It was alot of fun decorating this year. In my last house I decorated in browns, golds, oranges and greens. I LOVED my tree and then we would do the fun kids tree downstairs. This year my entire house is different colors, so of course, I lay awake at night in August wondering how am I going to decorate my house for Christmas. I don't want to buy a bunch of new decorations and what am I going to do with all my beautiful brown, orange and gold things. Well, one night in September it came to me. {Yes, sadly, these things keep me up at night}. My mom willing took all my beautiful brown things (and they will look great in her house...if she ever gets her tree up). I used alot of what I already had, made most of the things and purchased a few new things, like the pretty deer above. I loved these and we are deer lovers in our home, so they were perfect.
It was exciting to get to decorate a real fireplace this year and of course the boys wanted their stocking hung by the chimney.
Most of my decorating took place in the dinning room. I had so much fun working with all the sparkly red, green and blue!
I think my favorite thing is my twigs with the little ornaments hanging on them that I already had.
This was also fun to make and I love LOVE this ribbon. I had to go buy a few more spools of it for gift wrapping!
Hunter & I made these trees out of glitter paper. Super Easy. You make a cone (you can find templets online like this one), then I just cut out circles and stapled them to the top. Easy Peasy!
I also added this to the dining room. I still have some work to do with it, but it is so much better than a blank wall!!!
And here is the tree. I just did not have good luck getting a good picture and the boys have somewhat destroyed it a bit. The 2 year old has been the cause of many ornaments being moved up to the top.
I also love doing and advent calendar every year for the boys. We try to have an activity to do every day. Often they go along with a bible verse, but sometime they do not. It depends on the day. We do read a verse every day; however, as well.
I hung it on the fun bulletin board I made. I covered it in leftover fabric, which I did not have enough of, so then I painted the frame cream and hot glued dry lima beans around the edge. I really like the way it turned out.
Until next time...
