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For years people have come to my home and always been very complimentary. I always thought of it as more of a cordiality. Recently I took part in our neighborhood Christmas homes tour. Over 250 people came into my home. When I saw ladies taking pictures of my ideas, I realized that I truly do inspire others. Sometimes I come up with ideas, and my husband really thinks I'm taking things a step too far. Like 5 months after we moved into our brand new home, I wanted to paint all the fireplace wood work and mantle black. Well, 4 years later we still like it and show guests the 'before' photo. We are all inspired by something. So, as I share things on this blog, I hope you duplicate, improve and are inspired to take your decorating just one step further. Enjoy!

Monday, December 21, 2009

From Crappy to Scrappy


One of my favorite things I did this year was turn our kitchen bulletin board into a memory board of Christmas' of the past. As the title suggest, it is usually full of 'crap', consisting of coupons, menus, decorating ideas, articles, etc. Well, I couldn't allow 250 people to see all my crap. So the original plan was to turn it into a holiday card board. Well, when I began to do it, I just couldn't. I mean a cork board with ribbon criss-crossed was so predictable.
Well, another plan was to make Christmas ornaments out of black & white photos and hang them on one of my trees. I made the ornaments and hung them and didn't like them.

So began the merging of two ideas. I quickly gathered all the black & white photo ornaments, more black & white photos I didn't make ornaments of, Christmas scrapbook paper, Christmas stickers, ribbons, etc. And 40 minutes later, taa daa! I love it. Now, I don't want to take it down, so I am considering having a seasonal board, in which I change out every 2 or 3 months. So, we shall see. This certainly is an improvement over what was there before and much more enjoyable to look at!
Oh yes, I must mention the tacks you see. A few years ago Bill began collecting root beer bottle caps. He only intention was to hot glue them on to raised tacks make a more decorative tack. Very creative and fun. I knew I caught myself a good man!

1 comment:

  1. You have some awesome ideas! I may have to start calling you "Martha." You're putting the rest of us to shame!

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