Stinkerpants

Happy Chrismukkah! 2011 Decorations

December 20, 2011 in Personal Projects • DIY and Crafts • Holidays

Well hello, everyone! I hope you're all having a fantastic December!

I have been waiting to show you this year's Chrismukkah decorations, because a lot of our family and friends read my blog and I wanted it to be a surprise. :) But now almost everyone has seen it, so here we go! I'm going to split this into 2 posts. Why? Because I haven't taken a photo of the tree yet, and I can't exactly do it in broad daylight. ;) So the living room is next. For now, how about the rest of the house? 

{Confession: I went apeshit with garlands this year. I couldn't help it. Yorkey thinks I hung way too many things from the ceiling, but I told him to shut his piehole and put up another set of garlands in the living room. It's all about decorating vertically, people, I'm telling you.}

First up are my favorite OY letters. This year, I hung them from the ceiling.

I didn't think they were getting enough attention where they were sitting before. In addition, I re-glittered them, because they were damaged in our move last year and had been leaving a trail of glitter all over the house for years. This time I used Krylon's Glitter Blast - if you need to glitter anything, that stuff is AWESOME. Highly recommended. 

I hung the OY using Command Hooks (my mom's genius idea) so as not to ruin my ridiculously expensive and over-budget wallpaper (don't touch it!):

I also decided to frame the holiday cards we've been receiving - they're all so festive and beautiful! We have acrylic frames from Crate & Barrel - the photos needed to be updated anyway, so I emptied all of them and replaced them with holiday cards.

Then came my major project of this year: the holiday carol garlands:

I pinned this idea on Pinterest and obessed over it until it was finished (mine were less religious than the carols I found online). I cut the letters out of red foam sheets from the craft store, and strung them using baker's twine. I included a few Chanukkah songs (a must, of course!). The garlands go all the way down the hall and into the dining room:

I hung ornaments from our chandelier (I did that last year, too) by putting an ornament on either end of a string and draping them over each sticky-outy part (what do you call those? arms?).

My felt "Happy Chrismukkah" sign (third year running!) was hung in a new spot this year - and I think I like it. This is the entry to our sunken living room, and I thought it needed a little something.

All right, peeps! The living room (with tree! and stockings! and - you guessed it - more garlands!) is next. :)