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Christmas Tablescape

I recently had the lovely opportunity to write an article for a local magazine. The article was my tips to creating your perfect holiday table. Today I’m going to share them here! Here are my 4 easiest tips to make your table wow!

The holidays are coming up, which means hosting dinner parties. With all your loved ones surrounding the dining table, it’ll be the star of the event. You’ll want to make sure it sets the right tone and creating a beautiful tablescape is the perfect way to accomplish that! 

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DIY Dollar Christmas Shadowbox

It’s a brand new week with a brand new Dazzlingdollardiy challenge! This week is Deck the Halls and any decoration for your house is acceptable! I made this Christmas shadowbox for under $10! If you’d like to play along for the chance to be featured on all our amazing host’s IG accounts go here for the details! The Lily Sage IG If you want to see what this ugly blue wooden box turns into…stick around!

 

I had this old crate that at one point I had painted blue but it was SO dinged up and missing a holding piece in the corner so it wasn’t steady enough to used as as kind of crate or tray. So I painted it a dark brown, I used a stain so some of the blue would come through and give it that weathered look

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DIY Dollar Store Christmas Tree Ornaments

The holiday season is here and that means 2 things…Christmas decorations and having absolutely NO money after the season is over 😉 Because we all need every single dollar around this time I went about trying to find a way to get my craft on, have some cute new decorations AND do it as cheaply as possible!  Brielle has  Frozen themed Christmas tree in her bedroom the past 2 years but now that she’s a rambunctious 3.5 yr old I didn’t dare leave my very fragile and very expensive snowflakes in her tornado path. So I headed to the Dollar Store to see what I could come up with and I ended up making 4 different versions of ornaments for her tree and everything I used to make them came from the Dollar Store! Major plus so if these break the only thing I’m worrying about is cleaning up the glass shards rather than weeping because I’ll never be able to find those snowflakes again. This is a quick look at everything I used to make my Dollar Store Frozen ornaments so check out the details below!

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Golden Thanksgiving Tablescape

I can hardly believe it’s Thanksgiving this week! We’re keeping it small and low key this year but even a small party deserves pretty things! I went with an amber and weathered green palette with lots of gold accents sprinkled throughout. I set this up for a magazine feature I did (I’ll post it next week!) and this is going to be how I do our Thanksgiving table this year. Details below!

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