Thanks for stopping by and checking out my little blog. I’m looking forward to the new year and all the projects I’ll be bringing your way with our home remodel. That’s my easy DIY projects to spruce up some old Christmas decorations. They added a nice touch of green and I like the modern look they have compared to most wreaths. I plan on keeping them up all year or as long as they last. I think the gloss is helping to keep the color and protect them. The wreaths have been up for a few weeks now and seem to be holding up well even with the rain we had. You can see the front door wreath through the gate wreath… I put one on the gate to my courtyard and one on the front door… I’m kinda crazy for boxwood’s anyway so I wanted to keep them plain and simple. I sprayed 3 coats of gloss letting them dry between each coat. One of my handy dandy old sheets for projects. I bought these boxwood wreaths at Targetthey are meant for indoor use but I wanted to put them outside, so I thought I’d spray them with a few coats of clear gloss. Sleigh is holding our remotes but it holds the Christmas cards as they come in.
I also like the way it pops against the ottoman now… The gold accents look great and really modernized this piece… I needed to paint the ends of the screws that held the hardware so I used a plyer to hold the small screws and sprayed them.įinished, light and bright, looking better than new… The edges were looking a bit worn and I wanted to change the hardware to gold.įirst I took all the hardware off and then used primer and white spray paint for the tray and gold paint for the hardware. It’s these traditions that my family counts on that brings us close together when life can get so hectic.Īs you can see the tray was getting slightly worn and I wanted to brighten it up to go with the rest of the remodel of our home. It is also a time of family traditions and every piece collected over the years has meaning. Loved that the plant had red and green leaves, pot from IKEA.Ĭhristmas is such a wonderful time of the year, celebrating a very important time in our faith.
The glass blown snowman and frosted glass angels were bought when my first daughter was just a toddler. The sleigh we bought in Nebraska while visiting my husbands parents our very first Christmas together, as was the toy rocking horse.
I love the Christmas collection that has happened over my 22 years of marriage. The tray is there all year and I switch out what sits in it throughout the year. The next project was my big tray from Z Gallerie that sits on my reupholstered Restoration Hardware ottoman. The picture above is located in our family room which has not been remodeled yet, can’t wait to get started on it though. Nutcrackers have been collected over the years from various stores, stockings are from Macy’s, candy garland is from Anthroplogie (all decorations collected over many years or I’d link them). It really made the mantel look brighter and even made my nutcracker collection stand out more. They turned out so pretty and was so worth the minimal effort it took. I used Design Master Gold Medalspray paint from Michaels. Since I do a lot of spray painting, I always save old towels and sheets to lay underneath projects for good coverage. I used Zinsser Bulls Eye 1 2 3 Primer For All Surfaces as a base coat. I sprayed a layer of primer first and then 3 coats of gold to make sure I got into all the little nooks and crannies. The stocking hangers were from Pier One Imports many years ago and had a brown, aged, rustic patina to them. This picture is a tad dark as it was a chilly and overcast day, proof that we do get some weather in California. With a bit of gold spray paint I made my stocking hangers go from rustic and dark to bright and sparkly. Everything is mostly done in the Christmas color tradition of green and red, and in past years it was a bit on the rustic side, but a couple of years ago as my girls got older, I replaced some of the rustic elements with some bling and made things more for adults too. Once we had kids I went all out to make it look like Santa’s Village with nutcrackers, stockings, garland up the staircase and a collection of ornaments that would make any elf jealous. When my husband and I got married and started to collect decorations for Christmas, I had decided to go “old school” and keep everything pretty traditional. It’s the last day of 2015 and Christmas decorations have already been packed away until next year, but I wanted to get this post in because I was so pleased with how some simple tweaking to my existing decorations really made a big impact.
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