Thanksgiving Decor for Every Family Style + HM #258

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Thanksgiving Decor for Every Family Style + HM #258

Autumn, fall, Thanksgiving… It’s is one of my most favorite seasons for decorating my home. I love the vibrant colors and easy natural decor. This week the gals of Home Matters are helping you decorate for Thanksgiving with all sorts of fabulous Thanksgiving decor ideas. Enjoy!

Natural Fall Decor Ideas from Lynn @ Nourish and Nestle

Thanksgiving Printables and Decor from Susan @ Oh My Creative

Simple Thanksgiving Tablescape Ideas on a Budget from Christie @ Raising Whasians

Thanksgiving Tablescape – Simple Elegance from Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai

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Printables – Download or Create Your Own + HM #249

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Printables – Download or Create Your Own + HM #249

Printables are a fun way to add seasonal decor to your home or any event. They are also fantastic ways to keep on track and organized. Check out the awesome selection from the gals of Home Matters in this week’s themed roundup!

25 Free FALL Decor Printables from Caroline @ Caroline Vencil

70 Spooktacular Halloween Printables from April and AJ @ DIY Bunker

160+ Printables to Organize Your Entire Life from Emily @ Happy Organized Life

5 Reasons to Love Coffee & Free Printables from Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai

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Thanksgiving Feasts and Family + HM #210

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Thanksgiving Feasts and Family + HM #210

It’s time to count your blessings and give thanks! And how better to celebrate than with good food, good drink, a welcoming and warm atmoshpereof lovely decor, and a boat load of family fun. The gals of Home Matters are wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving and offering up some fabulous ideas to help you make the most of your Thanksgiving holiday. Enjoy!

Strawberry Pecan Pretzel Salad Recipe from Tonia @ The Gunny Sack

The Ultimate Appetizer Board from Gaby @ What’s Gaby Cooking

Amazing Thanksgiving Pie Crust Designs from Camille @ Camilleiam

Thanksgiving Tablescape Simple Elegance from Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai

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Last Week’s Theme: Peanut Butter Lovers Month

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Halloween Decor Ideas – Spooky Elegance

Decorate your home in spooky elegance. Find easy Halloween decor ideas to create a ghoulishly delightful atmosphere. #HalloweenDecor #Halloween

Hello, friends, welcome to our home. I’d love to take you on a little home tour of our Halloween decor and all its spooky elegance. I hope you will be enchanted and beguiled and find inspiration.

Halloween Decor Ideas

Spooky Elegance and Ghoulish Delight

Our fireplace mantel is so fun to decorate since we did our DIY Mantel Makeover. It was an easy home improvement project for under $50! This year’s mantel is a mix of Halloween and autumn decor. I love combining the holiday and season as it makes for such an elegant feel, and bonus, I’ve got a start on my decorating for Thanksgiving once I remove the Halloween items.

Halloween Fireplace Mantel in detail…

A garland of fall leaves entwined with a strand of mini white twinkle lights lay along the mantel with miniature pumpkins placed atop black candlesticks. The black and deep purple wreath has fall leaves tucked inside to give the wreath some pop. Halloween tinsel garlands hang behind the wreath and fall across the mantel to the sides. And. black gauze lends a spooky touch draped across the front of the mantel.

Our glittery black cat hisses next to the colorful postcard of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow chasing Ichabod Crane and the spider candelabra with our DIY Halloween Candles.

Candy Corn is a favorite for easy Halloween decor. You will see I have used it in several places. I have my frame that I swap out seasonal/holiday printables. This printable is a Halloween Quote.

When Black Cats prowl and Pumpkins gleam, may Luck be yours on Halloween. ~ Author unknown

The awesome black cat postcard is the famous Tournée du Chat Noir from Paris. Rory sent this to us from her study abroad trip to France this summer — perfect for my Halloween mantel.

Halloween Decor around the house…

Oh, I am in love with our latest project. I really like the versatility of vinyl art, but unfortunately, the space by my front door where I want to use it most has too much texture on the wall to allow the vinyl to adhere well. So, Luke and I put together a DIY Float Frame to make my dreams come true. This idea is even better than just simply placing the vinyl art on the wall — it provides the opportunity to add dimension and layers. I am excited to change this float frame up for the seasons.

My black lanterns with battery operated wax candles are perfect with candy corn. And a few little pumpkins add a nice touch.

A simple ribbon thread with glittery Halloween shapes decorates a plain lampshade.

Little mini pumpkins adorn the end table with the adorable placard signifying The Black Cat Pub in England — another of the treasures brought home from Rory’s summer trip to England. She couldn’t resist since we have two black cats of our own, Jinx and Josie.

A string of purple lights with black gauze and my Happy Halloween sign with an orange chiffon ribbon adorn my hutch with spooky style.

And, my favorite Halloween pillow.

Never Laugh as the Hearse drives by… for you may be the next to die.

I actually carved a pumpkin with this scene a few years ago. I love how it turned out, what do you think?

Click to see more of my Pumpkin Carvings and Tutorials!

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Fall Decor to Make Your Home Cozy + HM #201

Get inspired this autumn with fall decor to make your home cozy! Plus, link up at Home Matters with food, diy, crafts. #Autumn #FallDecor #HomeMattersParty

Fall Decor to Make Your Home Cozy + HM #201

It’s time to decorate for fall! Autumn is one of my most favorite season for decorating. I love the warmth and coziness. The gals of Home Matters have put together an awesome roundup of fall decor ideas to insipre you. Enjoy!

Fall Decorating with Hurricane Vases from Amanda @ Amanda Jane Brown

Aunt Ruthie’s Autumn Home Tour from Aunt Ruthie @ Sugar Pie Farmhouse

DIY Flannel Coasters from Ang @ Juggling Act Mama

Easy DIY Table Runner from Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai

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Last Week’s Theme: Breakfast – A Better Way to Start Your Day

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DIY Halloween BOO Kits from Brandy @ Gluesticks

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Halloween Drip Pots from Jen @ Jennifer Perkins

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Homemade Applesauce from Jenn @ Clean and Scentsible

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Apple Candle Holder Place Cards from Jennifer @ Satsuma Designs

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27 Easy Halloween Signs to Make Yourself from Ann @ Duct Tape & Denim

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Summer Decorating Ideas + HM #185

Let’s get inspired and creative with summer style decor for your home and garden. Find all sorts of summer decorating ideas for your summer parties, BBQs, and more. Plus, link up at Home Matters with recipes, DIY, crafts, decor. #SummerDecor #HomeMattersParty

Summer Decorating Ideas + HM #185

Decorating for summer can be so fun. There are so many exciting seasonal ideas for your home, garden, and outdoor living spaces. The gals at Home Matters are bringing you tons of Summer Decorating Ideas that will surely inspire your creativity and your decor. Enjoy!

30 Stunning Summer Wreaths from Lydi @ Lydi Out Loud

Summer Painted Planters from Rebecca @ The Crafted Sparrow

Free Summer Printables from Landee @ Landeelu

18 Decorative String Lights DIY Ideas from Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai

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Last Week’s Theme: Memorial Day Weekend Ideas

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Rainbow Jello Sensory Bin Activity from Sarah @ Must Have Mom

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Chalkboard Art Tips And Cozy Winter Nights

Do you love chalkboard art? Get the chalkboard art tips you need to make beautiful chalkboards for your home – the easy way! Plus get a free design perfect for those cozy winter nights and drinking hot cocoa. Snuggle up with some fun and fabulous winter decor. #ad #ChalkboardArt #Winter

Some of the products in this post were provided by Oriental Trading Company.

Chalkboard Art Tips And Cozy Winter Nights

When the weather outside is cold, it is the perfect time to snuggle up and get cozy. We love to use our White Winter Ceramic Mugs that look like cable knit sweaters and enjoy some hot cocoa. We snuggle up in the den and turn on one of our favorite shows or movie. The den is all decked out in Buffalo Plaid winter decor.

One of the items I picked up from Oriental Trading was this super cute Buffalo Plaid Chalkboard. I absolutely LOVE chalk art (check out my Sidewalk Chalk Art). So, I couldn’t resist this board and creating a fun design. There are a few tips and tricks I want to share with you on how you can make your own chalk art design and transfer it easily to your own chalkboard. You won’t believe how easy it is!

I wanted to celebrate cozy winter nights with a chalkboard design that featured the hot cocoa we enjoy. So, I drew a steaming mug to compliment the saying, “Warm Mugs of Hot Cocoa Served All Winter Long.” I am thrilled with how it turned out.

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Create your design

Create your design. Use fancy fonts, choose or draw graphics.
Put them all together how you want them in a word document, photo program, or whatever you like to use.
Make your design the size you need for your chalkboard.
Print a black and white copy of your design.

Transfer your design to the Chalkboard

Use the side of a piece of chalk to chalk the back side of your design paper. Be sure to cover every bit of your design area.
Place the chalked side of paper against your chalkboard and lightly tape it into place. This just keeps the pattern still and in the proper position.
Trace over your design to transfer it to the chalkboard.
Remove the tape and pattern.
Use Chalk Markers to draw your design onto the chalkboard. Follow your pattern, it is easy peasy!
Once finished, let your chalk marker DRY thoroughly.
After the chalk marker is completely dry, you can dust off the remaining chalk dust and have a perfect chalkboard decor.

FREE Printable Design Pattern

Warm Mugs of Hot Cocoa Served All Winter Long

Download HERE — prints on a legal size paper (11 inch x 14 inch)

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Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments – Easy DIY Craft

If you love Christmas Music, you’ll love these Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments. Get a free printable to make your own easy DIY craft. Ornament Exchange.

Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home!

My awesome partner for this exchange is Jeanie from Create and Babble. Like me, Jeanie has just about every style adorning her Christmas tree, and we agree, we like it that way. Jeanie made me the prettiest babbles for my tree — one is star-shaped with the word, “Believe,” and a Buffalo plaid ribbon and the other is a ball with the word, “Joy,” with a black and white gingham ribbon. It’s so funny because I just purchased some Buffalo plaid decor items for the holidays and winter (watch for it on the blog). How did she know? LOL Thanks, Jeanie, I love my ornaments and will display them proudly! Be sure to check out the link to her ornament tutorial below (it’s #26).

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Erlene ⋅ My Pinterventures Kim · Made In A Day Amanda · Domestically Creative

Shirley · Intelligent Domesticatons Michelle · Our Crafty Mom

Beverly · Across the Blvd. Christene · Key to Inspiration Pili ⋅ My Sweet Things

Nicki · Sweet Parrish Place Megan · C’mon Get Crafty

Hilary · Raising Fairies and Knights Emily · Two Purple Couches

Tina · One Crafty Mess Marie · The Inspiration Vault Debra · Shoppe No. 5

Trisha · Rosewood and Grace Jeanie · Create and Babble Katrin ⋅ Kreativ K

Terri · Christmas Tree Lane Maureen · Red Cottage Chronicles

Toni ⋅ Small Home Soul Ula ⋅ Lulu & Celeste Sue ⋅ A Purdy Little House

Pamela · Home On The Corner Lorelai ⋅ Life with Lorelai Cindy ⋅ DIY Beautify

Debbie ⋅ Tweak and Style Stephanie ⋅ Swoodson Says Chelc ⋅ Inside the Fox Den

Susan ⋅ Super Mom – No Cape! Molly ⋅ Just a Little Creativity

Roseann ⋅ This Autoimmune Life Angela ⋅ Simply Beautiful by Angela

Vicki and Jenn ⋅ 2 Bees in a Pod Joanne ⋅ Our Unschooling Journey

Tylynn ⋅ Bitterroot DIY Sam ⋅ Raggedy Bits Mary ⋅ The Boondocks Blog

Cyn ⋅ Creative Cynchronicity Dione ⋅ Clever Chameleon Quilting

Erica ⋅ Erica Ever After Chelsea ⋅ Love Paper Crafts Evija ⋅ From Evija with Love

Samantha ⋅ Little Bits of Home Hope ⋅ Hopes Crafty Niche Anne ⋅ Orange Bettie

Pam · P.S. I Love You Crafts

Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments

I absolutely LOVE Christmas music — all sorts, traditional, carols, secular, you name it. The music starts playing as soon as Thanksgiving dinner is over and doesn’t stop until after New Year. So, I thought I would create a set of ornaments inspired by the music I love, Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments.

These ornaments are super easy, especially since I have made a FREE PRINTABLE for you to use.

Supplies:

Mini Chalkboards – size approximately 1-3/4″ x 2-3/4″ (found at your local craft/fabric store in a package of three)
Double-sided Tape or Glue
Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue Sticks
Ribbon
Scissors
Printables – 6 different chalkboard styles

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FREE Christmas Song Chalkboards Ornaments PRINTABLE

Directions:

Print the Free Printable Christmas Song Chalkboards on a lighter weight Glossy Cardstock for best results.
Hot Glue your Ribbon around the side edges of the frame.
Cut the chalkboards out of the cardstock.
Using the Double-sided Tape, place adhesive on the back side of the cutout chalkboard (one at a time).
Adhere the cardstock chalkboard in the center of the frame.
Flip the frame over and hot glue a small length of ribbon on the back side of the frame as a hanger.

These Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments are great for hanging on the tree. But you could also clip them to some greenery and make a banner or wreath with them. And they would make a super fun Christmas gift.

It does not get much easier! I had so much fun making the Christmas Song Chalkboards that I made them in several sizes. So, if you like one or all for yourself or as gifts, you can find them HERE.

I would love to hear your ideas for using these ornaments.

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Christmas Song Chalkboards – Printable Decor or Gifts

Make your holiday season merry and bright with these fun and beautiful Christmas Song Chalkboards. Free Printables are easy for decor and gift ideas.

Christmas Song Chalkboards

Printable Decor or Gifts

Music holds a very dear place in my heart, in fact, music makes my heart sing. Luke and I met because I wanted to sing karaoke. And singing was the start of a beautiful relationship.

Once Thanksgiving dinner is over, the Christmas music is playing! And, it doesn’t stop until after New Year. I love to hear it, feel it, sing it, and live it. I’ll even share a little secret, I have been humming and singing Christmas songs for the past few weeks as I worked on these adorable Christmas Song Chalkboards. My daughter caught me a couple of times — chagrin and eye rolling.

Anyway, I have had a marvelous time putting these Christmas printables together for you, and I hope that you will love them as much as I do. They come in several different sizes including a printable sheet of all six designs for making ornaments or gift tags.

Check out my Christmas Song Chalkboard Ornaments DIY tutorial HERE.

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Get all six designs on one printable sheet HERE. This sheet is what I used to make my Christmas Song Chalkboards Ornament set.

I hope these Christmas printables inspire you to create. They are great for frames, garlands, wreaths, gifts, gift tags, and so much more. I would love to hear what you do with them, and I wish you a very merry Christmas.

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Thanksgiving Tablescape Simple Elegance

At the busy holiday season, it’s nice to have some simple elegance. I’m sharing how to put together a gorgeous and easy Thanksgiving tablescape with the help of Oriental Trading Company who provided some of the items for my table decor. AD #ThanksgivingTablescape

Thanksgiving Tablescape Simple Elegance

Helping to make the busy holidays easy and beautiful

There is no escape. You can’t turn back now. The holidays are upon us. So, let Oriental Trading help you make this busy season simple and elegant, fun and easy, or whatever sparks your fancy. There is something for every decor style, craft idea, or DIY project.

This year, my Thanksgiving tablescape style is simple elegance with a rustic touch. Autumn is such a lovely season full of fall colors, delicious flavors, cozy moments, and family memories. Let’s celebrate!

The first thing I did was gather my supplies:

Ceramic White Pumpkin
1 – Wood Large Round Centerpiece (wood slice)
1 – Wood Medium Round Centerpiece (wood slice)
Silk Fall Leaves
Fall Burlap Pumpkins
2 – Battery-Operated Round Flameless Candles
Raffia Ribbon
Tape

Prep the Candles:

Candles

Lay individual leaves in a line, right side up. Make the line of leaves long enough to go around the candle.
Place a strip of Tape across the line of leaves to hold them in position.
Wrap the leaves around the candle and secure with an additional piece of tape.
Tie Raffia Ribbon around the leaves. I used two pieces of raffia ribbon for each candle.
Carefully remove the tape.

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Building the centerpiece:

Stack the two Wood Slices (large and medium) in the center of the table. I turned mine so they didn’t lay exactly the same.
Then tuck some of the Fall Leaves under the edges of the wood slices. Add extra leaves to spill out across the table as desired.
Place the Burlap Pumpkins around the wood slices.
The showcase of my centerpiece is the gorgeous Ceramic White Pumpkin. It has a white glaze and a little gold detailing to make this pumpkin absolutely stunning. Place it on the wood slices.
Set the Candles on opposite sides of the centerpiece.

Tie your place settings in with your centerpiece:

Napkins

Fold napkins however you wish.
Lay a couple of leaves on the napkin.
Tie with raffia ribbon.

Water Goblets or Wine Glasses

Tie raffia ribbon to the glass stem.

So, what do you think of my Thanksgiving tablescape? It’s simple and elegant, right? And it certainly was quick and easy to create.

If you are looking for more ideas and inspiration, check out Oriental Trading for all your everyday and holiday needs.

Looking for an easy DIY project to spruce up your home before the holidays? Check out our Mantel Makeover!

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