ding dong merrily on high.

i've started thinking about holiday decorating ideas for chez snips. truth be told, i spent all of saturday night online, researching said decorations (and listening to the odd christmas song). nerd. at any rate, i found some goodies...

love these branches from katie did:


i have a dream wherein i am the world's craftiest girl and, in this dream, i make DIY wreaths (like this one from hi, friend) that spell out "chez snips".



in this same dream, i also make garlands like these little lovelies from m*o*m:

(martha stewart also had a good idea for making a garland similar to this one. she suggests buying those circle stickers and using markers to colour them. more on doing that here)

and paper flowers (which aren't necessarily christmas-y but are definitely festive, and ridiculously cute):


or some festively-coloured version of these:

(via Apartment Therapy)