Life Behind The Purple Door: decor

Hi! I'm Tonya from The Crafty Mummy. Thanks for having me over for your Christmas series, Cate! Today I'm going to share a little Christmas decorating at my place this year. This shadow box is only small but it is making me smile! Although we don't get snow here at Christmas, I spent one Christmas in Japan and my favourite thing was the snow. This project reminds me of that lovely year.

Shadow boxes can be a great craft for kids to try. This little one is only about 15cm square and came in a set of three with 2 larger ones from The Reject Shop. The back pops out so you can slide a picture between the glass and the backing. I used some really dark blue card for "sky" and white paper for the "snowy hill". With a little searching in my stash I found glittery flowers that were perfect for snowflakes. Sequins would be cute too.

Finally the button Christmas tree is one that I made last week. You can find a tutorial over at The Crafty Mummy with all the instructions for one of those: Button Christmas Tree Tutorial. Mine was a little unsteady so a little ball of Blutac fixed that.
shadow box snow tree Christmas

Today's guest post is from Antonella. She doesn't blog anymore, but we met through the scraptherapy forum a few years ago.
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Christmas is one of my most loved festivities of the year, it just super excites me, but the one thing that gets me going the most is Christmas Decorations & trimming the tree.

In the months leading up to Christmas each year I spend endless hours browsing the internet for the latest and greatest decorations for the season and I am the first person lining up at BIG W & Myer buying my tree trimmings.

So with just over 3 months to go I have already been skimming for ideas for this Christmas, even though we haven’t got a “Home” as such this Christmas as we are in the process of building our new house we will be living with our family, I thought why not bring some of my love of decorating into their home

I love this idea of a wreath (Yes I know they have been around for a long time but they never cease to amaze me each year and this year I would love to try and make it – Time Permitting of course) even if I make a smaller version to put up on my Sons Bedroom Door

My other favourite thing to decorate at Christmas time is the table – I set my table on the 1^st of December and leave it there until Boxing day – It brings such a warm feel to my home and I can’t wait coming home each day after work and walking into my house with the smell of Christmas in my home

Each Year I ask my husband to take me somewhere where I can have a white Christmas – maybe one day we will but this is what I imagine a white Christmas decorated home would look like

I also love decorating with Candles – I have soo many Christmas Candles and flavours my house is just filled with the scent of Christmas for whole of December

This year I have been lucky enough to try some of the new party lite Christmas flavours and my favourite is called :- Peppermint Snow – Its just the most amazing smell and has all those elements to remind you of Christmas

Here are some of the amazing decorating Items Party Lite has this season that I have now on order