Christmas Counters

A countdown to Christmas (tree). A scandinavian take on the advent calendar? Love. From Annaleena Karlsson via Bodie and Fou.

Inspriation: Holiday Decor - Foraging Your Backyard

The other day I drove by a neighbors who had left a cut small evergreen in their front driveway for pickup and I had the urge to stop and forage through it to see what could be used for decorating for the holidays. Then I came across this article in Sunset Magazine offering up ideas to do just that, decorating your house for the holidays by foraging in your own backyard. The projects were done by Studio Choo, produced by Miranda Jones and photographed by Thomas J. Story. I love their use of adding succulents (like we saw from Flora Grubb recently), and other items suggested bamboo, berries, cactus, chestnuts, dried chilli peppers, eucalyptus, heather, pinecones, etc. Now I'm kicking myself for not stopping when I saw those. I love these! (See more of their ideas online here).

Tiny Birch Bark Canoe Tutorial

The folks at Whip Up have a link to a tutorial today on how to make these adorable Birch Bark Canoes by Lil Fish Studios! (Great tree ornaments). Via PaperCakes.

A Bright Christmas

The talented, Will Taylor of Bright Bazaar showed us his latest styling shoot for the December issue of Rue Magazine, styling the same room three different ways for the holidays. The technicolor one stole my heart. Congrats Will!

Weekend Project: Post-it Note Christmas Tree

From Livingetc Christmas archives

Saw this cute little idea over at Bright Bazaar this morning and thought it would be a perfect weekend project for this time of year. Well, it's more like an afternoon project, but fun nonetheless. A post-it note tree, maybe filled with good thoughts for the season? I think I might just go do this right now...in neon!