I'll let you in through the laundry room door, that's where friends and family enter. Strangers? They come to the front door. My mom made that gorgeous tablecloth that matches my pretty blue kitchen walls.
Tying the knots to hang all those balls and snowflakes gave me hand cramps, but I do like the effect. I hung them everywhere.
The front entry always makes me smile every time I pass by to the library.
I strung those balls up the stairs, too.
I've got all sorts of the old-fashioned looking stuff in the library this year.
Decorating a piano is akin to decorating a fireplace mantel, isn't it? In fact, my piano is more lavish.
Snowmen take over the built-ins in the living room, though, and they'll camp out there until winter's over.
The mantel is simple--nativity with some more of those balls and flakes overhead.
We take Christmas trees seriously around here. We like them BIG and FULL and LIVE.
Then we decorate them with a hodgepodge of ornaments from Christmases past. Every year I see a "themed" tree and think for a moment I'd like to do one, but then I unwrap those old ornaments the kids have made me over the years and I know I'll probably never have the heart to do it. Unless I got another tree.
Moving on you'll find the advent calendar my mother made me. It's very similar to the one we had when I was growing up. This year Mr. G and Mr. B have put each ornament on and you can see they are a bit OCD about how to do it--left to right, bottom to top, star goes on last. Mr. T suddenly mentioned tonight that he'd like to put on tomorrow's ornament, which pleases me. He's finally got a bit of Christmas spirit in his veins.
My BFF made me the "W" and I luff it.
Another angle of the tree--it kind of dominates the room this year.
That about wraps it up.
Thanks for dropping by. Now, click on Annual Holiday Homes Tour and check out some other fabulous decorating!
What a full and handsome tree you have, and I like the photo at the top of your blog. How cool you have a home with a library, and the piano looks great decorated.
ReplyDeleteI love it all. Your house looks so warm and welcoming.
ReplyDeleteWhen I had my piano, I used to line up the village houses on top.
So nice to go on a tour - thank you. We don't decorate or have a tree, so it's really nice to see other people's decorations. They look so festive!
ReplyDeleteThe advent calendar is almost the same as our piano teacher's advent calendar. We were admiring hers and talking about it tonight at the lesson. Her mother's sewing group made 50 of these calendars. As a girl, she had to participate by making 50 of those little gingerbread men out of felt. Afterwards they swore never to do such a task again.
Themed trees don't have any memories attached to them. Every ornament on my tree reminds me of a specific moment in my past and that's the way I like it.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the simple Nativity displayed in such a clean way. I imagine it's like a visual quiet spot that would remind me to focus on Christ's birth amidst the whirl of holiday hustle and bustle.
You have a lovely home, Greenie, warm and welcoming. Merry Christmas!
Gorgeous tree! I don't have a mantle to decorate. Perhaps I should get a piano, I agree lavish is good this time of year. Your advent calender looks a lot like the one I made Lola. I used buttons as a way to attach the ornaments.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you hung ornaments all over Chez Green Girl.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of surprised not to find, say, a Lego creation mixed in with the Nativity scene. :-)
I see your ornaments are my version of lights.
ReplyDeleteYour place looks so pretty. And I love that you're wearing shorts ;-)
ReplyDeleteYour home looks beautiful! And I love the effect of the red ornaments and snowflakes hanging down.
ReplyDeletehow pretty and festive!! You home is full of Christmas charm!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
such a pretty home you have! The decorations are just gorgeous :-) Love the firefly (not a decoration, but...)
ReplyDeleteYou have a beautiful home. We have the same light fixture too. I really loved your nativity set. Where did you get that? I collect them and have them all displayed in my windowsills. I've lost count how many I have now. Off to check the links you posted. :)
ReplyDeleteHome tours! What a great idea. I'll have to jump in the 6th annual one, when we are actually decorating. Love the ornaments hanging from the lights. And the shorts on the shortest day. I would, but we have one wicked wind freezing us out today. I wouldn't be able to last, even with long johns. Maybe next year.
ReplyDeleteThat's cute that the boys are so particular about the ornament placement on the advent calendar. Thinking of you in your shorts...I would need long johns too as we are having a cold snap out here!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry about your hand cramps, but the results are so very beautiful! I really love the chandelier effect from hanging things from the light fixtures (and everywhere else, too). Your home looks perfect to me.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tree! Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSparkly and bright. I luff your wall hanging too!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! And I love all the wall colors in your house. I think we have similar taste.
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT is a tree! How gorgeous!!!!
Your tree is gorgeous! Other than the girth, it looks much like ours :) I once took the trouble to string cranberries and popcorn, and boy did my fingers ache afterwards! You have a beautiful home. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI love the snowflakes and baubles from the lights, I need to try that.
ReplyDeleteYou have a very beautiful home! That tree is humongous! What a great shape, too! I love all your wooden book shelves! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteMy house is embarrassingly messy and even dusty and dirty in places. My limited mobility makes me set priorities, and cleaning falls to the end of the list. If I post a Holiday Open House, it will strategically show only the festive and clean!
ReplyDeleteYour house looks beautiful! I especially luff the white paper wreathe in the front hall. Did you make that?
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