Hello!
I am finally going to share some images of what little Christmas decorating I was able to get done this year....
We usually only decorate the living rooms and the dining room....
This year I barely got one room decorated....
We got our tree from Aimee Peterson, who
owns a shop called the Antique Gardener.
Aimee invited us to her parents' Christmas tree farm this year, they have the prettiest tree farm!
The kids and I got to pick out our tree....It reminded me of when we were kids...
We would always cut our own tree down, and a lot of times would have a Charlie Brown tree that we covered with a lot of tinsel...
I shot the above image of Emma, Aimee's daughter, while we were there...
Thank you Aimee!
I have posted about Aimee's shop before on my blog.....
We picked out a beautiful White Fir Tree.....
We had intended to decorate it : )....
However we ended up leaving the tree bare....
We wrapped an antique french ticking duvet around the tree to cover the tree stand....
I thought the tree did look pretty just left natural.....
My sister Liz, made this stocking from a scrap piece of antique french linen and a grain sack scrap.....
I will have some of these available in my shop
I hung my wreath from an antique french door.
I hung it using dutch butcher twine, and then tied the ribbon at the bottom of the wreath.....
I added a red striped European grain sack to the top of the table and then added the cheese board....
My son, Trent, sprinkled juniper berries on top of the cheese board....
I kind of got carried away this year with throwing juniper berries around the house....
They smell so good....
I added some pears, hazelnuts, and juniper berries to my mantle.....
I made the kids stockings the week before Christmas...
I really liked the one my sister made, so I made some more like it...
The grain sack cuffs remind me of candy canes ; )
The kids loved their new stockings....
The pears help add a pop of color to my mantle....
I had received a beautiful gift from KT Merry, I displayed her beautiful Christmas card on my mantle and her box of bath salts on my stool.....I also tied a red and white ribbon around a pair of pillow slips made from antique french linen and topped the box with a bundle of mistletoe made from wool felt....
I filled a vintage french strawberry crate with the ornaments we usually put on the tree.....
I hung a few of these wool felt wreaths around my house.....
You can read my post about planting paperwhites here.....
That was really the extent of my Christmas decorating I did this year....
Hopefully next year I will actually post pictures before Christmas....
On another note....
I started blogging two years ago this month....
I started a blog before I even knew what blogging really was....
I can remember feeling so lost when I first started blogging....
I was always searching blogs for tips on blogging and had a hard time finding any information.....
I subscribe to Miss Mustard Seed by email, and was so excited when I
read that she was apart of a Growing your Blog Series....
Kate from Centsational Girl came up with the idea.....
Five bloggers got together and did a series on Growing your blog....
They all share different perspectives on five different blog topics....
It is really a great series, I loved reading each blogger's perspective, and found it to be very informative and helpful....
I am sure a lot of you have already read the series, but just in case some of you haven't I wanted
to share the links to the five day series with you....
Thank you ladies for putting such a great series together for us!
I hope all of you that haven't read the series get a chance to read it...
On a final note....
I wanted to let you know about a very generous photographer that is giving away
a Canon 5d Mark II......
She has a very inspiring story that she shares with her giveaway as well.....
Enjoy your weekend!
Take Care,
Maria
