Lately I've been a little obsessed with doing crafts especially the ones I find on others blogs! This Christmas we're trying to be careful with our money, but the only Christmas decorations we had was a Nativity set that I got for Christmas last year. Cute huh!
We didn't even have a tree! But no worries our house is now Christmassy and all for $1!!
The other night me and John stopped at the Dollar Store to get one thing but that never happens.. I really wanted a cute wreathe for our front door and I found a bare pine wreathe (it looked pretty wimpy) some glittery red berries, some poinsettia flowers, they have tons of cute ribbon, and I got a cute ornament of a reindeer covered in gold glitter. I put them all together and here's how it turned out! Pretty good for the Dollar Store!
I had lots of berries and flowers left over so I found a cute vase from my house added a knew ribbon and I have a new center piece for our kitchen table.
I found a cute little vase at Walmart for $1 stuck a whole package of candy canes, added some ribbon and a flower! Super cute, I think!
My dad had cut a bunch a blocks for me when I was a YW camp leader last summer and I have a bunch left over still so with some cute christmas paper scraps from an earlier project we made this cute sign! John did the letters because he is amazing with that kind of stuff!
John is a snowflake wizard!! So we decided to make all of our ornaments. Of course snowflakes! Here are some of his masterpieces!
We didn't have a tree but we did have some skinny pine trees from our wedding so we put some snowflakes on them.
But for our main tree we put gold glitter on them just to jazz them up a bit! I love glitter!! Everything is better with glitter!
We were at a craft fair the day after Thanksgiving and saw these cute ornaments one booth had the difference was the type of paper they used. Theirs was music notes and maps but we thought to use some cute christmas paper to put them on our tree. It just happens to be as easy as it looks. I love how they turned out!
From the Dollar Store I bought a roll of ribbon that is 3 yards and made 7 little bows for our tree. Bows on a christmas tree remind me of my mom, she always liked putting bows and flowers in the tree! It's a great touch!
Here is our skinny tree! Everything from the star, garland, and every ornament costed under $1!! I am very impressed with how well we did! Now we were able to get each other the presents we wanted. Which makes me so happy that I can make John happy!
The best part about christmas for $1 is that John likes creating things just as much as I do. So the last 2 weeks we have spent our time together sitting at the kitchen table creating all these great things. It was so much fun! I have a wonderful husband!
