Christmas Decorating

This is the first year I have really decided to decorate for Christmas. I used a branch to hang stockings on last year, but that was about the extent of it, considering we had a gross junky house anyways. This year, I decided to use the branch idea and from there, decided on a rustic "theme" with ivory, white, brown, cream....that sort of thing. I still need to wrap some presents, but other than that, I probably won't do much else; I need to work on Christmas presents in my free time instead of decorating!

First up is the tree! I realllly wanted to get a real tree this year, but after weighing the options, I decided to just use our fake 4 foot tree because we are lazy and we already had this. Maybe next year we will start a tradition of going out to get a real tree. I used small lights and old-fashioned ones....I had gotten both a few years ago on clearance! For garland, I had some lace, and I bought some pom-pom strands. For ornaments, I bought some birch slices and hot-glued ribbon onto them.

 

 

Then, Elsie and I painted on them. I tried to make the ones she painted look good by painting something on them with black because we didn't have brown, and it was a fail. The owl isn't so bad, but I hate the deer one....

 

I went outside and gathered some sticks to make stars, broke them into pieces that were pretty straight and about the same length, then hot-glued them together for stars. I got lazy and only made a few, one for the top of the tree.

We don't have a fireplace, so last year, I came up with hanging our stockings from a branch. Last year, I had made some ugly and tacky stockings, so I decided I wanted new ones this year. I used Tom's from last year and added a T because I liked that one. Here are the finished stockings hanging on the branch above our tv:

For the front door, I had a grapevine (Is that what it's called?) wreath that I had used for fall with bittersweet on it. I took that off, bought a monogram F and covered it with yarn.

Then made some felt flowers and hot-glued it all on.

I'm not sure I 100% like it, but it will work!

 

Christmas time is so pretty! 

 

 

 

Now onto making felt food and other things for Christmas gifts!!! Have a happy holidays!

 

 

 

Abbott is 6 months old!

Where has the time gone? This last month has just flown by! Abbott is still a great little baby. He's a little sick today, snotty crusty nose. Hopefully, it will get better soon, he just had a double ear infection, so hopefully that doesn't come back too.

He's starting to sit up on his own...still a little wobbly at times, but he's doing pretty good. He LOVES bathtime and chewing on the foam toys, and any toy really. He's usually so content just playing in his jumper or on the floor. He's really a great baby, and Elsie's going to make him one tough little guy because she likes to hurt him :/

I don't really have much else to write. But here are some pictures: