D.I.Y Three Tier Tray

Ever since I saw a wood three tier stand made from trays

 in a Better Homes and Gardens Magazine I had to make one, I believe it was in the November issue and it was a article on a woman's dining room she had it on her table. Of course mine is much smaller but I will be making a bigger one, I'd like to make some for my Etsy shop as well. 

I stained it in Minwax Classic Gray oil stain, it is one of there newest colors. It really looks great on pine and light woods. 

This cost me about $3 for the all the trays and $4 for both candlesticks, I picked them up at A.C Moores.

The trays are normal $5.99 all-together but they were on sale.

I already had the stain on hand 

What you need

3 different size trays, 2 wood candlesticks, dowel screws, drill, glue and a topper

I stained the trays and candlesticks about 3 coats to achieve this nice color

These are the trays with one coat of stain

small candlesticks, I would have bought a medium sized but they didn't have any just small and large.

These are double ended, and big, I bought smaller ones for the top tray

Drill hole in top of candlestick and on the other you drill in the bottom

Measure your tray to find center then drill hole through trays 

glue around bottom of candlestick and top of other candle stick

screw on first candlestick

then the next one

It should look like this

Pre-drill for screwing bottom tray to bottom of candlestick

Then attach the bottom tray to bottom of candlestick with a screw

 

Now for the top tray I pre-dilled a hole for the smaller dowel screw and screwed it in,  then I screwed the top tray on

For my topper I used this drawer pull

I removed the bolt and screwed it onto the dowel screw

So it now looks like this, I'm going to be covering the hole on the top with a brass hook, I just cant seem to find the ones I have. You could also cover it with a gem or something cute.

Isn't it so cute? I'm going to be using it to hold candy for Christmas then I might use it for office supplies or jewelry holding.

Also it took me under a hour to put it together only because I'm unorganized

I can't wait to make more but I will be making the trays this time because I want a bigger one.

{I'll be sharing this at some great link parties, click here to find out which ones }

Vintage Style Christmas Hutch

I'm very thrilled to be decorating this hutch for Christmas.

Most of the decor I've had on it is staying up, I'm not much of taking down everything to replace with holiday decor.

So gold and silver are mixing this year. 

I started out with just this

Then I received the ornaments, and they are vintage and from my late grandmother.

The brass angels are not my favorite but my mom gave them to me and I normally place them on my mantel but I like them better here.

I put the Noel banner together using Christmas cardstock,stamps, ribbon hole punch and satin ribbon.

closer look of the angel

The ornaments have wear I love them, there was only two of the dark blue and white snowflakes on them. 

I really enjoy looking at these while eating at the table.

Come back Thursday for my start of d.i.y Christmas decor, and my normal link party will be up Thursday night also.

 

I finished picking up paint for the boys bathroom, the mudroom has been put up on hold, I received my Cutting Edge Stencil and will be doing that in there bathroom, I will also be doing a giveaway soon with that.

I also need to get some good photos of the kids for Christmas cards before its to late. 

I've been painting my dresser for our room and working on some tray tables for our big family Christmas breakfast we do.

phew....I'll rest at some point.

{I'll be linking my decorated hutch at some awesome parties, click here for where I attend }

Blue Christmas

I've been so busy I haven't been able to post anything, but I will have my link party up and running at its normal this week. 

Here are some pretty blue Christmas themed photos to ah over

I'll be back tomorrow to share my blue hutch decorated.

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My Favorite Time Of The Year

Is Christmas, always has been.

I've already started decorating, making crafts, and planning out where we will buy our tree. 

I hope you will join me for my Christmas craft party on December 1st, you can read about it here.

We actually watched "A Christmas Story" with the kids tonight, one of my favorites along with the very funny Christmas Vacation.

Here are a few photos from last years Christmas 

I had the most fun decorating in the dining room, mainly because of the freshly painted walls in BM's Woodlawn Blue.

I used a lot of whites, gold and reds in the hall on the harvest table

The mantel included many vintage items.

Used my mirror to hold cards

The Christmas tree gets filled with many decorations .

I love mixing color themes in my house for the holidays, lots of reds, gold and green in the living room and hallway, blues, whites and silver in my dining room and this year I mixed gold,blue and silver in my kitchen.

I will be showing you soon enough.

I love a mix of vintage,handmade and whimsical Christmas's

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What decorating style do you have for this lovely holiday?