A Pinteresting Christmas

As is the usual with this blog, this post is late. In my defense, I just gave my final Pinterest gift on Friday so I have an excuse this time!

Along with the vast majority of females in America, I turned to Pinterest when it came time for Christmas! I used it for decorating ideas, party food ideas, wrapping ideas and gift ideas! This is mostly a picture blog of how everything turned out!

DECORATING IDEAS:

•  little tree on a table 
• ornaments in the lantern 

PARTY FOOD IDEAS:

• When it comes to Christmas treats and snacks, I had that covered way before Pinterest came around!
• However, I did find this fun idea: Hot Chocolate Bar!

WRAPPING IDEAS:

• Pinterest showed all these cute ways to wrap using brown shipping paper, so I gave it my own little twist!
• I bought tan paper (not as dark as shipping paper and had a hint of shimmer to it!) then I used either red or green ribbon on top. Then, I used a red paint pen on the green ribbon presents and a green paint pen on the red ribbon presents to write out who it was to! Since all my presents looked the same, I didn't need to write who it was from!

• This may have been my favorite present to address! Can you guess what/ who its for?

and last but not least....

PRESENT IDEAS:

• So, as of December I officially have two uncles that are music ministers. I was planning on doing the present ahead of time for the first music minister and when I found out the other was accepting his call into Ministry, I thought to myself "this is perfect for both of them, especially since Uncle Ryan will have a new office to decorate!" ( and if you know my Uncle Ryan, you know he could care less about decorating- he put up stuffed deer, antlers, and fish on his wall)
• I made the It Is Well Music Shadow Painting. The pictures are a semi step-by-step of how I made this.

• After about 4 layers of orange paint, I could still see the sheet music through the paint, so I threw a coat of tan over it and solved the problem! Then once it was dry, it got another coat of orange!

• I stenciled on the caribou/moose for the hunter and the bird on the branch for the first music minister.

• For my second pinterest gift, I made long-distance mugs! One of my best friends is moving to Louisville, KY, so of course I had to make these for her!