Peacock Christmas:)

So Marc made it very clear that I could NOT put up the Christmas tree until after Thanksgiving, which makes sense but I could barely contain myself. So on Black Friday when I could be searching for deals, I decided to put up the tree and get creative. I started with an artificial tree from Marc's grandma. When I started to separate the individual branches by size I realized that we didn't have all the pieces..So right now our tree is a LITTLE bare in the back so we have it shoved in the corner so nobody can tell:).. Then for the decor, I had bought green & silver balls & specialty ornaments after Christmas last year for 50% off. I thought the green and silver might be a little bland so I picked up some teal ornaments for $15, added some pine cones that I jacked from the neighbors, then to add a little pizazz - I took several peacock feathers to tie in all the colors-if you don't know yet, Peacock feathers are my FAVORITE right now. They are just so unique and add a little of something unexpected. I thought it turned out really cute, and definitely my style - it was also cohesive from the wreath that I had made earlier this month so I guess that is my theme this year!

Christmas is definitely past having to do traditional "red & green" UNLESS you want to so make your tree your own:)

To Wreath or not to Wreath

Well, Christmas is upon us... I took down my Halloween decor and left the little I have for my thanksgiving/fall decor which includes some cheap fall leaves garland, a wire pumpkin, and some stolen pine cones from the neighbors tree..pretty B.A huh:)

Back on the subject, I went to the ever so classy Walmart to look at the new Christmas wreath's. and meh, not for me. A little chintzy wreath was $15 bucks. I am definitely not too high class for Walmart but come on.. way to spendy for that piece of.. Some of the nicer ones I saw at Lowes, Lewis etc were like 40-80 bucks or more...beautiful, but oh so expensive So I went back to Walmart.. the only thing remotely close to a craft store in Brookings, SD, and found a 24" plain wreath for under $5 bucks, then went to the area where they have extra pieces of greens that had some sparkley silver for $3.50 a piece, then I went over to the ornament isle where they have all their ornaments by color and grabbed brown poinsettias & sparky pine cone clusters for $.99 a piece. Grabbed some silver jingly bell ornaments for .$97 a piece and off I went. I got home and assembled it... thinking it looked a little blahze... so I pulled out some left over ribbon & three teal ornaments from my tree decor bin, some peacock feathers which I already have from bargain shopping at Goodwill. I hot glued everything into place, including my fingers....son of a..the worst of it was the damn glitter all over the  house, the dogs and Marc's face, my work clothes the next day..WTF. Oh well TOTALLY worth it because here is the finished product - and all for less than $20..Booya!

Get creative and make it you're own!

I don't tweet.. I tweeterpate.

Living in podunk South Dakota, I feel like I may not always have the most interesting thing to blog about.. especially in those winter months when I want to crawl in a hole and hibernate til its at least 32 degrees ABOVE zero. But I will make a promise to "tweeterpate"about things I love or find interesting to say the least. No, I will not be tweeterpating constantly with live updates but will try my best to do my keep up.

If you are not familiar with "twitterpated" urbandictionary.com defines it first as 

"1)to be completely enamored with someone/something" Some of the next few descriptions at that site are NOT what I feel about crafts.. no i do not feel aroused while blogging about crafts.mmkay. Moving on..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twitterpated

So naturally, I feel like you should learn of my loves in life and the things you will more than likely be reading if you follow.

Things I get twitterpated about:

• DIY Projects
• Inspirational people, quotes, etc
• Lamps ( I love lamp?) no seriously not like Brick on Anchorman but they are my favorite.
• Puppies
• The colors purple and turquoise
• Rustic and vintage things
• My fiance
• Movies
• Babies
• Shiny & Glittery things
• Artsy Fartsy crafts
• Random thoughts
• Terrible dry jokes.. the cheesier they are.. the better annnnd Spanish - no I said Spinach...oh crap, that's a random thought and inside joke all on its own.