andrew + meredith

have I ever said how much I love Christmas?

I really do. When I was little I'd do a countdown nearly all year I love everything about Christmas. Even though I like Thanksgiving a lot, I am always a little happy when it ends because Christmas music and decorations start.

I have been working on a couple projects for Christmas. First of all, we didn't have any stockings...... so I made some that I am pretty happy with.

this is in my parent's house right after I finished them...

and we just hung them up in our house! I love them. Even though it has trim, I think Andrew's is still masculine, ha ha.

I chose burlap and added a doily / trim. The inside is lined with red ticking.

I also bought two wreaths today. I don't have a tree up yet so I made sort of an ornamented wreath.

this wooden circle is the top of an old electrical spool. I fixed it up and we have been using it as a coffee table top, but in our crowded little family room it was getting to be really annoying cause we never finished it and it was all skiwampus. we would bump the table and the top would come off, etc. So we bought a new dual purpose ottoman/coffee table for the family room off of Craigslist......

long story short, we decided to hang up the spool on the wall as kind of art instead. it is the perfect background for the wreath. I really like it.

the wall behind our couch (finally not empty!!)

when we do get a tree, I have been working on a few ornaments.

i got a couple trinkets at an antique store...dominos, a tea tin, and an old key. I made the dominos into ornaments that turned out cute.

here's a little ornament I stitched.

here's the other wreath:

just simple but i like it too.

merry christmas!!