handmade christmas

we knew we would have to get creative this christmas. tight budgets and all. heads together, light bulbs.
santa is very creative when santa needs to be.

my mom and i found this very well-loved frame at a garage sale for five dollars. i was giddy. bryan was apprehensive. until he spent days scraping and sanding and painting with exquisite perfectionism.

the next step was my favorite part. if only life-size houses were so easy to decorate.

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each wall and floor is covered in a mix of scrapbook paper, vintage street maps and luxury paper from feterie.

the kitchen wall is my own little homage to gourmet mag. le sigh.

the living room has a fireplace and a wall full of banjos with a fancy feterie floor.

a street map of los angeles and feterie "wallpaper" in one room and a rainbow wall with a mirror in the next.

for the attic:  gorgeous blue feterie floor, some shakespeare and stars.

welcome home family! your furniture should be here soon...

oh, look! here it is:

(yes, i bought the diy wood furniture. it was much, much cheaper and it won't matter if she breaks it)

 

christmas morning...

 

xoxo

merry handmade!

oh, and here's the dj lance rock pillow i made for her as well.

because everyone needs a dj lance rock pillow.