Starting Holiday Traditions and a BLACK+DECKER SMARTECH Stick Vacuum Giveaway!

This year the holiday season is a little more merry with Delainey in the picture. She's our little angel, everything we ever wanted, and so incredibly perfect... so obviously being chipper and full of cheer comes easily this year and every year from now on.

It's pretty amazing experiencing the holidays with our child and we look forward to every year ahead... with that said, we're hoping to start some traditions in our house.

One tradition we plan on having is gifting our little princess with a pair of personalized jammies and a book on Christmas eve. Another tradition we are starting is making our own ornaments... and today we're sharing this tradition and a little DIY with you in hopes that you'll make it a part of your holiday celebration as well.

For this DIY ornament project you will need:

Clear Plastic Ornaments
Glitter in festive colors
Confetti (or colored paper to make your own)
Scissors
Glue
Gold tinsel wreath (or something similar from the $1 store)
BLACK+DECKER Stick Vacuum

To get this project started, cut up your paper into long slices - these will be made into curly q's and confetti. You can make the curly q's by winding the piece of paper around one finger tightly and placing it gently into the ornmanet. Making confetti is even easier, just line the pieces of paper up and start using your scissors to make tiny little pieces!

Next you'll start decorating the ornaments as you please. Placing glitter, confetti, gold tinsel, and more within the ornament and adding paper and little bits of fun to the outside.

We used glue and glitter to make designs and an initial ornament for D. You could make a pattern, try to make a mountain landscape, or just add polka dots to your ornament. We also placed curly q's inside of one of the ornaments and that one may very well be the prettiest! Really though, the possibilities are endless and I look forward to making more ornaments with Delainey's helping hands next year!

Now go ahead and grab your kiddo, some glitter and get creative with some ornaments of your own and start a new tradition in your home! It's true, decorating with glitter and glue and allowing little hands to help will make for a fun project... but a messy one, no doubt. That's where the last item in our supply list comes into play. Instead of worrying about glitter hanging around our house all week long, we just grabbed our BLACK+DECKER SMARTECH Stick Vacuum and cleaned up our mess in seconds!

Are you interested in starting a family tradition in your home? Do you think you'll be using a vacuum to clean up your mess as well? Well, I've got good news... tell me in the comments below how you would use a BLACK+DECKER SMARTECH Cordless Lithium 2-IN-1 Stick Vacuum and you could be 1 of 20 lucky winners!

BLACK+DECKER has other awesome gifts to reward yourself or a loved one with, with Picture Hanging tools, Cordless Drills, and more... you're sure to find the perfect gift for every DIY-er on your list! Check out the Holiday Handbook here and start making your list and checking it twice!