Christmas Decorating as promised!

You knew I’d come through didn’t you – sorry I couldn’t get them in my last post – it was just way too long to include these too.

And like I said – my decorating is very simple – barely there and I’m okay with that this year. Maybe next year I’ll feel better and want to get into it more but this is good for this year.

I won’t say any more just share with you my simple little gatherings around the house…Enjoy

I’ll start with the back door entrance (we use this as our main entrance)
Snowman we purchased at Simple Goods show last month from Too Far Gone Primitives

Daytime

Night Time

Inside of the front door – in dining room.
We bought this at Curry’s in Ohio
Burlap with lots of greens/berries and twig lights

Winterberries are in the bowl rack but hard to see


 

Dining room
Looking at it like this it looks like we didn’t do anything so thee are close-ups of the different gatherings

 
Tree on cupboard – decorated with the Mercury Glass ornaments and garland I bought at A Simpler Time – still looking for more ornaments.

Close-up on table
 

 
Close-up of shelves – greens and Winterberries for decorations

On top of hutch – ice frosted twigs with Winterberries

Stairway in dining room

This wood box is on a bench by the stairway – I just filled it full of greens and berries and added a battery candle and some faux snowballs – so easy to make something look festive with greens/berries/candles

Top of kitchen pantry – I kept my same decor and just added a garland and berries

On counter
 

 

These next two photos are in an open cupboard 

 

On another counter

On the island – kept the same things on the board and added greens and fabric candy canes and tied a candy cane and greens on the sugar bag

Put the candy canes in a different spot so here’s the second version
 

Kitchen tree by by back door – I used the tin dough riser and then put grunged cheesecloth around it

Bedroom

Close-up of basket – greens and frosted berries

Wire tree on dresser – Doug made several of these fences years ago…piece by piece he cut the pickets

Also on dresser – again, greens and Winterberries and a little snowman peeking out the top and a grungy votive

Family Room – not happy with the fireplace – but it’s not changing now.
We like to keep it fun looking for the littler grandchildren

Not happy with my tree either!

 
 

Baby guarding gifts…

My newest pillow!

Den

Bathroom
 
Bought this scene from Dan DiPaolo – it’s all attached to a base 
 
 
 
 
Screen Room – we keep this area ‘fun’ for the little ones to enjoy as well as the family room 

Hard to see but there are stockings on this tree

Close-up of box

I hope you enjoyed the tour of our home this holiday season.
I’m sure there are more around but this is more than enough.

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Today (Sunday) we were invited to friends in Sheboygan, WI. Kathy and Roger Fiegel live on Lake Michigan – yes, right on the edge! It’s basically their back yard…oh what a beautiful place. How peaceful and they spared nothing when they remodeled this ranch home to have the look and feel of a Colonial home.
I’m going to post photos of their home on my PictureTrail so be watching for it.

But for now – here’s part of today’s visit.
We got there around 11 and got to know each other again – not sure if you remember but Kathy and her husband brought us all that beautiful BITTERESWEET this past October.

They are wonderful host and hostess for sure. We also enjoyed a wonderful lunch of mini hot ham and cheese sandwiches, fresh Pineapple with huge Blackberries, cold mixed vegetable dish of Broccoli, Cauliflower and Tomatoes.

After lunch we were visiting and saw something out in the back (their entire back of the house is windows to view the lake, so you don’t miss much in movement…it was a gorgeous FOX…well, I took about 40 photos of this beauty and out came another fox and they made themselves a little nest – just like no one was around – it’s in a subdivision!

 

Look at them touching noses!!!

Kathy and myself
 

The 4 of us

Beautiful gifts Kathy gave me – lovely plate and another Mercury Glass Ornament to add to my growing collection.
 
They also took us on tour of Sheboygan and we got to see many beautiful homes along the lake as well as a drive through the Kohler Company/Community.

I pray you all have a safe and wonderful Christmas and thank you so much for visiting my blog and website and for all the wonderful orders from you. I’ll be back in production in January and hopefully I’ll have a few new items to share.

Bless you all

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY FRIENDS
Karen