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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Tiz the Season!


Tiz the season to be jolly....fa la la la la...la la la la.....

Do I have you humming this already?

I'm not sure about you but I'm really into the spirit of Christmas this year. And it's not about the gifts. In fact, I just realized that Christmas is two weeks and I have exactly one gift bought. I have been hoping to be a little more creative this year and I have clearly been waiting for these bright ideas to come to me...instead of planning ahead. Woops.

But I've been eager about Christmas because it's our first one in our new home as husband and wife. And for the first time in my entire life I feel so completely happy that there is nothing that I want. I know, this sounds totally sickening. But it's the truth.

I just want to make our house feel like the perfect winter home. You know, the house that you envision having the perfect chair for curling up with a cup of hot cocoa, the Christmas lights twinkling and the dog laying at your feet (or in our case, on your lap) or the cozy Holiday movie nights while sharing a bottle of wine. Basically....a real life Hallmark episode. That's what my goal is this year. Making some great memories in our new home.

So that being said, I've taken decorating seriously this year. It felt like it was time to keep it true to who we are (although I felt really, really bad for the poor decorations that I kept in the bins this year. Did you ever have to sleep with all of your stuffed animals because you didn't want to hurt their feelings? I feel like that. Only I still put them back in the box and I try not to think about it or I feel extremely guilty. No? You didn't. Oh....well then I'm just a little nuts).
Anywayyyyyys......I've been taking my time and I'm still not done with a couple of ideas that I want to do yet but the feeling around here is much more farmhouse Christmas. I'm so addicted to pine tree boughs, sprigs and pine cones this year. Who knew that keeping things so simple could make such a pretty statement. And I'm crazy about book pages this year. It only took me over a month but I finally finished my book page wreath. And because it took HOURS of my life....it's staying around awhile. I've got ideas.... ;)

I have a book page snowflake project I'm trying to finish and, darn it, if I didn't see a book page Christmas tree on Pinterest that I want to make. Christmas will be over and I'll still be working on these things at the rate I'm going! But then I can just say I'm planning ahead for next year, right??

And with that...I'll show some of my Christmas spirit with all of you. I've discovered that I LOVE looking at other people's pictures of their trees and decorations, and I can't possibly be the only one, am I right?

By the way...it's also a little bit of a home tour (have I mentioned how much I LOVE our home?). We have painted a few rooms and it's been a while since I shared what the house is looking like these days.

Enjoy!


You can even see I was working on the infamous paper wreath....





The dining room is still coming together one
piece at a time.


We have a second tree in our front entrance.
Love it!




Newly painted kitchen!

Pinterest idea! Thank you "A.Z"for the inspiration!

THE wreath

I think it turned out pretty darn good!