Holiday Home Tour {2016}

Happy Tuesday Friends! Today is a fun day over here as I'm showing off our Christmas decorations. I can't wait to see everyone else's too!


Come on in!

When you walk in you see our shoe cabinet in our entryway. I put up a little sign and of course one of my favorite pieces of art made by the kids last year.

A closer look :)

Immediately to your right is our living room turned play room. It's not very decorated but it does have a little tree and a cute sign & wreath.  

  

Some cute handmade ornaments that I love looking at 

  

The kitchen also doesn't have a ton of decorations - I would like to change that (I say that every year, maybe one of these years I'll get around to it)

I did put up velvet bows on some of our upper cabinets and I love them

Of course one of my favorite holiday plates is up on the wall too

Here's the view from our kitchen down to our family room - my favorite room of them all

Everytime I look down at our mantel I get happy

I took a page out of Lindsay's book (no pun intended) and put a basket of holiday books on our fireplace. The kids love grabbing one and having us read to them at any given time.

My mom made all of our stockings (except the red one for our pup) and I love them so much

I took some fun bokeh pictures of the kids/dog and the tree, I love a good bokeh tree :)

On the other side of our family room we have a bookcase that I always decorate with snowmen and some pictures

 

I love this sweet pic of Brayden taken around his first Christmas

I bought this cute snowman decoration when it was just the 4 of us but I still love it - I need to draw on another little snowgirl for Avery :)

And all of our windows look obnoxious like this and I kinda love it :)

Here's a shot at night - Brayden said our house looks lame and told the hubby that we need to do better next year, LOL! While I don't think it looks lame, I do agree we need to up our game next year!

*linking up with Lindsays Sweet World & Our Pretty Little Girls for Holiday Home Tour and Momfessionals Show & Tell Tuesday

christmas 2015 home tour

I thought it would be fun to show off our Christmas decorations, and while doing so, linking up with Momfessionals since she is hosting her Show and Tell today and the topic is Christmas decor!


I don't do over the top decorating, I like to keep it on the more simple side, but that doesn't mean that I don't love Christmas decorations!  I just don't like too much clutter I guess.

Our front door (which I painted red instead of navy or grey!) welcomes you with a Christmas wreath.

My little duck has an adorable winter outfit on to celebrate the season :)

The playroom has minimal decor, well, because there are 3 little tornadoes people who play in here all day every day.

I bought this cute little banner from the Target dollar spot except it was 3$. Still a deal in my mind, just wish it was longer, they tricked me by saying 5' on the cover but 2 feet of that is in the ends of the banner itself.

Of course the kids' little Christmas tree with alot of ornaments they made.

 

  

I tossed this cute sign I got from Hobby Lobby a few years ago on the picture ledges (I spy a little dogs head, he he)






On our utility closet door, I hang my Christmas cards using ribbon. I would love to find another way to display but one that is space saver friendly.  This may just be my best option :)

I bought a snowman kit for our downstairs bathroom and it's such a fun touch!

My kitchen really has no decor mostly because I don't want to clutter.  But I think next year I want to add little wreaths on some of my cabinets like I've seen all over blogland and Pinterest.

The one thing it does have is this plate.  I made it last year and it's one of my favorite decorations! I love those little feet so much!!

The downstairs family room is my favorite room during Christmastime because that's where our tree is and our mantel. It feels so cozy down here this time of year! (sidenote, I have no idea why some of my pictures are on an angle, I was standing straight in front taking them, so odd)





I absolutely LOVE my mantel! Of course I always swoon over peoples perfect Pottery Barn decor but that just will never be me.  I love the pops of color and incorporating my kids' art.  Everytime I look into this room I get SO happy.

I made those glittered trees years ago and they were so worth the mess! I love them still, 5 years later. I wrote a cute saying on my chalkboard and added some glitter ornament bulbs I cut out of glittered red cardstock.

In going with my non Pottery Barn style, another thing I absolutely LOVE are our stockings! My mom handmade each of them (except for the dogs) and they are so special to me.

  

Twinkles was hanging out in Dad's stocking the day I took these :)

                             

And of course, our tree! (I spy Twinkles again!!)

And some of my favorite ornaments on the tree made by my favorite people :)

Brayden's snowman handprint :)

Ella's reindeer handprint :)

Brayden made this one last year in 4 year old preschool, I love it so much!!

This is our 2015 family ornament I just got at a craft fair, love :)

And just to finish it off, a nice bokeh picture of my tree. I love me some bokeh :)

There's a little glimpse into what Christmas looks like in our house! I love color and handmade decorations and there really isn't ever a "theme" around here - it's just the way we like it!

I can't wait to see everyone else's decor!