Wednesday, December 7, 2011

My Christmas Village

I've always loved looking at Christmas villages. Those cute little houses just seemed so adorable! Despite how pretty I think they are, I never got into collecting them. But this year I was inspired by something in the craft store and I knew I was going to make a winter village!


The houses are little birdhouses that I discovered in the $1.00 bins at Michaels. I bought them during the after Thanksgiving sale and ended up paying 50 cents for each of them!


The birdhouses and the snowflakes were the only items I purchased for this project. Everything else was made from materials I already owned, making for one budget friendly little village!


I covered a box in wrapping paper and draped a piece of snow blanket over it. This is actually a twice-recycled box as it's the same one I used to hold our turkey pops on Thanksgiving.


I removed the rope from the top, painted each little house and added a pretty bow.


I was originally going to make a mini banner to string across the top, but I found these adorable tiny snowflakes at the craft store and had to use them. How cute are they?
To create the space to hang the snowflakes, I wrapped 2 wooden dowels in yarn. I love how fun this rainbow yarn looks! I hot glued each dowel onto the sides of the box and ran another string of yarn between them.


I loved how bright & cheery my little village looked, but I couldn't help but feel that it seemed empty. A few winter residents were needed.


I made these cute little birdies from scrapbook paper and added a ribbon for a scarf!


Now my holiday winter village is complete!



6 comments:

  1. Darling! Those colors are so bright and cheerful, what this time of year is all about.

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  2. Thank you all so much! I loved making this and I can't resist bright & fun colors :)

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  3. Love those!! I made some similar using the birdhouses for Halloween. (http://coleybelle.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-so-scary-haunted-houses.html) I plan to make some to use as winter decor as well. Love the colors you used!

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