2015 Facebook Timeline Covers

Can you believe that 2015 is almost upon us? I know that we say it every year, but really, where did the year go? My Grandmother always said that the older you get, the faster time flies and boy is that true.

To help start 2015 out on the right foot, we've designed a few Facebook Timeline covers for you to use.

The first one is from Sunday's sermon and it is just perfect to start out the New Year - don't you think? Leigh came up with the other quotes. She's a big Tumbler fan and saw most of them there and then I designed the layouts in our favorite online graphics program PicMonkey. We hope that you can use one of these for your personal or blog Facebook page.

Did you notice our new blog design? Thanks so much to Jenny at Studio07 Designs! Talk about the easiest thing we've ever done! I mean, within a day and half, she had our new design installed and up and running. And we just love it! 

So here's to a wonderful New Year! Let's make it an awesome one!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is such a stressful time for most of us. I hope that you are taking time to enjoy the magic of the season! We haven't had much time for blogging this month, but we hope to be back at it after the New Year.

I did find time to put together a couple of printables for you. One with one of my favorite Bible verses and one with a line from my all time favorite Christmas movie.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! 

Merry Christmas from Crafty In Crosby!

Christmas Book Village

This is a repost of one of my favorite decorations from last year. Hope you enjoy it!

I was blessed to have a Mother who loved to read and passed that love along to me.  I also married a book lover and raised  Leigh up to be one too!  Being a book lover, I'm also a library nerd and saw this awesome idea at our local library here in Crosby.  As soon as I saw it, I knew that I just had to have one of my very own.  Christmas houses made of books? Two of my most absolute favorite things and I knew just the place to put it - on the piano in Mr. Crafty's office.

 This is so incredibly easy and doesn't damage the books in any way.  Just take four to five books (depending on how wide you want your house to be), find an appropriately sized Christmas card for the front and tie the card on to he books with yarn, string, or ribbon. Then open a book for the top.  Add a little snow batting, bottle brush trees and fake snow and you have an adorable village.

I can tell you that this is going to be a permanent fixture of our Christmas decorating for many, many years to come.  It is just adorable and made of books which is something we have an abundance of!  Readers Digest books are the perfect size for this and since we collected them for most of the 90's - we have them in every color under the rainbow!

So easy, quick and cheap!!! Stress free Christmas decorating at it's finest.  Wishing you all a happy and stress free Christmas!

JOYful Christmas Mantel

Pinterest is just the most amazing place to find holiday decorating inspiration. After seeing all the beautiful Joy and Noel signs using wreaths and snowflakes for the O's, Leigh and I decided that we needed something new for our mantel along those same lines.

The cardstock letters and burlap wreath came from Hobby Lobby. I was originally looking for an evergreen wreath, but Leigh found this one and it was perfect! We painted the letters dark brown and then used a metallic top coat. You'd never believe that the J started out as a U would you? By the time we got to Hobby Lobby Friday evening, all the J's were gone!! X-acto knife to the rescue and the U became a J!

So hard to get good pictures of our mantel because the sun shines on the fireplace but above the mantel is all shadows. 

Sigh.....maybe someday I will figure it out, but for now these picts will have to do.

I really love how it turned out. Such a change from our usual bright and blingy wreath that we've had for the past several years. These colors are more subdued and natural and go much better with our decor.

Hope you are finding time to squeeze in some holiday crafting during this crazy, stressful, yet joyful month.

May Peace and Joy be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!