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6 Ways to Make Your Home Cozy After Christmas

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The day after Christmas, while Robert was at work, I got a little bit crazy eyed and took down every stitch of Christmas decor, two 7.5 foot Christmas trees, and filled up 6 bins to stick back into storage for another 11 months.  #boom #girlpower But then... the house felt so sad. And I crept ... Read More about 6 Ways to Make Your Home Cozy After Christmas

Christmas Night Candlelight Tour 2017

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Merry Christmas Eve Eve Eve, y'all!  (That can be a thing, right?) All of the presents are wrapped, the house is clean (for now), the grocery shopping is done, and I am officially signing off for the season to enjoy some much needed family time.  Don't ask me how I got everything checked off of ... Read More about Christmas Night Candlelight Tour 2017

Ultimate Guide to Decorating and Caring for a Real Christmas Tree

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A big thanks to the Christmas Tree Promotion Board for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. Every year, it happens.  I turn into a Dickens-reciting, carol-singing, cookie-baking, tree-sniffing, cocoa-chugging lunatic, and if any of that is wrong, I don't wanna be ... Read More about Ultimate Guide to Decorating and Caring for a Real Christmas Tree

Seasonal Simplicity Christmas Living Room

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I could write this post with a, "Hello and welcome to our home, where the greenery is perfectly hung and a speck of dust doesn't exist and every little thing has a place in every organized cranny." Because the truth is, if you only looked at the photos in this post, maybe you'd get that idea. But ... Read More about Seasonal Simplicity Christmas Living Room

Mercury Glass Christmas Tablescape

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Hey, buddies!  Guess what!  We have an actual dining room to eat Christmas Eve dinner in this year.  I know that might not be earth shattering to you (and truth be told, it's a blessing to have food to eat at all #perspective), but I'm pleasantly surprised that we got our act together enough over ... Read More about Mercury Glass Christmas Tablescape

Christmas Village Snow Globe Centerpiece

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If I had a nickel for every time spray paint came to the rescue... well, I'd have a lot of nickels.  I lost count. When I'm walking through the thrift store during my weekly visit (because ya know, frequent stop-ins is how you find the good stuff) half the time I think to myself, "Spray paint ... Read More about Christmas Village Snow Globe Centerpiece

Why We Buy a Real Christmas Tree Every Year

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A big thanks to the Christmas Tree Promotion Board for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. Now that Thanksgiving is over, we are sticking fir branches and cedar wreaths in every nook and cranny in this joint.  Twinkle light all the things! Back in September, Robert, ... Read More about Why We Buy a Real Christmas Tree Every Year

After-Christmas Winter Mantel and Living Room

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This is the story of the living room that refused to be lonely after Christmas. You know after the twinkly Christmas lights and red ribbons and jolly little stockings come down? There's the feeling.  The emptiness.  And not just emptiness but also that gloom that always seems to creep in smack dab ... Read More about After-Christmas Winter Mantel and Living Room

Christmas Breakfast Table + Kitchen Details

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One of my favorite Christmas Day moments is always the big brunch.  (Leave it to me for my favorite something to be food. Ha!) Every year, my mom makes the best Christmas morning breakfast casserole, and our family sprawls out around the table with goofy grins on our faces in that ... Read More about Christmas Breakfast Table + Kitchen Details

Bud Vase Candle Holder Centerpiece and Christmas Tablescape

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Can we get real for a sec?  When you have a four year-old, candlelit dinners don't happen on the regular.  Most nights, our style can be called shove-the-dried-up-magic-markers-and-leftover-breakfast-bowls-from-the-table-so-we-can-eat-spaghetti-leftovers kind of decor. Glamorous, I tell ya. But ... Read More about Bud Vase Candle Holder Centerpiece and Christmas Tablescape

How to Decorate a Designer Christmas Tree on the Cheap

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Recent realization:  I thought I was a pretty easygoing person until I started letting our 4 year-old bake cookies and hang ornaments on the Christmas tree.  I might have rearranged the cluster of glass balls Olivia stuck on the branches, but I'm still finding flour and sprinkles all over our ... Read More about How to Decorate a Designer Christmas Tree on the Cheap

DIY Nordic Sweater Mini Christmas Trees

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If there were umpteen million hours in the Christmas season, I'd spend the majority of them crafting decorations with Olivia.  Any other time of year, I'm not usually in the bust-out-the-Mod-Podge-and-glitter kind of mood.  (Gimme thrift store furniture and a paint brush any day.) But Christmas? ... Read More about DIY Nordic Sweater Mini Christmas Trees

10 Thrifty Christmas Decor Ideas + Budget Holiday Buying Guide

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Raise your hand if you'll be busting out the jingle bells and stockings as soon as your last bit of company leaves Thursday after Thanksgiving dinner.  I'm sooooo ready! Granted, bloggers usually have to be ahead of the Christmas decorating game, but at least now I won't feel completely abnormal in ... Read More about 10 Thrifty Christmas Decor Ideas + Budget Holiday Buying Guide

Christmas Entryway Tour + Advent Scripture Printables

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This post calls for a little caroling.  Hold on, let me warm up the pipes. Mimimimimi! Deck the halls with boughs of holly. Fa la la la LOVE our entryway this year! Christmas waits for no one at our house, not even Tom Turkey.  To kick off our holiday home tour this year, my super sweet friend ... Read More about Christmas Entryway Tour + Advent Scripture Printables