Fake It 'Til You Lot Brand It!

One of the challenges decorators confront (if they're similar me at least!) is making what you lot conduct maintain run if it's non quite the correct size or coloring or height.  As I was decorating terminal night, I used a few tricks that I idea I'd part alongside you.

First off, how many of us conduct maintain countless fiddling projects that would conduct maintain 2 seconds to complete but never quite seem to larn done?  Yesterday I checked 1 of those off of my list.  This spot on my brick fireplace has bugged me for years. 

It looked similar a plane flew through the living room together with bombed the brick.  I ever kept something tall in that location or photographed the mantel from creative angles to endeavor to enshroud that spot.  It drove me crazy.  

Well, when I started putting Christmas on the mantle, plenty was enough.  Faster than the fourth dimension it took me to get together the supplies, it was fixed.   I constitute some acrylic pigment that was a unopen plenty correspond together with alongside a damp sponge rubbed a combat over the low-cal spot, therefore blended together with wiped some pigment off alongside my hand.  Done.  

The spot is yet in that location if you lot desire to hold back difficult enough, but it doesn't stand upward out similar a neon low-cal similar it used to.

Secondly, I wanted to purpose this fiddling silverish plated cake correspond some candles on my java table.  The bottom within wasn't flat, therefore I constitute a wooden trivet that fit perfectly together with slipped it inside.  Then, all of my candles were the same tiptop together with I wanted to heighten 1 a bit, therefore a tin bathroom of tuna came to the rescue!  I covered all of the props underneath alongside some spanish together with reindeer moss.  

This is the ONLY spot inward my solid that I'll declare done for Christmas therefore far.  The residue is a disaster together with I had to deed iv things out of the shot merely to photograph that tray. :)

By the way, conduct maintain you lot seen the jumbo plastic animals inward the $3 spot at Target?  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fiddling gilded spray pigment together with he fits inward perfectly for Christmas.  I desire to run dorsum together with larn the giraffe later on spotting 1 on Cassie's shelf yesterday.

Next up, I wanted some natural looking stems.  I unremarkably travel out dorsum together with cutting fresh greenery, but for this organization I didn't desire to mess alongside switching it out when it gets dry.  So, I saw some skillful long stems at HL for $5 each, but therefore constitute these picks for $2.50.  

Not besides dissimilar from the long stems I found, but the stalk was shorter, together with I wanted to purchase several therefore that $2.50 divergence added upward fast.   I'm using them inward a big metallic vase, therefore to lengthen the stalk I wired it to a wooden skewer.  And, I couldn't notice my floral wire therefore I used a piping cleaner.   The skewer volition stick downward inward the vase far plenty to non live seen, together with add together the tiptop I needed to the picks.

That's it for today.  I looks similar Hobby Lobby exploded around hither together with I've got to larn busy.  Have a slap-up Thursday!

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