I like to give holidays a theme every so often.
I do this to keep my brain thinking of creative ways to come up with crafts and projects.
Sometimes I do it to stick to a certain look or color palette or concept.
This year I went with zebra theme because 2015 was a wild year (full of blessings, of course) but I thought a zebra would really encompass a little wild flair, a unique feel to something traditional and not to mention, I had quite a bit of zebra paper and other trinkets that would flow with my theme...LOL
So as I did last year, with our "Beary" Merry Christmas theme, here's a rundown of how our wild and fabulous holidays played out.
I will mention, the house is still under construction, we skipped on all big family parties and we didn't even send out Christmas cards this year... but that's what made it fabulous...no pressures, no hurries, just Paul, Benny and I, at home alone, without a worry, extremely grateful and with plenty of zebra decor to go around!
Cheers to a wild and fabulous 2016!
I will mention, the house is still under construction, we skipped on all big family parties and we didn't even send out Christmas cards this year... but that's what made it fabulous...no pressures, no hurries, just Paul, Benny and I, at home alone, without a worry, extremely grateful and with plenty of zebra decor to go around!
Cheers to a wild and fabulous 2016!
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| I bought us zebra sweaters to keep warm...LOL! |
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| I made many of our tree ornaments.. |
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| I added touches of gold and rose gold to give my tree a little bit of glam...The rose gold snowflake looking ornaments were made with small wooden ice cream spoons. |
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| Our gingerbread house had a zebra pattern on the rooftop, of course! |
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| And the Christmas Tree topper was a family adventure. Benny and I made it and Paul was in charge of securing to the top of our tree. |
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| The best we could do to get a family Christmas portrait. Don't you love my antler crown and all the zebras looking down at us!? |
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| I made a zebra pancake breakfast for the boys on Christmas Eve. I used black dye for some of the pancake batter and just drew the zebras freehand, on the griddle with squeeze bottles. |
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| The chimney mantle even had the picture of a pin-up doll in a zebra frame...ha! |
En
español
De vez
en cuando me gusta darle a los días festivos un tema.
Lo hago
para mantener la creatividad y darme ideas sobre posibles artesanías y
proyectos.
A veces
lo hago para seguir un cierto ‘look’ o patrón de colores o un concepto.
Este año
fui con el tema de cebra, porque el 2015 fue un año loco (lleno de bendiciones
, por supuesto) , pero me pareció que una cebra realmente abarca la idea de
algo único dentro de una fecha muy tradicional. Además, me di cuenta que tenía
bastante papel impreso de cebra y otras cositas que fluían muy bien con mi tema
...
Así como
lo hice el año pasado, con nuestro tema de Un Día de Navidad muy Curiosito,
aquí está un resumen de cómo decoré y
lleve a cabo la temática de cebra durante esta navidad del 2015. Voy a
mencionar que la casa aún está bajo
construcción, no fuimos a ninguna de las fiestas de la familia y ni siquiera envíe
tarjetas de Navidad este año ... pero eso es lo que hizo nuestra Navidad
fabulosa ... una experiencia sin presiones, sin prisas , solo Paul, Benny y yo
en casa, sin ninguna preocupación y rodeados de cebras (y con un nacimiento
claro) y agradecidos con Dios.
Saludos
a todos y les deseo un año 2016 loco (en el buen sentido de la palabra) y fabuloso!
