My Holiday Home

The house is all decorated and now it’s time to just sit back and soak up the holiday season!

I love everything about this time of year: the decorations, the music, the concerts, the cookies, the malls, the parties…

…it’s all just so fun!

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Although, I do have to admit that I am a teensy stressed, as I haven’t even completed 5% of my shopping.

Time is just scooting by so fast, and I need to get organized!

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But for now, I will pour myself a Bailey’s on ice and sit back and enjoy my holiday home!

Come have a look!

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Ever year we buy a real tree – we love the smell and everything about having a real tree.

The needles and the mess never bother me…it’s all just part of the charm of the season!

And we always try to buy a big tree – at least 7-8 feet…so it always takes up a huge chunk of our living space!

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Because our tree is such a focal point in this space I try to keep the mantel very simple.

I could do so much more with it, but it would just get lost next to the tree.

So all I have done is add an evergreen garland with white lights, and hung the same ornaments that are also found on my staircase garlands and on my wreath.

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This year I did add a new wreath.

I think it added just the perfect finishing touch!

It ties together the mantel, the tree and the garlands on my staircase.

I actually feel like, for the first time in many years, my Christmas decorations actually all match…

…they were having a bit of an identity crisis over the past years…

I wouldn’t say I have a theme yet, but it works for me.

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If you are interested in my wreath tutorial, just click here…

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This is our tree! So pretty, and SO full of ornaments!

I don’t really have a theme for my decorating, but all of our ornaments mean something…

…they were all bought for each other over the seasons, and they are cherished and adored.

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If you follow me on facebook or twitter, you probably already know that our tree actually fell over this year…

I was devastated. Honestly.

It fell into our coffee table, and smashed. Smashed. Ornaments everywhere.

I did manage to salvage most of them, but we did lose a couple of

very very cherished ornaments.

Teardrop…

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One other space I love to decorate is my coffee table.

I change it up for each season!

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Here are my staircase garlands.

I just wrapped them in evergreen garlands and white lights, and hung a tonne of ornaments!

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All of the ball ornaments are shatterproof – not a glass ornament in sight!

And this is a must for our house! Every time, and I mean every time, someone goes up or down the stairs, at least one or two of these balls goes bouncing across the floor. Even as I write this I can see 3 ornaments on the floor. Can you imagine if they were glass?! Shudder.

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