13 Stamped Clay Gift Tags With Natural Twine, From Fern Prints to Advent Numbers
Air-dry clay loses between five and ten percent of its size as it dries, and it shrinks around the hole you punched as readily as … Read more
13 Painted Wood Slice Ornaments for a Minimalist Tree
Most wood slice ornament designs are painted for a full tree, where forty pieces blur into texture and no single one gets looked at. A … Read more
Biodegradable Christmas Tree Decorations That Actually Compost
Most decorations sold as compostable are not. The ornament body might be dried fruit or wool, but the wire hook, the polyester ribbon and the … Read more
Log Round Christmas Decorations for a Rustic Mantel Without Crowding the Shelf
Log rounds are the cheapest rustic Christmas material there is and the easiest one to overload a mantel with. Most mantel shelves run five to … Read more
Brown Paper and Twine Christmas Place Cards That Don’t Read as Gift Tags
The trouble with brown paper and twine place cards is almost never the brown paper or the twine. It is that most of them are … Read more
Terracotta Clay Christmas Ornaments for an Earthy Tree
Most of what gets sold as a terracotta ornament is not terracotta. It is white air-dry clay tinted a dusty pink, rolled thin, and sealed … Read more
13 Seed Paper Christmas Ornaments You Can Plant in Spring
The seed paper ornament that fails does so quietly. It hangs on the tree, it gets admired, someone takes it home, and in April they … Read more
How to Make a Cranberry and Popcorn Garland for a Vintage Christmas Tree
A single strand of popcorn and cranberries covers about four feet of tree and costs roughly what a bag of microwave popcorn does. It is … Read more
Neutral Winter Mantel Decor Without Red and Green (Warm, Not Washed-Out)
Red and green is the easy button, and it is why most mantels look interchangeable from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Pull those two colors out … Read more
Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments With Wood Burned Designs That Don’t Look Like a Kit
The internet’s default wood slice ornament is a snowflake or the words “Merry Christmas” in wobbly script, and both are the reason so many of … Read more