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How to make wood slice wine charms. Never misplace your wine glass again! Easy DIY wine charms idea made from wood slices for a rustic touch.

Mini Wood Slice Wine Charms – Create with Me DIY Challenge

How to make wood slice wine charms. Never misplace your wine glass again! Easy DIY wine charms idea made from wood slices for a rustic touch.

Hello friends! After a few weeks off to enjoy (and let’s be honest, recover from) the holidays, I am back and ready to see what 2017 has in store for us here at Two Purple Couches. I am excited be kicking off the year by joining up with a talented group of bloggers for a fun monthly event—the Create with Me DIY Challenge. Each month we will be crafting and creating based on the materials that you vote for! How cool is that!? So be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post to vote for next month’s material and check out the other projects being shared today!

This month, our challenge was to create something with natural wood. I used branches of leftover holiday greenery to create a set of rustic wood slice wine charms!

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Creative Spark Link Party #133 and an Announcement

Creative Spark Link Party

Friends, today is a bittersweet day. After nearly three years of hosting the Creative Spark Link Party, we have decided that this week’s party will be our last. We have loved hosting this party each week, meeting so many wonderful bloggers, exploring your creative sites, and getting inspired by your crafts, DIY projects, recipes and more. We will miss hanging out with you each week, but we wanted to go out with a bang! Let’s make this last Creative Spark party the best of them all!

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2016 Year in Review - best DIY projects, crafts and home decorating ideas of the year.

2016 Year in Review

2016 Year in Review - best DIY projects, crafts and home decorating ideas of the year.

Hello friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season. I took some time away from Two Purple Couches to enjoy the days, and enjoy them we did. Lots of cheesy Christmas movies were watched, tons of sweets were eaten, and lots of memories were made with family and friends. In short, it was a fabulous and much-needed break to wind down the year.

When I was a kid, I used to steal away to my room on New Year’s Eve and recap the year in my diary. I’d create two columns and write down the good and not-so-good things that happened that year. While I haven’t done this in well over a decade, I still reflect back on the highs and lows that the year has brought, and this blog gives me a way to document and share it in a different way. I thought it’d be fun to put together a 2016 Year in Review and look back at the biggest and best highlights, projects and accomplishments of this year!

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