen snow so I showed them how to make their very own snowflakes. One student wondered if you could make a whole tree out of snowflakes so I decided why not? It is going to be so much fun and I admit that I am still trying to figure out how to do it.
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