Christmas Tour of Homes!

Happy, happy Friday!

Today I’m linking up with several Christmas blog tours to give you a peek at what our house looks like all decked out for the holidays!

I’m still loving the bronze/gold colors that I’ve been using upstairs for the past couple of years.

I absolutely love these old ice skates that I got from a junk sale this fall. I love how scuffed they are – you can tell somebody got a lot of use out of them!

The crates are also junk sale finds – I love them!

Last year I had used tulle for a tree skirt but since I made the new ruffled tree skirt this year, I decided to wrap the tulle around the tree instead. I think it looks really pretty!

Don’t you just love the mantle with that one lonely stocking hanging there?

This slate was yet another junk sale find! I just love pieces that have history! Anyone else think of Anne of Green Gables smashing her slate on Gilbert’s head?

Dave bought me the Willow Tree Nativity last year – someday I hope to collect all the pieces!

Here are the fun ornament window clings that the girls love to play with on our always dirty glass door

And here’s our dining room table.

(Thank you, Captain Obvious.)

I found that candle centerpiece at Kohl’s on clearance last year – I think I paid $2.90 for it? It goes perfectly!

I never quite know what to do with all our Christmas cards and I’m too cheap to buy a card holder so I just strung them along our staircase with some twine.

In the basement, we have our “fun tree”. If you ask Lily which tree is her favorite she will say without hesitation that it is this one because of the colored lights. I remember feeling the same way when I was a little girl! I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to put boring white lights on their tree or outside their house!

I used all the fun red decorations in our basement bath. They just didn’t seem to fit with the way I had things decorated upstairs!

And just for fun, let’s look at the differences in our living room over the past three years:

2009

In the process of building our fireplace!

2010

Fairly similar to this year, but a few small changes.

2011

Always good to be reminded that making your house a home is a PROCESS, definitely not something that happens overnight!

So that’s our Christmas home. Hope you enjoyed!

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This post is linked to:

Show us Your Life – Christmas Tour @ Kelly’s Korner