Lucky Star Lane: December 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Lucky Linky December 28

I've missed my blogging friends! It's been one crazy December starting with about a 3 week flu. I volunteered to be on a donations committee for our PTA carnival and had to get all the donations letters stuffed and mailed so being sick came at a very inopportune time!

Today I finally feel caught up and ready to get back to blogging. I can't wait to see what you've been working on this week!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Lucky Linky December 7

Welcome to the first week of December 2010! Have you received any holiday cards yet? We've gotten 3 or 4 already (as mine are still sitting waiting to be mailed on my counter..). I usually have a wall hanging cloth thingy with pockets that my cards go in. Last week one of our partiers, Megan from The Brassy Apple linked a tutorial to her greeting card display holder made with burner covers. I thought this was great!

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Wood Shape Ornaments..so many ways to decorate them!

Wood cutouts in holiday themed shapes can be found at your local craft stores at very reasonable prices....like maybe $.99 each when they're full price. I went to a mall today and looked at the beautiful holiday tree displays the department stores had with ornaments in varying themes. There seemed to be many ornaments they were selling that were made to look handmade but obviously mass produced.

You can make your own themed holiday ornaments to fill your tree for hundreds of dollars less than what a department store would cost. These are some I've made for my handmade tree using wood cutouts and various supplies to decorate them. The gingerbread man is covered in felt and edged in tinsel pipe cleaners. You can also see glitter in various forms, including glitter mod podge on the stocking (who knew?), fine glitter on the star and coarse large glitter on the tree. I've also pulled out some buttons and ribbon to embellish them.

I actually saw a gold glittery word ornament at a department store today for $12. This one cost me about $1.20! I bought the unfinished wood cutout at JoAnn's and then painted it with gold glitter paint and tied a piece of twine to it to hang.

What other supplies have you used to embellish wood cutouts?

Friday, December 3, 2010

Finishing Touch on my Mantel

I found this wreath at Target for $20 and the burlap ribbon at Pottery Barn. Yay, it's done!

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Handmade Gift Ideas from Lucky Star Lane

Decoupaged personalized hangers

I went back through my blog pictures to find handmade gift ideas so I thought I would share my finds with you. I'm trying to think of some new ones for teachers so hopefully this will help me get inspired. Enjoy!