The Scrapbook Tree and The Americana Tree

Good Morning !

 Today I am sharing the last 2 trees in the family room.. The scrapbook tree holds all the ornaments my kids made in school with their photos. Also I make ornaments out of all the wallet size photos. This year I even had some of my Instagram photos printed at Walgreens .. Love the little 4 x 4 squares! I also get some of my photos printed into wallet size to make ornaments from.

 

I use cardboard wrapped with scrapbook paper and just add ribbons,  buttons, and other trims ..Its surrounded by a no sew ruffled tree skirt made from muslin on a felt backing.

There is red decomesh woven through the tree , and also 2 different patterns of ribbon , and a ribbon tree topper.

 This tree spins so it is decorated all the way around. My kids always like to look at the ornaments and now the youngest grandson is loving it too :)

 

 The last tree in the family room is the Americana tree ..I love the rusty star tree topper , and all the red ,white and blue ornaments !

I try every year to get a few more patriotic ornaments for this tree ..The tree skirt is a quilted red , white and blue ..

Well , that's the last 2 trees in the family room..Here are the other two if you missed them

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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 Two Snowman Trees

 Good Morning ! Today I am sharing with you two of the four of the trees in the family room.. both of them are snowman trees , but they are quite different !

 I made this snowman out of a four foot tree .. this is her third Christmas and she still looks good! I do add a little more stuffing each year . I just put her away in big black garbage bags .

 I get new sticks every year for her arms, plug her in ..and instant decoration . Wish all my trees were that easy :)

 The second snowman tree got a new tree topper this year .. I wanted a snowman head for the topper

 and was searching online , couldn't decide whether to make one or buy one ..

and then a thought came to me that I had this snowman , my sister in law in Connecticut gave to me a few years ago that the lights stopped working in and something was wrong with his base that he wouldn't

 stand up anymore, and I had it just leaning against the wall.... So all it took was removing 2 screws and putting a strand of lights in his head and I have a new tree topper ! Isn't he just amazing !

 

This tree is decorated with snowmen and snowflake ornaments and lots of snowflake garlands. I have made a some of the ornaments on the tree , these are some of my favorite cross stitched ornaments ..lots of Prairie Schooler ornaments !

 

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Candy Cane Kitchen Tree

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving ! I am here to show you my candy cane tree that stands in the kitchen ..  

 

This year I added the The Chalkboard Ornaments  .. Before our remodel this tree sat in the corner on the other side of the hutch on top of an old wooden crate. Love my white hutch for the Christmas decorating !This year it kind of sticks out in the doorway to the dining room . I used a faux olive bucket from Walmart to stick it in . Believe it or not I have a roll of paper towels in the bucket that I stuck the stalk in and it has been standing up fine ! :)

This tree was a prelit tree and of course this year when I plugged it in half the lights did not work ! So my daughter took all the lights off for me ( quite the job ) after we tried everything to make it work ! I bought LED lights for this tree and they really shine white .

The star came from Hobby Lobby , I got the plaid flannel ribbon from an Estate sale this year and its perfect for it !

I love the candy garlands, its just such a cute cheery tree for the kitchen !

The chalkboard ornaments are my favorites , they just make the tree so much better !

Thanks for stopping by ! I will be back tomorrow with some more  of the 13 trees !

 

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Happy Thanksgiving !

Happy Thanksgiving !

I had to crochet up this little turkey hat for the youngest grandson yesterday .. I used the pattern for an owl hat , made the beak bigger..made leaf like shapes for the feathers and a bigger kind of wonkey leaf for that dangly red thing .. He is so adorable and he will actually pose for you now :)

We got our real tree on Tuesday , IT'S HUGE .. and decorate it last night .. of course we had to run out and buy more lights because we had several strands that weren't working. I put white light on it too for the first time .. I thought it looked pretty with both the colored lights and white mixed. Its sitting in a galvanized bucket from an estate sale that I need to get down on my knees and scrape that label off the side ! This tree is filled with all our family ornaments , some from when I was a child..all the way up to the bread dough family ornaments we get each year at the craft shows. If you look at the front of the tree towards the top , my son and husband put a purple dog toy and I didn't even see it when I took this picture .. This is the 13th tree for this year ! I need to start showing you more of them !

Hope you all have a wonderful day filled with family and friends ! I have a 26 pound turkey waiting for me ! Happy Thanksgiving !

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Turkey Cake Pops.. Bookpage Treetoppers and a Big Fat Tree !

 We made turkey cake pops ! We have never tried to make cake pops , so what an experience it was !

 You make a cake , crumble it and add frosting to it .. then roll out the balls and add your sticks. Then into the freezer for an hour .. so while we waited we made a book page tree topper for my daughters white tree :) we loaded it up with book page ornaments last week , so what a perfect tree topper !

 After an hour you dip them in melted chocolate.. I used chocolate chips with a little Crisco.. if we make them again I will get the candy melts ..The chocolate chips seemed to go on really thick .It was hard to get them to look nice on the outside. You have to work pretty fast getting the chocolate on and if it was thinner it would have been easier!

 We used candy corns for the tails and cut the ends off candy corn for the nose. I had white candy melts I melted for the eyes , then used a mini chocolate chip.. I used food coloring to make the white chocolate red for the little wobbly thing ( what is that called ) ? :) I should have made a small batch of royal icing for the eyes .. I will remember that for next year ..

I think they turned out cute for our first try.. even if some of them are a little scary :) I had to go to Pinterest last night and start a new cake pop board ...have to try some Christmas Cake pops !

We got our real tree yesterday .. its a Frasier fir , we got it from Home Depot.. Oh my its a big fat one ! This photo was taken when we first brought it in ..its fallen a lot more.. I got a galvanized bucket at an estate sale this summer to put the tree stand in ..I saw the bucket being used last Christmas on this blog .. I can't wait to decorate the tree !

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 Hope you all have a wonderful family and friends filled Thanksgiving ! We will be missing our boy at the University of Kentucky this Thanksgiving .. football is still going on and there is even practice on Thanksgiving !

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