Where do you usually wrap all of your Christmas presents?
I typically clear off the coffee table and do my wrapping in the living room, with rolls of paper and ribbons and tags scattered all around me on the floor. But this year I thought I’d try something new and moved my wrapping supplies into my little home office.
When one of your best friends flies in for the weekend from D.C. and you find yourselves on the couch, in your pjs, gabbing away by eight o’clock every night it can only mean one of two things:
A) You’re getting old
or
B) You’re living room is feeling too cozy this Christmas to be bothered to leave.
I’m guessing it’s option “A”, but I’d much rather like to think a little bit of “B” played a factor too.
Happy Monday!
I had an entirely different mantel set up this Christmas season, and then I visited a holiday pop-up shop hosted by Lucky Junk over the weekend and fell in love with the most perfect piece of Christmas art. It was so very in tune with the rustic, woodland vibe I had going on this year that I just had to bring it home.
You know how that goes, right?
It’s been quite the week. I have a girlfriend coming in to visit for the weekend so I’ve been super busy trying to get the rest of the house decorated and cleaned up before she arrives. I’m going to do my best to get the rest photographed and ready for posts for next week, but until then I thought I’d share the quick and easy way I dressed up the staircase this season.
I will admit that I may have indulged in an eye roll or two when I woke up November 1st to see my Instagram feed full of Christmas trees.
But what about the rest of fall? What about Thanksgiving? What’s the big rush?
We always seem so eager to move on to the next big thing.
It’s not that I don’t love Christmas, or that I don’t love seeing all the beautifully decked out rooms, or even that I haven’t started gathering my own ideas for the upcoming season. I absolutely love having my home decorated with twinkle lights, and red and green, and all the festive cozy touches. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year and I always look forward to it.
But for me, part of what makes the Christmas season so special, is that it’s so brief. I kind of like it that way.
What is it that makes a Christmas tree so magical?
Is it the lights?
The decoration?
The tradition?
The memories?
For me it’s a little bit of all of these things, but that last one is the one that gets me the most.
The memories.
I always like to display the Christmas cards we receive each year. We’re a long way from home, so being able to get a glance at the greetings from our most loved friends and family adds an extra dose of warmth to our home during the holiday season.
I was initially going to use one of my dough bowls to stack them as they came in, but I decided to fill that with greens and ornaments instead, so I had to come up with another solution.
I love snow in December.
Right now – as I type this – it’s snowing and snowing and snowing.
Everything is covered in a beautiful blanket of white outside, and inside it feels so cozy with the twinkle lights, and candlelight, and Christmas plaid.
It really is like the most perfect day.
Ask me how I feel when we have a day like this in March and I may sing a different tune.
But today?
Today I wouldn’t change a thing.
I don’t normally post on Sundays, but since I’m feeling so festive and Christmas-y watching that snow come down, I thought I’d go ahead get my tour up a little early.
Here it is.
November 30th and I’m publishing my first Christmas post.
I’ve been reading about Christmas online and in magazines for weeks now so I feel a bit like I’m late to the party.
You’ll still let me join you though, right? 🙂
Growing up, it was my family’s tradition to always decorate for Christmas during Thanksgiving weekend. I can remember so often people wondering why we decorated “so early”.
How times have changed.
These days, waiting until Thanksgiving almost feels too late.
I think Halloween can be one of the most fun holidays to decorate for, and yet I rarely do it.
This year, I really went all out did almost nothing at all and added some bats to my front door
