Gold

Love these images of gold for this holiday season.

Cute idea for a take home gift at a holiday party.  Put presents in their shoes.

Pretty gold and silver.

Love this gold and brown display!  So pretty!!

Gold paper packages...love em.

Pretty gold garland.

Gold ornaments make great vase fillers.

Love these pretty gold pears!

Santa Sleigh

I just sorta love this.  What a fun yard decoration!!  I want one.

White Christmas

I love red and green at Christmas, but these pictures takes my breath away.

White is just so gorgeous!

The simplicity is so elegant!

It makes Christmas look a lot more sophisticated.

Everything is so fancy!

It is a perfect depiction of the winter world outside.

A snowy white wintery display.

Oh so pretty!

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas!

Pinecone Kissing Ball

Love this!  It looks easy to make, too.  And you could just dust it lightly with paint to get that frosted look.  Love it.

Merry Christmas!

Deck the Halls

Here are some fun ways to deck out your entire home for Christmas.

Love this pretty garland running up the stairs!

But I think I love the wreaths hanging from these stairs even more!  It's adorable!  I also love how they added a garland to a really remote area of the home - it almost looks like a back entry - but it deserves to look like Christmas, too, right?

Look close at the pictures above the bed.  There is mistletoe hanging from them!  Pictures above a bed are a really cute idea, and the mistletoe is adorable for Christmas time.

Love the garlands on the windows in this room, and the presents on the shelf.

My favorite evergreen is definitely a boxwood.  I LOVE them!  The leaves are just so much prettier than needles, in my opinion.  And this wreath hanging by the kitchen sink is perfect.  I want a wreath hanging in front of my sink!  The ornaments are adorable as well.  What a great idea!

Merry Christmas!

Jingle Bell Joy

I saw this last year somewhere and thought it was a super cute craft idea!  Love the way it looks!!

Thankful Chain

I really love this idea from {Silverbox Creative Studio}!  Everyone gets write one thing they are thankful for on a link of this chain.  What a great thing to do on Thanksgiving Day!  I'd like to make this a tradition.  You can imagine that the chain might get quite long as you continue to remember things you're thankful for all day long.  Here is the {printable}.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nativity Advent

If you were to look back over all my {Christmas Posts} you would see a little obsession I have over advent calenders  I have documented plenty, and here's another great one!

It's a Nativity with 25 pieces - add one a day until Christmas! 

Not only do I love the religious nature of this one, I love that it is a kid friendly decoration! 

How much would a child love putting this together piece by piece!!?  Find out more about this Nativity Advent at {Craftiness is not Optional} and you can purchase it, or a kit to assemble it, or a pattern to make  it {here}!  Super cute!!

Thanksgiving Tables

Just some decorating ideas for your Thanksgiving table.

Sweet and simple corn bundles sitting on top of a bare table.  Love that huge wreath! 

Love the gold theme here.  Golden pumpkins in hurricanes.  A gold charger under each plate, and a pumpkin on top.  Love the little frame, too!  It says "Blessed Thanksgiving". 

Love the simplicity of the leaf tied on top of a napkin here!  And I adore this centerpiece!!!  The candles, the berry garland, the gourds and the fact that it all sits on a piece of old wood. 

I really love pears this time of year, and incorporating them into a Thanksgiving place setting is my idea of yummy!  

Love how these artichokes look!  Kind of a different color scheme here, but I really like it!!

Love this simple centerpiece!  The pretty fall branches in a vase surrounded by pumpkins.  Sweet and simple!

I'm in love with the lanterns used as a centerpiece on this table!!  And the pinecones are lovely!  This would be a great Christmas table, as well.

3D Felt Pumpkin

start with a piece of felt cut to size to fit in a frame of your choice. 

cut 8 pumpkin shapes outta orange felt. 

fold a pumpkin in half and hot glue along the fold. 

glue it onto the felt background and repeat for all the pumpkin shapes.

so the glued edges of the folds are all right next to eachother 

cut a tiny green spiral 

glue one end of it to the top of the pumpkin along with a brown piece as a stem 

put it in the frame and cross-stitch "give thanks" onto the felt.

Cute huh!?  Visit {Simple Serendipities} for all the details.

Sharing

I saw this on {A Thoughtful Place} and kind of fell in love with it.

Too funny, right!?  I'd like one in my kid's playroom someday. :)

Acorn Ball

Isn't this pretty!?  I love the way it looks, and I think it would be a good transition piece between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

Spray paint a foam ball brown. 

Get a bunch of acorn tops. 

Glue them to the ball and then brush some mod podge on the edges and sprinkle them with glitter. 

Isn't it a pretty tree ornament? 

But, I love the way it looks all by itself, too.  So pretty!  Visit {Sweet Something Design} for all the details.