Simple Christmas Decorating

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I’m all about simple around here.

Maybe it’s because my house isn’t finished yet

but, truth?

I just like my house uncluttered,

even at Christmas time.

I just like simple Christmas decorating

all around the house.

So when I decorated my entryway for the holidays,

I didn’t go all-out and over the top.

I kept it subtle —

an evergreen tree, some stockings, fairy lights and a simple rustic sign.

I made this sign from some pallet wood I had used for something else.

Remember this project?

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You can read the post about how we made this living wall HERE

Well, the plants only lasted about 4 months so we took it down and put up floating box shelves. You can read about those HERE.

So when I needed some wood for this project, I took a couple of pieces of the wood from that and used them for my sign. They already had a polyurethane finish on them so they were perfect.

I used self-adhesive letter stencils.

I wanted it to look very rustic and almost childlike so I didn’t worry about lining the letters up perfectly straight. And there was only 1 of each letter in upper and lower case so I mixed them up with some upper case and some lower case throughout. I also had to reuse a few of the letters, moving them to another spot once they had dried.

Then I dry-brushed them with a stencil pouncer.