To Celebrate

Thank You Card

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Mr. SuzerSpace and I keep it very low key for the holidays. We don’t travel, and we don’t have extended family to shop for, so as it becomes “crunch time” for others, we just sit back and enjoy the sights.

After a beautiful (but brisk) walk in nice shopping area, we came back today to enjoy some old movies (for him) and some crafting (for me).

And I thought I’d share this Thank You card, because come tomorrow afternoon, you may need it.

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Christmas Tree Skirt

SuzerSpace finally gets a finished Christmas Tree Skirt thanks to a Pinterest Challenge.

It’s the third Tuesday of the month, so welcome to the December Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop (and you too) to not just pin, but to make it happen!

We moved into this house right around Christmas in 1998, and things were so chaotic we didn’t even have a tree. We strung some lights on a dying potted plant and concentrated on unpacking boxes and getting moved in, and called it good.

Our house isn’t very big, and we needed a slim tree to fit the space without overwhelming the living room. Good ones were expensive, but I kept on watching the sales and eventually found something perfect for us. And then I realized at the last minute that I didn’t have a tree skirt, so I bought this cute buffalo plaid throw with moose and bears on it, scrunched it up around the base of the tree and called that good, too.

And that has worked perfectly, for nearly 20 years, mostly because I always think about doing something more coordinated on the day we are setting up the tree, which means it doesn’t get done.

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Santa Hat Tree Topper

A super easy paper Santa Hat topper finished out the twelve paper ornament series for SuzerSpace

This is the final in a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month so that I could complete my goal of having a Christmas Tree full of paper crafted ornaments.

Yes! It’s December, and we’re done. Twelve different paper decorations adorn my tree, and I’m so glad I took this on in January as a project. It was fun to make these all year (OK, it was a little weird in the summer, but I liked it).

I even scored a great deal on the perfect tree, so the entire project came together with weeks to spare.

A paper Santa Hat topper finishes off the twelve paper ornament series at SuzerSpace

I went with a super duper easy to make Santa hat to cap things off (see what I did there?).

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Chalkboard and Wood Slice Ornaments

A paper version of the popular chalkboard and woodslice christmas ornaments | suzerspace.com

This is the eleventh in a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month so that when December rolls around, I won’t be surprised to discover I’ve done nothing about my wish to have a fully paper crafted Christmas Tree.

I’ve talked about the concept of frequency illusion before, which is where when you are thinking about something it appears to be everywhere you look. And with social marketing programmers working behind the scenes, it is even more difficult to determine if something is a trend, or if it’s just being fed to you because you were already searching.

Either way, my Pinterest and Instagram is full of these wood slice, chalkboard painted, hand lettered ornaments, and I’m not complaining.

The title of this post is a little misleading – since this series is paper crafted ornaments, there is no chalkboard and no wood slice. But there is the look of both, in an easy to make project. Continue reading…