Christmas Decor ~ 2015
It?s been awhile since my last blog post, but I couldn?t end the year without sharing some of my Christmas decorations for this year. I think this is the simplest I?ve ever decorated for Christmas. It is one of my favorite seasons/holidays to decorate for and I usually go a bit overboard.
I started out our decorations with a new artificial Christmas tree. I went with something smaller and the coloring on the branches gives it a little bit of a frost-kissed look.
I have it sitting on one of those decorator tables with an additional large wood round (purchased at Lowe?s) and topped off with my tree skirt.
I totally copied Mary Englebreit?s mantel from The Cottage Journal magazine.
From the Jingle banner to the Santa hats on the boy and girl busts. Ms. Englebreit had many more busts on her mantel sporting Santa headgear, but I only have the two. Those hats are from holiday cat costumes, by the way!
I interspersed some of my carolers in between.
My little pick-up truck now holds a small bottlebrush tree.
I also picked up a small red VW beetle and tied another small bottlebrush tree to the top of that. Can you tell that my 5-year-old granddaughter enjoys playing with them"
I also did a craft with that same granddaughter. I found a gingerbread man template on Pinterest and, using that and paper grocery bags, cut out gingerbread man shapes for both of us to decorate.
I pulled some...
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