Noel...

For this one I just wrapped a box, cut out some letters and glued them on. Then I attached a bow in the corner and voila! A pretty little Christmas box decoration.

We believe...

Today I painted a Santa Claus with "this house believes" on it. It was one of the cutest things I've done yet I think.

O come let us adore Him...

Today I made a painted canvas with "o come let us adore him" on it. I cut the letters, the star and the stable out of white cardstock. It turned out really pretty.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Today I used an old vase and painted a winter scene on it. It was a lit of fun to paint. After I finished painting it, I put some beads in it. I liked the look of it but then decided that maybe it would better serve as a candle holder. I also tried it with blue and white colored glass rocks. I'm still not sold on any particular way because I think it is extremely versatile and could be used so many different ways.

Christmas sparkles

For this decoration I put some red ribbon around a delicious smelling candle and made a blingish buckle for it. It looks especially pretty when it's lit.

Visions of sugarplums dance in their heads

Today I used a very heavy cardboard tube from an industrial box of plastic wrap to make a candy cane stick. I wrapped the tube in a striped bit of christmas wrapping paper. Then I wrapped that in plastic wrap. After adding a string to hang it from and a cute Christmas phrase, I hung it on my door.

Pretty Paper

Today's decoration is a kind of wreath made of paper. Basically it is 20 pieces of scrapbook paper 8"x4". They are folded at one end and then stapled together into a ring. It wasn't as hard as it looks and once again, it was free.