Make It Tacky

We love getting tacky for our annual ugly Christmas sweater party. In honor of that, we have a few easy to make accessories that will go perfectly with your ugly sweater. We also have a couple DIY sweater inspirations for you. I think your gonna like 'em.

What you need:

Accessories:

• hot glue gun

• earring 

• bobby pins

• bows, ribbons, pom-poms, etc.

Sweatshirts:

• sweatshirt
• paint
• felt
• buttons
• pipe cleaner
• bow

You can pretty much hot glue any tacky or just fun Christmas decoration to a pair of earrings or bobby pin and you have a super simple accessory that adds plenty of tacky to your ensemble. We used gift bows and pom-poms, but your options are really endless. 

The snowman sweatshirt was made by painting on the snowman's body, adding buttons, a felt nose, and then using a pipe cleaner and some felt to make a pair of earmuffs.

The present shirt was made by taping off a square, painting the box, removing the tape, painting the "ribbon," then hot gluing on the large bow. The hardest part for each of these is waiting for your paint to dry. 

We love these super simple accessories and shirts that are really going to step up our tacky level (is that a thing?) for our party! We hope that this gives you a few ideas and inspirations to make your Christmas a little more tacky :) 

xoxo
Britt + Sky

DIY Christmas Tree Table Runner

We knew that we needed to make a Christmas runner for our dinning room table.

We decided to utilize a few things that we already had and some bottle brush trees that we found at the dollar tree.

We used the same white table runner that we have been using since the birthday brunch. We put a board that we had in the garage underneath the middle of the runner. Seems weird but we wanted to glue down our trees so that they wouldn't fall over every time someone bumped the table. Once that was ready, we took half of our trees and spray painted them gold ... you know we have a thing for gold ... ha. After our trees had dried, we placed them to get them where we wanted them and then glued them down.

We love our super simple table runner. 

xoxo 
Britt + Sky

DIY Tacky Christmas Decor

This week we are preparing for our annual ugly Christmas sweater party. We get super into it and love getting everything set up to have the perfect event! To start off, we have a few of our favorite Christmas decor projects. 

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

We had this super "great idea" that was total fail. So we had a tall vase and a twig that we had nothing to use them for ... so of course we decided to just go with it.

We put some beaded garland into the vase to hold the twig up. Then we used a needle, thread, and some pom-poms to make a fun little garland to decorate it. Its so simple, but it is tacky and fun too.

We feel like it adds some fun to our mantel. 

Tacky Chandelier

So to go along with our ugly sweater party we decided to add a few other fun and tacky decorations. We added some fun garland and bows to the chandelier ... tacky we know, but we like it :)

Tacky Deer Head

And then we also had to included our deer head in all the tacky fun so he got dressed up too.

Happy Monday!

Britt + Sky 

DIY Gift Wrapping Inspiration

Every year I get super into wrapping my gifts for Christmas. I really love for everything to coordinate and look good sitting under my tree ... I know, weird right! Ha ha! So this year I really wanted to step up my game. Really personalize my gifts and make them look so cute at the same time. So here is what I decided to do.  

Each gift is wrapped in brown kraft paper, but each piece is cut and then there is something special drawn or written on each one. Then using random little Christmas decor, each gift is customized. One one I strung some red, green, and white pom-poms. While on another I used small golden gift bows. Your options are basically endless. 

I realize that if you are wrapping a ton of gifts this is a little crazy, but you could definitely do it on a smaller scale. Like maybe just pick a few special people to try it out on. And keep in mind that this can be done anytime a gift is needed ... not just Christmas ... even though I am totally digging these gifts right now! 

I love things that are so simple but add so much personality and character. It will make someone feel good to get a gift wrapped with so much care and thought put into it. Just be sure your wrapping doesn't outshine the gift! Ha ha! Just kidding. 

Well I have a lot more wrapping to get done in like ... 22 days ... so bye :)

xoxo
Brittnee

DIY Merry + Bright Door Hanger

We really liked our DIY fall door hanger, but we love Christmas so we could not wait to get our new one up!! 

It's awesome being able to see this fun banner on the front door when we get home!  

Here's what you need:

• canvas
• scissors 
• hotglue gun
• decorative edging
• paint
• paintbrush
• freezer paper
• iron
• x-acto

After cutting out the shape we wanted, we used the hot glue gun to attach the decorative edging. 

Then we put hot glue along the top of the canvas and folded about an inch over the dowel rod. 

Next we printed out "Merry + Bright" on freezer paper. Then we cut out all of the letters with an x-acto. 

We used our iron to adhere the wax paper to the canvas. Then filled in the letters with paint. 

After it dried, we hung it on our door and have been enjoying it ever since!!

We love our festive door hanger and we hope you do to! It is a fun and simple way to decorate for the holidays. Not to mention its budget friendly as well. 

Happy Tuesday lovelies!

xoxo

Britt + Sky