Rub n' Buff House Plants...Christmas Decorations

Two posts in one day!! Wowzers!!  Here is another quick little DIY, perfect for Christmas time.   I thought I would go ahead and post about it now since Christmas is just around the corner.  Don't worry the other furniture projects are on the way.  Is there anything you can't use Rub n' Buff for?  I mean really this stuff works on eveything it seems.  Even plants!  I just put a dab on my finger and rubbed it onto these little leaves and voila!

Before

After

Aren't they pretty?

I thought they would look great as Christmas decorations!

You could even use them as place holders for the table!

You could add them into flower arrangements too.  Add some gold or silver to your roses!!

So what do you think?

Smiles!

~Renew Redo~



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Savvy Southern Style
The Lettered Cottage

Christmas Decorations For The Stairs

I love, love, LOVE, Christmas time.  I love Christmas lights.  I would love to keep them up all year.  For the stairs,  I attached branches strung with white lights, to the spindels, then drenched them in lots of gold ornaments and bead strands. 

I like using branches for Christmas time, but you can dangle things from the limbs.  I think it creates a pretty effect.

It looks like it's raining gold at night!

Ode to the dollar store ornaments!!

I had two garlands of gold beads like these red ones below.

So I cut them up into strips and draped them all over the limbs.  Two bead garlands go a long way when you cut them up!

Then I added a few gold and green wrapped presents below.

Looking from another room.

Smiles!

~Renew Redo~

Christmas Candle Display

It's beginning to look MORE like Christmas... 
I was going to post about my Christmas decorations for the stairs, you can see them in the back ground of this picture.  I will post about those next.  But for now... my candle table display.
I like building things out of glasses and dishware, like cupcake stands and stuff like that, so this year I built a sort of candle Christmas tree out of plates and cylinder glass vases.

A large square white dinner plate for the bottom.  A glass vase on top in the middle, then another large square white dinner plate.  Then another smaller cylinder vase with a smaller square white dinner plate on top.  Easy-peasy

I filled the cylinder shaped vases with Christmas ornaments

Then, I covered the bottom of each plate with gold and silver ornaments.

Then I used champagne and wine glasses as candle holders on each level.  I filled the champagne glass with rice to hold the candles upright.

This is simple enough to do, and looks so pretty in the center of a table.  You could use round plates and regular drinking glass to do this too.  Ok, now next up the stairs...REALLY.

Smiles!

~Renew Redo~

Linked:

Censational Girl
House Of Hepworths
The Lettered Cottage

Non-Traditional Christmas Tree

My non-traditional Christmas tree!  WARNING... WARNING... TONS OF PICTURES!  I had a bunch of little gold plastic angel ornaments from past years and decided to make an angel tear drop tree.  Tears of joy of course!  I used a hot glue gun to attach the angels to the top of all the branches.

I took the chandelier crystals that I found on ebay, and threaded them with wire dollar store ribbon.  They are so pretty when the light hits them.

I tried to take lots of pictures close up so you can see all the pretty goodies on the tree. 

They seem to get lost in the pictures when I take them at a distance.  Here are a couple of pictures of the chandelier crystals.  You can buy them by the lot on ebay for pretty cheap.

Since there is no green on the tree, I put lots of greenery below in glass vases.

A big ribbon bow around my pot.

 

A wooden bowl full of walnuts and candles.

Mason jars half full of rice to hold my candles upright.

I added a couple of little roses in glass vases too. 

 

Here are a few more pictures of the tree in a different spot.

It's definitely not traditional!  It makes me think of a Bonsai tree.  Or, a Weeping Willow Christmas tree.  Next up, the stairs! 

Here is a sneek peek of that.

So, what does your Christmas tree look like this year? 

~Renew Redo~

Time For Christmas Decorations!

Yay!  It's finally that time of year to deck the halls!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and doesn't feel too fat and fuzzy from all the turkey and stuffing.  It's been a while since my last post.  I had gold and gray on my mind for a redo, and still do, but, I decided to put all that on hold till after the holidays.  Now it's time for some Christmas decorating cheer!  Yippee.  I was looking back at some of my past Christmas decorations, hmmm let's see, I guess I had a walnut and green apple theme last year, or green, brown and silver color scheme. 

LAST YEAR

Lots of candles.

Last year I used brown butcher paper to wrap all my presents, and loved it.  I know I will be doing that again this year.

I also tinkered with drying apples and oranges, which was fun and easy.

I usually don't go super traditional in my Christmas decorating and this year will be no exception.  Here is a sneak peak of what I'm feeling for this year.

THIS YEAR

Ribbons, chandelier crystals, angels, and tree limbs

Stay tuned!

Have you started your Christmas decorating?

~Renew Redo~