I looove reading blogs where people do holiday home tours. My post will be nothing special, but it will be a post I will look back on time and time again.
So, here is our home for the holidays!
A few things...I LOVE Christmas and I LOVE Christmas decorations. I come by it honestly. My momma is a Christmas lover too and her decorating during the holidays puts Southern Living to shame. The magazine should come to her house and do a spread. Every year when she decorates, I stay away from the house so when it is all done I can walk in for the big reveal. And every year it takes my breath away. I sound so melodramatic, I know, but her house really is a site to see. So I will never fill her shoes- duh, but I hope and pray that my boys love my house at Christmas as much as I love my mom's house as Christmas (and ALL the time!).
Here we go...
The tree.... almost each and every ornament has a special meaning to us. I think trees that have a "color scheme" are beautiful....but they aren't our family tree. I LOVE to hang each and every ornament and think about it's special meaning. Maybe a trip to NYC with my mom, maybe our first Christmas as husband and wife, or one of the boys' "first Christmas" ornaments....I adore each and every ornament on that tree.
The mantle....
It's pretty simple...but I love it! I have two Moose on one side and a little stout moose on the other. I love me some moose!
I need to take a better picture of these guys. They are so cute. The boys love them too. I also have my vietri urn filled with HUGE glass ornaments on my mantle.
The family room...
Into the kitchen... these pictures aren't great.
An advent calendar hangs on the door next to the table. Cal runs and moves the candy cane each morning!
I adore this frame...and the sweet faces in it!
Above the sink....
I have been collecting snow globes for years-- I get one every year for Christmas and I love my sweet collection! They kind of take a beating being stored in the attic, but I love to pull them out each year.. I have these shelves above my desk in the kitchen...love putting the snow globes here because I see them all the time in the kitchen...and because they are off limits to curious hands...
We have this little piece of furniture in between the kitchen and family room... I have a nativity scene on the bottom part and some of my carolers on the top part.
The stairs.... I love this garland-- hard to see in this light. I will hang all stockings on this railing-- we have a big crew this year for Christmas so the railing will be filled! I would hang them by the mantle, but our fire gets really hot and we aren't trying to set this house on fire....
And, our couch in the family room....
In the downstairs playroom, I have most of my carolers lined up. LOVE them-- it makes me SO happy each year to pull these out! My uncle gives me one for every birthday and every Christmas and my mom usually gives me one for Christmas. Looking at this picture, I realize I forgot to cover the books they are standing on...whoops! Usually I cover them with "snow." I need to go get on that!!
On the little side table in the playroom, we have a small nativity scene...the boys love playing with this!
And then on the art table, which is normally in the family room, but is moved in for the tree, we set up the plush nativity.... lots of nativity.... gotta remember the reason for the season!!!
Into the dining room... I have a small table that I set up a little gingerbread stand and a few carolers...
In my large "hutch" I have more carolers throughout and then I set up some Christmas pictures here. I've been trying to print out pictures with Santa each year and framing... but I gotta find a space to display them all. This spot is already too small!
I have little reindeer all around the chandelier in the dining room-- they are old pottery barn kids and they are precious. Love them!
So, there's the downstairs. I have a few small decorations upstairs, but nothing worth putting in this post. I am not great at taking pics of my house, clearly....but there you have it!!!
Bring on the holidays!!!
