The Most Wonderful Time of the Year is here, and I couldn’t be more excited to deck the halls and make my home festive!  Over the years I’ve shown you some of my Christmas decor, but it’s always been focused on the communal areas of the home.  Today I am switching things up a bit for the Come Home for Christmas Blog Hop, hosted by my friends Vicki & Jenn at 2 Bees in a Pod, and I’m sharing my daughter’s Colorful Christmas Kids Bedroom.  It’s a departure from my typically traditional holiday home decorating style, but it makes me so happy because it’s filled with sparkles, glitter, metallics and more!  

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Before I jump into sharing my daughter’s colorful Christmas bedroom, I wanted to let you know that you’ll find links to 32 different Christmas room tours at the bottom of this post!  Every day focuses on a different space in the home.  I hope you’ll visit my friends’ posts and see how they are decorating different areas of their homes for the holidays!

Now, come on in and visit a Christmas bedroom that is truly merry & bright!  

I have to be honest, my seven-year-old’s room is usually a mess.  She’s somewhat of a packrat (just like her mama!), so we did a lot of cleaning and purging to get this space up to snuff for the holidays.  Seeing my daughter’s reaction when she saw all of this colorful Christmas decor was priceless.  The magic of the season means so much to children, so it’s extra fun to give them some of the seasonal sparkle in their bedrooms!

This little tree sitting on top of the Painted Butterfly Bench is something I’ve had for years and almost donated last year.  I’m glad I didn’t because it’s perfect for this young child’s Christmas bedroom.  (See, being a packrat can pay off!)  Its greens and pinks got me started on the color scheme that winds itself through the room.  

We gave my daughter’s room a festive look for Christmas that feels young at heart by switching out the bedding for a plain white duvet, accented with an incredibly soft pink throw with metallic pink polka dots (link to similar throw).  Let me tell you that I am obsessed with this throw and might steal it from her.

Adding to the coziness factor is the faux fur pillows.  These are also incredibly soft, and were such a bargain!  Pillow covers are my new favorite way to instantly change your decor’s look (wrapping paper previously held this coveted spot.).  

And for my sequin-obsessed daughter, I had to get this flippy sequin Christmas tree pillow.  The tree can be gold or white, depending on which way you flip the sequins.  So much fun built right into a pillow, friends!  

The Merry & Bright prints over the bed are covering the regular artwork, and similar versions are available HERE as FREE PRINTABLES (2 color combos and in a single 8×10)!  And, the 3D Glitter Snowflake removable decals that Paper Riot Co. gave me are a perfect accent above those!  (P.S. you can enter to win a set right now on my Instagram feed!  Click here to find the entry.)  

The festive new look has us all wanting to spend more time in my daughter’s room.  We even let Jasper the dog get in on the action (he’s not usually allowed on the furniture).  He gives that cozy throw blanket his stamp of approval.  

Now, if I can figure out a way to get my daughter to keep her room this clean going forward, I will have received the best Christmas present ever!  (But wait – please don’t tell my husband this.  I would still like a real present under the tree.  :-))  

Now that you’ve seen how I decked out my daughter’s bedroom for Christmas, please visit my friends to see each of their spaces!  Remember – the Thursday and Friday posts won’t be live until later this week, so make sure to check back!

MONDAY (11/27) – Entryway / Foyer

My Creative Days

Lydi Out Loud

Our Home Made Easy

Craving Some Creativity

Lehman Lane

Slightly Coastal

The Crowned Goat

TUESDAY (11/28) – Living Room

Green With Decor

Little Red Brick House

Catherina’s Creative Corner

Houseful of Handmade

1915 House

All Things Big and Small

WEDNESDAY (11/29) – Bedroom

2 Bees in a Pod – Vicki

Average But Inspired

Bliss Ranch

Keys to Inspiration

Country Design Style

Making it in the Mountains

THURSDAY (11/30) – Dining Room

Little Bits of Home

Two Purple Couches

Worthing Court

The Inspired Hive

DIY Beautify

Refresh Restyle

FRIDAY (12/1) – Kitchen

2 Bees in a Pod – Jenn

Robb Restyle

The Honeycomb Home

Chatfield Court

Home with Cupcakes and Crinoline

Thanks for visiting and happy holidays!

-Bre

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Coca-Cola® and Dollar General.  All opinions are 100% mine.

If you’ve visited my blog before, chances are that you know I have a deep, deep love for Coca-Cola® and Diet Coke®.  In fact, I refer to Diet Coke® as the nectar of the Gods.  It’s pretty much my favorite.

In addition to loving that delicious, bubbly beverage, I also love decorating my Christmas tree with ornaments that have some meaning or special connection to me and/or my family members.  No generic ornaments for our tree!  So when I heard that Dollar General has a special Bottle Cap Topper that turns the Coca-Cola® limited edition holiday bottle into an actual ornament, I knew it would be a great addition for this Diet Coke® lover’s Christmas tree!  And the best part (in my opinion), is that the Bottle Cap Topper and the limited edition holiday Coca-Cola® bottle are FREE with any purchase of two 20 oz. Sprite products at Dollar General!  

Friends, it could NOT be easier to turn this adorable bottle into an ornament!  Literally all you do is press the Bottle Cap Topper onto the bottle cap!  (If you don’t believe me, visit Dollar General’s website to see a video on how to use the Bottle Cap Topper!)

That is super cute on its own . . . but . . . well, you know me.  I kind of like to do things up a bit.  So while I was roaming the aisles of Dollar General, I picked up some extra Christmas decorations to add a little flair to my Coca-Cola® bottle ornaments.  Tinsel ribbon, jingle bells, and sparkly snowflakes . . . perfection.

And then these totally cheesy (but perfectly appropriate for these ornaments) sayings started popping into my head, and I decided to make some cute tags to hang on the ornaments as well.  

These little gift tags are super cute on the Coca-Cola® bottle ornaments if you’re giving them as a gift!  If you’d like a set for yourself, you can download them for free RIGHT HERE!

Once I had all of my supplies ready, I decked out my Coca-Cola® bottle ornaments!  I added tinsel ribbon, a jingle bell, and a gift tag to one, and tinsel ribbon, a snowflake, and a gift tag to the other.  

They’re so cute!  

And they’re even cuter on the tree!  

This Coca-Cola® lover is happy to have one of her favorite things hanging on the tree – right there for all to see.  

Think about picking some of these up during your next trip to Dollar General.  How cute would they be as part of a teacher’s gift or a neighbor gift?  Any Coca-Cola® connoisseur would appreciate one!  And please “pin” this post to help share this idea!

Wishing you all a Christmas that’s “soda-lightful!”

-Bre

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Christmas morning.  It’s one of my favorite times of the year.  The kids are beside themselves with excitement and everyone is enjoying spending time together as a family.  It is as close to perfect as perfect can be.

Except . . . see . . . I have a problem.  I tend to get a little bit cranky while waiting for Christmas breakfast during gift opening.  Anyone who knows me understands that it is imperative for everyone’s well-being that I be well nourished at all times.  So anyway, this year I got really smart and set up a Festive Christmas Coffee and Cocoa Bar in the living room – right where we open gifts on Christmas morning!  Coffee, cocoa, and carbs – enough fuel to keep the present opening going strong!

Now obviously I could have just made some coffee in the kitchen on Christmas morning and tossed some donut holes onto a paper plate, but really, what’s the fun in that?  Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, and it only seems right to make things extra special where and when you can.  

Because of that, I was really excited to find out about Paper Riot‘s SUPER cute and SUPER affordable holiday wall decals, which are available in Target stores and online.  You can also find some non-holiday Paper Riot decals at Kohl’s.  They stick to almost any smooth surface, are completely removable, repositionable, and reusable, and are just plain fun!

They come in so many types and patterns, and helped me customize my Christmas coffee and cocoa bar in no time!  I started with the totally fun Chalkboard Banner Decals and wrote a cute little Christmas saying on it with the chalk that came in the box.  For some added fun, I attached baker’s twine to the back of each banner decal once all the pieces were up on the wall.

The best part about the Chalkboard Banner Decals is that I can erase the writing from the decals and write whatever I want the next time I want to use them!  

If chalkboard writing isn’t your thing, or if you have awful handwriting, Paper Riot has other removable banner decals that are pre-printed for you!  I swapped out the Chalkboard Banner Decals for these Merry Christmas Banner Decals and loved them!  (My wall was too small to hang the “Christmas” part of the banner, but the “Merry” is cute on its own!)  I added a little washi tape in between the decal pieces to look like ribbon.  Cute, right?

Other fun elements I added to my Christmas coffee and cocoa bar are the completely adorable Glitz ‘n Glam Dimensional Wall Snowflakes that I used to dress up a plain wooden sled from the craft store.  

These snowflakes also look FABULOUS on my windows.  I just love them!

I also used Paper Riot’s Chalkboard Label Decals to notify all visitors to my coffee and cocoa bar which drink is which.  (We wouldn’t want anyone getting confused now would we?)  

I really believe that special details like these make memories even sweeter.  I’m so excited for this new addition to my family’s Christmas traditions (and I’m also excited that I won’t subject anyone to any hunger-induced crabbiness on the most festive day of the year)!  

Make sure to check out Paper Riot’s full line of repositionable and reusable decals the next time you’re at Target or Kohl’s, and also find Paper Riot on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram.  Add a little riot to your life!  

-Bre

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Usually posts are easy for me to write.  The words flow out of my mind and into the computer with no problem.  But this is not one of those posts.  This is a hard post.  A sad post.  A missing my dad post.

Last year my dad passed away after a long battle with brain cancer.  I miss him every single day.  And when I had to help my mom and sister clean out his closet earlier this year, I couldn’t bear to give away all of his things.  So I packed up some of his favorite shirts and brought them home with me.  I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do with them, but I knew I’d think of something.  And a few months later, in the middle of the night, I did.  I decided to use some of my dad’s old shirts and his handwriting to make remembrance ornaments for myself and my family.  

I didn’t think that I’d share this project on my blog, but when I saw how much these ornaments meant to my family members, I decided to post the project.  I know there are others of you out there, just like me, who are missing loved ones every day and especially at the holidays.  So I wanted to share my idea of how you can honor them and remember them with special DIY Memorial Ornaments that you will cherish for the rest of your life.

Supplies Needed to Make DIY Memorial Ornaments

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• Clear glass ornaments or clear plastic ornaments
• Fabric scissors (regular fabric shears or pinking shears)
• Card stock
• Scanner or copier
• Hole punch
• Metallic tinsel cord

How to Make DIY Memorial Ornaments

First, gather your loved one’s shirts.  You’ll have a good cry at this point.  I guarantee it.  Once you’ve calmed down and wiped away your tears, cut the shirts into strips.  I cut my dad’s shirts into strips about 1″ wide and about 4 or 5″ long.  

Next, put the strips of fabric into a clear glass or plastic ornament.  Alternate the patterns or colors as you place them inside so that you get a good variety once the ornament is complete.  

Now, if you have a card or note from your loved one, this step will help make the ornament even more special.  I had a note from my dad that he wrote right before he went into surgery.  (I cherish this note!)  Scan the note into your computer as a photo.  Then, crop the photo in photo editing software (like the photo software pre-installed on your computer or the online service PicMonkey), to be the person’s signature, and then save that signature as a new photo.  Once you have that new photo, print it onto card stock.

Cut out your loved one’s note, punch a hole in it, and tie it onto the ornament with pretty ribbon or string.  

And with that, you’ll have a beautiful and personalized remembrance ornament to honor your loved one at Christmas and always.  

If you don’t have a note from your loved one to include their handwriting on the tag, you could make a tag of your own with their name or something else that is meaningful to them and you.  

I would give anything to have my dad back with me for another Christmas, but at least I have a little something of his with me this holiday.  Christmas was always so special with my dad, because every year he was the one who turned on the Christmas music for present opening, handed out the gifts, and maintained the all-important gift wrap trash bag.  He was the best.  (Here he is with my family on Christmas 1994 or so.)

So for those reasons, and countless others, I can tell you that this ornament hangs in a place of honor on my Christmas tree.  It is front and center, and that’s where it always will be.  

I hope that you’re not missing anyone special this Christmas, but if you are, I hope you know that you’re not alone.  You will get through it.  Peace and love to you at Christmas and always.

Bre

 

One of my favorite things is finding a way to make seasonal decor items multi-season or multi-purpose.  My house doesn’t have a lot of storage space, so I like to try and get as much use out of seasonal decor as I can.  That’s why this painted wood sign that I made, which reverses from Christmas to winter, is so great!  Display the “BELIEVE” side at Christmas . . . 

and then reverse to “LET IT SNOW” come January!  

You can make one for your own home with any scrap wood you have in your stash, or with a piece of precut plywood from the home improvement or craft store.  Easy!

Supplies Needed to Make a Reversible Painted Wood Sign

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• Wood scrap or unfinished wood sign
• Americana Decor Chalky Finish Paint in Carbon, Everlasting, Inheritance, Legacy, and Rouge
• Americana Decor Creme Waxes in Clear and Dark Brown
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Foam Roller
• Small artist paintbrushes
• Electronic cutting machine* (If you don’t have a cutting machine, you could use stencils or large letter stickers to achieve this look)
• Adhesive vinyl* (If you are using the cutting machine you need this)
• Plastic snowflakes (I got them at Dollar Tree)
• Hot glue and glue gun

How to Make a Reversible Painted Wood Sign

Using a foam roller, paint a large rectangle in white paint in the middle of the wooden board.  

Next, use the electronic cutting machine to cut the word “BELIEVE” in a font of your choice. Affix the vinyl stencil to the portion of the painted wooden board and press down firmly along the edges.  If you don’t have a cutting machine, you could use large letter stickers from the craft store for this step, or you could use a stencil.  

Paint over the entire surface with two coats of red paint and let the sign dry.  Once it is totally dry, remove the vinyl letters (or stickers) to reveal the word BELIEVE.

Using a pencil, lightly freehand a belt buckle in the middle of the letter “I” and a Santa hat on top of the same letter.  

Fill in the belt buckle and hat with black, white, and yellow paint.  

Once dry, flip the wooden board over and paint the entire surface with two coats of blue paint.  

Using the electronic cutting machine, cut out the phrase “Let it Snow.”  Affix to the wooden board and press down firmly along the edges.  Alternatively, place large letter stickers on the sign to write the phrase.  

Cover the entire surface in white paint, allowing some of the blue paint underneath to show through. Let dry. Once dry, remove the vinyl to reveal the phrase.  

Seal both sides of the sign with Creme Wax.  

Create a faux distressed finish with Creme Wax in Dark brown, if desired.  You can also use the sandpaper to further distress the finish, if desired.

Once dry, hot glue the snowflakes to the “Let it Snow” side of the sign.  

This project is really easy but takes a little longer than my typical projects, simply because of the drying time involved!  If you’re short on time, you could always use a hairdryer to speed up the process.  

It’s worth it to spend a little extra time to get some longevity out of this project though!

If you agree and like this sign, I’d love for you to PIN IT!  Thanks!

Happy holiday decorating!

-Bre

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