Well by this time Christmas is in the rear view, but before it is totally out of site...I figured I would write a few christmas posts! : ) Not sure why I have not done these yet, since I had plently of time off between the holidays but I guess I spent it online imaginary shopping and watching tv! ha! : )
I'll post about the imaginary shopping at some point, I made mood boards for the front room!
Oh back to Christmas....I knew where all my decorations went at my old house, but now we are in the new house so I had to find new places! Which was a bit challenging since the house wasn't totally unpacked when I decorated but I got most of it out!
Christmas decorating started with a tree... A REAL TREE!!!!!! Yep, you read that right, a real one! We were supposed to go cut one down with our friends, but it rained that weekend so Colin and I headed to Home Depot...shameful I know....ssshh don't tell anyone....it was just the easiest thing to do....(Double Shameful since we were selling trees at work!) As much as the trip was not as eventful and memorable as cutting one down would have been we got a really nice tree.
My friend Aimee came over to help me decorate, but we did make Colin help us a little....it was our first christmas in our first house afterall!!!! He put on the first ornament and the snowflake star! The first ornament was our 2013 glitterly owl! yay!
Then I put the chrismas knick nacks out all around the house....and added garland on the mantle, the pass through window and the buffet....I got cedar garland and it was lovely but dried out very quickly! It was crunchy by christmas! Might need to re-think that next year!
I decided cards would be taped to the molding of the pass through, which was nice since then we could see all the cards and photos from the couch.
I was very excited to have a mantle to decorate. I kept it simple, silver candle sticks, big pine cones and...well there was supposed to be paperwhites in the box in the center, but I never planted them! I did buy the bulbs though, so perhaps we will have some Valentine's Paperwhites?
Merry Christmas New House!
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