11 homemade Christmas ornament ideas

By Karah | November 9, 2012 - 7:08 am | crafty, diy, driftwood, free, holiday, home decor, nature, nearly free

‘Tis the season. The season to get ready for the holiday season. The one where we start to think about how we decorated for the holidays last year … and how we’ll do it this year.

I actually started this blog on November 1st last year and pretty quickly joined a crafting competition at Mega Crafty. The challenge was to decorate a tree for under $20. I came up with some pretty fun homemade Christmas ornament ideas that hardly cost me anything.

Since there were about 3 of you reading last holiday season, I’ve rounded up what we made to show off our 11 DIY Christmas Ornament Ideas.

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message in a bottle {the forum}

By Karah | November 7, 2012 - 7:08 am | diy, life, upcycle

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Sing it with me now …

“I’m sending out an s-o-s,

sending out an s-o-s,

message in a booooooottle.”

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month in minutes {october 2012}

By Karah | November 5, 2012 - 7:08 am | month in minutes

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So, let me get this straight …

We went on vacation for 10 days. A little rest and relaxation with my love. A little exploration of a new country. Our first trip to Central America.

*sorry for the water spot on the picture, I guess that’s what happens when you rappel down a waterfall with your point and shoot in a zip lock bag.

And while we were hangin’ in the rain forest, with hardly any connection to our real life, the World Series went down in 4 games, Taylor Swift and some Kennedy broke up (I feel a new song coming on) and a super storm took down the Jersey Shore, NYC and many other areas of the northeast?

Ay yay yay!! Here’s hoping you and everyone you know and love are safe and sound.

And here’s to realizing with great clarity how insignificant some things can be, when real life is dealing with loss of power and light and fuel and everyday people are digging through grocery store garbage bins looking for their next meal.

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costumes aren’t just for halloween anymore

By Karah | October 25, 2012 - 7:08 am | holiday

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Other possible titles for this post include “people shaming”, “oh no you di-en’t” or “top twelve reasons my dogs are thankful they are my dogs and not Lisa’s”.
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my wooden spool dilemma

By Karah | October 22, 2012 - 7:08 am | diy, furniture, nearly free, our curacao space, paint, rooftop bedroom, sisal, unfinished projects, upcycle

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Hey, hey! Happy Monday! How are you?

I am great!

I am gearing up for company to come visit. FUN!!

That’s one thing about living on an island. We get our fair share of visitors. :)

Luckily, we ~~mostly~~ like them all. ;) We had about a year there where we had at least one week of company every month. I became quite the tour guide. Hence my knowledge of the top 10 free things to do in Curacao. I’m ready to get to doing a few of those again soon.

You know how it goes, don’t you?!? You have these really cool things to do in your town, but you don’t usually do them unless you’re showing them to visitors.

Or you have this really cool room in your house … or on the roof as it may be … and you don’t spend as much time up there as you could. Because it’s always there. I’ll just go up tomorrow. Or next week. Or sometime soon, for sure! :)
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