5 minute christmas tree skirt {diy}

For the last few years, my Christmas Tree has been naked.  While it has been adorned with lights and ornaments, it's been missing a SKIRT!  I've gone looking a few times hoping to purchase one, but they are so darn expensive!  And the ones I fall in love with aren't there at the after Christmas sales.

So, I had to do it myself.  But, isn't that so much more fun?!

I took an oval table cloth that I found at the local thrift store and turned it into a tree skirt in less than 5 minutes!

Remember this picture post from the BLB Facebook wall?  Here is what I used from my awesome thrift store finds last week!

Find an oval or circle table cloth so the edges are already hemmed for you!  Fold it in half.

Then in half again.

Take a CD or something circular you can trace and make a small circle to cut out on the corner.

Open it up and hem the raw edges (if you want to - it's fine to leave it open since most tree skirt openings are not seen).

Wrap it around your tree and admire it.  I love that it is white and that it bunches around the tree.  It reminds me of snow!

But, I also happened to find a sweet lace tree skirt during my adventures at the thrift store (see picture up top).  While I LOVE that it looks like a ginormous doily, it was a little too small for my big tree.  But it sure does look lovely layered on top of my homemade one!

A little embellishment from a sweater I found while searching for one of those "ugly Christmas sweaters", and I was done!

Not bad, right?  And much cheaper than the ones Target sells!

 

BLB of the day:

The Maggie

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bags of the week

Here are the Better Life Bags I worked on last week.  They shipped yesterday - so be on the lookout!

This lovely Maggie and Frietas Gift Set .  Love the color combo on this one.  And don't those new labels look so professional?!

Another Maggie bag.

And finally the super-sized Carla.  Most bags can be enlarged to custom measurements with an enlargement fee.  This one turned out so cute that I had a hard time packaging it up!  She designed some matching snack bags with a few add-on features to make them extra cute, too.

And just so you can see the enlargement accurately, here is the regular Carla set up against the super sized version!

Remember... December 5th is the last possible day to order to be guaranteed Christmas delivery!

a tractor named able

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I'm so thankful God took care of that little abandoned house next door.  I have great plans to turn the abandoned lot into a small park for the neighborhood kids.  Now maybe they can stop playing on the street.