Christmas Around The House

Now that the dust is starting to settle from Christmas.

I thought I would share some random Christmas decoration pictures.

Kitchen window sill.

This is in the guest bathroom next to our kitchen.

Dinning room mantel.

Silver in the dinning room.

Front door entrance.

Front hallway.

Living room chandelier.

Living room shelf.

Living room mantel.

Santas in the living room.

Desk in master bedroom.

Love the gold and real pine cones.

Table by the master closets.

Great deal on wreaths from TRADER JOE'S.

Oh yeah Buffalo has a Trader Joe's!

More huge pine cones on the master bedroom mantel. 

Mantel in the master bedroom. 

I am just loving the wood and white and green together.

Throw in some buttons, a candle and gold, you have a perfect match.

Secretary in the master bedroom.

 

Perfect spot for a morning coffee.

Project for the New Year is to slipcover these two chairs.

My favorite spot in the house.

All of the chandeliers are up.

 

Dear Virginia Yes there is Santa Claus.

I got this great idea for using my vintage typewritter and the letter to Virginia from The Refeathered Roost.

Christmas chalkboard.

Favorite tree in the kitchen.

Kitchen mantel.

I hope your Christmas was special.

Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Past

I am in the forest of Christmas trees right now.

While I am getting the house all ready for Christmas I thought I would share some pictures of Christmas past.

The living room tree.

My favorite.

Each year I buy an ornament for the kids.

They always seem to find a spot, although I think it is pretty full.

This is the last tree to go up, we are waiting for Mr. M. to come home.

Our tradition is to put in the movie National Lampoon's Christmas vacation, get out the eggnog and put the tree together.

I add several strands of lights.

The boxes of ornaments are brought in for the kids to help decorate.

It usually is an all day process, we relax and enjoy the day.

Sometimes my sister stops by to put up a few ornaments and enjoy dinner and a movie with us.

Sometimes I like to look at pictures of Christmas past to see if I liked how it looked or to make changes.

If I recall, the greenery had to be moved from the chandelier, we had a few needles get to close to the bulbs.  

The dinning room tree is up and partially decorated.

I am still trying to work the blue in.

This picture was taken just before our Christmas Eve dinner.

Look at all the cookies on the side table.

The kitchen tree is done.

The poor thing is loosing all of it's needles.

I think this may be the last year, the tree in the picture above looks fuller than it is now.

I really do like the look of white and green.

Probably my favorite combination.

The office tree.

I have it up, but I can't seem to find the ornaments.

Hopefully they are mixed in with the living room ornament box.

This is usually how the house looks by the time I am done decorating all the trees.

 The house always looks so pretty at night with a fresh snow fall.

On With the Decorating

Bringing back the Christmas spirit.

The floors are done!

LOVE IT!

I knew the new floor was going to look great with my slipcovered furniture

I spent most of the weekend painting walls and trim.

Once I had that paint brush in my hand I just wanted to keep going.

If there wasn't a holiday coming up to get ready for, this whole house would have gotten painted.

I had forgotten how easy it is to paint trim when you don't have to tape first.

The final tree is up in the living room.

This tree has so many lights I actually had a Griswold moment, bamm no more lights.

 I blew the fuse in one of the extension cords.

I fixed the fuse, rearranged some of the plugs and now it is just beautiful.

I don't think you could fit another ornament on it.

That makes a grand total of ............

12 trees

I love this big silver bowl filled with a mix of vintage ornaments on the coffee table.

I have not finished decorating but at least now most of the furniture is back in the living room and we can walk into the dinning room.

Thank you for all your kind words. 

It was a rough weekend for Mr. M. and reading them meant a lot. 

I hope everyone is enjoying getting their trees decorated, making cookies and all the fun to be had at this time of the year.

Oh, if you have any extra snow, send it our way........this is Buffalo and we got NO SNOW!

Red in the House

I thought I would show you that I do have color in my home besides white.

We have a new tree in the living room, one of those prelit folding trees.
  I do like those aspects for sure, I love that it is so tall and not as full,
 but I do miss my funky huge tree.

I have at least four cardboard boxes full of ornaments on this tree alone.  

I always say there is room for one or twenty more.

Some extra red ornaments for the living room mantel.

Mixed ornaments in an ironstone bowl on the coffee table.

Santa in the hall.

And another.

More Santas.

My favorite Santa on the living room mantel. 

I love that he is winking.

Better be good!

Colorful ornaments hanging from the chandelier.

Yep, more Santas.

I think these are my favorite ones of all.

Checking his list.

I hope you enjoyed some of my RED and WHITE.

Today we are going to a Christmas party at my brother-in-law's.

Lots of fun and merriment and eating.

I made some yummy Christmas trifles to take along.

I will share pictures of them tomorrow.

Have a wonderful weekend!