Joy on The Front Porch

Good morning!

First of all Thank you for all your sweet comments yesterday ! I really appreciate all of you!

So for today's post we are on the front porch .. Ronnie, one of our Jack Russell's is there to welcome you in!

 I found these black letters at Hobby Lobby ( they were each 7.99 but then 50% off ..so $7.99 for both).. So I bought the J and Y and a small grapevine wreath..I outlined the letters with a white chalkboard marker to make them strand out more..

 I trimmed the wreath with flocked picks from Michael's added a bow made from red and black gingham ribbons and a sparkly red ornament..

 I used black floral wire to hold the letters to the wreath ..I tried hot glue but that did not work well ..the wire worked fine..

 I used the same decomesh garland from last year ..It has white and red decomesh along with burlap all tied into a evergreen garland..there are white lights strung throughout..

 I added black check and red plaid bows all along the garland..
 The Christmas Countdown made on fence pickets with a chalkboard painted space to count down the days sits next to the vintage blow mold Santa..I just love the red plaid with the black gingham !

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Red , White and Burlap Front Porch & The Christmas Countdown !

 This year my porch has a red, white and burlap design .. This was last years porch with the green decomesh.. I took the green decomesh off, and added white decomesh and also burlap .

I kept the same red and white ornaments on the garland. The garland also has white lights so its very pretty at night.

 I made my picket fence/ chalkboard countdown sign the same way I made the Halloween Countdown . I bought picket fence pieces from Home Depot , and made the sign.. I sprinkled glitter on the painted letters before they were dry so its very sparkly ..

 There is a twig Santa on a vintage wooden crate , with a lantern and some of the Dollar Tree ornaments inside .. Also a snowman birdhouse we got at an estate sale. The doormat came from Goodwill , it was brand new from Target :)

 I made the JOY sign from an old shelf we had , used my cricut to cut out letters .. traced around them and painted ..

 The vintage plastic Santa is HUGE .. He was given to me by a friend , she didn't want him anymore and he is one of my favorite Christmas things ! We repainted him a couple years ago ,because he was in such bad shape.

 I also took the green decomesh off of the wreath for the front door  and added some burlap..

Then I added a thrifted silver tray painted with chalkboard paint .. I used a white sharpie to write on because I didn't think that chalk would be ok outside in the cold.  I used pipe cleaners on the handles of the tray to anchor it to the wreath.

 I added a burlap and sequin ribbon( I got the sequin ribbon at Hobby Lobby last year, after Christmas , really cheap !) bow to the top .For the base of my wreaths I use a regular evergreen Christmas wreath so its really full..Can't be having a skimpy wreath !

 Thanks so much for visiting ! Our inside Christmas decorating finally is finished .. yesterday my husband put the village up ..we had to change its location this year , so it was a big job .. I can't wait to show you !

 

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The year of 2012

Thought I would do a little year in review !

 

 

January of 2012 brought crocheting of baby blankets for the newest grandson to be born in March

February there were these Valentine cookies

and another baby blanket

 

March brought more crocheting with this baby dress and sock monkey hat and diaper cover. March also brought us a new grandson :)

More crocheting and cookie making in April with Easter cookies Football,da bears and a giraffe hat  and

 May brought a graduation ,prom ,2 more blankets finished  and the flower blanket progress and lots of gardening !

In  June I made this flag pillow for the front porch..finished the flower blanket.

 July was filled with lots of gardening balckberries and tomatoes

The finish of this blue giant granny square blanket

 and flag cookies ...

In August I finished this summer garden granny square blanket ..picked raspberries   and took our second to youngest son 6 1/2 hours away to college..

 September was spent making subway art  ,picking pumpkins ,decorating for Halloween

making sweater pumpkins

and a subway art table runner ..

October brought more Halloween decorating ..

 Carving out a pumpkin for the little grandson and making him a pumkin hat !Mr. Pumpkin

 Carving pumpkins in October is always a big deal around here pumpkins !

 In November the mantel got changed to Fall  for a little while :)

and a daisy baby balnket was crocheted

Christmas decorating ! started

We had a total of 12 trees this year . trees and more trees..

 I made a subway art table runner .. Love it !

 and another no sew tree skirt

Decemebr was filled with  decorating the front porch 

 A tour of our Christmas kitchen

 crocheted ornaments

 a tour of the dining room

 a crocheted reindeer hat

JOY cut on my Cricut and lots of

Christmas cookies

Thanks everyone for all your visits this year , and all your wonderful comments ! A Happy and Blessed  New year to you all and I hope you continue to visit in 2013 !

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