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Friday, December 17, 2021

Thrift Store Fix-Up - A Christmas Deer Cloche

Winter

With Christmas and New Year's rapidly approaching, I'm ready to take my annual two week break from blogging and online business.  But first I want to leave you with one last post for 2021- this cute thrift store fix up project:

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Here is the cloche as I found it; very white and stark with lights that no longer worked.  But for around $5 it was definitely worth taking home and fixing up!

I liked the size of it and the deer that were already in place, but the trees were just too plain.  I did make sure to keep those miniature cardinal birds though, and ended up saving one to put back into the finished piece.



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The first thing that I did was to remove the lighted trees and clean up the base.



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After painting the base of the cloche a pretty gold, I removed the bottoms of some bottle brush trees.  This made the trees shorter and gave a nice flat surface that I could add glue to.  With a bit of hot glue I positioned the trees around the deer.

(Here is another post where I used bottle brush trees in my holiday decor crafting)



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Next I used spray adhesive and faux snowflakes (both from Dollar Tree) to give a softer look to the ground of the scene.



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Lastly I tucked one of those cardinals into the tallest tree before putting the dome back in place.

And there you have it, a lovely winter scene from a thrift store find.
I hope you enjoyed this holiday decor post, thanks for stopping by!

Happy holidays and see you in the new year!
-Jennifer

© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2021

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Customizing Bottle Brush Trees

Christmas Decor

If you have been reading for awhile now, you know I love my Christmas trees!  Well in addition to my big trees, I decided to customize some small, bottle brush trees as well.

These were all done very easily with a bit of hot glue and crafty items that I already had,
check it out:

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Christmas Decor
Christmas Decor

These trees are probably my favorite!  
Using some more of those slime charms that I mentioned in this gingerbread house post, I gave these trees a sweet makeover.

I'll be using them with the rest of my candy Christmas decor, which you can see here.



Christmas Decor
Christmas Decor

Using tiny rosebuds I added a bit of floral decor to this set of 
trees that I'll be using in my craft studio.

Wait, what?! A craft studio??  Yep, we finally moved and I have my very own spot!
Eventually I'll share some pics 😄



Christmas Decor
Christmas Decor

I pulled these miniature holiday lights out of my stash for these trees 
that will be added to my holiday village.

(You can see pics of my holiday village in this old post.  It's from before I rebranded the blog, but the houses are still the same 😉)



Christmas Decor
Christmas Decor
Christmas Decor

Using some trim from my ribbon drawer and a few faux snowflakes, 
I added sparkle and 'snowballs' to these tiny white trees.

(This set looks great in my Holiday Village Makeover)


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I hope you enjoyed this holiday decor post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer

Friday, December 3, 2021

Dollhouse Turned Gingerbread House

Christmas

Would you believe that I made this house last spring?!  After finding an old dollhouse I could not wait to change it into a gingerbread style house for my Christmas decor.

Check out how easy it was to do:


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Christmas

Here is my dollhouse as I found it, $5.99 at the thrift store.



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After a good cleaning, I sprayed a base layer of white spray paint.



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And then used acrylic paints for the roof, door and wood detailing.  I chose to go with chocolate colors to keep with my gingerbread/ candy theme.



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After that it was a simple as piping on lightweight spackle to serve as icing, and then popping in embellishments while the spackle was still wet:

The sprinkles are multicolored foam balls that I picked up at Dollar Tree, while the tiny candies/ ice creams are called 'slime charms' and can be found on Amazon.  Here are links to some similar sets;


I couldn't resist adding a few faux cherries as well 😍

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Here are some close up photos of the details:



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Cherries on Top



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Gingerbread Men Holding Lollipops



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Ice Cream Decor

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And a couple photos of the finished piece:



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Christmas

And there it is, an adorable faux gingerbread house ready for Christmas decorating!

Want to see more sweet themed holiday decor?
Check out the following links:


I also have more village house transformation posts:



I hope you enjoyed this holiday decor post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer