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Festive DIY Crafting for the Holidays

November 14, 2014 by Momstart 2 Comments

Are you entertaining at your home this holiday? These six DIY crafting ideas can keep décor costs down and create a lovely ambiance in your home.

Coffee-Filter Garland

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Image via Country Living

Each year you may be accustomed to running holiday garland, popcorn, or wreaths about the fireplace, mantel, or stairwell. This year, change up your décor with new festive coffee filter garland. This is the perfect project for anyone who has converted over to single cup coffee brewers and have no use of their regular coffee filters.

Country Living has this beautiful garland piece created with white and natural colored coffee filters. However, you can dye your coffee filters with food coloring, just as with these coffee filter flowers, so your garland can match any color theme you have planned this year.

Sparkling Wine

If you enjoy hosting holiday parties, give each household guest a bottle of sparkling wine as their gift. This is not your ordinary drinking sparkling wine. This is a beautiful DIY decorated bottle with glitter on the outside. It’s fun, festive, and something they can keep out the entire year to decorate their home.

If you have many guests, select an inexpensive wine such as a Moscato. If the label can easily peel away, that’s best. You can use a clear glue and glitter; however, for roughly the same costs, you can purchase Mod Podge Sparkles. Using an applicator sponge, add the Mod Podge Sparkle to the bottle. Work in small sections, so you don’t smudge your bottle. Allow it to dry for 20 minutes. Add a ribbon and gift tag, and you have an unforgettable homemade gift.

Affordable Sparkling Ornaments

Another great and inexpensive way to decorate your home for the holidays are with sparkling ornaments. Grab a box of inexpensive bulbs, any size. Roll each bulb in Mod Podge Sparkle or glitter glue. Allow it to dry for 15 minutes before gluing floss, twine, or another type of string to the base of the bulb. Hang on your tree, line up a serving table, or decorate the fireplace with these sparkling ornaments. The sparkling ornaments shimmering off of the Christmas lights will bring a beautiful glow to your home. You can even use these bulbs year round to decorate for any holiday or celebration.

Decorate Under the Tree with Gifts

You don’t have to spend a fortune on decorative gift boxes or even expensive gift wrapping paper. Wrap the gifts in ordinary brown paper bags or other inexpensive wraps you may have. Now, decorate the outside of the boxes with decorative pieces found right in your backyard. Acorns, pinecones, and tree leaves all make beautiful décor and add a pleasant fragrance to your gifts. Secure them to the paper using hot glue. Consider putting a string of Christmas lights on your tree skirt to light up the gifts!

Fruit Ornaments

You may hang the same holiday ornaments up on your tree year after year. This year can be different, using your favorite fruits. Good Housekeeping presents this fun activity even the kids can help with. Baking these will add a wonderful aroma to your home.

Turn your oven to 150 degrees. Take your favorite fruits such as oranges, apples, pears, grapefruits, and lemons. Cut them crosswise into ½ inch to ¾ inch slices. Try to keep them uniform. Line them in a single layer on a baking sheet. Place them in the oven and bake for four hours, turning every hour. Be sure to check on them as you don’t want them to dry out. Create a tiny hole in each piece and string brown or green twine through each. Enjoy hanging on your tree.

Fruit and Flower Centerpieces

If you want to wow your guests, be sure to have a beautiful table centerpiece. Once again, this does not need to be expensive. A DIY fruit and flower centerpiece is easily made with materials you probably already have in your home. Fill a clear glass vase with grapes, key limes, or raspberries. Then, place a bouquet of fresh flowers on top, protruding outside the vase. Add complementing garland such as mint leaves or baby’s breath around it.

The above six ideas are fun and easy DIY crafts for this holiday season. Although these are fun, there are several more unique ways to decorate. Check out ChristmasLightsEtc.com for ideas! Your guests will think you’ve worked hours on these projects, and only you know how easy and quick it really was.

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A DIY Mardi Gras Skull Center Piece

February 28, 2014 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Miles got to pick the table setting a few weeks ago because his birthday is next. Poor guy only has two months when he has the next birthday. We have some interesting pieces that we found around the house and on sale at Target, Kohl’s and Cost Plus World Market. Zoe and I had a really great mommy daughter day doing the shopping for this table, and Miles had a great time putting it together on the table.

The first thing we found at our house was the glass skull. The Glass skull was a Vodka glass. Andrew got it as a Christmas present. He said that vodka was AWFUL so stay away from Vodka’s in skull heads, but it is fun to have this skull that we can use as a center piece for certain holidays like Mardi Gras and Halloween. 

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What do you need to make the skull green or purple or black for Mardi Gras?

You need beads of course. After Christmas my husband found beads 1/2 price and using beads in glass jars adds a lot of color and pizazz to your center piece. Also seen in this photo is a green table cloth I bought at Macy’s. Then you’ll see a whole bunch of beads, we purchased those at Target 1.00 a strand after Christmas. And the shells, coasters and fish are from Cost Plus World Market on sale after Valentine’s Day.

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I tried to make Miles do all the beads himself; but he was frustrated and his sister was more than happy to help. I still gave him credit for doing as much as he did and look how proud he is of his DIY project!

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This is our first year to do anything Mardi Gras themed. I’m working on a fun hat too, but it’s coming along really slowly. Do you do anything for Mardi Gras?

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Halloween Fun! DIY Easy Pumpkin Candle Holder Centerpiece

October 11, 2012 by Momstart 20 Comments

DIY Easy Pumpkin Candle Holder Centerpiece – Inspired by Halloween Fun!

By: Ashley

Using pumpkins to decorate during October and November is one of my favorite things to do because they do it all! You can make them spooky for Halloween or harvest-y for Thanksgiving. I even learned a great tip to keep your pumpkin carvings looking fresh longer. I’ve been on quite the pumpkin decorating kick lately, thanks to my new Halloween Fun! magazine. You might remember me mentioning it when I showed you how to make spider pumpkins. It’s an amazing idea magazine inspired by Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Country Living. It has giving me SO many great ideas lately, and I’m having a BLAST sharing them with you!

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You will need:

– One large gourd pumpkin

– One votive candle

– Basket

– Spanish moss and/or decorative leaves

– Old newspaper

– Carving tools

– Vaseline

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Directions:

Remove the stem of your gourd and trace the base of the candle.

Cut along the line and hollow out your tiny pumpkin.

Cover the opening with Vaseline to help seal in the moisture making your pumpkin last longer. (Super cool tip thanks to Halloween Fun!)

Place your candle and into the pumpkin.

Fill a basket first with old newspaper if you need to for height. Then, cover it with craft moss and/or leaves. (Keep in mind that the moss will spill out if you move it around a lot. Either keep your centerpiece in one spot, or use a solid container.)

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Place the pumpkin and candle in the center. Add decorative leaves if you would like.

Viola! You have a great fall centerpiece perfect for any table!

About Ashley (Managing Editor at MomStart): Ashley is a mom, wife, sister, daughter, friend, and former teacher working to navigate through the mysterious world of Mommyia. Read more about her adventures at Momicles and follow her @Momicles2010 .

Disclosure – I received a copy of Halloween Fun! to facilitate this review. All opinions are my own.

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