Christmas Home Tour 2016

 Merry Christmas!
Come on in for a little Christmas home tour!
The front porch is decorated with a DIY countdown to Christmas picket fence sign..a vintage blow mold Santa ..garland around the door.. and a Joy sign on the front door. My youngest knew I wanted one of the Star Shower lights so he went and got that to surprise us ...love the twinkling lights on the outside of the house..

 The foyer is decorated with more Joy .. cotton branches and faux and real evergreen branches on the stairs with a couple different plaid ribbons and black check ribbon..

 The little 4 foot tree is all decked out in plaid ribbons and ornaments..

 These two are ready for their presents!

 There are 4 trees in the living room. the "real" Frasier fir, the flocked tree decorated in silver and white with a few shiny brite vintage ornaments.. the Santa tree decorated with Prairie Schooler Santa's.. and the flocked tree with a book page tree topper decorated in gold..

The Christmas village also is in the living room and surrounds the Santa tree and the gold tree..

The dining room has one tree.. the ice skate tree.. lots of Fitz and Floyd  and Department 56 Santa's live in here

There is a 3 foot tree on the buffet ( that isn't counted in the 13 trees) it is decorated with little house ornaments and red stripe ticking for a garland.. pine cones and silver branches are also used in decorating it. The Seasons in Chalk hangs here on the dining room wall..

The kitchen has the big seasonal chalkboard on the wall..

 Wreaths in the windows..garlands and pom pom garlands over the windows..

 The chalkboard candy cane tree is the only tree in the kitchen..

The galvanized tiered tray is all decked out in Christmas decor.. some vintage .. and lots of plaid, 

The cookies are all baked ..

The family room has our fireplace mantel with the stockings ..another chalkboard in a thrift store frame.. glitter houses line the top of the mantel 

The scrapbook tree and the snowman tree are on either side of the fireplace.. 

  

The Americana tree is in the opposite corner..

This 4 foot tree made into a snowman with muslin is the 4th tree in the family room..

 I love my Christmas vignettes in the family room.. another galvanized tiered tray is filled with little putz houses.. some new some vintage.. Department 56 Santa's a vintage scale and of course some Christmas stitching..

a vintage window ..and more sticthing and Santa's complete this vignette..

There are still 2 trees I never got around to photographing.. the owl tree on the stairs.. and the aqua and red tree in my bedroom.. hopefully I can add some photos of those 2 in when I get some decent light!

All of the colored text are clickable for more information..

Thanks for taking the tour! Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

The Christmas Cookies

Good morning!
I kept saying there might not be any Christmas cookies this year ( because we were gone a lot!) and this is the kind of photo I get on Instagram .. :) omg...

So they got made.. not as many as usual but enough!

Santa's .. snowmen, trucks with trees..

They aren't my best but they are cute enough!

 

and of course peanut butter balls, snowballs and chocolate covered pretzels!

Hope these last few days leading up to Christmas are amazing times with family and friends!

The Ice Skate Tree in The Dining Room

Good morning!

Today's post is about the ice skate tree in the dining room..

Last year I got this flocked tree at Walmart to replace one of the skinny trees we had.. I also found this plaid ribbon last year and used it again this year! 

The tree is filled with ice skate and skater ornaments ..a snowflake garland..white lights and the plaid ribbons..

It sits on a wood crate surrounded by real and decorative skates ..with a basket for a tree skirt

There is a lot of Fitz and Floyd in the dining room...a mini tree filled with mini Hallmark ornaments..

 some glittery houses..those Fitz and Floyd reindeer I got at a San Diego flea market..

love all the white soup tureens on top of the dining room hutch with the flocked garland..

The Seasons in Chalk hangs on the dining room wall..

A 3 foot tree( not included in my 13 trees) has red ticking for a garland , pine cones, little house ornaments, a galvanized star .. The Plum Street Samplers Merry Brew found a home here in the dining room.. More Fitz and Floyd and Dept. 56 Santa's .. 

The book page wreath hangs here here year round ..it is definitely one of my favorite things!

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Two of the Family Room Trees

Good morning!

Doesn't it seem like December is flying by? 

This morning I am here to share 2 of the 4 trees in the family room..

I had the pillows fluffed and the blankets all folded but these 2 had other ideas.. so you are getting the "real" life look! On the coffee table is a Dept. 56 Santa and Mrs. Claus in a horse drawn sleigh.. This was a gift from my sister in law and its one of my favorites!

The snowman tree on the right is filled with stitched, handmade and collected snowman ornaments.. You can see one of the photo bomber rearranging the pillows on the chair..

Love Prairie Schooler snowmen! I use lots of snowflake garland on this tree..

The tree topper is a head off of a snowman ..I crocheted him a scarf which is woven though the branches.

The tree on the left is our "scrapbook" tree.. photos the kids made in school .. little wallet size school photos and special cute photos are all hanging on this tree.. red berry garlands , several differnt ribbons, and red and green ball ornaments with a topper made from scrapbook paper .

It rotates so all sides are covered with photos.

Both tree skirts are ruffled no sew DIY  projects.. the scrapbook tree is made from muslin and the snowman tree is different snowman fabrics..

The big wooden Santa is a flea market find .. you can read more about the mantel here..

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http://www.domestically-speaking.com/

http://www.alderberryhill.com/

http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/

http://lavendergardencottage.blogspot.com/ 

http://piecedpastimes.blogspot.com/

http://www.lifeonlakeshoredrive.com/

http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/

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Christmas Vignettes in the Family Room

Happy Wednesday!

Today it's all about the Christmas vignettes in the family room...

On the aqua cabinet sits the oval galvanized tiered tray.. Its filled with putz houses ( vintage and new)  mason jars, and bottle brush trees..

\There is a thrift store basket filled with Dept. 56 Santa's ...glittery deer ..a vintage scale and of course stitching!

The sofa table has a vintage window with a pom pom garland...more dept 56 Santa's ..another vintage scale...deer from BHG at Walmart ..and stitching..

Country Cottage Needleworks Silent Night framed in a thrift store frame with a thrift store sweater for the background..

and Lizzie Kate's Christmas ABC and more glittery deer..

on the desk are the Country Cottage Nedleworks December cottage and With THy Needle and Thread December wordplay .. bottle brush trees in painted Mason Jars
are also o display..

I hung this vintage frame and gave it a chalkboard center.. no drawing..I just wanted a smudged chalk background. ..I made the grapevine wreath with flocked and berry picks from Hobby Lobby ..added some cotton branches and a galvanized JOY ornament from Michael's ...


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                                           http://www.jenniferrizzo.com/

http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/

 http://thriftydecorchick.com/

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 http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/
http://nominimalisthere.blogspot.com/

http://www.astrollthrulife.net/

http://www.atthepicketfence.com/

http://www.dwellings-theheartofyourhome.com/

http://www.frommyfrontporchtoyours.com/

http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/

http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/

http://www.stonegableblog.com/

http://www.domestically-speaking.com/

http://www.alderberryhill.com/

http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/

http://lavendergardencottage.blogspot.com/ 

http://piecedpastimes.blogspot.com/

http://www.lifeonlakeshoredrive.com/

http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/

http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/

http://www.impartinggrace.com/

http://modvintagelife.blogspot.com//

http://romantichome.blogspot.com/

http://betweennapsontheporch.net