Decking the Halls
I finished decorating the house for Christmas this weekend. I know not everyone loves the Holidays, but I do. I love the lights, the decorations, the silly wreaths on cars, and the general good cheer. I wish the focus wasn’t so much on the sales, bargains, and gifts, but I choose to focus on the many things I love about the Season and do my part to keep consumerism to a respectable level.
I also love our house, but something about the way it looks decorated for Christmas makes me so happy. I love it! I don’t know what I am doing wrong the rest of the year, but right now it looks warm, friendly, and cozy.
This year we put up the same fake tree the Mister and I bought for our first Christmas together. I thought it would be too thin, but it fits perfectly in between our two picture windows. I love how all the lights reflect off the windows.
I put up all my special ornaments this year, of course, and added a few new ones, too. The Mister bought me this dancing frog last year for Christmas to replace poor Kermie.
Last year I really wanted a Mickey Mouse ornament because Mikey was so obsessed with him. I finally found one, after being outbid on ebay several times, at Target of all places! Now I am on the hunt for a glass dinosaur ornament.
I love the way these trees sparkle in the window from the street.
A basket of cards from last year (so I remember who to send to this year), but only one card from this year, so far.
A basket of Hersey Kisses never hurt anyone.
My 20 year old mixer agrees: things look better surrounded by Christmas decorations. It’s slimming.
Can’t it be Christmas all year long, minus all the shopping?
Your home is gorgeous! I love all of your decorations and the beautiful glow they emit. I really am loving your blog. I just discovered it today. The title is just awesome!
~Amy Rose~
Thanks, Amy Rose! I’ve actually been reading your blog for some time now.
Beautiful! So festive. We put our tree up the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My daughter and I love it, my husband not so much. It’s a pink tinsel tree. He tells me he needs to hand over a man card for every year that it goes up.
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Oh, I want a pink tree! Sadly, I’m too outnumbered for that sort of thing. I was looking a for a miniature on sale, thinking I could put it in the den (where the 3 little trees are) but I came up dry.
Jules,
Here is pretty much the tree I have only mine is 6 feet tall. I love it. http://tinyurl.com/5ox8dt
And, not bad at $25.
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Oh! You’ll have to post a picture of it decorated on your blog so I can live vicariously through you.
Pink tree pics are up.
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Oh my mother! Your house is so beautiful! I love all those glass ornaments! I just put two and two together! Thank you for buying my headbands! you are so sweet!!! I hope you love them!! I am shipping them tomorrow! Merry Christmas!
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Everything looks beautiful. Jeff and I were debating if we want to decorate this year, you just made up my mind!
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Good call on hanging on to last year’s cards! I’m quite sure I’m missing a few on my list. Sigh.
And it all looks so pretty and festive! Now tell me about those stockings. Good-looking ones seem few and far between.
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Thanks everyone.
Jennifer, those are felt stockings I bought last year at Target, of all places. Good stocking are few and far between, so I was shocked when I found them. I had been searching for years for something similar.
Jules – your home looks beautiful. I also hate taking the Christmas decorations down b/c I love how the house looks this time of year. Seems so barren without white lights everywhere! Good job on the decorating! I’m still not done
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It’s beautiful. I would be in the spirit too if my house looked like that. It looks so cozy.
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Awww, now you’re making me warm and toasty inside (in a good way, of course!). Beautiful as always!
I love the candle picture, gorgeous!
It all looks so warm and cozy!
It’s magic in there!!! I agree with your mixer:)
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I want to live in your house. How pretty and cozy. Ooh I’m so jealous but maybe when I start to get sad about my Charlie Brown tree and messy living room I’ll come back to your site and pretend I live there instead.
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Court, you should check on the next post where you see my clutter infested dining room table.