Christmas Tour of Homes 2011

Welcome to our home! This year my plan was to keep it simple. I even weeded out a bunch of Christmas decor over the past 2 years and honestly, I like it better with a little bit less around here!


Here is our tree, it's a real tree and I just love it. It smells so yummy and piney! The door to my bedroom is right behind the tree and I love to step out of my room every morning and smell that pine smell!
Here is one of our large bookshelves, I took half of the books and put them away for the month so I would have room for my snowmen. I like having lights on the shelves too so you can see the stuff even at night.

Our Elf on the Shelf, "Jingle" just loooved this sign!

I call this next set of photos 'I've got the JOY JOY JOY JOY down in my heart!'

The only new decoration I made this year was this - I added strips of Christmas-y fabric to a strand of white Christmas lights. I LOVE the way it turned out and it's so simple and pretty draped over our fireplace. {thanks to Pinterest for the idea, love that place!}

I have several very pretty Nativities that have been given to me as gifts over the years. Here are two of my faves, along with my hurricane jar from Blessings Unlimited... {this is the left side of the mantel}

And this is the right side of the mantel...

Here is a closer look at my snowmen ... I used to have about DOUBLE this amount, but have scaled back to only my favorites now.

{can you spot Jingle?}

Thanks for visiting! Have a Merry CHRISTmas!

To see LOTS of other homes please check out The Christmas Tour of Homes at The Inspired Room.