But, simple and natural is beautiful, too. There is an upcoming Christmas Celebration and the decor we are planning is going to be full of magnolia branches, mason jars, and pallets. And it's going to be jsut beautiful, but without the bling.
Besides, glitter IS the herpes of craft supplies, right?
Check out these lovely invites for said Christmas party -- I LOVE the candy cane striped baker's twine. And the mason jar. And recycled card it's mounted on. Okay, I love the whole thing.
And here's the best part of pre-party prep so far -- we upcycled pallets for yard decorations! My friend got five pallets (one that she stained that looks gorgeous) and we used a projector to paint them. Well, a few of them we traced then painted:
And we had two little helpers along the way... here's one:
...And then I was forced encouraged to step out of my perfectionist comfort zone and just straight up paint this one without tracing:
It's my FAVORITE!
My friend's hubby is going to put lights in all of them AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN MORE AWESOME. I am soooo excited about this project.
So excited in fact, that I am going to make one for our front porch. Sam's Dad is going to get me a pallet from his warehouse. I want to put it where you would see it at the top of the steps and then put garland on the top. I was thinking about drilling holes where the dots are and putting those big "bulb" light through it... but I don't know... let's not get too crazy.