Custom Stockings on a Budget ~ 12 Supermom Days of Christmas

If you are a new SuperMom (welcome!) or even if you joined the club for a while ago (thanks for following!) you may not know I'm the proud mama of 7.  The Super 7 if you will.  For the last several years I've suffered through a hodge-podge of stockings that match only in the sense that they are Christmas Stockings.  This year I had enough and did something about it.  Custom Stockings on a Budget.  Ho Ho Ho!  

Having 9 stockings (me & SuperHubbie too!) to hang with care isn't as easy as it sounds.  Having 9 different stockings looks like a drunk Elf threw-up Christmas Cheer all over my mantle.  It's not pretty.  Having 9 stockings to stuff also means I'm on a budget.  Purchasing even a 'cheap' stocking at $10 x 9 = money I don't want to waste on an over sized sock no matter how pretty it is.  

So what's a SuperMom on a budget who wants 9 stockings all hung in a row to match and look pretty to do?  Well...I'm not really sure but this is what I did!

1.  Loop two silver bells onto an icicle ornament

2.  Twist ornament onto sparkly silver bow

3.  Fold top of ribbon down & cut small slit at the top

4.  Feed bow through ribbon

5.  Twist bow around hanging loop of stocking

6.  Hot glue number to bottom of ribbon

To individualize the stockings I painted wooden numbers chalk-paint black.  Initials would be way cute but I liked the whimsy of the numbers.  I also took a pack of cheap-o plastic icicle ornaments...

...and used the same DIY Mercury Glass technique I used here.

I liked how they tied in with my Mercury Mason Jar Lanterns and carried out the silver in my color scheme.  I'll show you both sides of my Christmas Mantle tomorrow!

Stockings:  $1.98 each

Icicle Ornaments:  8 for $1

Bells:  Free from Stanley our Elf

Sparkly Bows:  10 for $2.98

Red Ribbon:  23 yards for $2.97

Wooden Numbers:  .69 cents each

 A Happy SuperMom:  Priceless

See all the 12 SuperMom Days of Christmas here:

I'd love to know what you think about my cheapest-stocking-on Earth makeover.  Please leave me a comment below  =)