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Merry Christmas Sweet Friends!

2012
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I can not believe Christmas eve is here! I have some last minute “Santa” shopping from Lauren’s visit with the big guy yesterday. Wish me luck finding her last minute requests! I wanted to take a moment and thank you my sweet friends for reading along this year. It has been a amazing year full of new inspiration, fabulous new products in the shop and the best contributors bringing some fresh new ideas for you all. There are some BIG things coming soon in the new year and it will be really exciting to see these things “roll out”. In the meantime from me and all the ladies of the ABN team- we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! We will be back to regular posting on the 2nd. Hugs and much love from us to you!

Rebekah
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{BN Black Book of Parties} Green and White Christmas Dessert Table

2012
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Our last holiday party feature is a beautiful green and white Christmas dessert table created by Nathalia of Naatje Patisserie. Although green and white are definitely Christmas colors, you don’t typically see just those two colors by themselves, but Nathalia put together such a beautiful Christmas dessert table together using shades of green and white, you might want to use this color palette at your next event!

Green and white Christmas dessert table 2

green and white christmas cake

green and white cookies and cupcakes

green and white Christmas dessert table

white cake pops with green trees
green and white Christmas dessert table side

green and white desserts

green and white cookies

Thanks Nathalia, for letting us share your beautiful table with our readers!

Vendors:

Cake & other Baked goods, Table Styling – Naatje Patisserie Cupcakes & Cakes

Printed Party Decor – Nomie Boutique Stationery

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Christmas Home Tour – Our Family Room – Christmas Edition!

2012
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I thought it would be fun to take a tour of our family room and show you parts of my happy place. With all the craziness going on in the world right now I am nesting more than ever with my little family and truly feeling truly blessed for them. So with that . . .

Welcome to my home – Christmas Edition!

This is the room we live in most so it is definitely the most decorated room in the house and why I am sharing this first for our Christmas Home Tour. The focal point of the room is our fireplace. We did not have a fireplace back in California so I feel spoiled having THE perfect spot to display some of my favorite pieces.

I have my prized Pottery Barn sea fan shadow box art as the main anchor to the top of the mantel and my white flower vases flanking either side.

I just filled these with some berries that match the mesh and berrie garland I draped along the front of the mantel.

This year a client had asked me to create her a reindeer art print with the sentiment “Believe”. I loved it so much that I made one for myself too!

And at the bottom of this post you too can have this print! A little Christmas present from me to you my sweet friends.

I went a little crazy with ribbon this year thanks to Hobby Lobby! I wrapped, tied and added a bow to anything that I could! Touches of my favorite (low maintenance greenery!) were my touches of green – boxwood and moss.

And a special little man has graced my mantel!

Since we are building fires we need to have wood piled up and ready to use. So I decided to wrap them up! I used wrapping paper from the $1 bins at Target and tossed in my moss wreaths from our Christmas Wish Party decorations.

A stacked pile of old soda crates on the other side of the fireplace, is a nice drink table for our chair nearby.

I hold this little bookcase very near and dear. My husband made it with his grandfather as a birthday gift for me many years ago. I put my favorite trinkets on it including coral from trips to Hawaii, black earthen ware from our honeymoon to Portugal, favorite photos and design books.

Of course I Christmas-fied the top!

Lastly our writing desk got dressed up with a little mesh, berries and Christmas balls.

Have fun this holiday season and enjoy EVERY moment with your family!

Here is a sweet little present to download to place in your home:
 

Believe Reindeer Art Print

Or click HERE to Download.

Believe Reindeer Art Print

Or click HERE to download.

Rebekah
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Gift Wrapping Presents with Party Printables

2012
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Hi!  It’s Mariah from Giggles Galore here to share some creative ideas for gift wrapping those special holiday gifts.  I love wrapping Christmas presents, there is something so exciting about seeing pretty packages underneath the tree.  My mother always wrapped our presents to match the tree and of course she added lots of pizzazz and personality to each present she wrapped.

There are so many creative and fun ways to decorate presents and while I was preparing for my daughter’s class party I realized I had some extra party printables.  I decided to use some of the cute snowman printables Rebekah had designed for me to add a little pizzazz to our presents this year.

The key to creating pretty packages under the tree is to coordinate the colors or style of your wrapping.  I used red and white as my base for the wrapping paper and added the printables in unique ways for that pop of color and whimsy.

Tulle is one of my favorite ways to wrap presents.  For this present I wrapped a water bottle label from the snowman package around the front of the box and then gathered a bunch of tulle around the box and tied it with a pretty bow and a glitter letter for the recipient.

This red and white polka dot paper is one of my favorites and I kept things simple with this present.  I simply added a lollipop and cut a tag from the coordinating paper.

To make packages pretty use traditional items in unexpected ways, like this plastic ornament filled with red jelly beans and a party circle that says “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!”  Attach it to a simple white package with red twine and you have a pretty and fun package any little one would love.

Do you still have presents left to gift wrap?  Use those leftover party printables to add a little extra special pizzazz to those special gifts.

A Blissful Nest’s Snowman Party Circle’s are in the shop and ready to print!

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