Category: Christmas

Have you ever wanted to decorate something so bad you taken something from your yard to decorate it inside your home?  Well, I am doing it again with my cement deer.  I cleaned it up and brought it inside to give it a new look before decorating it for Christmas.

 

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My blog post is going to give an old yard cement deer new life.  If you have followed me since last Christmas, you would have noticed all the deer I used in our Christmas home.  This year I haven’t used one deer. AS YET.  Today, will be my first deer.

Before I brought the deer inside, I took a scrub brush and soapy water and gave the deer a good scrubbing.  I also roughed it up with a wire brush to remove the loose paint.

I am using chalk paint, mixing two colors to make a pretty brown for his coat.  Hazelnut and Truffle.

Gave the deer two coats of the mixed paint.

I painted with black chalk paint the eyes, nose and for shadowing the creases.  I used butterscotch yellow for highlights; I dried brush the yellow all over.  I am sealing with waterproof sealer.

I wanted my deer to have antlers.  I remembered I had some antlers in my Christmas tubs.  I pulled out two of the same antlers to add to my deer.

In order to use the antlers I have I need to customize them a little bit.  I pulled out the stem and trimmed the flat part into a curve to fit properly on the deer.

I am gluing the antlers on with hot glue so I can easily remove them after Christmas.

Since they are the same antler, I turned one facing the opposite way.  Would you have noticed that if I didn’t mention it?

Now he looks like a Christmas deer, right?

Now that he is ready to be decorated, I am making him a Christmas blanket, made out of greenery and picks.  I am using the same type of items I used for my shelf garland.

Started with a small piece of garland.

I bent the garland to form over the back of the deer.

First pick was a heavy flocked stem.

Next two stems were a glitter type and a green type.

Adding some color to my blanket with berries, flocked twigs and glitter leaf stems.

I made my Easy Poinsettia Bow to wrap around his neck and added three small ornaments in the center.

Added flocked pinecones and battery-operated lights.

While I am showing part of my kitchen’s Christmas tree, let me show you the full corner.

To the window I added a frame and wooden beads.  How simple can it get?

I used the same type of greenery, picks and berries on the tree as the deer’s blanket and the garland on the tray tower.

The color ornament combinations I used was white snowy, flat red, flat toast brown color and mercury glass ornaments.

I used the wicker tree color I purchased last year in Beall’s.

That’s it! Now to style my table and hutch, come back tomorrow!

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