I love baking cookies with my family during the holidays. It is one of our traditions to make huge batches of different cookies and give them away to neighbors and friends. However, I tend to make the same things year after year: sugar cookies, gingerbread men, spritz, peppermint marshmallows… This year I tried to freshen […]

On Friday I talked about how I used ornaments to decorate my plain black fireplace and that got me thinking about all the other ways that I have used ornaments to decorate for the holidays that don’t include a tree. I love the look of traditional ornaments and all the colors, sizes, and finishes (glittered, […]

I know that I usually don’t post on the weekends, but I just made the most adorable little breakfast for the kids this morning and had to share. My kids have an elf (his name is Bingo) and they love to wake up each morning to see what mischief he has been up to. Since […]

Back in October I decked out my fireplace with an assortment of pumpkins. I loved the look so much, that I kept trying to find something equally as cute to fill it with once the pumpkins were packed away. Unfortunately, trying to fill it with ornaments wasn’t a viable option. Can you just imagine trying […]

Over on Eighteen25 today I am showing how to make a super cute snow globe cake plate for all your holiday treats. And shown on the cake plate is my Christmas tree cake that I made. I remember reading that Sara from TellLoveAndParty.com said her husband once asked her “Who eats cake on Christmas?”, and […]

Have y’all seen how many different wrapping paper designs there are out there? Is it just my inner pattern nerd that loves looking at all the different prints, patterns, and colors, or do you too? Sure I could buy the wrapping paper to just use on presents, but why stop there. The large panels of […]

First off, I want to say thank you to Treetopia for providing me with one of their amazing faux trees! They have an awesome variety of artificial trees that go far beyond the traditional. I was provided the black and gold ombrè tree to decorate as part of their 2015 Design Council, but all opinions, […]

I hope you all had a good post Thanksgiving weekend. Did you end up putting up your tree this weekend? My 3 trees are already up and decorated, but of course I have to be ahead of the game with that sort of thing. Otherwise how can I create all these new holiday decorating and […]

I took yesterday off from the blog to celebrate Thanksgiving with the family, but did you see my guest post for I Heart Naptime that went live yesterday? I made marbled salt dough ornaments that are oh so adorable. You should head over there and check them out and then make some of your own […]

Today I have two colorful and easy new twists on DIY ornaments. If I have learned anything over the years, pretty much anything goes when it comes to decorating a tree. Sure, I love the traditional (and my main tree is decorated this way), but that doesn’t mean I have to be limited to ball […]

After yesterday’s post about my DIY mud cloth ornaments, I figured I would continue on theme and make this whole week about DIY ornaments. Sure there are literally hundreds of thousands of different ornaments out there for you to just purchase, but for something completely unique, why not try your hand and making your own […]

Christmas is in full swing over here and casa de Kailo Chic and I have been creating so many fun new ornaments this year. Yes, I realize that Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet, but once it does I get pretty busy with the whole making and selling my handbags and accessories that I always have […]