Friday, December 21, 2012

Getting Ready for Christmas

Christmas 2012!
Devin and I left (almost) all our Christmas decorations at home so we set out to make our own homemade ornaments to decorate our tree this year.

We got our tree at Home Depot; because we left our tree stand at home, we made things work with a five gallon bucket filled with rocks (it only tipped over once while we were setting it up)!


















We started by stringing popcorn and scavenging for pine cones on the ground outside of our apartment. We cooked the bugs out of the cones and added ribbon for a more festive feel!
































More Ornaments!

 









 Salt added to pine cones and bulbs made a nice snowy effect.












My favorite project was our angel!  It started out as an empty toilet paper roll but with a whole lot of ribbon and a little bit of lace and love it turned out to be quite pretty!


The finished project! It looks so much better in person than in the picture but I still really like it!  It was a lot of fun to put together and makes our apartment feel very festive!