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I'm so very excited to be teaming up with a group of friends led by Heidi from Honey Bear Lane on a Christmas ornament blog hop.
We're sharing with you seven simple DIY Christmas ornaments in hopes of give you ideas to decorate your Christmas tree this holiday season. At the end of this post you'll find the links to visit each one of these beautiful ornaments my friends have created.

Every year I try to make an ornament... Well, when the kids were little I did tons more, but lately it seems like only one ornament for the year. :D

Ha, and I see that snowflakes are something I really like! Check out these previous snowflake ornaments I created HERE & HERE.  They are really cute, but this time I went for something different... metal.

November is here and it's crazy how time flies as we near the holiday season. My last post was already a Christmas project, but these past days my mind has been busy planning our Thanksgiving table.

I'm the one that's usually in charge of setting a pretty table for Thanksgiving and I love that job!

As I started to plan what to do this year, I went to my

Hello there!

Once again I'm joining forces with my building friends for another edition of the DIY Challenge. Building or creating a handmade gift that anyone would love to receive was the challenge for this month.
And well, with the holidays quickly approaching, I decided to build a House Advent Calendar, which I think is a win-win situation... A gift that's going to hold lots of gifts in it! ;)

I had to start this post with this cute pic of our Louie sporting that funny pose! :)

Guys, I've been outside enjoying the nice weather and having a good time decorating porches!!  Did you see my neighbor's front porch all ready for Halloween? Check it out right here.
Well, now it's the

Can you believe Halloween is just a week away?!  Eeeeek time's flying and the holidays are almost here!
My Halloween decor has gotten to a minimum now that my kids are all grown. However, I always like to add a few touches of Halloween around the front door to cheer up all those trick-o-treaters.

Last week I started adding

Cleaning the garage has resurrected a few items that I had saved in hopes of someday putting them to good use. One of these items was a big box full of birch bark that we collected about five years ago during a Summer vacation in New Hampshire.

I haven't shared a mantel display in a while and since I don't decorate much for Halloween, I thought about setting an easy black and white and far from spooky mantel that will also fit the bill.

I went shopping to Target and once I passed the entrance door I had to stop at the dollar section all packed with Halloween goodies.  The budget was set from the beginning: Twenty dollars to add to all the Halloween decor I already have at home.

The highest price went to the