Our Holiday House Tour

It's no secret that I love decorating for different seasons and holidays-Christmas is no exception!! There's something so special and magical about this time of year.

Here's a quick tour of our Holiday Home!! Enjoy!!

We don't go all out with lights, but I couldn't resist these Evergreen wreaths!!

I layered a Country Star Welcome hanging with a sparkly wreath to add some color.

Excuse the cord-here's another Goodwill Holiday find that I couldn't pass up! Just a few bucks and it lights up at night!!

Upon entering our home-our stockings are hung on the staircase.

Each stocking is personalized with a picture-here's my cutie pie son!!

Found these brand new holiday pillows at Goodwill a few months ago! Love them!!

Here's the second Goodwill pillow-so cute!!

Our little entry Christmas tree-was decorated by our six-year old!!

The boys love watching the Polar Express train go around and around!!

"All Aboard!!!" this probably goes down as one of my son's fave Christmas gifts & has become a tradition!!

Had to Holiday-Up the guest bathroom!!

DIY DECOR-placed wrapping paper in a frame & added a yarn wreath with ornaments!!

Love the cottagey snowflake bath mat!! Gotta love Kohls!!

Our dining room tablescape! Table runner was from Hobby Lobby!

Our Guest Room

Matching kitchen towel from Hobby Lobby

More DIY Decor-our 24 days til Christmas Advent Calendar.

Close-up of the Advent Calendar!

Ornaments in a bowl add a festive touch to our kitchen table!!

It's been tough keeping our boys away from the Christmas tree!!

Another fun Holiday pillow!!

Had to Jimmy-up a tree topper! Mod Podged wrapping paper onto a paper cup and mounted a figurine on top!

My little guys can't wait to open these!!!

All of our ornaments are pretty special-I especially love adding pics and years so that we can see how much our boys change from year to year!

Love, love, love this handmade one!! So stinkin cute!!

Some night shots of the tree-love the way it reflects off the glass!!

Our tree truly lights up the room!! It's my fave place to sit with a hot cup of tea.....

Another view of our Christmas tree!!

Simple DIY felt garland for the mantel! Nothing fancy!

Ornament clusters on the mirror!!

Found this awesome plate at a thrift store for a quarter-I've had it for 4 or 5 years now!! It's one of my faves!!

Copied this look after watching the Nate Berkus show!! So cute & easy peasy!!!

That's all folks! Thanks so much for popping by!

Hope that your holidays are filled with lots of love & laughter!!!

DIY Decor: Easy Advent Calendar

I've seen tons of super cute advent calendars all over the place. Since I'm cheap thrifty, I decided to recreate my own.

Supplies used: blank art canvas, paint (spray paint works), matchbooks (24), scrapbooking paper, stickers, velcro & tape (glue or Mod Podge works too)

1) First step was to simply spray paint the canvas. I used Rustoleum's brown since it was already in my garage.

2) While the canvas is drying, it's time to work on whip out the matchbooks & scrapbook paper. Cut strips of the paper, wrap around each matchbook and seal the back with glue or tape.

3) Decorate the front of each wrapped matchbook with number stickers for each of the first 24 days of the month.

4) Once the canvas is dry-figure out how you want to arrange each the matchbooks ( I went for a Christmas tree design) and start applying the velcro tabs onto both the canvas & back of the matchbooks.

5) That's pretty much it-once it's complete you can insert small gifts or notes for every day leading up to Christmas! Today's special message revealed that we'd be having breakfast for dinner which is one of my oldest son's favorite things!!

Most of our advent days are filled with fun (and free) family activities like hopping in the car to check out Christmas lights, decorating cookies, making ornaments/crafts, watching Polar Express, reading a fun Christmas story, enjoying some hot cocoa (with extra whipped cream)....and the list goes on!!!

I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or fun ideas for Advent Calendar activities!!!

Thanks for popping by!!