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S’more Gift Basket

23 Dec

Hello friends! If you are still looking for a fun and tasty one-of-a-kind gift idea, you’ve come to the right place! I just finished this s’more gift basket for Christmas for around $15 and there’s still time for you to make one of your own. To make the basket (well, bucket) I purchased the following: Container (I got this little…
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Ribbon Christmas Tree

20 Dec

Hello and Happy Holidays friends! We’re counting down to Christmas and the excitement is building! Everyone is saying that 2020 is different. True. But at this time of year, the one thing we should try to hold on to are the traditions of our holiday season. If we can’t visit family, let’s recreate the special dish or dessert that we…
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Holiday Home Tour 2020 Part 1

20 Dec

Welcome to my Holiday Home Tour 2020! Thank you for joining me today! Jennifer Rizzo’s Holiday Housewalk is celebrating it’s 10th year anniversary! My Holiday Home Tour 2020 is linked to her housewalk where there are many fabulous homes decorated for the holidays for you to enjoy. If you’d like to visit, please click HERE to go to Jennifer’s 2020…
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Winter Florals

18 Dec

Happy Friday friends! I realized yesterday that we’re only a week away from Christmas! What? Every year, I start planning and decorating for Christmas in the Fall and think that I’ll be ahead of the game. Do you do this, too? In September, I’m thinking that I have it all under control. Now, we’re the week before Christmas and I…
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Strawberry Christmas Tree

17 Dec

Hello again friends! Today I am unveiling the newest tree to our family…The Strawberry Tree. Mary has four trees in her bedroom. Three are full-sized and a fourth is a tabletop tree filled with Nutcracker decorations. We had two full-sized last year and when we got the third one, she said it was to be decorated with strawberries. Strawberries? Google…
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I ❤️ Valentine’s Day! Well, I ❤️ any hol I ❤️ Valentine’s Day!
Well, I ❤️ any holiday that promotes eating chocolate and sweets!

Oh, and love & romance...

I took Valentine decor from Dollar Tree and made a frame for a heart wreath to hang over my Valentine tablescape.

Grab you a piece of chocolate and come visit me at the Mulch and Paint blog to see how easily you could make your own!
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#mulchandpaint 
#valentinewreath 
#valentineswreath 
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#heartwreath 
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#diyvalentines 
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Feed the birds🐦🐤🐦 I keep singing that son Feed the birds🐦🐤🐦
I keep singing that song!!!

On the blog I share how I made several types of feeders for the birds in my backyard. Here’s a photo of the gelatin birdseed ornaments I hung from tree limbs.
The birds have loved them!
I just checked on all of the feeders and they’re almost empty.
I guess Washington Street has a lot of fat and happy birds right now!
Check out the Mulch and Paint blog and get some ideas and inspiration so you can make your own.
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#mulchandpaint 
#birdfeeders 
#birdseedornaments 
#diybirdfeeder 
#makeyourownbirdfeeder 
#dollartreebirdfeeder 
#dollartreecrafts 
#gelatinbirdfeeder 
#suetrecipe
What we all need. What we all need to give. Matth What we all need.
What we all need to give. 
Matthew 22:37-39
❤️❤️❤️
I got this sweet little sign from Dollar Tree and spruced it up for my kitchen decor. The tutorial (which may or may not include Scotch tape and zip ties) is on the blog!
Link is in my bio. 

Show some love today!❤️
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#mulchandpaint 
#dollartreevalentinesdecor 
#dollartreecrafts 
#lovesign 
#farmhousedecor 
#valentinesdecor 
#matthew223739 
#valentinesdaydecor
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!! . . . # Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!
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#mulchandpaint
The Butterfly Tree is featured on my Holiday Home The Butterfly Tree is featured on my Holiday Home Tour!
The Butterfly Tree (as I have named her) began as a 3-foot tree with colored butterflies and solid colored ornaments several years ago. 
Well, my baby has grown up and is a tall, full-figured gal and is bursting with bright florals that just make me smile every time I see her. 
The link to Mulch and Paint’s site is on my profile page. 
Please stop by and visit for a while!
Merry Christmas!
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#mulchandpaint 
#funchristmastrees 
#holidayhousetour 
#christmashousetour2020 
#holidayhousewalk2020 
#christmashousewalk 
#butterflychristmastree 
#colorfulchristmastree 
#rainbowchristmastree 
#rainbowchristmastrees 
#christmastrees2020
My Christmas Home Tour (Part 1) is now on the Mulc My Christmas Home Tour (Part 1) is now on the Mulch and Paint blog! 
This year, I was blessed to have my friend Shannon @sjackson706 photograph my home for me. Most of the photos you’ll see were made by Shannon. It will be very obvious which photos I took!  After seeing her work I definitely need to step up my game or put her on payroll!
The link to the blog is on my profile page.  Hope you’ll come over for a visit!
Merry Christmas!
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#mulchandpaint 
#christmashometour2020 
#christmashometour 
#holidayhometour 
#holidayhometour2020 
#rosegoldchristmastree 
#bedroomchristmasdecor
I marked off one of my bucket list items today! I I marked off one of my bucket list items today!
I went to Bethlehem, Georgia to mail my Christmas cards so that they would have the Bethlehem postmark on them. 
OK, it’s not skydiving or graduating from law school, but I’ve wanted to do this for many years and I finally made the time to do it.
Just a little something special to spread more holiday cheer!
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#mulchandpaint 
#bethlehemgeorgia 
#bethlehempostoffice 
#christmascards2020 
#christmascardideas 
#gospelofluke 
#luke24
#christmas2020
Happy Sunday! When you want a large white vase to Happy Sunday!
When you want a large white vase to use in your Christmas decor but you don’t want to spend money...use what you have!
A lady basically gave me this vase while I was shopping at her yard sale. It was yellow and brown with a very obvious crack. I knew I could refresh it but wasn’t sure how. 
During my Christmas decorating, I wanted a large white vase and spotted this in the basement—and I found a way to make it over easily and (of course) inexpensively! 
Please click on the link to the blog on my profile page to see how easy it really was!
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#mulchandpaint 
#vaserefresh❤️ 
#diyprojects 
#diydecor 
#diychristmasdecor 
#whitevase 
#whitevasechallenge 
#christmasdiydecor 
#plasterofpariscrafts 
#plasterofpariscraftideas
Happy Saturday! I wanted to share with you how I m Happy Saturday!
I wanted to share with you how I made this Christmas sign to hang over my piano. 
I shared it on the blog earlier in the week and Leanna @prettydiyhome said she laughed when she saw how easy it is to make.
I promise you, I try to find the easiest and least expensive way to make what I want. This craft costs under $6 and took about 5 minutes to make. The tutorial is on the blog. 

The blog link is in my profile.
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#mulchandpaint 
#diychristmassign 
#diychristmaswallart 
#goldchristmasdecor 
#christmasdecor 
#christmaswalldecor 
#christmaswallart
#walmartgiftbags 
#walmartdiydecor 
#walmartfinds 
#walmart
Happy Wednesday Everyone! The sun is beginning to Happy Wednesday Everyone!
The sun is beginning to rise and I am enjoying the lights of the trees during my quiet time this morning. 

Here’s a glimpse of my hot cocoa bar this year. I put a small Hershey bar in my hot chocolate the other night. It was delicious!
Do you sneak extra stuff in your hot chocolate?

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here!
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#mulchandpaint 
#hotcocoabar
#hotchocolatebar 
#merryandbright 
#christmasdecor
#christmassigns 
#christmassayings 
#christmashotchocolate 
#christmashotcocoabar
Happy Thanksgiving! May you enjoy great food, wond Happy Thanksgiving!
May you enjoy great food, wonderful conversations and lots of love on this day of thanks.
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#mulchandpaint 
#thanksgivingtabledecor 
#thanksgiving2020 
#thanksgivingtablescape 
#pinkpumpkins 
#turkeydecor 
#2020thanksgiving
Christmas is upon us! I am rolling out new wreath Christmas is upon us!

I am rolling out new wreaths this week and am giving you a sneak peek!

I keep finding myself playing with colors.  Today’s creation plays with purple and red on a winter wreath.

Do you like staying with the traditional Christmas colors, deviating just a little or are you a rebel and just throw everything in the color wheel into your decor?

I think I’m in the middle....today, anyway!

#mulchandpaint 
#winterereath 
#wreathsofinstagram 
#wreathmaking 
#christmaswreaths 
#christmaswreathmaking 
#christmasdoordecor 
#christmaswreathdesign 
#purplechristmaswreath
Darla and her shark dog! Happy Halloween! . . . #m Darla and her shark dog!
Happy Halloween!
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#mulchandpaint 
#halloween2020 
#findingnemocostume 
#darlacostume
I finished this fall wreath and just love the colo I finished this fall wreath and just love the colors!
This is the one that “got” me last Sunday afternoon....I dipped my finger in the glue pan along with a floral stem. I am still bandaged up a week later but am healing up nicely. I still can’t look at my finger without getting a little queasy...I’m like that.
I still haven’t made a new fall wreath for my own front door!! Time seems to be moving in warp speed and I can’t get it all together. I’m trying....
Do you feel that way, too?
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Happy Sunday!  I hope you have a beautiful and blessed day!
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#mulchandpaint 
#fallwreaths 
#wreathsofinstagram 
#wreaths 
#fallwreathseason 
#fallwreathsofinstagram
I am from Georgia. I have grown up hearing of the I am from Georgia.

I have grown up hearing of the Pink Pig in Atlanta. I have never rode the Pink Pig but it is a Christmas tradition that began in 1953 at the top of Rich’s department store at Lenox Square Mall. 

Named Pricilla, the Pink Pig was a train on a monorail that was synonymous with Christmas. 

Families have made riding the Pink Pig a part of their Christmas traditions for decades.

Why the history lesson when my photo is of a yarn pumpkin?

They’re both pink!

I guess the moral of this is to say that you can celebrate and decorate for the holidays any way you choose.

Do you want to have a blue Christmas like Elvis?

Would you prefer a Christmas tree with Spring flowers in it? (Well...I have one...)

Do you have a collection that you want to incorporate into your holiday decorations?

Just do it! 

If a pink pig and a lime green grinch are celebrated at Christmas, I am going to have pink pumpkins for Fall.
(At least for Fall 2020.)

On the blog today is the tutorial for these velvet yarn pumpkins.

(You don’t have to make yours pink.)

Click on the Mulch and Paint link in the bio for step by step instructions. 

Happy Saturday!
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#mulchandpaint 
#velvetyarnpumpkin
#velvetpumpkins 
#yarnpumpkin 
#pinkpumpkins 
#pinkpumkin 
#pinkfalldecor 
#diyyarnpumpkin
#pinkfallpumpkins
#pinkpigatlanta 
#richspinkpig 
#dollartreefall 
#hobbylobbyyarn 
#dollartreefallcrafts
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I ❤️ Valentine’s Day! Well, I ❤️ any hol I ❤️ Valentine’s Day!
Well, I ❤️ any holiday that promotes eating chocolate and sweets!

Oh, and love & romance...

I took Valentine decor from Dollar Tree and made a frame for a heart wreath to hang over my Valentine tablescape.

Grab you a piece of chocolate and come visit me at the Mulch and Paint blog to see how easily you could make your own!
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.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#valentinewreath 
#valentineswreath 
#valentinewreaths 
#heartwreath 
#greenheartwreaths 
#valentinetablescape 
#valentinetabledecor 
#valentineheartwreath 
#heartwreathdiy 
#diyvalentinesdecor 
#diyvalentines 
#diyvalentinewreath
Feed the birds🐦🐤🐦 I keep singing that son Feed the birds🐦🐤🐦
I keep singing that song!!!

On the blog I share how I made several types of feeders for the birds in my backyard. Here’s a photo of the gelatin birdseed ornaments I hung from tree limbs.
The birds have loved them!
I just checked on all of the feeders and they’re almost empty.
I guess Washington Street has a lot of fat and happy birds right now!
Check out the Mulch and Paint blog and get some ideas and inspiration so you can make your own.
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#birdfeeders 
#birdseedornaments 
#diybirdfeeder 
#makeyourownbirdfeeder 
#dollartreebirdfeeder 
#dollartreecrafts 
#gelatinbirdfeeder 
#suetrecipe
What we all need. What we all need to give. Matth What we all need.
What we all need to give. 
Matthew 22:37-39
❤️❤️❤️
I got this sweet little sign from Dollar Tree and spruced it up for my kitchen decor. The tutorial (which may or may not include Scotch tape and zip ties) is on the blog!
Link is in my bio. 

Show some love today!❤️
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#dollartreevalentinesdecor 
#dollartreecrafts 
#lovesign 
#farmhousedecor 
#valentinesdecor 
#matthew223739 
#valentinesdaydecor
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!! . . . # Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!
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#mulchandpaint
The Butterfly Tree is featured on my Holiday Home The Butterfly Tree is featured on my Holiday Home Tour!
The Butterfly Tree (as I have named her) began as a 3-foot tree with colored butterflies and solid colored ornaments several years ago. 
Well, my baby has grown up and is a tall, full-figured gal and is bursting with bright florals that just make me smile every time I see her. 
The link to Mulch and Paint’s site is on my profile page. 
Please stop by and visit for a while!
Merry Christmas!
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.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#funchristmastrees 
#holidayhousetour 
#christmashousetour2020 
#holidayhousewalk2020 
#christmashousewalk 
#butterflychristmastree 
#colorfulchristmastree 
#rainbowchristmastree 
#rainbowchristmastrees 
#christmastrees2020
My Christmas Home Tour (Part 1) is now on the Mulc My Christmas Home Tour (Part 1) is now on the Mulch and Paint blog! 
This year, I was blessed to have my friend Shannon @sjackson706 photograph my home for me. Most of the photos you’ll see were made by Shannon. It will be very obvious which photos I took!  After seeing her work I definitely need to step up my game or put her on payroll!
The link to the blog is on my profile page.  Hope you’ll come over for a visit!
Merry Christmas!
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.
#mulchandpaint 
#christmashometour2020 
#christmashometour 
#holidayhometour 
#holidayhometour2020 
#rosegoldchristmastree 
#bedroomchristmasdecor
I marked off one of my bucket list items today! I I marked off one of my bucket list items today!
I went to Bethlehem, Georgia to mail my Christmas cards so that they would have the Bethlehem postmark on them. 
OK, it’s not skydiving or graduating from law school, but I’ve wanted to do this for many years and I finally made the time to do it.
Just a little something special to spread more holiday cheer!
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#bethlehemgeorgia 
#bethlehempostoffice 
#christmascards2020 
#christmascardideas 
#gospelofluke 
#luke24
#christmas2020
Happy Sunday! When you want a large white vase to Happy Sunday!
When you want a large white vase to use in your Christmas decor but you don’t want to spend money...use what you have!
A lady basically gave me this vase while I was shopping at her yard sale. It was yellow and brown with a very obvious crack. I knew I could refresh it but wasn’t sure how. 
During my Christmas decorating, I wanted a large white vase and spotted this in the basement—and I found a way to make it over easily and (of course) inexpensively! 
Please click on the link to the blog on my profile page to see how easy it really was!
.
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#vaserefresh❤️ 
#diyprojects 
#diydecor 
#diychristmasdecor 
#whitevase 
#whitevasechallenge 
#christmasdiydecor 
#plasterofpariscrafts 
#plasterofpariscraftideas
Happy Saturday! I wanted to share with you how I m Happy Saturday!
I wanted to share with you how I made this Christmas sign to hang over my piano. 
I shared it on the blog earlier in the week and Leanna @prettydiyhome said she laughed when she saw how easy it is to make.
I promise you, I try to find the easiest and least expensive way to make what I want. This craft costs under $6 and took about 5 minutes to make. The tutorial is on the blog. 

The blog link is in my profile.
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#diychristmassign 
#diychristmaswallart 
#goldchristmasdecor 
#christmasdecor 
#christmaswalldecor 
#christmaswallart
#walmartgiftbags 
#walmartdiydecor 
#walmartfinds 
#walmart
Happy Wednesday Everyone! The sun is beginning to Happy Wednesday Everyone!
The sun is beginning to rise and I am enjoying the lights of the trees during my quiet time this morning. 

Here’s a glimpse of my hot cocoa bar this year. I put a small Hershey bar in my hot chocolate the other night. It was delicious!
Do you sneak extra stuff in your hot chocolate?

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here!
.
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#hotcocoabar
#hotchocolatebar 
#merryandbright 
#christmasdecor
#christmassigns 
#christmassayings 
#christmashotchocolate 
#christmashotcocoabar
Happy Thanksgiving! May you enjoy great food, wond Happy Thanksgiving!
May you enjoy great food, wonderful conversations and lots of love on this day of thanks.
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.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#thanksgivingtabledecor 
#thanksgiving2020 
#thanksgivingtablescape 
#pinkpumpkins 
#turkeydecor 
#2020thanksgiving
Christmas is upon us! I am rolling out new wreath Christmas is upon us!

I am rolling out new wreaths this week and am giving you a sneak peek!

I keep finding myself playing with colors.  Today’s creation plays with purple and red on a winter wreath.

Do you like staying with the traditional Christmas colors, deviating just a little or are you a rebel and just throw everything in the color wheel into your decor?

I think I’m in the middle....today, anyway!

#mulchandpaint 
#winterereath 
#wreathsofinstagram 
#wreathmaking 
#christmaswreaths 
#christmaswreathmaking 
#christmasdoordecor 
#christmaswreathdesign 
#purplechristmaswreath
Darla and her shark dog! Happy Halloween! . . . #m Darla and her shark dog!
Happy Halloween!
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.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#halloween2020 
#findingnemocostume 
#darlacostume
I finished this fall wreath and just love the colo I finished this fall wreath and just love the colors!
This is the one that “got” me last Sunday afternoon....I dipped my finger in the glue pan along with a floral stem. I am still bandaged up a week later but am healing up nicely. I still can’t look at my finger without getting a little queasy...I’m like that.
I still haven’t made a new fall wreath for my own front door!! Time seems to be moving in warp speed and I can’t get it all together. I’m trying....
Do you feel that way, too?
.
.
Happy Sunday!  I hope you have a beautiful and blessed day!
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.
.
.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#fallwreaths 
#wreathsofinstagram 
#wreaths 
#fallwreathseason 
#fallwreathsofinstagram
I am from Georgia. I have grown up hearing of the I am from Georgia.

I have grown up hearing of the Pink Pig in Atlanta. I have never rode the Pink Pig but it is a Christmas tradition that began in 1953 at the top of Rich’s department store at Lenox Square Mall. 

Named Pricilla, the Pink Pig was a train on a monorail that was synonymous with Christmas. 

Families have made riding the Pink Pig a part of their Christmas traditions for decades.

Why the history lesson when my photo is of a yarn pumpkin?

They’re both pink!

I guess the moral of this is to say that you can celebrate and decorate for the holidays any way you choose.

Do you want to have a blue Christmas like Elvis?

Would you prefer a Christmas tree with Spring flowers in it? (Well...I have one...)

Do you have a collection that you want to incorporate into your holiday decorations?

Just do it! 

If a pink pig and a lime green grinch are celebrated at Christmas, I am going to have pink pumpkins for Fall.
(At least for Fall 2020.)

On the blog today is the tutorial for these velvet yarn pumpkins.

(You don’t have to make yours pink.)

Click on the Mulch and Paint link in the bio for step by step instructions. 

Happy Saturday!
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.
.
#mulchandpaint 
#velvetyarnpumpkin
#velvetpumpkins 
#yarnpumpkin 
#pinkpumpkins 
#pinkpumkin 
#pinkfalldecor 
#diyyarnpumpkin
#pinkfallpumpkins
#pinkpigatlanta 
#richspinkpig 
#dollartreefall 
#hobbylobbyyarn 
#dollartreefallcrafts
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