Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A Belated Merry Christmas

Well it's a little late to be posting about Christmas decorations considering it's NYE, but at least it's still December, right? I went small scale on the decorations this year since we moved in so recently - it seemed a little mixed up to go crazy for Christmas when we don't have more important stuff in the house yet (like a real dining room table, for instance!).

The front door just got a simple fresh wreath (on my deer wreath hanger!) and fresh garland strung up around it. I also wrapped some faux garland and added a bow to the lamp post by the front walkway, but that was it for the exterior.



I have plans for massive Christmas trees in the family room because of its high ceiling, but this year we decided to get a little guy that we can plant in the yard to commemorate our first Christmas in the house. Some of the trees grew rapidly up to 40-60 feet (eek!), so we decided on this little blue spruce that grows very slowly and never turns into a behemoth. The tree came in a plastic bucket, so I just wrapped some burlap and a ribbon around the base.


The tree was mostly old red and gold glass ornaments.


Our mantle is just a rehash of what we  put up in the condo last year, except that now it's actually a mantle and not entertainment center shelving, and I also got these cute gold deer - on sale for $5.99 at Michaels!



With all the bare walls in the house, I decided to string up some ribbon to hang the Christmas cards on one of them. I cut out a 'Merry Christmas' sign on my Silhouette using adhesive vinyl. This was taken a while back when we hadn't received all the cards yet - a third ribbon really would have been useful!


On the kitchen island, I put this old little mini tree.

In the dining room, I hung gold & silver ornaments from the chandelier.

I created this simple centerpiece with white and gold glittery branches and bright red berries in a glass vase. Of course, I forgot to get a picture when the table was actually set up with a tablecloth, so you can see the crease of our fancy plastic folding table in this pic!


The last piece in the dining room was a vase with some fresh pine branches from the yard to the bar cart - although they looked a little more rough than I had hoped!

Unfortunately, we didn't have a white Christmas (that's rare in our area), but we did get an early snow a couple weeks prior. I wish it would've stayed snow covered longer to hide our straw & mud yard! 


We hosted Christmas dinner for 15, and it was so nice to be able to fit all those family members comfortably in the house! How was your holiday? Did you do much decorating this year? Have you ever planted a Christmas tree in your yard?

Have lots of fun celebrating the new year tonight!

3 comments:

  1. ان شركتنا لتنظيف الخزانات بالرياض هى الشركة الافضل بين ايديكم والتى بإمكانها ان تساعدكم فى شتى الخدمات المنزلية الاخرى شاملة التنظيف بوجه عام بجانب خدمات مكافحة الحشرات ورش المبيدات وعزل الاسطح والخزانات وخدمات كشف تسربات المياه وتسليك المجارى ونقل الاثاث , لذلك يمكنكم القول بأنها افضل شركة تقدم خدمات منزلية متكامله بالسعودية
    شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض
    تقوم شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض بتنظيف وتعقيم الخزانات من خلال طرق مختلفه تعمل على تنقية وتنظيف مياه الشرب من الملوثات , وهذه الطرق تتمثل فى :
    غسيل الخزانات بالمعدات
    شركة خدمات منزلية
    شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض
    شركة تنظيف بالرياض
    شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض
    شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض
    شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض
    شركة نقل عفش بالرياض
    شركة نقل اثاث من الرياض الى الدمام
    شركة نقل اثاث من الرياض الى قطر
    مستودعات تخزين الاثاث بالرياض
    شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض
    مكافحة حشرات بالرياض
    شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض
    شركة رش مبيدات بالرياض
    شركة مكافحة البق بالرياض
    شركة مكافحة الفئران بالرياض
    شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالدمام
    شركة مكافحة الصراصير بالرياض

    حيث يقوم فريق عمل الشركة بالرياض باستخدام الادوات والمعدات الكهربائية التى تساعم جيدا فى تنظيف الخزانات فى اسرع وقت مثل المكانس النفاسه للمياه التى تزود بأفضل المطهرات والمعقمات التى تنبعث منها فور الضغط عليها داخل الخزان

    شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض
    شركة خدمات منزلية
    شركة مكافحة حشرات
    شركة ركن الاوائل
    ركن الاوائل
    شركة ركن الاوائل

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