Christmas Decor - Rosette & Present

This is a project is inspired by this post by the awesomely talented Jennifer McGuire. I chose to make my large rosette (14" diameter) with some beautiful lavender snowflake wrapping paper that I found a couple years ago (i knew it would come in handy someday, lol). The black swirl paper is also a Christmas wrap that was purchased at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago. Scored with my Martha Stewart scoring board.

I was planning to put words on it, but I just loved the purple glittery snowflake in the center, so I went with that instead. Both this and the faux present hang in my "lavender ice" bathroom.

The faux present is just foam core covered in wrapping paper. easy peasy. Linking these projects up to the Tuesday link party at Today's Creative Blog.

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge Week 30

I found the planter/bin above at a goodwill for less than a dollar I think. Nothing special, but I loved the olde world look of it, but also thought it would look good with a shabby chic/whitewash finish. Then, along comes challenge #30 from the beautiful and talented Linda at Studio L3. This one is called altered metal with paint and is found on page 48 of T!m's Compendium of Curiosities. So, I don't know if this really counts for the challenge, but it seemed a good opportunity for me to finally do this project.