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Christmas, Decorating, Holiday, House + Home, Review

Christmas Decorating for Small Spaces: Christmas at the Airbnb

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BigLotsHoliday #CollectiveBias Christmas Decorating for Small Spaces: Christmas at the Airbnb. Guests are coming for the holiday's, and here's a simple and easy way to add a little Christmas cheer & decorating for a small space. Happy Holiday's from all of us here in Fantabulosity world! I couldn't be more excited to show you how we decorated for Christmas, at the Airbnb that I just revealed to you the other day! Christmas Decorating for Small Spaces Every year, we host a Santa Party, where we invite all of...

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Adult Themes, Christmas, Entertaining, Holiday, Kids

Vintage Christmas Party

Oh how fun this Vintage Christmas party would have been. Yes... I said, "Would have been." :( One of my kiddos came down with a fever a couple of days before our annual Santa Night Party this year. Unfortunately, his little body can't handle fevers like some others can. He's one of the not-so-lucky ones that suffer from febrile seizures. The morning before our party date, he once again had a seizure, and once the craziness calmed down... I immediately sent out notifications to our friends, letting them know that we had to cancel the party for this year, so we...

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Christmas, Decorating, DIY & Crafts, Holiday, House + Home

Christmas Chalkboard Art

Having a chalkboard in your home is FABULOUS way to incorporate each holiday and season that comes around. From the minute we moved in to our house, I knew I wanted a large chalkboard in our foyer. Visions of little rabbits for Easter, hearts for Valentine's Day, and snowflakes for winter, were all in my head, and I couldn't wait to get "drawing." This year, my friend Kate came over, and while helping me prepare for my Favorite Things party, I looked at her and ever so gently asked, got down on my knees and BEGGED, her to create something beautiful...

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DIY Button Art

Hey friends, Fotini from Farmhouse Chic Blog here! It's that time of the month again, where I get to come and hang out with you here today!! I hope that you've been doing great and are looking forward to the Holidays! We sure are at our house! If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we do something special called " 25 days of Christmas" each year with our kids. You can read more about that here! And of course with Christmas, what's the most anticipated thing? Presents, of course! Today I'm going to share with you a simple,...

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Christmas, Gift Ideas, Holiday

Fantabulosity’s Holiday Gift Guide

You know that urge you get to buy yourself something, when you're shopping for others? No? {Facepalm} Maybe it's just me then? I can't help it though! I'm totally drawn to pretty things, and think, I have to have that! But if I seriously buy myself one more thing this year, {trying to justify that it's just an advance Christmas gift from my husband}, my husband may put me on lockdown. :) So while I was shopping for some gal pals of mine the other day, anytime that I would see something that I thought I had to have, or wished that someone...

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Christmas, Food + Drink, Holiday

20 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes – Best of the Best

Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes: Best of the best, cookies for the cookiest time of year! Perfect to serve Santa or to take to that holiday gathering! What is it about Christmas, that makes me think that I can, and NEED to make every stinking Christmas cookie out there? But instead of spending a million hours in the kitchen doing that, I think I'll just stare at these 20 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes... AND share them with you. Less calories that way too. ;) These are from some of my favorite food bloggers out there, and they're totally doable. I can't frost and decorate...

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DIY & Crafts, Review

Relax + Color: “Favorite Things” Party Prep

Prepping for my Favorite Things Party, and sharing my favorite markers for you adult coloring lovers out there, and a trick for those who don't consider themselves a pro at hand lettering! This weekend, I had some major down-time, and I knew I wanted to spend it relaxing. But if you're here for the first time... you may not know that I have a problem with feeling like I have to do TWO things at once, or I feel like time is slipping through my fingers, if I'm sitting around, not accomplishing "something." With my Favorite Things Party coming up, I...

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Christmas, DIY & Crafts, Holiday, House + Home, Review

Tips for Creating a Holiday Place Setting

This Holiday Place Setting post has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and Coca-Cola. But... all opinions are mine alone, pinky promise! #SipsOfJoy #CollectiveBias Can you believe my husband and I have lived in our current home, OVER two years? That's never happened. If you've been on our home tour, then you know we move constantly. We build, move-in, sell, repeat. But for some reason we've hung on to this house a little longer than usual. I have to think it's because of all the "thought," that we put in to the design of this one, so we can have the room...

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Adult Themes, Christmas, Entertaining, Girls Night, Holiday, Printables

“Spirits & Sparkles” Party & Entertaining Essentials

This party has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and Procter & Gamble. However, all opinions are mine alone, pinky promise! #HostingHacks #CollectiveBias Are you a fan of tasty cocktails & sparkly thangs? I recently hosted a Spirits & Sparkles party, where spirits were on the menu, and sparkles were EVERYWHERE. Ready for the details? Glitter, bubbly, pops of "red," with a modern black & white touch, made my brand new bar cart the "WOW," Factor I was looking for. Plus... I created a free Party & Entertaining Essentials checklist that you can download before your next party! Spirits & Sparkles Party I began by grabbing my all-time...

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Christmas, DIY & Crafts, Gift Ideas, Holiday

Let It Snow Ornament

It's a DIY Christmas with this easy Let It Snow Ornament! Each ornament is filled with sparkly snow and mini snow balls and sports a stamped tag with a cute bakers twine bow! Hi fab friends! I'm Keri ... it's so nice to meet you! If we haven't yet been introduced, I am a wife to my sweet hubby, momma to two boys (13 and 15), HR manager by day and girl behind the blog over at Shaken Together! Life is short and time spent with my family is sweet, so I love sharing easy recipes and simple crafts that won't break...

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Decorating, House + Home

5 Easy Decorating Tips to make your Home Shine

These 5 Easy Decorating Tips to make your home shine, can be lifesavers. I am far from an interior designer. Heck, I barely live in a house long enough to even decorate. (If you followed my home tour, you already know why.) So if you're like myself, these 5 easy decorating tips can hopefully take the stress out of decorating, and give you a good jump start on how to decorate a room... Or even a whole house! 1. Decorate an interior door If I were only giving you ONE tip on a way to decorate your home, I'd start with this one. Actually, it's...

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Adult Themes, Christmas, Entertaining, Girls Night, Holiday

Favorite Things Party: How to Host & Gift Exchange Ideas

Favorite Things Party: How to Host & Gift Exchange Ideas. It was a party that turned out to be so much fun, that's it's now an annual tradition! After planning my son's "Woodland Friends Birthday Party," I immediately started thinking about planning another, and the Favorite Things Party was born. ------> Stop right here if you need a free party planning checklist, and download it HERE! Then come back and check out how I host a Favorite Things shindig... I gotta say, that I went in to planning my first "Favorite Things Party," empty handed. I googled… •"Favorite Things Party Ideas," •"How To...

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Christmas, Holiday

How I MADE Money Christmas Shopping!

How I Made Money Christmas Shopping: I thought it was a scam, or too good to be true. Until I found out how it worked and it makes sense! If you follow me on Facebook, this may be "old news," to you... but some of you may be here for the first time, by finding me on Pinterest! Well if so... WELCOME... and you should totally head on over to my Facebook page where you can get updates and goodies like this one I'm about ready to tell you... ALL OF THE TIME! I'm not going to "beat around the bush." ...

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Christmas, Holiday, Review

I “Minted” to Tell you THIS…

Words cannot express how ecstatic I am to have found this. When planning my parties, I've always went to the same 'ole sources for party décor, but now... I've found another source. A good source. A FANTABULOUS source. Have you been to Minted.com? Yeah... I hadn't either, and now, it's totally on my "favorites," bar. Party Banners Art Christmas Cards Invitations Stickers Party Favors omg... the list goes on... Every Christmas, we get an influx of Christmas cards in the mail, and I ADORE, looking at all of them... the photos, the sweet messages, the "love," behind each one. So when...

Say “I Love You” with a Mug… What?

I have the sweetest friends. I honestly don't know how, but people show up in my life that I honestly believe that God puts people here on this earth, destined to be good friends. My dear friend Heather is no exception. After my Facebook post the other day about how my husband is unhappy with my choice of coffee cups that I keep in our home, she messaged me and told me she had a gift to give me at church on Sunday. Oh.My.Word! Are these not the cutest coffee mugs ever!? Not only are they cute, but they are the exact style of coffee mug that my hubby wanted! {Larger and ceramic. My favorite...

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Christmas, Decorating, Holiday, House + Home

Our Holiday Home Tour

Ahhhh Christmas time! I'll be honest... I'm not a Grinch, but in years past when Christmas time would roll around, I'd get my fill of seeing Christmas decorations up at everyone else's home. I had no desire to decorate, only because I would stare at it for a month and think about how I had to take it all down in 30 days. Anyone with me? Well, this year it was a little different. We moved in to a new home, and my husband was asked by a friend if we would participate in a local charity benefit that involved opening...

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Christmas, Decorating, Holiday, House + Home

Fireplace Christmas Mantel Decorations

If you saw my 2013 Christmas Home tour, you may have already seen my fireplace mantel Christmas decorations. They are by FAR my most favorite thing to put up when Christmas time comes around. I had always admired everyone's mantels, and couldn't wait to have one of my own to decorate one day for Christmas. Why Christmas time, rather than all year long? Totally because I get to hang stockings on the mantel! In case Pinterest brought you here, and you want to see the details of my fireplace mantel Christmas decorations, let me explain the goods: Far left picture frame: IKEA...

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Moving and Birth Announcements

I've been told a lot, "Only you guys Jessica," and "Why can't you guys ever do anything the normal way?" Well, when I had 2 weeks left of my second pregnancy, we moved in to our new house. Yes, I know that's not the ideal time to move in to a new home, but when all of our baby items were in a storage unit, waiting on our house to be completed, it HAD to happen. So, here I was, HUGE & pregnant, trying to move in to the house and set up for a baby all at the...

ELF Cyber Monday Sale

UPDATE: Sale ended, but their products are so affordable, you won't NEED one! I just posted the other day, here, about how I love ELF products, because everything that they offer is super cheap, and it's great too! My sister emailed me this morning and totally made my day by telling me that everything on ELF, was 50% off!!! Whaaaaat! It's already cheap to start with, and now 50% off orders of $30 or more? {With coupon code: CYBER50} Shut the front door. Well don't shut it yet... because they also have FREE shipping! Ok, you can shut the front door...