Tis the Season to be Creative

December seemed to sneak up on me unexpectedly this year.  I was kind of nervous because I knew I only had a few weeks to come up with amazing gift ideas for not only Christmas, but Birthdays too! I always want to make my holiday cards and gifts. If there is one holiday out of the entire year that I need to use my creative skills for it should be Christmas! Plus I am an Art Teacher which means there is NO excuse! Of course I put a whole lot of pressure on myself to come up with new ideas different from last year. But I took it one day at a time and approached it like I would any other piece of artwork. I am proud to say that I am almost completely done! Even my Christmas cards are finished( which I will share with you later):)

I also have one celebration to check off my list. The holiday season started with my Boyfriend's Birthday which happens to fall in the month of December! So I got it in my head to  make Steeler colored cupcakes(since he is a huge Steelers fan)! I would not consider myself a baker AT ALL, but I think they turned out pretty well considering! 

I wanted my cupcakes to look like Martha Stuart made them. I knew I had to get special icing tips. When I went out in search of icing tips, I happened upon a box of cork and felt flowers that were only $5 originally priced at $14 at Tuesday Mornings! I'm super excited to use them on my gifts.  

I couldn't help attaching the flowers to everything as soon as I got home!

Christmas gift 

 

I knew my bag needed something to set it apart from all the other brown leather bags that exist in the world;) 

I have gotten into lace this winter! I absolutely love Free People's holiday boutique lookbook. Black and white can look so fab! Going out to dinner to Portalli's for a birthday dinner was a perfect excuse to wear a free people inspired outfit! 

I have about four pairs of lace stockings that I love to wear. Sometimes it is too cold to wear them so I came up with my own solution! I wear leggings or another solid pairs of tights underneath. It makes my stockings look different depending on which colored leggings I wear underneath! Now I can wear my lace stockings even on a cold snowy day:) 

I also tried Free Peoples holiday make-up idea.

I think lace looks amazing with a vintage rose ring like the one I am wearing from Vintage Girls.

My complete outfit inspired by free people holiday boutique!

Record players are so vintage! I decided to give one as a Birthday gift. Lune Vintage Girl had great tips on finding records. A thrift store just opened up near my house and I am excited to tell you that I found a Kiss record for $1.50 that went perfectly with my gift! 

 Here are my christmas cards that I decided to make this year. I got my idea from The Crafty Fox Blog. I didn't want to use typical Christmas colors so I used variations of red and green.

I also got scrap booking paper from Michael's Craft store to make my paper collage cards.

I know these songs have nothing to do with Christmas, but I am totally in love with them:)

That's it for now! To be continued....:)<3 Meags

Sometimes when I get bored I play music with my sister. It's fun to pretend we know what we're doing;) Here is one of our favorite songs by First Aide Kit. 

Have a Very Merry Christmas!