christmas crafts

So I’m a little late in getting this post up, but seeing how the theme of this post is for christmas crafts, and yesterday I think we did the ultimate in christmas crafts (making our own gingerbread houses) I’m excusing myself for being late 🙂 Don’t worry I will be putting up a whole little post on the wonderful time we had yesterday, but today I wanted to share with you a few things I made to add to my christmas decor, and linking up to the Holiday Craft Party @ Centastional Girl. I really wanted to use christmas decorations that I already had, and feeling inspired by Pinterest and Martha Stewart, I figured I would give it a go. So I have two crafts to show you. First I started collecting some empty formula cans. We have a keurig so we don’t have empty coffee cans lying around, but with Dannika still on bottles, I figured a formula can was pretty close in size. 

 Carter and I took a walk through the woods and grabbed a bunch of

 sticks to glue to the cans for a rustic feel.

I started by cutting them all the same length to glue them to the cans.

Once I was done gluing I trimmed the tops down to make them some what even,

and then tied them with taffeta. Then it was time

to stuff them.

First I put the styrofoam balls in to stick the greenery 

and berries to.

I just started tucking pieces in to fill the space.

I saved the berries for last, and tucked them in and wrapped 

them around the greenery.

This is what I got:

Then I just placed them throughout the house.

Next I decided to make my own faux cone trees.

I grabbed some regular old 8×12 printer paper, my stapler, 

some twine and burlap to wrap around them.

I rolled the paper to make a cone, and stapled in place. Then I cut

off the bottom to make them flat.

Once my cones were made, I started wrapping one 

with twine,

and one with burlap.

Once they were wrapped it was time to jazz them up.

I added stars, and little christmas ornaments, 

and wrapped christmas ribbon

around one of them.

Here they are placed on top of my tv unit.

And those are my two christmas crafts this year.

I had so many other things I wanted to 

get done, but I’m thinking that

next year I’m starting in June.

Don’t forget to check back later for our gingerbread house’s. 

~happy holidays~

~BDD