Priscillas: November 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Santa Tree

Every year the Santa Tree is one of my favorites to decorate! I now have 27 Prairie Schooler Santa ornaments that I have stitched hanging on the tree..

This year the Santa Tree became part of the Christmas Village.. I raised it up on a storage bin hung weights on the back of the tree to make sure there are no accidents ..and decorated away ..

I hope next year there are even more of the Praiire Schooler Santas hanging on the tree !

The whole village surrounding 2 of the living room trees ..

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Friday, November 28, 2014

The Two Skinny Trees

Good morning !
Hope all of you that celebrate Thanksgiving had great times with family and friends!

I am sharing my "skinny" trees today .. These trees are great to just fit in places where there is not much room. I have collected ice skate ornaments for many years so they have their own tree.

I got the burlap skates a couple weeks ago in North Carolina and the big vintage looking skate in Manhattan Beach California ..so fun to find new ornaments !

I made the tree topper from a pair of skatess my sisiter in law gave me .. I glued them together with hot glue and glued in a paper towel roll to slip on the top of the tree.

This year the ice skate tree is in a corner of the dining room . It usually is in the living room. I have it up on a small wooden crate to make it taller..

The youngest ~~turkey~~ grandson yesterday :) ..He looks like a little doll :)

The other skinny tree is in the family room and its the Americana tree..

This year I added flags ..It is in the corner right next to my desk..

I placed it in a flea market white basket that I got for 50 cents this summer :) There are so many fun red,white,and blue ornaments ..

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Scrapbook Tree and The Snowman Tree 2014

In our family room we have 4 trees.. On the far fireplace wall are these 2 trees.. The one on the left ifs full of family photos ..the tree on the right is decorated with only snowman ornaments..If you would like to see more about this years mantel click here.here.

All these ornaments have either been made by my kids when they were young or I made them using scrpabook supplies and ribbon..

The tree is trimmed with berry garlands and 3 different kinds of ribbon.. I tried to go with just the ornaments this year but didn't like the way it looked so I took it all down and started over again adding the ribbons and berries. Both of these trees have no sew ruffled tree skirts that are so easy to make !

I made the tree topper by pleating scrapbook cardstock and glitter letters.. I used a paper towel roll inside to stick the top of the tree into to hold it up. This tree rotates so it is full of photo ornaments front and back..

I got this Santa at a flea market this summer ..He is hand painted on wood. They were asking $10.00 and I got him for $8.00 ..Isn't he just the cutest ?

I used a head from a light up snowman that had broken for my snowman tree tree topper. I crocheted a long skinny scarf from cream yarn to wrap around his neck and drape throught the tree..

Lots of the ornaments are handmade ..

These are the cross stitched ornaments on the snowman tree..

We got our real tree on Sunday and it is a BIG one ! So fat ! It is all decorated now.. We had to go buy a few more boxes of lights to finish it :)

WE got our first real snowfall yesterday .. I put a fake tree that we were going to throw away ( parts are broken) and put it in the thrifted vintage wheelbarrow with some of the branches from the real tree. I still want to add some red bows and white lights to it ..

More Jack Russell photobombers.. This time both Ronnie and Reagan :)

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

It's Finished !! The 2014 Christmas Village

I am so excited to show you our Christmas Village for this year ! Last year it wrapped around only the tree on the left ..

I found 13 Christmas houses at the GoodWill store this year so we made it bigger and now it wraps around the 2 trees on this wall in the Living room..The trees were put up on plastic storage boxes and I tie a weight from my boys weight lifting bench to the back of the trees to make sure they will be standing all season !

This is my husbands contribution to the Christmas decorating ..He builds the structure and gets the houses put out and lit.. I just add the snow ..trees..and people. Hopefully this year I can find a few new houses to add to the village :)