Christmas Decor: The Interior

Merry Christmas and Welcome!

Maybe you're a regular around here or maybe you're here by way of a holiday tour! Which ever it is, I'm glad you're here!

Here's a peak into our home during the holidays....

Some close-ups of our tree decorations.

In an earlier post I talked about how I decided to use our little 6 1/2 foot tree this year...but I needed to figure our a way to make it appear a little grander in our 9 + foot space....



I had my husband build a big box to lift the tree up to the height I wanted. The tree base sits inside of it. Painted red, I think it looks very nice!




The stockings were hung...I've found these stockings over many years at different places.


More pictures of the fireplace.

Above is a tray that sits on the ottoman in front of the fire. Different Christmas books, some decorations and a beautiful candle holder sit on top of the tray. (The candle holder I just found at the thrift store...$4.00! The original price tag of $50 was still on it!)

More birds! This canvas art was found at the thrift store...$1.00.

Jars filled with balls....different colors and patterns.

Vintage wood skies tucked in a corner.

An old milk jar...filled with balls and a candle.

Jar was found at a garage sale for a couple bucks!

Bottle brush trees sit upon a window sill. Look how beautiful the snow is...I couldn't have done it better myself!

Trees found at the thrift store for $1.00 each!

An arrangement I threw together in an old wooden drawer...using whatever greenery, candles and decorations I could find.

The view from our dining room.

The next 3 pics are from our guest room.

I put my feather tree up to display some of my vintage and mercury glass balls.

Below: a few of the decorations on the mantel in our master.

Below: a wreath that hangs in the big girls room.

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Christmas Decor: Exterior

Welcome!

Here's some pictures of the outside of our house during this Christmas season.

The glow of candles in each window and lighted garland give the house warmth on a cold night!

Lights at night and wreaths and garland for the daytime.

The window wreaths as well as these light decorations were made by using some garland I already had. Ribbon and red jingle bells make it extra festive!


Pictures of our side entry:

The basket is from the thrift store...I sprayed it red. The greenery is from a church sale!

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Christmas Decor: Sophia's Room

This past week was going to be my "Christmas Decor Project Week".

But it quickly turned to "sick...wanna lay down and sleep all the time" week!

The decorations for Sophia's room was about all I could manage to do this week...you'll understand why....it's about as easy as could be!

All I did was gather together random scrapbook paper in her room colors and then used my scallop circle punch to make a lot of little circles.

I then loaded my sewing machine with white thread and quickly sewed up a bunch of these garlands!

The paper goes through the machine just like fabric. I really like how it turned out!

What didn't turn into garland I added some hooks to and hung them on her little tree!

A string of 20 mini lights from Hobby Lobby was all I needed to purchase.

Also on the tree is garland I made many years ago by using small gauge wire and threading it through mismatched buttons.

My favorite holiday decorating tip right now is putting your tree in some sort of container. It really makes it look special!

This is pottery I found at a garage sale this summer.

And it sits on top of a cutter quilt that was turned into a table runner.

Simple and sweet!

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