Can you believe that I used to make them all myself?!? I got smart, though, and now order them from our local Boy Scout troup! long), down both sides of our walkway, around our circular guest parking area and down our 260-ft driveway. The outside icicle lights are up and I have our order in for 14 dozen farolitos to line the front portal (it's 80ft. I have a nice size Santa and Snowman collection that I'd love NOT to put up this year, but at almost-16, DD is begging for them all to go up along the top of our laundry room cabs again. It totally does NOT work with my Spanish Colonial dining room, but I don't care. We have a collection of over 70 Christmas books that we pull out of storage and put in our dining room bookcase along with some old Christmas toys every December 1st. The Christmas Village is partly up in the foyer's hutch and our Nativity is now on the dining room buffet. or will, whenever I get it done! The family room has a Spanish Colonial tree and the kitchen has DD's small Advent tree and our nutcracker collection lined up along the windowsill. It would never win any design awards, but we love it because it really is the story of us as a family.ĭD has a 7' narrow tree in her room. We call it "The Story of Us" and it has every ornament the kids ever made on it, every ornament we've bought to remember our vacations, DD's tiny elf shoes from her first Halloween costume, etc., etc. We put up our family tree in our living room the weekend after Thanksgiving. which is why my house is a disaster zone at the moment ^D I tend to get stressed out when it interferes with my putting up the decs and trees. I do a lot of volunteer work and this time of the year is so busy. I love decorating for the holidays and Christmas is my very favorite! Our two kids are now 25 and 15 y/o, but they still love to see the entire house decorated for the holidays, and so do DH & I. The lights alone make a very pretty, festive look. Candles in all the windows, including each window of the sunroom. I have not done anything in the bathrooms this year, I usually do something in the guest bathroom off the great room, but didn't this year. We have a beautiful nativity set displayed in this room. Some more ornaments in an apothecary jar on one of the end tables. Another vignette on the antique slant top desk, an old ornament displayed in a cloche on a stand, an old Christmas card in a frame, etc. The great room has bits and pieces of Christmas - the mantle of course, with it's thick draping of greenery with sugared apples and pears, ribbons and lights. The dining room is decorated, a Christmas vignette of old santas on a chest, victorian children and an old bottle brush tree under a large cloche on the table. The kitchen is done in snowmen, vintage and a few newer ones. I also have some other decorations in that room. We do our big tree in our sunroom since it is used much like a den - it's an actual room and we use it daily. I do have Christmas in parts of our home. What does your house look like at Christmas? The art is how to display all the memories and have it look nice and not cluttered. I know, I am silly but everything in my house means something to me. It is so fun to see them every year, at the end of the year. I have things from the very year I moved out of my house. When I take out my ornaments, it is like a walk through my own life history. There is even a small, unopened rubber in the very back of the tree, left over from the year our son had an unauthorized party here. This year, my dining room Christmas display includes the two antique liquor bottles we found in our floor while remodeling the upstairs. My oldest homemade kid ornament is turning 35 years old this year! I turn small things I want to keep but don't know where into ornaments.Įach Christmas includes a theme that suggests our year. It is filled with antique ornaments, toys and homemade decorations from the kids through the years. It's so tall that I can't use a tree topper. My Christmas tree goes all the way up to the high ceilings. Only my kitchen is spared from Christmas. I collect great Santas (many old) and they are strewn through out. I put all my regular decorations away and bring out Christmas ! LOL! Of course, it is Christmas my way. My dining room and living room is total Christmas. The hallway has boughs on the stair rails. The other guest room has a dresser with Christmas decorations (artist dolls I made). I'm having guests so the guest rooms have a touch of Christmas - a Christmas comforter throw folded at the bottom of the bed a subtle wreath on the wall and a few old toys on top of dressers and tables. I confess to decorating most of the house. Do you put up a tree and call it Christmas or do you decorate your entire house?
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