Grinch and Whoville Decorating 101

Lots of pictures on this post.

The first up is the chocolate candy cane hearts that I made for favors for the party.

Melt chocolate

Having people to stir chocolate very helpful 

They came out awesome!

I'm pretty sure they are delicious as well, I haven't eaten one yet but I was covered in chocolate. 

 All of them were a little different.



We made about 2 dz.

The grinch in the middle?

oh, well I couldn't find plates to go with my theme sooo I made them. 

Not as hard as it sounds.

Clear plastic plates and printed out images from the web and some paint pens. 

Paint the outline on the back of plate and then color in the lines.

I had help with this as well. 

I tried to keep it simple and only did 3 images for the larger plates. 

The smaller plates were a little different.

I did the outline in sharpie and then acrylic paint and tried to seal it with spray paint. 

The spray paint ate the acrylic.  I did not realize the nature enemy of acrylic was spray paint.

I will still use them, I will just point out they were caught in a snow storm. 

One of the grinches looks quite insane, I will make sure he will not end up in a child's hands.

Nightmare fodder for sure. 

I am getting excited for the Christmas Eve Grinch found Christmas Party...

Want a quick look around?

Of course you do, that's why you're here.

First up is the fake mantle with sock garland. 

The penguin has no purpose, he kinda snuck in and I didn't have the heart to make him leave.

The sock garland was super easy to make.

Insert "duh" here. 

This is my fireplace wall.

Yesss, my wood stove is wearing a tutu.

A better question would be, why isn't yours? 

Even my awesome cool/hip wall got dressed up.

But not too much, it is cool after all. 

Found the stockings at a thrift store for 29 cents.

Poinsettias found last year for a quarter. 

Candy garland, found at a thrift store for under 2 dollars.

Although it was not fully put together.

Also no one knew what it was.

Yay for Pinterest and the wisdom I gained to understand the previous owners intent. 

Another look at my uber cool wall.

It's so cool, I may have to loose weight and dye my hair just to fit in. 

Up shot of candy garland 

Wall of windows rocking the bells and green ribbon 

Other side into dining area. 

Then back to the tree. 

I think after Christmas I will have a grinch bulb give away.

If anyone is interested.....

So thank you for coming with me on my tour of my living room Whooville decor.

I hope you enjoy the holidays and have a Merry Christmas.

Ah Hoo Horaay Welcome Christmas, Christmas time

Wait...What?!?  How does tomato cages go with Christmas?

It's simple my dear, Christmas time is near.

The picture down below is really what I would have if I had the financial flow. 

It's awesome, it's amazing

It's Whooville in icing

But all of that is way beyond my budget, which is why I dug up my tomato cage.

So clean it off, flip it over and manipulate it until it looks like a Whoville tree.

Wrap around some bright green garland.

Stick a big ole star on top 

Stand back look at it, make faces and move it around.

Then have a dawning thought about previous project. 

Go find project and add the Christmas sign.

Realize they were made to go together and put outside.

Ignore spider webs, as they need Christmas too .

Yes there, ya go, now it's looking like a Grinchy Christmas. 

So, one free used tomato cage and 3 things of garland.  If I was smart I would of bought the garland last year when it went on sale.

So not a big money saver but still under 20 dollars.......

Whovillian TAAAA-DAAAA!!!

You're a mean one Mr. Grinch

You really are a heeeeeel....but are you a wreath?

Oh but you will be :)

Dollar Tree to the rescue!  Spray paint with green and I wanted to do moldy purple spots but I only had blue.  Blue can be moldy, right?

Then gather up a bunch of ribbon and tulle and anything else you can think of to stick on there.

I went with red and green with a little blue. 

Now cut some strips and knot that bad boy on there.

Make them different length and just have fun. 

I still had paper left over from the "pills" so I cut out circles and glued them on in random places.  Mostly "moldy purple spots" kept playing in my brain. 

Then to bring the star of the wreath out, thanks to Goodwill treasure hunting.

Now we have a totally grinchy wreath. 

He doesn't seem like the mean one, does he?

I did have to give him a butt lift because he was pooching out my wreath. 

I am still thinking of what to put in his hands, maybe a fork, or ornament, or candy cane, or sign.

So many possibilities,......hmmmm maybe a frame with a heart in it.

Why do I always end these post with a question?

They have a pill for that now....

They really do, whether it works or not or causes even more problems they still do.  Some are even worse than the original problem.  Actually my family has a long running bet on how fast the same pill they hock on tv will be the newest thing the lawyers are advertising on tv for a major action suit.

But these pills are guaranteed not to do all that not fun stuff.

They are just overflowing with cuteness.

Isn't it just awesome?!?!?

This is her link grinch pills and she's nice enough to let you use her template. 

So what is stopping me?  I am doing a Grinch found Christmas theme.  Well I bought the tic-tacs (green apple because that sounds sweet and sour) and got to playing with it.  I did not use the template and when I got around to printing out the top poem.  Not only did one my printers not work but the working printer made the grinch brown.

But it was too big for what I already did.

I wish I would learn to read instructions before I do something.

So anyway this is my spin on it. 

I used some different color craft paper.

Had to cut the poem in half and put it on both sides.

Added a fun ribbon and mod podged it on there. 

Put a funky kinda star thing on front to bring back the reason for Christmas. 

Some big hearts on the top 

Oh yeah, the reason the Grinch's are green?  I hand painted each printed Grinch and went back over his face with a very thin marker.  Yeah, not a quick craft my way, at all and I don't recommend it.

They still work and I WILL hand them out.  I will not hoard them.

I will not think about it or how long it took to make.  I will refrain from their cuteness.

I will give them out to encourage people and not hand them to people who are grouchy

I will :)

Grinchy Goodness

It's getting around that time again.  You know the most wonderful time of the year?

I am planning on doing a "Grinch found Christmas" theme.

Since I have many ideas I am starting now.  Right now, this very minute, as we speak.

I painted these light bulbs green.  They were burned out and I have been replacing them with energy efficient ones.  Then I put them in a box and forgot about them.

See the trend?  So now that I can find my stuff, I found them again.

So now they are painted a grinchy green  I pulled out my paint pens and had at it. 

One grinchy bulb 

Ten grinchy bulbs!

Ok, now to dig out my felt and whip up a simple hat. 

Tada...but he just looks like a troll.  On to pom-pom pillaging. 

But first more pictures! 

I'd watch out for the one in the middle, he's up to something. 

There, a little pom-pom and some fur lining and BAM!!  Grinchy Goodness!!!

Now all they need is a hook and a tree.