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Decorating Your Front Porch For Christmas

November 30, 2015 by Ashley Mayes 58 Comments

Happy Monday! I’m glad you’re here today.  I’m teaming up with a great group of bloggers to bring you Christmas Tours (thanks to Lovely Etc. for organizing). So, if you are coming from the blog hop, welcome! I hope you guys aren’t disappointed with my tour! I decided to focus my efforts on one space. I’m here to show you that space; but also to give you some tips for Decorating Your Front Porch For Christmas.

Decorating Your Front Porch For Christmas

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You guys want to know something kinda funny? I’ve always loved, and I mean loved, decorating for Christmas. The more the merrier was my mantra. But, over the last two years I’ve started to feel completely overwhelmed by it all. I’m not sure if it’s because we have a kiddo who is involved in extra things or if it’s just life in general. But, decorating the house for the holidays began to not be fun. A huge part of that was due to the fact that the decor pieces didn’t feel calming. I love the twinkling lights, the feeling when you are sitting by a glowing Christmas tree, but the rest of the decor… just kinda made me look around and feel like everything was cluttered.

So, this year, I decided to let it all go and try to just enjoy the spaces that we have. So, we put up a very simple Christmas tree in our living room (with oversized yard ornaments!) and pretty much called that a day for the inside decor. I walk in to the living room and can totally breathe. It feels magical inside without all the extra Christmas decorations in there. We are majorly enjoying the twinkling lights, the Christmas books that we are reading by our tree and each other. Simplifying… I guess you would say.

But Ashley, you showed a non-simplified picture up above, you say. Yes! The need for simple and un-cluttered apparently doesn’t extend to the front porch. Haha. I had a BLAST decorating the front porch and I can’t wait to show you.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

The non-simplified front porch really calls to me. I think part of it is that, to me, its traditional Christmas decor. The traditional decor really works well outside in this area. Whereas inside, it just doesn’t go with our usual modern decor. So, this is calming for me when I see it outside. Does that make sense at all?

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

Sometimes, I guess you can’t help how you feel (whether your feelings are logical or illogical). All I know is that, to me, this feels good. It feels welcoming.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

I changed things up just a bit from the Christmas tour last year, but all without buying a single thing.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

I’m still using the sleds, although they changed positions a bit. The blanket and pillow are the same. I pilfered the hanging deer heads from around the house. Last year I put the white deer head on top of the Christmas tree. It was cute up there, but I love it on the front porch with a scarf tied around it’s neck.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

Yep, you heard me right. I tied scarfs (like I pilfered our coat closet) around their necks to give them more texture. I also added some tree slices that we had laying around from my sister’s wedding.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

I incorporated more lighted garlands in the space and I think they are really key to how cozy it feels.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

The wreaths got a make-under. My mom made me a wreath about 10 years ago and it was just so cute. But, I was so sick of it. With her blessing, I deconstructed it as well as another one. I wrapped some tinsel garland around the two ‘new’ wreaths and called it a day. It’s funny how something so simple can be a nice change.

Get inspired to Decorate Your Front Porch for Christmas

I hope you enjoyed our Front Porch Christmas Tour.

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If you love Christmas tours, then I’m sure you will love all the ones that are happening this week. Make sure to stop by on each day and visit all the amazing tours.

Monday

Monday

Lovely Etc.

Thrifty and Chic

Bigger than the Three of Us

Tuesday

Tuesday

One Krieger Chick

All Things With Purpose

The Happy Housie

Blue I Style

Little Red Brick House

Wednesday

Wednesday

Southern State of Mind

Seeking Lavender Lane

Designing Vibes

The Tale of an Ugly House

Domicile 37

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Thursday

Like a Saturday

It All Started With Paint

Little House of Four

Boxy Colonial

The Turquoise Home

Friday

Friday

A House Full of Sunshine

Making it in the Mountains

View from the Fridge

Casa Watkins

Shabby Grace Blog

A House Full of Sunshine

Making it in the Mountains

View from the Fridge

Casa Watkins

Shabby Grace Blog

 

 

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Filed Under: Seasonal Decor Tagged With: Christmas

Simple Trace and Cut Advent Calendar

December 15, 2014 by Ashley Mayes 2 Comments

I wasn’t even going to share this little DIY because it’s so simple, but I decided, heck… why not?! A few weeks ago, I decided to do an advent calendar again. The little guy really liked it last year, so I thought it would be fun. I was just going to go to Target and buy something out of the $1 bin and write the numbers on it, but I never made it up there. Kinda weird, not to make it to Target, right? My husband would definitely say so! But anyways, on a day that we stayed home the little man wanted to craft so I decided to see what I could do to make an advent calendar.

We have an old crib spring that we hung the calendar on last year and I already had that set up in the entryway circle. The little guy’s decorating took over that area for Christmas. So, I knew the advent needed to be bright and fun to match the decor of where it was going. I gathered some cute wrapping paper and decided to print out a template for a Christmas tree. I did a google search for a printable Christmas tree and lots of options came up. I went with one that had clean lines. From there, I cut out the template and traced it on the back of the wrapping paper. I alternated every other day to have two different patterns of paper and that was it. It took me about an hour and the little guy loves it! So simple, yet pretty rewarding.

Easy and Free Advent Calendar DIY

Quick and Free Advent DIY

I love advent calendars and, next year, I may try this one by Jen Loves Kev. It’s just beautiful!

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Filed Under: Seasonal Decor Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas Craft

Printable Gift Tag Round-Up

December 9, 2014 by Ashley Mayes 2 Comments

Hi Guys! So, I had grand plans to have cute wrapped presents this year with coordinated wrapping paper. Well, sometimes, this thing called ‘life’ happens and plans don’t turn in to reality. Know what I mean? So, instead of having cute wrapped presents with adorable gift tags, I’m just going to share the gift tags that I love right now. I’ve been secretly pinning them; everyone knows that you can have private Pinterest boards, right? So I have a few adorable ones to share with you.

Make sure to visit the link and pin from original sources.

Printable Gift Tags

Love the ” No Peeking” tag!

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via Shanty 2 Chic

I would love to use these tags paired with kraft paper for a simple, gorgeous look.

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Via Kelli Murray

How stinkin’ adorable would these be with some embroidered santa hats on top of the heads? Next year, these will make it under the tree!

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via Sweet Paul Mag

Calligraphy gets me every time. There are quite a few options in this download and all of them are elegant and gorgeous!

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via Babble 

Those are my favorites from Blogland! Next year, I WILL have ink in my printer and I WILL be on top of it. Remind me, k?

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Filed Under: Seasonal Decor Tagged With: Christmas, free printables

Christmas Home Tours

December 1, 2014 by Ashley Mayes 22 Comments

Happy Monday! I’ve been in a frenzy with holiday decorating over here, but mainly outdoors. Luke put up more lights yesterday in our front yard, and it is just looking so homey. It’s such a drastic turnaround for us because usually our outdoors looks sad and neglected and the indoors gets all the love. But, not this season.

I’m participating in a Christmas Home Tour Blog Hop hosted by Carrie at Lovely Etc. I bet I’ll be the only one linking up just a porch, but hey, I just really like it. Plus, our indoor ornaments have a different theme on each level of our house which looks a bit disorganized. So, hope you guys can enjoy just a front porch!

Christmas Decorating Outside

I kept the pinecones from my Fall porch and just changed up the crate that held them.

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The sleds are both vintage (one found at a thrift store and the other my Dad got for my little guy).

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Another quick change from Fall to Christmas decor was the plaid blanket. I had a harvest colored one during Fall and just changed to the Christmas one last week.

Front Porch Holiday Decor

I took out the topiaries that we had in the planters and stuck 4ft Christmas trees in them. I snagged the Christmas trees on clearance last year for $4.99 each!

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Front Porch Holiday Decor

The himmeli wreaths stayed from the Fall porch, but I did add a garland above them.

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The “HO HO HO” sign was just something that I had sitting around in our Christmas decor.

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It was all pretty easy, but makes me smile every time I see it. You definitely need to hop around on the other links (and the links that are shared throughout the week!). I love seeing all the Christmas decor, don’t you?

Christmas Home Tours

Monday collage

A House Full of Sunshine

Lovely Etc.

Bigger Than The Three of Us

May Richer Fuller Be

Paper and Fox

Delineate Your Dwelling

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Filed Under: Decor, Seasonal Decor Tagged With: Christmas, front porch, Holiday decor, Outside

Easy Burlap Ornament

November 23, 2014 by Ashley Mayes 21 Comments

This Easy Burlap Ornament concludes the twelve days of Christmas ornaments. Whew, this has been quite the twelve days! Day Twelve, I never thought I’d see you! Actually, the ladies in my group seem to be split on how we feel about the consecutive days. I told them that my brain is mush and there is not one more Christmas ornament coming out but a few of them had a few more ornaments that they wanted to try. Anyways, Day Twelve is:

Easy Burlap Ornament

This super easy Christmas Ornament would be perfect on top of Christmas Packages or on the tree! Get the tutorial for this Burlap Ornament!

I picked up the wooden star from Michaels (.39 each) and then dug out a stamp to stamp it.

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With a circle form (an old cd or, in my case, the end of a roll of a ribbon container) and a scrap of burlap, lay the circle form on the burlap.

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Tuck each corner underneath the circle form and pull it out in the circle.

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After all corners are pulled through, fluff the burlap a bit.

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Hot glue the star on the top and add some twine to hang the ornament.

Easy Burlap Ornament - Make this Christmas Ornament in just a few minutes. #christmascrafting

That’s it! Seriously, it’s so simple!

 *Some of the products in this post were bought with a gift card provided by Michaels.

Pin For Later : Easy Burlap Ornament

This super easy Christmas Ornament would be perfect on top of Christmas Packages or on the tree! Get the tutorial for this Burlap Ornament!

Don’t to check out days 1-11 as well.

12 DIY Christmas Ornament Tutorials

See them here: Moose Ornament – Feather Ball Ornament – Canvas Tree Ornament – Fabric Ball Ornament – Succulent Reindeer Ornament – Travel Display Ornament – Triangle Ornament – Burlap Reindeer Ornament – Marbled Ornament – Starburst Ornament – Feather Wreath Ornament – Burlap Star Ornament

Also, don’t forget to check out the other DIY tutorials of the ladies in my group!

christmas-ornaments day 12

Simple Red Bead Ornament | May Richer Fuller Be

Christmas Music Wreath Ornament | Lovely Etc.

Nautical Jute and Rope Ornaments | Thrifty and Chic

Star Pine Cone Ornament | Cherished Bliss

Clay State Ornaments | Whats Ur Home Story

Rudolph Ornament | Mom 4 Real

Fabric Heart Ornaments | Remodelando la Casa

Easy Burlap Ornament | Bigger Than The Three of Us

Kid’s Fingerprint Christmas Light Ornament | The Happier Homemaker

Mini Tinsel Wreath from Canning Lid | It All Started With Paint

Snowy Forest Glitter Ball Ornament | Serendipity Refined

Faux Mercury Glass Ornaments | All Things G&D

We are hosting a link-up for Christmas ornaments and would love to have you link up with us!

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Filed Under: Decor, Seasonal Decor Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas Craft, Christmas ornament

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