I have been doing lots of Christmas gift wrapping this week. Packages are so fun to do because you there are so many ways you can wrap them, but when gift cards are involved it can be a little boring. And even though most people love receiving gift cards (including myself) sometimes gifting them can seem a little impersonal. So I decided to try to make mine a little more thoughtful this year. Once I got started it was a lot easier than I thought it would be, but they looked a million times better than when they were just in the store's packaging! Let me know what you think... and I would love to get some more ideas if you have them!

Ingredients: Treat Bags, Free Printable Tags, Baker's Twine, & Embellishments

Things I'm Loving Thursday - Chevron

Today's Things I'm Loving Thursday is a no-brainer. Anyone that follows me on Pinterest knows that I have had a huge crush on Chevron for awhile now. I pretty much like anything in this pattern, but here are a few of my favorites. Enjoy!



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DIY Decorative Pumpkins

Well, I'm still feeling like I'm at the brink of death so that means another day of tv show reruns and more time for blogging! On Saturday I did a makeover on some artificial craft pumpkins that I have had for a couple of years. Before this weekend I used them to decorate above the cabinets in my kitchen along with an Autumn garland. I loved them, but when I spied some copper and gold colored accents at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago I decided I needed to give my plain orange pumpkins a facelift.

So here is the inspiration. I love these. They are so Hannah. I like that they are seasonal, but chic. Totally me!

And here are the plain craft pumpkins that I wanted to re-do. I like them the way they were, but I just didn't think they went with the inspiration pieces that I am currently in love with.

I have been wanting to buy some of this cool metallic spray paint for awhile. I kind of have a think for spray paint and when you throw shiny / glittery into it.... well, let's just say I'm smitten.

So first, I gave each of them a base coat. The first pumpkin I painted gold and pretty much covered it completely. The second I painted copper, but just did a very light coat. I liked how you could still see the orange tint a little bit. I had planned to do a design on top of the copper colored pumpkin, but after it was done I liked it the way it was.

The gold colored pumpkin had a different destiny. It was definately going to have a design on it. Who wants to guess what kind of pattern I chose? That's right, you guessed it! CHEVRON! My favey!! I didn't want to get too technical. I just free-handed a zig zag pattern with painter's tape.



And when I was done here's what I got!

I think that they turned out really great! They look fabulous with my inspiration and I love how they are different, but cohesive. So that's it! Easy peasy.