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Sleigh Rides Wood Sign

Hi, and welcome to the first day of the 12 Days of a DIY Christmas! I’ve teamed up with 11 builder friends to bring you 12 fun woodworking projects.

I’m excited to see what the others have up their sleeves, but I’ll have to contain my excitement for another day!

I like to save extra pieces of plywood from projects and use them to make wood signs. I needed a coordinating sign for my Santa Sleigh and Reindeer.

Make a festive Christmas or Winter Sleigh Rides wood sign, perfect for the porch. Free plans and pattern.

Tutorial for –> Santa Sleigh

Pattern and tutorial for –> wood Reindeer

The best thing is that this sign can be used past Christmas throughout the winter season! After Christmas, a cute bench replaces Santa’s Reindeer and Sleigh.

Make a festive Christmas or Winter Sleigh Rides wood sign, perfect for the porch. Free plans and pattern.

For this farmhouse house sleigh rides wood sign, I cut ‘Sleigh Rides’ out of scrap 1/4″ plywood to make the letters pop a little and give the sign dimension. Cutting out the ‘sleigh ride’ is totally optional, the words can be stenciled/painted onto the sign instead.

Make a festive Christmas or Winter Sleigh Rides wood sign, perfect for the porch. Free plans and pattern.

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Holiday Decor in the Living Room

This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy.

I struggle…

with decorating…

it’s just not my thing…

I don’t have the knack for it. I’m chuckling a little bit typing that because I can see myself giving a lecture to my son because ‘reading’, ‘coloring’, ‘writing’ are ‘just not my thing’ and I have to tell him that it gets easier with practice. 🙂 Hmmm maybe!

When I heard Home Depot has a new partnership with Laurel & Wolf, an online design company, I jumped at the opportunity to try it out. I used the Holiday Decor Package with Laurel & Wolf to decorate my living room for Christmas. 

The Holiday Decor Package is $59, which will get you: holiday accessories & decor design picks for one room, 5 days of design time, 1 design revision and a super handy shopping list. Using the service is really easy. You start a project and enter in your decor budget, your style (or they have a quiz to narrow your style down if you don’t know what it is), 6 pictures of your room and 3 links to inspirational rooms you like. Once you submit your project, Laurel & Wolf assigns a designer to your project and the fun begins! Continue reading →

Farmhouse 5×7 Photo Display

It’s that time of year when those beautiful Christmas Cards start arriving in the mail of your favorite loved ones. Today’s project will make it easy to display them, it’s a 5×7 photo display board. But you can use this display board all year long to display your favorite 5×7 prints.

This photo holder makes changing out cards and photos really slick, they just slide out!

I’m joining with a few other bloggers for a Creative Christmas Challenge hosted by Remodelaholic. You can check out all of the fun and festive projects at the end of the post. Plus Remodelaholic will have features and a link party all week long, it’ll be fun to check out.

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How to Build a 5×7 Photo Display Board

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Handmade Wood Christmas Sign

I’m excited to participate in this years annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop hosted by Smart Fun DIY.

I love to make wood signs out of cheap cedar fence pickets. They are thin so the sign is light weight, and the wood is a little rough making them easy to distress.  I need a Christmas sign to replace my FALL sign on the porch and settled on Noel since it’ll be the same length as Fall.


When I googled NOEL, it said that it can be traced back to a latin meaning of ‘birthday’. I decided to incorporate the birth into the Christmas sign with a little silhouette of the manger. Hopefully you can use your imagination and see it 🙂 (and not a chicken). It’s based off of cute ornament I saw on Oriental Trading.

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Handmade Gift Sweater Earmuffs

I’m excited to participate in this years annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop hosted by Smart Fun DIY.

I love handmade gifts that are cute, thoughtful and functional. My good friend Jenny used to make fun gifts made from old wool sweaters like mittens. She’s also made lots of darling and unique earmuffs from old sweaters in her shop.

I used to give her a hand with some of the animal themed earmuffs.  My daughter LOVES her purple owl earmuffs!!! We put a little faux fur on the inside to make them extra soft and super duper toasty.

She’s here to share with us how she makes these awesome sweater earmuffs.

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