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This year I was so excited to decorate the Sixty-One Park porch….because it’s the first time in a long, long time that I’ve had an actual porch! So here are a few fa*mhouse porch Christmas decor ideas: I love traditional garland and bows. This is fake garland…it looks so real and I can use it year after year. It comes in a set of 6 from I used lanterns I already owned and just added large bows to each one: I love signs. This Merry Christmas North Pole Sign made my wreath a lot less lonely on this wall. The pop of red is really festive: I’m really picky about wreaths and it’s just very subtle and natural looking: To secure it I just put a few nails into the top of the cabinet: You can view all of my current and past Christmas posts here!  I make my own handmade Christmas wrapping paper every year and this year was no exception. I love the simple act of stamping a blank roll of paper to make it my own. This year I went with a little basic tree design: The best part is once you’ve carved a stamp you can use it year after year. I had a roll of kraft wrapping paper from Michaels I used brown twine as my ribbon and added a cutting of garland to this one: So much wrapping paper looks the same these days and I love how this simple look stands out among the shiny bright papers: where you can find all the DIY supplies you need to MAKE your creative gifts and wrapping! Handmade gifts are a key ingredient to create I made these stamped quilt ornaments for the fa*mhouse tree this year using unfinished wood slice ornaments. It was a quick re-learning of geometry in the process! The wood slice ornaments were from Michaels: because they are so easy to cut and shape. You could also cut some styrofoam to print with. Even a piece of potato or apple can make a temporary stamp!  It might take a little bit of experimenting to get the size of the shapes right for each pattern but once you figure it out the stamping is the easy part. You can search the web for “simple quilt square patterns” to come up with a wide variety for