Merry Christmas From Landee!

Hello and Happy Holidays to you all!  

I am in an intense form of "vacation mode" right now... all I want to do is bake cookies with my kids, do last-minute Christmas shopping with my husband and watch Christmas movies with all of them!

I thought I'd take a step back from the blog (mentally) and enjoy the rest of the holiday fun while it's still here.

But before I go I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

I am so grateful to all of you for your comments and support and general cheerleading!  I love to create but I also love the interaction I have with you.

I'll be back after the holidays here on the blog but I'm sure I'll be posting on Instagram ( ) and Facebook in the meantime.

Thank you for everything and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

Free Large Christmas Wall Art-- Polka Dots!

It was time, once again, for me to fill my gigantic Ikea Ribba frames above my couch.  I loved what I did last year but I thought I'd try something a little different for this holiday season.  

And who doesn't love polka dots, right??

I stuck with the "Christmas song lyrics" thing but went much simpler and only took a small part of each song.  It's hard to tell but there are two different shades of green and a red.  I love how they look all hanging together but they would also be great just individually!

You can download sizes 20x30, 16x20, 8x10 and 5x7 for FREE by clicking HERE.

I uploaded them to Costco and got the 20x30 size printed for just $8.99 each.

I always love the difference it makes when I switch out the images in these frames!

I hope your holiday prep is making you happy and not stressed! :)

Link parties I participate in: Tip Junkie, Tatertots & Jello, I Heart Naptime

Christmas Mantel Decor

I spent this past weekend pulling out all of my Christmas stuff and am finally ready to share my Christmas Mantel for this year!  I went cleaner and simpler than I ever have before and I must say, I love it.

My big project for this year's mantel was my chalkboard tree art.  I had seen this idea in the latest Matthew Mead Holiday magazine which is chock full of so many fabulous ideas.  They had an old piece of slate that they used to create a chalk pine tree.  Well, I didn't just have an old piece of slate laying around so I had to figure out how to make this work.  

Here's how I did it:

1) Had Home Depot cut down a piece of MDF for me to about 24x30.

2) Painted the board red using craft paint.

3) Sanded edges of board using a heavy grit sand paper.

4) Using DecoArt's Chalkboard Coating (which I found at Hobby Lobby), I turned it into a freaking chalkboard!  Miracle!

5) Had a fun time pretending I was an artist and drawing my tree using chalk as my medium/muse (and trying to copy Matthew's as closely as possible, of course).  I love it as my focal point.

I then added my stockings, some ornaments in my glass vases, and the fun reindeer head that refused to stay on the shelf at Target and practically jumped into my cart!  What could I do? :)

I'm definitely in the festive mood now!  Are you all feeling it?  Not to stress you out but there are only 20 more days until Christmas.  :)

Link parties I participate in: Tip Junkie, Tatertots & Jello, I Heart Naptime, Craftomaniac,  Thrifty Decor Chick