Showing posts with label Decorating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decorating. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Fall Decorating 2015
Now that it is finally October, I feel justified in decorating for the fall season.
We already eaten the pumpkin Oreos, the pumpkin muffin bars, and purchased our apple spice Scentsy wax. I even have my Fall hairstyle! But the Texas weather continued to stay hot and humid. I can always rationalize eating holiday Oreos, but I couldn't justify decorating the house until it was officially October. Maybe the Texas weather will cooperate soon and bring cooler temperatures so I can bust out the hot chocolate and a new cinnamon broom!
As I described in last year's post about Fall decorating, I love using picks to dress up the fireplace mantles and door wreath. Picks are those small items attached to a stick you see at Hobby Lobby. They are convenient, easy to store, and they allow me to change up my decorations each year. They are also pretty sturdy, so when your kids try to use them as drumsticks on a pumpkin, they won't break. (My older kids helped me decorate this morning, and it took less than 2 minutes for them to start banging away on my poor pumpkins.) But it was fun to have the kids help, and Grace was especially exited about placing leaves on the mantle.
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| If you look closely, you can see the wooden picks from each item in the grapevine wreath. |
Below are this year's decorating pictures:
Last year, I showed how my door wreath changes from year to year. I thought it would be fun to continue that tradition. First, I'll show you this year's door wreath. I thought I would stick with a simple wreath this year, because I intend to add a cute banner sign saying, "Happy Fall!"
Now, in keeping with my new tradition, here are all the previous wreaths lined up.
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| You can tell we stained the door a new color in 2014. |
When does your family decorate for the Fall season? What are your decorating tips?
Monday, August 22, 2016
Christmas Decorating Part 2
Part 2 of our holiday décor! Part one shared a lot of our décor right inside the door, but how can I forget the actual front door!
It is pretty similar to last year with just a few tweaks. Obviously the door is different which I love! Started off with the garland and lime deco mesh,
and added in the red deco mesh.
Love this wreath!
Then added in the swirly spray, giant balls (that were on our banister last year), and candy canes.
Magical at night!
Nate put up our outside lights, too!
Welcome in!
Since the balls that were on the banister are now on the front door, I put these ornament garlands (from Target clearance last year! Score!) on top of our prelit garland. Matches the DIY ornament garland so well!
As we all know of my obsession, hopefully by NEXT year's Christmas I can decorate on some built ins! For now the shelves will do.
Love our stockings!
Makes TV watching (which we do way too much of) so much more enjoyable!
Hello little Chim!
Kitchen gets a few little touches, but not too much since there is lots of holiday cooking to be done!
Chimi loves Christmas!
Nate tried hopping in the pics again...
...but got away!
The giant stockings from my mom are up!! Such a fun addition this year!
Sprinkles loves them!
We are hosting Thanksgiving so it is so nice to have everything decorated and ready for the holiday season! We even got our carpets cleaned...for the first time ever. Oops! It's a whole new world over here! Are you ready for Thanksgiving?
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