I'm not trying to make everyone nervous, but....
THERE IS ONLY 41 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!
Right now most of us are concentrating on Thanksgiving... as we should!
But many of us can multitask and it is the perfect time to start making a little behind-the-scenes Christmas magic...
Pinterest is the most wonderful site to find lots and lots of ideas AND and inspiration. But it does have it's downside... so look out!
I'd like to tell you what Pinterest is NOT! It is not a place to compare what you have... or your creative skill level ... or your value or worth. That can me a horrid trap! Now that that warning is out of the way...
I love to look at gorgeous images... most that I could never recreate, or have time to do... or afford... but in each picture I focus in on easy creative ideas... and take in beauty and inspiration which abounds and sparks my creativity!
It is also a wonderful place to find Christmas gifts... like this North Pole Pillow...
It is also a wonderful place to find Christmas gifts... like this North Pole Pillow...
You can see what inspires me on Pinterest by clicking HERE
CHRISTMAS
...and HERE
CHRISTMAS CENTERPIECES
...and HERE
CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS
...and HERE
CHRISTMAS FOOD
You can get more inspiration from my Pinterest boards by clicking HERE... and follow me too!
Merry Pinning!
Yvonne, I already follow your pinterest boards and must say that I repin almost everything! You find the most beautiful images and inspiration! I am completely on Christmas mode, but in Canada, Thanksgiving has come and gone, so the next holiday is Christmas. I realllly want to make your gorgeous felt stockings, but am having a hard time finding affordable felt (one shop charges $55 per yard of wool felt, and I'd like to make 6 stockings-yikes!). I've heard that you can felt your own by washing and drying wool sweaters. Have you tried this? Did you use wool felt, or regular felt for yours?
ReplyDeleteAndrea, Look for craft felt... buy tiwce as much and wash it and dry it. It will get thick and very pretty! Hope this helps!
DeleteHi Andrea, I'm making those gorgeous felt stockings too and I live in Alberta.I found the felt at Fabricland can't remember the price but it sure wasn't $55/yd or I wouldn't have purchased it!! It is the craft felt that Yvonne is talking about.
DeleteThanks for the inspiration this morning- I am heading over to check out your boards because I love your style! Susan@Romancing the Home
ReplyDeleteI started shopping yesterday, the earliest EVER for me~! My daughter and her family who live overseas will be with us for two weeks this year and I have no intention of spending those two precious weeks in the stores, so I'm determined to get it done as soon as I can! I love seeing what you have found on Pinterest, and as a recovering craftaholic, I know how tempting it is to want to try and make everything I see, but as I grow older, I have learned to enjoy just seeing what everyone is making and try to tweak and use what I already have in new ways...thanks for sharing the lovely images with us!
ReplyDeleteabsolutely! i have been pondering it since september!
ReplyDeletesmiles to you and hope you'll pop over soon for lovely.
best.
michele
Yvonne,
ReplyDeleteDear Friend...I'm doing MORE than THINKIN'...I'm putting Christmas TOGETHER!!!
We host our family Christmas On Crooked Creek this year, also.. .I'm one of the hostesses for our Progressive Christmas Brunch, so Christmas can already be seen at the dining room and the lower level Family Room. "Mr. Ed" has made me the MOST WONDERFUL gift ever for this years celebration which I will share once December arrives!!! I've been going through archive Christmas post from all my favorite blogs for inspiration...yours is one throughly enjoy! Also, my stash of back issue magazines. I haven't gotten bitten with the Pinterest Bug, but may at some point in time! Thanks for sharing some of the remarkable ideas for holidays via your blog!!! Hark! Is that Christmas music I hear coming from the Living Room??? You betch' ya!!!
Fondly,
Pat
You have me thinking of Christmas now! I have Thanksgiving for our family, so I have to wait to decorate until after they leave. I also have a show through Dec 2! My Christmas decorating will have to wait until after then. :( Thanks for all the lovely inspiration! :)Thanks you for stopping by my blog earlier this week. For some reason I cannot reply to your kind comment!
ReplyDeleteI am getting Christmas minded. I am trying to start preparing a little by moving things around and such.
ReplyDeleteHeading over to look at your Pinterest photos right now.
Blessings, Amy
ReplyDeleteThinking continues as the trees get put together and go up in the rooms. Due to guests arriving early from Italy, our season will begin in 9 days.. I didnt know this would be happening and thoughtI had till dec.8th.. I'll do my best to make as much happen as possible. I joined your Holiday Pinterest board awhile back and have repinned many of your pins. Thank you for always finding such fabulous inspiration.
Love all of the inspiration this morning! I always like to start decorating when my pumpkins begin to rot, which has been a little earlier this year. Pinterest has definitely been a wonderful resource this year!
ReplyDeleteDrat, I just lost my post! Well, I am starting to get scared. Due to the lack of summer, and no autumn worth mentioning I have not had the usual changes of weather that make me aware of the changing seasons and the imminent arrival of Christmas. Only this week, when a cursory glance at the calendar made me realise that November is already one third gone have I been kick started into motion. I have spent the last two days punching, embossing, sewing, painting, stamping, inking, and all other sorts of crafting snowflakes of all sizes, for they are the theme of my Christmas cards this year. I now have a box full, ready to assemble! Like snowflakes, no two cards will be the same. I adore that wreath of rosemary, olives, and tomatoes. I also follow you on Pinterest (Celtic♥Heart on there) and love your boards. C♥
ReplyDeleteI always begin my Christmas the day after Thanksgiving and the day of, if not out of town. I am so excited to drag it all out this year!
ReplyDeleteSo much to do.......Love the package wrapped by Vintage Luxe! Simplicity is BEAUTIFUL!
ReplyDeleteI haven't jumped on the pinterest bandwagon yet, so I loved looking at your board. Thanks so much! Sara, Ohio
ReplyDeleteNope, far too early to be thinking about Christmas Yvonne;)
ReplyDeleteYvonne, I love Pinterest and I was late to getting involved in it! I do try to take one Holiday at a time!! There are some decor items that transition into Christmas from Thanksgiving so some of those pieces are out!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Karena
A Giveaway from Scalamandre
I am not quite ready, need to have Thanksgiving behind me... You are right about pinterest, and it can be soooo overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteCiao for now...
Not only thinking of Christmas, I have started bringing in some of the decor. It seems to take so long to get it all set up just the way I want it. So, I am getting the "work" done before Thanksgiving. That way, I can enjoy the results of my efforts for longer!!!
ReplyDeleteI love being inspired and finding ways of how to make a pin into reality
ReplyDeleteOh, your Christmas ideas are so wonderful! And yes, 41 days does make me nervous! I so want to enjoy every minute of Thanksgiving and then Christmas! Having a shop definitely makes it harder to do that! I have so loved Pinterest for all of the reasons you mentioned! I just wish I had more time to sit and be still and look at it! Thanks for this wonderfully inspiring post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration. I've pinned some for a better look. It will be here before we know it...
ReplyDeleteSam
I try desperately hard not to fall into that trap of comparing myself with others. I only want to compete with myself. Take a better photo this week than last week. I really planned a simple Christmas but my college kiddo wants to go whole hog. So there we go....
ReplyDeleteThe reality that Christmas is just around the corner is a bit frightening. I need to start shopping so that I can actually enjoy the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI'm dreaming about Christmas too! I started a Pinterest account but haven't found time to develop it! I 'll check your page out!
ReplyDeleteI have a similar post today! Just mine is of very pinky, pastelly ornaments! I am ready to get out the boxes from the attic...
ReplyDeleteLovely vingettes. I can't believe Thanksgiving will be here next week!
ReplyDeleteYes I am... though I won't decorate for Christmas at Home until the day after Thanksgiving, as is our custom, I am being amply Inspired by the Retail Vignettes and Posts here in the Land of Blog... and of coarse my Retail Space has had Christmas set up early because peeps are already in the Christmas buying mode.
ReplyDeleteBlessings from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian
Yes, when you have so many in your family as we do, you start thinking Nov. 1st. I try to have my major shopping done by the end of November so I can do fun things during December.
ReplyDeleteI am like you, I adore Pinterest. No, I will never get around to making everything but I love being able to find the things I have seen so easily and I often try to make things too.
Thanks for the inspiration. I, too, love to look at photos and get ideas - alot of which never get done, but I can dream. Pinterest is such a wonderful way to keep track of all of those things I want to do "someday".
ReplyDeleteJudy
Oh My Gosh- 41 days till Christmas? When did this happen, Yvonne? Why didn't you warn me earlier?;>) I love all the inspiration I always find when I come here- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteI just spent today cleaning and putting away the final Halloween decorations and making Thanksgiving ones more prominent. I haven't gone totally Christmas yet, but definitely have a few items sneaking out already!
ReplyDeleteFor presents this year I plan on making homemade jar cakes and adding a personalized message to everyone. It's the thought that counts, even if on a budget, right?
Hi Yvonne,
ReplyDeleteYes I have Christmas on the brain, love the great pins youhave shared, the rosemary olive wreath looks delishious:-)
Hugs,
Bella
My panic button has been pushed! Time is flying by....I SO love Pinterest but it is such a time vacuum and black hole that I can be sucked in! I'm following your Christmas board, I love all your inspiration! I just need 34 hours in a day :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your Pinterest Christmas board. I repinned so many shared ideas...now to follow through with these inspirations. I love to follow your blog,especially your recipes. Have a beautiful Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteGreat Inspiration! Love the last one and will probably use it! I have the pitchers already! Thanks for sharing these ideas! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post and I found some new blogs in the process. I am starting for Christmas here because we go to family for Thanksgiving and we decorate so much for Christmas and I always have projects I need the extra time.
ReplyDeleteCynthia
I only visit Pinterest occasionally because it really does stir that pot and make me want to go out and shop some more. I don't "need" another thing in this house, and I have to curb my creative appetite!!! Looking at these photos, though, I get a couple of ideas that I can do without shopping. That's the discipline I need to exercise!!!
ReplyDeleteYvonne,
ReplyDeleteYes, I've been "multi-tasking" with Thanksgiving the short term focus and Christmas the long term view. I've resisted checking Pinterest only because I can get lost there and find 2 hours flew by when it only felt like 15 minutes!
Karen
Yes, I am thinking Christmas! I do not host Tgiving, so I am getting an early start on the decorating since I have to do it all myself. It takes forever!
ReplyDeleteWe are hosting our Christmas Santa party again this year, to celebrate the arrival of our 5th gchild's first Christmas. We have it out, but I do all the centerpieces, desserts and gift bags for the kids, and take homes for the adults. I have to plan early to get it done in time!
I will go check your pinterest page.
I love all the great ideas! I'm trying to think Christmas. Can't believe it's almost here. Thank you so much for sharing at A Bouquet of Talent!! I am so thrilled to have you! I also followed you're awesome Pinterest boards. :)
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!!!
Hugs
I am thinking Christmas all the time. We are hosting our dinner group tomorrow night, and I would start decorating SUNDAY but we are also having guests the day after Thanksgic=ving and I don't want to be in the middle of decorating.............SIGH. I am SO dying to get it done and be able to enjoy it all. XO, Pinky
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