Holidays

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!

The temperature dropped drastically in SoFla just in time for Thanksgiving and it was won-der-ful. I love when mother nature cooperates 😉 . Hitting the low 50’s is sooo exciting for the sunshine state!

Well, we had turkey for ~~three days~~ two days and a half…. so last night I baked a meaty and delicious homemade lasagna, yum! But I am not a food blogger so don’t be getting any ideas. I am just saying.

Ok. So, remember my Thanksgiving table centerpiece featured below?… Well, it has officially been taken apart and now is getting ready for Christmas!. I love that I can just move things around the house, change out a few things and get different looks!

Speaking of Christmas and low temperatures, I want to share with you this wonderful tutorial on how to make a snowflake garland.

When my ehow editor asked me if I could make a non-traditional (no white, no silver) snowflake garland, but a gold one instead, I thought it could be easy as pie.

Ok, I have to change the subject for a minute here. If you ask me, there is NOTHING easy about making pie – or at least pie crust – I had such a hard time rolling that dough last wednesday. I blamed it on the unsalted butter.

Back to the garland:

I browsed plenty of tutorials and probably 90% of the articles featured a garland made with white copy paper or coffee filters. I even found snowflake garlands made out of paper doilies.

You would think that making it with gold paper would be as easy. Well, it could be, if you find the right paper. In my case, it had to be gold, pretty and thin, very thin in order to be able to make all the folds and cut through thick layers.

Well, my old friend Michaels – the arts and crafts store that is – had a beautiful gold, glittery and very thin wrapping paper and this happened…

Gorgeous uh?

This garland was actually mailed out to the ehow headquarters and it was used on a Christmas photoshoot. My editor flipped out when she received it. *blush*

It was simply beautiful.

Check out my easy tutorial on ehow: How to Make a Hipster Snowflake Garland and let me know if you are making one. It will look so gorgeous on a fireplace mantle!! Send me pictures and tips too!

UPDATE: on December 3rd – 2014 this article was featured on ehow’s homepage! How cool is that??

XOXO

Hi there again!

Well, this is really awkward… If you scroll down just a bit, you will see last year’s Thanksgiving post…*blush*.

The truth is, I had THE. BEST. year at Posh Paper Parties. I kept very busy!

I also styled a beautiful vintage chic themed wedding last month and that was a lot of hard work throughout the year. Our family life started to get hectic with a 4 year old practicing soccer twice a week {wow! time sure flies} so, the time to blog was really scarce.

I just started to slow down a bit…which cracks me up because I never slow down myself. I am just bracing for impact: the holiday rush just started and I am SO NOT READY!.

I also got a new ‘ job ‘ back in August – it is really weird to call it a job because is so pleasant, it does not feel like a job at all. I am now a freelance writer for ehow.com, contributor for their DIY section. It really is a pleasure to work with them! You can find my contributions here.

You have probably been scrolling and reading my babbling about how life is so busy, and I know that yours is too. So, to the point.

One of my latest contributions at ehow an easy, DIY Thanksgiving table setting and centerpiece.

It was a breeze to put together and it did not cost me a penny. I went shopping inside my own home, garage, yard and of course I re-used decor from the past fall.

This is what I found:

– Fall garland
– Old window planter box
– Pillar candles
– Plastic gourds
– Moss

The window box was a frightening brick red color and, although it could have matched the fall colors, it needed some love. So, I stained it with Minwax Stain in Red Mahogany (affiliate link). Why Red Mahogany? because it was the only can of stain I could find in my garage, probably leftover from a past project.

I also created these pretty napkin ties, that you can download for free here. All you have to do is print them, punch them out and thread a ribbon.

To get this look, I printed them on kraft paper (affiliate link) and punched them out with a 2″ scalloped punch (affiliate link). Wood clothespins serve as place cards 🙂 . To read a step by step process on this project, read my article: Inspirations for Setting the Perfect Thanksgiving Table on ehow.

Thank You so much for stopping by and I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Easy DIY Snowflake Garland – Tutorial

Easy Thanksgiving Table Centerpiece – Free Printable