Today’s the day! I’m so excited to welcome you all into my home for the holidays! Since moving into our house six months ago, it’s been a mess of boxes, paint cans, and stripped wallpaper so I completely skipped all seasonal and holiday decorating until now. It’s made decorating for Christmas all the more special – our house is finally starting to feel like home! (post includes affiliate links – full disclosure statement available {here})
Come on in – I hope you wore your snow boots!
I kept the Christmas decorations pretty simple this year – our front door is decorated with a set of bells and some greenery and berry branches from our front yard (more about our door dec {here}):
Ready for some dessert? Let’s bring our plates over to the living room and hang out. One simple trick that I used is to tie ribbon around a plain pillow to dress it up for the holidays – simple and cheap!
You won’t be cold because once you sit down, someone furry is going to come over and snuggle in next to you. She’ll probably request a belly rub. Hope you don’t mind…
I hope you weren’t expecting to see a dazzling Christmas tree because ours has no theme or coordinating colors. But it is filled with meaningful decorations that we’ve collected since I was very little. You may notice that it’s kind of bottom heavy with ornaments – that’s because it was decorated by our girls:
Underneath the tree is Christmas-town where they’ve built a pretty elaborate village:
We also have a small tabletop tree that’s a bit more tastefully simply done – we turned it into an advent calendar by hanging mini galvanized buckets labeled with numbers 1-25 and filled with little treats:
Merry, merry!
