This year is special year -- the first Christmas in our new house! With that came buying a lot of new stuff and a lot more DIYing. Other than ornaments that did not fit our color schemes this year and a garland made for a long stair banister (which we no longer have), we used everything we already owned!
Den (the one day Game Room)
Kitchen
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| Epson Salt, glitter, double-sided tape are a theme throughout. Can you spot them all? |
Living Room (where we spend most of our time) Our large tree and our huge new mantel. You can see & read more on our one and only mantle (versus the 5 we had in The Old House) here which I linked up to a couple of parties.
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| DIYed Mercury glass candle holders using pieces from Dollar Tree glued together. |
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| Living Room Looking into Den. |
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| Love the spinning disco balls |
Dining Room
Going upstairs (window is where the 1921 house ended. an addition was added in 2006-7 we think.)
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| Master Bedroom |
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| First year our 3 year old Christmas cactus has bloomed! |
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| Got this table on Craigslist for $5. Planning on doing a chalk paint finish on it. |
Outside
The topiaries are DIYed because I just couldn't pay $70 or more each at Lowes. I bought the trees at Big Lots for $14.88 each, the urns from Lowes for $11 each, liquid nailed the trees into the urns and added $6 worth of marble chips from Lowes for weight. Total worth the extra effort.
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| DIYed wreath |
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| Got this at a thrift store for $4. It is gianormous. |
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| Add Dollar store picks and HobLob ornaments |
See previous Christmas Tours here:
I'm linking up; there's some BEAUTIFUL stuff out there:
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