~Name Card Holders and Place Mats~

Hello Girls....I'm joining Leigh today for Thrifty Thursday....I thinks with our times being so hard right now we are all looking for thrifty gifts we can give and use....

Now I got some of these ornaments at the Dollar Tree....just love the colors of these and right away my old mind started spinning as to how I could make name card holders out of them...and what a great Christmas gift they would make and so easy...

You will need a Hot Glue pad for these....You see nothing sticks to these pads....

These also from the Dollar Tree came 6 in a package....

Got some table scatters also from Dollar Tree...they come in 3 differ kinds in each package....so you can just add however many you want on the little frames...This is a snowman one I did and used an silver pen to even add Len's initial on the snow man with...

Now here a box of old ornaments I got at Hospice for 50 cent..... I got 2 boxes of these enough to make 6 holders with

Now for these you need to take the wire hanger from one of them and put it in the other one...so now you have 2 wire hangers on 1 ornament... You now have a place to put your name card.....

Now add a big wad of hot glue on your glue pad....

Put your ornament on it... after its cooled then just peel it off the pad...this makes the ornament stand up straight....

Again I added some of those table scatters to name card and to the ornament so they match ha ha!!....Now I used Recipes cards I had to make the name cards with just cut them to the size I wanted....Now you can use fancy ornaments for these and not do the table scatters on them like I did..

Here's what they look like all done...Just think for less that 4 card holders you have have a gift that cost less than $ 5.00..... Now the blue and silver ones I just glued the cards right on them as the holder were just plastic so didn't have wire to work with...

Now I also found these foam snow flakes again at $$$ Tree and your suppose to hang them...But I thought how great these would be as place mats for my Christmas table...

Also very Little cost to make as a Christmas gift...Hey and like I said I'm all about being thrifty at Christmas...

I took my Glue glitter and out lined the snow flake to match the one place card holders I did....

Now here it is all done....If you did the place card holders and the snow flake place mats you have a special gift to give for under $9.00 and can still buy a beautiful large Christmas bag at Dollar tree and not spend more than a 10 dollar bill for the whole gift package of 4 name holders and 4 place mats....I sure hope I gave you a few things that you can make and also use as gift giving....After Thanksgiving I will show you the whole Dining Room table I did with all the stuff from the Dollar Tree....So when you see my Silver and Blue table post come up Please come by and take a look....

Many Blessings to each of you from my side of the Mountain today to yours...

~TOILE AND TASSELS~

Happy Tuesday Girls, Today I'm joining in with Tam at " The Gypsy's Corner"



At 3 or more Tuesday.... And Cheri at " Its so very Cheri " For her I made my own tassels party...

First I would like to show you my Toile....Now I never had toile of any kind in my house....But have seen it all over Bloggerville....For 3 or more.... I thought I would show you the Toile I now have....

I found this wonderful Blue/white table runner at my favorite thrift store Hospice about a month ago....And of course I have a Blue/ white kitchen so at $3.00 it SCREAMED my name ha ha!!

Now the Lamp shade was an old one I had....And I do made lamp shades and I found 2 place mats also at Hospice for only $2.00 so I took apart my old shade and redid it in toile from the place mats I got...Not bad for a $ 2.oo make over....
See it sorta matches the table runner don't you think....Light on...

Light off....

This sweet Toile plate also Hospice 50 cent....

Salt and Peppers shakers I also got from Hospice awhile back and just put on the Toile plate...Added one of my Cloches and a Blue ribbon....

Now the Toile pillows I got from our consignment shop so I just put them on the kitchen chairs with all my new toile look....These I paid $7.00 for the pair

See and they match the Salt shaker in the Cloche's

Now many of you know that follow my silly blog I just started making Tassels....If you would like to see the how to....Please click here....

Now this Blue/white one I just make for my new lamp shade....

These sweet little bears I just found last week at Dollar tree...so of course right away I'm thinking how cute these would be for Christmas tassels...I bought 3 differ styles of these...but have yet to make them all in to tassels yet...

This snow man one my grand daughter Candace just made this weekend...we had a Tassels making day....She just loves to create so we spend many hours when we can making things....

I had already made one of these a few weeks back....but this is the one Candace just did....Is it not darling...Love those goofy legs on these things...Also Dollar tree

I also shown you this one before that I made....But I needed to show you once again my Busty Girl one...Again I got the little bust from Dollar Tree...

Now these are the pull Tassels I made for the Victorian Lamp Shades I made....These are made with lamp shade fringe and cording and grim....I then add the Glass beads like the ones I use on the shades and some sweet little silk roses....

This one is a Key with the tassel and beads that I have in my Living Room hanging on one of my hour glasses....Now Please go by and see our Party Planners for today Tam and Cheri, Thanks Ladies for hostessing....Also Please check out my Tassel making post...These are so fun with a capital F to make and so easy....

Many Blessings today from my mountain to yours....