Primping for Christmas {a home tour}

Welcome to our home.  Hope you enjoy the little bits of Christmas spread throughout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We had a fun time adding to our faux snow globe collection started last year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pleated burlap stockings hung on one of my favorite free finds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A homemade felt ball garland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our advent calendar I made over last year.

This year we drove for about an hour so we could experience scouting out and cutting down our own Christmas tree.  Ours looks a little more like a bush than a tree but we got there late and had only a little bit of time before the sun went down.  I decided to decorate this year with all homemade ornaments, made by the kids and by Grandma.  It was hard not to bring all the vintage bookpage and grain sack ornaments I made for my tree 2 years ago, but I think these just fit this wonky tree better.

 I'm enjoying getting ready to spend Christmas at home with my family. I'm also loving some some newly found photo apps.  I was really disappointed to find that my favorite editing site, PicMonkey has changed, so that you now have to upgrade to use virtualy all the good editing tools.  Plus I've found it's just easier to take pictures on my phone.  Instragram and Pixlromatic are my current favorites.

 

 I hope you are enjoying this beautiful time of year,

and have a very Merry Christmas!

 

 

keep primping,

 

 

Primp Your Stuff Linky Party #76

Happy Wednesday! It's time to link up all your fabulously primped projects, including anything you have made, or made to look better, or anything you have found to {primp} your space.

Here are my favorites from last week's party:


Hymns and Verses shared her Christmas home tour which is all inspirational. My favorites are her front porch ...

and this hot chocolate bar.

 

 

I love this colorful vintage vignette at A Ruffled Nest.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm loving two deer projects:

 

 

this cute glittered deer silhouette

by The Good Life!

 

 

 

and this retro branch buck by Made In a Day.

 

 

and last but not least,

 

 

Marty's Musings made this super cool scrap wood tree.

  

Thanks for all the inspiration!

Now it's time to be inspired again.

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Primp Your Stuff Linky Party #75 and a winner!

Happy Wednesday! It's time to link up all your fabulously primped projects, including anything you have made, or made to look better, or anything you have found to {primp} your space.

Here are my favorites from last week's party:


Shaggy Sheep Home shared the coolest advent calendar, sitting in an old suitcase.

 

 

Common Ground confessed she's a chalkboard cheater (check out how she made her faux chalkboard design).

 

 

 

Twigg Studios designed this sweet Christmas in a nutshell,

with a tree that pops up!

Simply Reinvented primped a gorgeous french desk--love all those details!

 

Thanks for all the inspiration!

Now it's time to be inspired again.

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One more thing before we start this party. The lucky winner of the $50 French Bleu Vintage giveaway is ...

Cassie @ Primitive and Proper

 

Congratulations Cassie!

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She's baaaack! {another elf on the shelf prank}

Our elf on the shelf, Christy has been back for a few days.  This morning she showed up with a green moustache and a note that read, "I moustache you a question: What do you want for Christmas?"

 

 

 

The funny thing is, she's not the only one who found herself with a moustache ...

 

 

All the kids woke up with one. What a silly elf!  This little girl always wakes up happy, moustache or not.

 

 

 

 

Not everyone was happy about it though.

 

 

The other kids refused to be photographed.

 

 

I've started my Christmas decorating, here's a peak ...

 

 

I was also getting ready to add a Christmas message to my chalkboard, and this is what I found.  My 5-year-old has just learned to write her name, I think it's the cutest thing in the world.

 

 

 

 

I love this girl!

 

 

 

 

keep primping,

 

P.S. Don't forget to enter to win this $50 French Bleu Vintage Giveaway here!

Primp Your Stuff Linky Party #74

Happy Wednesday! It's time to link up all your fabulously primped projects, including anything you have made, or made to look better, or anything you have found to {primp} your space.

Look at these blue beauties from last week's party:

Restoration Redoux showed off an incredible chandelier transformation.

 

 

I still can't get enough of snow globes. I'm especially loving these ones by Southern Scraps.

 

Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Now it's time to be inspired again.

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$50 French Bleu Giveaway and a Burlap.com winner!

 

Ready for yet another great giveaway? One of my lovely sponsors, French Bleu Vintage is offering a whopping $50 shop credit to a lucky follower.

 

 

 

 French Bleu Vintage has tons of vintage goodies to choose from including some beautiful Christmas ornaments,

 

 

 

vintage tin,
 

 

 

vintage french books,
 

 

 

 

children's books,
 

 

 

 

spice jars,
 

 

 

 

even furniture!
 

 

 

So many charming items to choose from!

 

Here's how you can enter to win a $50 shop credit {2 entries possible}:

1. Like French Bleu Vintage on facebook, come back  here and let me know you did in a comment.

2. For an extra entry, join the mailing list at FrenchBleuVintage.com, comment that you did.

If you don't want to wait until this giveaway ends to shop, you can get 20% off your order with the code primp20. The giveaway will end Monday, December 10th at 3PM, MST. Good luck!

And the lucky winner of the BurlapFabric.com giveaway is ...

Tania at Little Vintage Cottage--congratulations Tania!

 

Now that Christmas shopping is in full swing if you need yet another idea check out my shop PrimpJunktion.  As a bonus, during the month of December,  get an extra 20% off your order for my shop with the code primp20.  Happy Christmas shopping!

keep primping,