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.

I'm back and reflecting

So I was sitting in my bedroom and was still tickled with how it came out.

I was just really thankful for everything in it and the people who helped me.

The awesome chair given to me in an old post.

The sweet "i love you because" diy art that even my daughter now uses.

 So many things in here that make me smile

Those awesome floating shelves I found at a thrift store.

When asked how much they were, they said "those things?...how about free." 

Then I found a couple of Easter baskets for 10 cents and spray painted them grey.

Yes, I know, my window treatment is still pretty horrible.  Still plotting on that. 

The green makes me happy.

Speaking of thankfulness and green.

We decorated our tree last night, very late for most people, I know.

Yet, I am ok with that. 

So everyone was pitching in this year.

If you were in the house you were decorating the tree. 

Rooo was in charge of guarding the sparkly stuff.

There was much excitement over participating in the festivities. 

It was evident on all their faces. 

I have a tendency to gather random teens. 

Loving my wall even more!! 

Ok back to the tree.

Are you ready?!?!?

This is my cartoonish grinchy Christmas tree TAAAA-DAAAAAAA!!! 

Having the teens decorate helped in achieving random and bizarre.

It's perfect!!!! 

I am excited to finish up the decorating and adding to what they have accomplished.

So much to be grateful for.

I think the reason I don't start on Christmas early is because Christmas never goes away.

It lives in my heart everyday.



Almost Fabulous

I have achieved almost Fabulous. Kinda, ok, how about better and working on it

This was my fireplace/stove .  Yeah not much to look at, mantle too small and the whole thing just way too big.  I think the people who put this in were just too lazy to cut the backer board.  It's 4x8 and takes up way to much of my living room.

Plus they used thin tile so they broke easily and I'm gonna assume dropping wood on it did not help the state it got to. 

So I said to myself, "self how can this be fixed?"

Glass mosaic tile!

I looked around for quite a while trying to find something affordable.

I finally found this tile at cooltiles.com.  It was only 2.34 a square foot and shipping was extremely affordable.  I also got some dark grey/black for a border. 

I also decided to reduce the size and increase the mantle.

I love the before and after the grout :) 

See how shiny it is!!!  Shiiiiiiny

So I still need to cut the backer board and tile the border but this thing called Christmas is upon us sooo I have to put on hold until after. 

Leaving it in this state would not go well with the Grinch theme party that is coming up.

I dug out a few things and used other things to give the illusion of a mantle and completion. 

Do you like how I used a couple old tiles for the top of the stove?

Giant stockings help to hide future columns for chunky mantle.

I will post more but not for a while since I will be busy getting ready for all the festivities.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

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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?