Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

It's been quite a while and really I couldn't feel any more embarrassed. But as they say, it's better than nothing at all. ;-)

Home and other family affairs do get your way to some of your personal fulfilling hobbies and I am not exempted from that. But here I am getting back on my foot.
So, I have  put up our Christmas decorations this year. Although, I won't say that this will be the final look it can stand for now and be subjected to your impressions. ;-)

I am prouder this year for most of the decorations were homemade by yours truly.

The first day of putting up using this ribbon.

To this, just a few nights back and changed it to blue complimenting the angel's color.

The mantle's dress; and if you notice that ribbon wreath on the mirror, that is made by me and was improved by my mom. It's a regular wired-edge ribbon from Costco we bought last year.

This is my biggest fave this year. I made our own tabletop christmas tree ornament. These would usually sell for $20-$30 in Target but we just did for about $5.

Here's another cute home made decoration that I so adore alot. I used twigs I found just outside our backyard; cleaned and peeled it off with a little scrubbing and painting. Voila! Here goes our home made table holiday tree with cardinals.

And here are some of the additions that I got from the Dollar Store. Our little manger and the nutcrackers. The swag was I would say, our splurge on decors last year from Costco. It's nice to spend a little once a while. After all, this kind of items do last a long time anyway.

So far, I haven't decided on how the hallway would look...although I have posted a snapshot in Facebook I think I will change it. For now, I really do feel it's Christmas in the triple J's abode.

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Mini Workspace in the Master's

        After more than a week of no solid personal blogging article, here I am now back on track and boy am I so glad to share the solution to a long-time dilemma I've tried to figure months back. Remember that article I have shared partly about that small office table that needed to be in our master's bedroom because sure space was indeed a challenge and we had nowhere to put it. I envisioned then for that small table as our little workspace inside our room. But the problem is that it looked simply as an added furniture battling with space against our chest cabinet the queen-sized bed and a small side table. There was no turning back at that point since the office table would really have to stay. It looked fine with a well arranged stuffs we had but it didn't look nice I must admit. So now, after more than 2 months of contemplating and searching and getting inspirations from bloggers around the world with a similar situation I am so happy to share the new look of our workspace inside our master's bedroom. ;-)    
          This was how it looked from where it actually started to the after (I'd like to call it progress now), when I rearranged it and added those basket organizers.

        The cutie additions were the magnetic canisters and those pen holders, which were all from Ikea except for that block that holds those canisters. I painted them with Rust-O-Leum magnetic paint. Also, I bought that white dishwasher rack from Walmart, which I made as file holder with those colorful printed folders also from Walmart.

            Have you finally made a huge huge make-over on your workspace lately?

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My Apologies

      

         You may notice that most of the tabs in the menu bar aren't quite working. Pardon me for this but this is a known issue and I am trying my best to update this as soon as I can. I am a neophyte in coding and in all sorts of this technical backdrops of the blog world but I am certainly doing my very very utmost research skills to fix this and present a much more enticing and inviting parts of this webpage.

          I do thank you do though for taking a moment to glimpse and/or read articles I make from personal experiences and discoveries.

          I shall be posting more stuffs in the next days to come. So stay tuned.

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Holiday's Nature State

         This could be an overrated feature of the holiday season but I just can't stop looking at the gorgeous and amazing decorations that were done through simple steps and simple materials. Who would ever think that the simplest materials in our own household will certainly create the most elegant, chic and high-end looking home accents that add up life and vibrance to the home. It's quite a challenging process to think of the best possible combinations of colors, textures and materials that will fit and partner a home's permanent furniture, appliance or any other stuff in the house that will bring out their beauty even more.  

          With the holidays approaching like a speed of light it is just as equally exciting to know how social media has contributed so much in sharing ideas from gazillions of creative minds all around the world and in putting it in one website to become readily available for all of us to see. 

             Lately, my eyes are etched on the fantastic makes of nature both probably as forms of ornaments for the indoor or outdoor.  

             Here are a few of those plentiful images of endless crafts and do-it-yourself projects that anyone can use either as inspirations or simply copycats that can add a more beautiful fantabulous home for the holidays. 

        Have you decided on a theme for this year? Fruits can be a great idea!

{All images were from oprah.com webpage)

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Halloween 2012

         Boo!!!!
         I know...I know...it's a bit too late for that huh? Well, having been sick for a few days ate up so much of my free time to spend on this blogworld. Hence, this delay of posting my current articles (stay tuned for more updated stories on the current upgrades and reorganization of the spaces in our home that I have been so adamant to share with you all).  So without furthering the introduction, to keep up with the hype  for a few friends that have been waiting to see the oodles of ( I would say) good stuff I have put up for the kiddos' 2012 Halloween party,  here are the highlights of our annual cousins' event. Enjoy!

           I missed uploading the 'before' picture of this opposite wall of the dining area. This wall was the home of our pinboard as I would like to call it. But because I wanted to see uniformity and balance in the flow of this white background I decided to mount photos of us on it. The theme was the 'Four Seasons' so if you'd be meticulous enough to notice...I have put on the most memorable shot for each season. Winter, Fall, Summer and Spring.

             This centerpiece shows some elegance on top of these cookbooks beside my all-time favorite recorder.

          This is a close look at the bouquet of maple styled flowers. 

         
     

          Now, these crows are I guess my favorites of all the additions in our Halloween paraphernalias this year. So those sort of trunks were twigs that I cut from one of the plants in the backyard and I tucked them in a small pot I found from our shed and hooked those two crows that I got for a whopping $1 each from where else...ha! Dollar Tree in the now small-looking stems. Voila! And to add some vibrance I added those fake pumpkins in glittery green and in matte orange beside the sort-of-dried tree. ;-)

          I added a candle holder too to give more life to the creepiness. I threw some cobwebs and little spiders on it whilst I stuck on those white candles that I've dropped on some red candle melts (courtesy of a very good friend from work).

        This is the mirror mounted on the wall just  beside the front door. I threw some webs again on this and taped that owl silhoutte and some spiders too for accents.

              This is the fireplace with the cute scarecrows. And that wreath, that yours truly made from some leftover decorative stuffs.

             This is the entry doorstep of the front door.

         Our pumpkins for this year that we all worked on. Well, I did the carvings and the daddy and little princess did the painting. (Yeah...hard work are passed on this gal here. lol)

         Notice the bats...thanks to that bat stencil I got from the web it sure added spookiness of the house.

         There you have it! Our halloween escapades for this year. And of course, the sales racks from Walmart are overflowing with goodies again and I obviously didn't miss a thing. haha! I had another extra goody decor to add on for next year. ;-)

         I hope you all did have a great and fantastic Halloween!

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