Projects from Un-decorating

As I was taking down the rest of the Christmas decorations this past weekend, it sparked a few mini-projects.

The foyer table and the shelf above suddenly looked so bare once the Christmas stuff was put away.
After digging around a little bit, I came up with 5 old, pretty keys and decided to hang them from the shelf hooks with ribbon.  I also placed the painting done by Mike's father up on the shelf.

Next I had to do something with all the Christmas cards that I took down from there. 

Lots of them get put into a photo album, and a couple I save to put in the frame on the table next year. 

There were a few though, that I thought would make really cute tags for next year's Christmas gifts.

I snipped away, punched holes, and put them into a little box to store until next year.

Finally, as I was cleaning the kitchen, I decided something needed to be done about our little table prayer holder.  We made it a few years ago at an Advent Workshop (inspired by one that I had originally made in elementary school!)

It has about 10 prayers printed onto bookmarks, and the kids get to pick out which one we say for grace. 

Anyways, it's seen better days! 

Since my older son is now reading, I thought it would be nice to make a new set so my youngest can pick it each night, and my oldest can read it. 

I still had extra bookmarks from making the last one, I wrote out some "easy-to-read" prayers, tied each with a ribbon, and stuck them in a wide-mouth mason jar. 

Easy- and it looks so much better on the kitchen shelf!