Christmas Red Truck Footprint Craft

Just wanted to share the Christmas footprint craft I made with Jude. Our holiday card photos were taken in a red truck so I thought this twist on the Christmas tree footprint was perfect!

xo Lizzie

Hot Cocoa Stand Holiday Photos

Just wanted to share the sweet little hot cocoa set I created for a holiday photo backdrop!

xo Lizzie

Home Alone Party

Last weekend my husband and I had our family over for a family movie night to watch Home Alone. It was my mother-in-law's birthday so we decided to make it a little more special with lots of yummy things!

A Home Alone party is so easy... our house was already decorated for Christmas! I just needed to add a few simple things to play up the theme.

We started with the menu... we went with what is mentioned in the movie. Cheese Pizza, macaroni and cheese and Pepsi.

This was the invite we sent out:

I decided we should also have hot chocolate to make it more Christmasy and cozy. We made crock pot hot chocolate and had a toppings bar with drizzles, assorted marshmallows, candies and whipped cream.

 I purchased 2 Home Alone mugs to mix in with our Christmas plaid mugs.

YUM!

I loved the idea of crock pot hot chocolate... but I didn't like the look of the pot on our table. So, I tied one of my scarves around it!

 Our DIY sugar cookie set up!

We needed cake... it was a birthday party after all! Cupcakes with Home Alone movie quotes fit the bill!

You can find these Home Alone cupcake toppers in the Elizabethdoodah shop!

It was a nice cozy night filled with family time and yummy treats!

xo Lizzie

Puffy Paint Holiday Gift Wrap

I save brown paper bags every year so that I can reuse them to wrap Christmas presents. This year I decided to use puffy paint to decorate them. It was fun, it was like decorating sugar cookies! 

Need more ideas?

Click here to check out my potato stamp wrapping from last year 

and

Click here to check out my washi tape gift wrap from the year before!

xo Lizzie

A NYC Walk With My Husband On New Year's Eve

JT & I decided to head into the city for New Year's Eve with no real plan. Sounds crazy I know, but the city is pretty awesome on New Year's Eve... awesomely empty. Everyone who is out is either at Times Square or out at a private party leaving the usually overcrowded attractions blissfully desolate.

My New Year's Eve nails from Incoco

We stopped by Rockefeller Center to see the tree.

Said hello to Fortitude, the lion that guards the New York Public Library.  He was looking dapper, decked out in wreath.

We visited the Plaza hotel to grab a bite to eat and see their Christmas tree.

Took a walk down 5th Ave to look at the elaborate window displays. As usual Bergdorf's windows were my favorite.

The Empire State Building was lit up in a brightly colored tie dye effect!

We left the city around 9 and made it back home in time to pop the bubbly!

Happy New Year!

xo Lizzie 

Potato Stamp Holiday Gift Wrap

Last year I wrapped my gifts in reused shopping bags and decorated them with washi tape. This year I decided to reuse shopping bags again, but this time I carved potatoes into Christmas shapes and used them to stamp the brown paper bags.

Making potato stamps is something my high school art teacher taught me. She had a print making project she wanted to do with our class but the linoleum that is used to carve for stamps was too expensive to buy for the entire class- potatoes fit her budget! People have been using potatoes to make stamps for a long time :)

A lot of the stores I shop at (Trader Joe's, Sur La Table, Whole Foods ect.) use brown paper bags and I save them all year so I have enough come wrapping time! 

The candy cane potato stamp I made was my favorite.

Trees... I sprinkled some of them with glitter before they dried to make them sparkle.

To make a snowman I dipped a wine cork in paint and used it as a stamp.

Preppy little bows.

I glued pom poms to some packages. This one looks very Dr. Seuss, making it my favorite this year.

The glitter I sprinkled on the trees, made them look like they were covered in sparkling snow :)

I'm done shopping and done wrapping... time to kick back and enjoy this wonderful season!

xo Lizzie

ps- If you need more diy wrapping paper inspiration and you missed last year's washi tape gift wrap, click here!