Decorating for Christmas is something I love and look forward to from about November 1st. I always wait until the week of Thanksgiving to actually start putting out Christmas decorations but I definitely dream about them long before that. This year, I wanted to add a few new items to our home and I decided to start with some framed words. Joy and Noel are two of my favorite “words of the season” so I picked one of those. 
I settled on Joy because those letter were actually available when I was in the craft store and the letters for Noel weren’t. Plus, I already have some Noel scrapbook art so that was covered. I had the frames leftover from last year when I found them on clearance.
Originally I had planned to paint them red and mint green. 
But, I am leaning more traditional this year so, at the last minute, I changed it to red and a more traditional Christmas green. I actually ended up using the leftover paint from my Christmas Tree Advent Calendar to paint the letters. I was glad I had it around because the trial run I did on the letters with the mint green came out really light.
I painted about three coats on each. Then, I used some clear fishing line to attach the letters to the frames so that they would hang in the middle. 
I attached the top and the bottom of the letter to the frame so it wouldn’t twist but, then decided that when I hung it on the wall, that wouldn’t really be a problem anyways. Oh well…live and learn in life and crafting, right? 
As I mentioned, we aren’t quite ready to put out all the decorations so these are displayed on our living room coffee table right now. I just told Mathlete they were staged for the blog to get away with it 😉
How early do you start decorating for Christmas? Do you make most of your decorations or buy many of them?
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Impressive!
I start decorating the 1st weekend of December every year, and we usually get our tree at the farm close to the 2nd week of December every year. I love this project!
very pretty, loving the colors and the message! JOY is what this season is all about… pinning! Emily
Very creative DIY wall art. I think when decorations are homemade it makes them so much more special. My mom still has a holiday plastic flower arrangement I made when I was a sophomore in HS (I just went to my 20 year reunion) I will have to try to be creative this year too.
Your pictures tell the story well. It is nice to be able to follow the directions, without *reading* the directions. lol. Seriously, though, it is a great walk-through, visually.
Those are really pretty, and such a simple craft, too! Thanks for sharing!
these frames are adorable– what a great idea!
Oh – those are so cute! I never put my Christmas decorations up until the first week of December. Alas, they are still aren’t up this year. That first weekend just fell too close to Thanksgiving.
beautiful- i love this idea!
Great idea! This is something I can actually do! Thanks for the post!
Very simple, yet elegant idea!
Oh my goodness, very cute idea… and looks like it is very simple to make. Thank you
We always decorate on Thanksgiving and the day after. A lot of our ornaments got ruined a while back, so I should try a craft like this…
This is a really cute craft idea. You made it seem really easy to make this beautiful item. I think I would like to try this with my children’s names and put it in their rooms.
Such a great combination of traditional and contemporary holiday decorating! Fun to do, too 🙂
Wow, that is unbelievably pretty! I would love to create something like this for my home!
So cool! I would probably do “NOEL” or “CHEER” … in fact, I will probably do one of those two words this weekend!
LOVE it because it’s my new baby’s name! Joy! Looks very nice! Great job!
That is so awesome.!
I absolutely adore the look of these and I must, must, must do this!
We usually start the day after Thanksgiving, but since my daughter is 10mo and into everything, we’re waiting a bit.
I LOVE that, it turned out great!
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