We’re getting snow later on today, and I’ll confess, I haven’t finished my front porch.  With not a lot of time to spare, I’m going to be making this holiday planter with birch and greens in 7 easy steps.  Chances are you have the same items around your home that I’m going to use – a laundry hamper or bucket, some hand weights or a heavy item (to weigh down the hamper with), some burlap and greens and birch logs or trees from a local nursery or garden market.

7 Steps To A Beautiful Birch Tree & Burlap Planter

 Tip ~  Add extra and unexpected elements and textures to make your planter more interesting and beautiful.

Voila!  Go out and seize your front porches and entry ways.  I know that it just what I’m going to do today, before it snows!

Our DECOR posts cover all the things that inspire us about decorating the home.  In this category you will find organizing tips, home DIY projects, garden, and decor inspiration.  Below is a recap of some of our favorite posts from DECOR.

Above image from Home Office Decor.

Just Because

Creating Wonder In Your Home

Glitterizing A Vintage Picture

How To Make A Vintage Frame Cork Board

Velvet Pumpkins Inspired Fall Mantel

Front Porch Outdoor Inspiration

Do you have any New Year’s goals for new DECOR this year?

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This past week I have been changing over my porch from fall to winter.  Pulling together a front porch vignette for each season is something I love.  I usually choose a main over all color and theme.  This year for my winter porch vignette it was about a certain shade of blue, birch white, evergreen and primitive objects and fabrics.

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ~ Louisa May Alcott

Part of creating a charming and welcoming space is to gather a collection of beautiful things together to make up your decoration.  Small vignettes help illustrate the mood, expression and style you wish to convey this holiday season.  Whether it is a grouping of books, ornaments, or a gathering of objects.  A collection of beautiful things show the eye a brief scene that creates visual pleasure and feelings of happiness.  Several vignettes gathered together tell a story.  I think there are some tricks to doing it well, and I’m going to share them with you.

*  Common objects like bell jars, old windows, rusty old planters, burlap potato sacks can be gathered together and re-purposed in a beautiful way.

*  Follow nature as closely as you can.  Use plastic ornamentation sparingly if at all.  Opt for dried branches, real greenery, or paper before you feel tempted by something fake.

*  Mix and layer together items of different textures and heights and color shades.

*  Mix complimenting but not exactly the same objects together.  For instance I used long white feathers, linear white chair spokes, and branches to mimic the white birch logs that were my centerpiece in my urn.

*  Add the unexpected.  I added reused the branch art from my summer garden porch that said, “Dream”.  I also let my playful rooster stay.

“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

*  After creating a display stand back and check it for balance.

All together my small vignettes on my porch work together as a whole.  The birch logs are repeated in the urns, and in the containers in three places.  My front door feather wreath is hinted to with the feathers placed within the greens.  There is a touch of burlap everywhere, as a container, as primitive flowers and as a container liner.

*  Remember layering creates interest and depth.

Your vignette can be a work in process too.  Receive the perfect Christmas card or photo?  Find an ornament you love?  Keep on layering!  The more the merrier with vignettes!  I know what I’m going to add next.  Twinkle lights.

On of my favorite things about scouring junk shops, thrift stores and antique shops is finding that unique piece that makes you smile.  This little turtle guy is one of those things.  Truth is I don’t even know for sure what it is.  Do you?  I just know to me this mesh and metal turtle felt garden-y, whimsical and happy.

It goes great with my Dandelion picture and adds to the finds that give my Front Porch Inspiration.

Sure, there is always something to work on.  Do you spy with your eye my not yet planted Dalia?  It’s been sitting their since mid-June and is still miraculously alive.  The pot to the right of my wicker loveseat?  Not so much, anymore.

Every morning I try to take a break, even before I start my day.  This is where I have my morning cappuccino almost every day.

Slow and steady wins the race. ~ Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

Do you have a Happy Space?   What do you do to get inspired before you start your day? 

This post and the posts below were all linked up over at Simple Designs Thrift Haul ~  You can check them out to see what we do with the neat things we find!

Garden Window Thrift Haul

Front Porch Inspiration

A Vintage Americana Outfit

Vintage Americana BBQ For Graduation Party

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