Cheap & Easy Art

I'm really into subway art these days. Lucky for all of us, it is easy to find free printables all over the web. Here is a picture of our photo collage wall that I snapped a few weeks ago (I really should have straightened the pics before taking this...oops, just keepin' it real). All of these frames are just random frames we had collected throughout college so we decided to just leave them mismatched. We still aren't totally satisfied with the placements and pictures we chose so some change may be happening but for now this is where my printed subway art is living.

This is the subway art I printed for the Fall....

For this Christmas season, I took a slightly different route. I still found some great word art but I wanted it to have great meaning. I chose this art because it has one of my favorite Bible verses on the birth of Jesus. Considering we don't have a Christmas tree either, this fills the void. I enjoy walking by it everyday and being reminded of the greatest gift of Christmas, our savior.

Source

Click source up above to grab it for yourself. I find most of mine off of Pinterest by searching subway art. I always save it to my computer then have it printed in an 8 x 10 at a photo center for $2.50. I've seen other Santa themed subway art that display wonderful colors and holiday cheer so check it out.

Have fun! 

-Sara

The Stockings Were Hung...

This may just be my favorite post yet of sharing our Christmas decor. When we got married, one thing I was most excited about was choosing stockings for our mantel. I started my search back in September for the perfect stockings. I chose to shop on Etsy because you can choose to buy handmade items from individuals. I like the idea that someone is putting extra care into my purchase and that the money is supporting someone who deserves it.

I narrowed my search down to burlap stockings since lately we are expressing a rustic house theme. Once I placed my order, we had to wait several weeks since we got them personalized with our names. The stockings came in late October and I squealed like a teenager with Bieber fever.

My favorite part is that I was allowed to choose an embellishment that represented Todd (you know, because evergreen and pine cones are so manly) and some flower bling that represented me along with our names.

I realize I technically could have made these but it was way more convenient for me to buy them from someone who did spend the time to make them. Win-Win. These two are very well made inside and out. Research burlap stocking on Etsy if you are interested. I couldn't find our seller at the moment but that may be because she doesn't make any this close to the holidays. However, I saw plenty more that were cute and who knows you may just find these after all.

I know we will cherish these for many years to come. If and when we have children, I will just search either for this same seller or find another that matches or do something completely different for the kiddos.

Do you have stockings or not? Do you even fill them? My parents have a different personalized stocking for each person in the family and Santa still brings us goodies on Christmas morning. Anybody else go for that mismatched look? I think they make any mantel look so cozy!

It's almost Friday....and I'm one day away from being finished with graduate school work for this semester and that makes me want to jump for joy! One more semester to go!

-Sara