Welcome to our home! Merry Christmas

Good evening and welcome to our home! I hope everybody is ready to celebrate Christmas. If you aren't feeling it yet, there is no doubt that viewing all of these beautiful homes will get you in the Christmas spirit. Just to let you know, if you would like to view any of the pictures larger, just click on them. Thank you ladies for hosting the Christmas parties. This is my first Christmas Open House via Blog so I am so glad to be apart of all these great parties! I can't wait to see how everybody decorates. I know that I will be inspired and amazed. So please, get comfortable and welcome to our home...

With all that is going on at our house this year and a toddler in the house, I kept everything simple. I had this wreath and I just added ribbon that I purchased at the Nutcracker Market. I had the "S" from one of my Hobby Lobby runs. {Yes, my married name starts with an S. I loved the name my parents gave me because it was unique so I did keep my last name as another middle name.}Come on in shall we?

This is our entrance as you come in the front door. You know that I just had to show you another view of my snow angels...

This is our dining room. I added ornaments to a hurricane vase and set it in a wreath. To add interest I added Santa and his reindeer. He doesn't go anywhere without them.

And here we have the Reason for the Season...

I didn't add all the animals this year. I was afraid that Monkey would pull them down.

Georgina is making this display look good. She is hanging out in one of our bedrooms. I painted these paper mache boxes and just tossed some ornaments around. You can never have enough color or bling.

 Carrie inspired me to make my advent calendar. I found this frame at Goodwill and painted, stained it and then did a gold tinting on it. For the boxes I used scrapbook paper, then I embossed some gold glitter for the numbers and I added stickers. It had a fabric border on it that was just not working for me so I used my Martha Stewart glue on it. Again, you can't have enough bling...

I'll post about this calendar later. Stay tuned.

I made this wall-pocket hanging. Originally it was going to be hung a different door but I thought it needed to be here since this door doesn't get much action.

This is in our game room. This room houses many stars so I thought that this needed a star in the garland. This star is actually our old tree topper. The garland should be a little longer but I didn't want Monkey to feel compelled to grab it.

This is our living room mantle. We do have stockings but I didn't want anything to "inspire" Monkey to pull them down on him.

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As we move to the kitchen, I didn't realize how dark the pictures turned out to be. It wasn't that dark in the kitchen. Sorry...

I have a set of 3 Christmas trees that I set up on the bar. It's a tall bar so it looks really nice. These trees have vintage cookie cutters hanging on them and there is faux sugar drop garland on them.

This is a tray of Christmas candy in the kitchen. It's always great to have a variety of candy for when people come over.

This is our butler's pantry. We always have back-door guests so I like to keep candy here for them when they come in or leave us. I put a plate of candies on my Southern Living cake stand. I always like to tie a ribbon around it. The plate is one that I painted a few years ago.

Thank you for visiting me! I hope you have a wonderful Merry Christmas! {No, I haven't been up all night.This picture was from a couple of days ago.} Come join me at these lovely ladies' parties!

Thank you Rhoda!

Thank you Julia!

Norma Lee