November 23, 2007
Traditionally, we start decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. However, I got a small head start yesterday.
We don’t do a ton of decorating here, its just not my thing really. A small tree and a few little holiday accents - no giant inflatable snow globes or lights everywhere. I was inspired by the discovery of a new blog recently, however; and decided to make a wreath to welcome visitors to Two Frog Home. I did a few things differently than the inspiration source. I didn’t have any foam wreath frames around, so I made one by tracing a plate onto some scrap cardboard. I glued some quilt batting scraps onto the cardboard and wrapped it all with some green fleece scrap strips. I used a hot glue gun to keep everything in place. I then wrapped some gold & red ribbon around the fleece, glued on a frog (of course there had to be a frog accent), added a ribbon for hanging and, voila my new wreath.
That’s the main door to our home. The tree garland was the one I bought at the gifts festival a few weeks back. The curtain, I made from some fabric I found at the thift store. I was originally going to use it for a table cloth, but couldn’t resist using it as a window dressing for our holiday decorations.
November 24, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Mmmm, it all sounds good! I love challah bread.
I’m hoping, once the house is done, to start doing more canning. I haven’t done much in the past, though. Do you have a good book that you would recommend I start with?