The Nester Christmas Tour of Homes

Hello!!!

Welcome to my home! I'm excited to share my Christmas decorations and participate in the Nester Christmas Tour of Homes. (If you are a blog reader of mine - I'm not going to do a MckLinky - I thought we could all just sign up on the Nester!)

This is my bright red and green and zebra tree in our dining room. I got this tree for like 75% off a couple of years ago. I used it as our main tree last year. I have kind of collected the ornaments over the last few years and I made some of them.
Last year I made a lot of these monogram ornaments for gifts - and I made them for our family!
I love the big present ornament and the zebra ornament above it. I got both of those at major sales after the holidays! (It pays to shop after not before!)
Another fun idea was to get large (or small) balls and instead of hooks - use fun ribbon to tie them on the tree.
Our first year in this house - we bought this big 9 ft tree. I use a lot of golds and browns on it.
I bought these letter ornaments several years ago and bought 2 H's - just in case I ever finally got my Harper and Hudson. Or Harper and (Hadlee, Hattie, Holden, Hutton.....whatever name we use if we have another girl). ha!

I used stickers to put our monogram on large balls on this tree also!

Some of my favorite gold and brown ornaments

I made some more monogram ornaments for this tree last week using leopard ribbon!

When I was single - I had this little tree and now we use it in our kitchen and I use only gold ornaments and gold mesh. My kitchen and breakfast room are all in golds and browns so I love how it looks in here.

And this year I added this little pink tree in Harper's room and I'm in LOVE with it! I took down her changing pad off the dresser my dad made her a few weeks ago because she is just too big and I'm not just using it like a dresser top.

I love the pink, green and brown ornaments. I've been saving these for a while to use!

A few of these ornaments on this tree were special gifts to her this year.

I love these presents - they are sitting in my kitchen!
A few Santa decorations
This is the bowl where I keep all my wonderful Christmas cards!!!
I love to fill apothecary jars or hurricane vases with Christmas balls for an easy decoration!

This is on my coffee table
I love this plate that says JOY above my TV. Joy is the theme of the season for me!!!
I have one of these on either side of our TV cabinet. I just add some balls and these signs to jazz them up for Christmas!
I love the present on this table and then under my cloche - I put a small part of a nativity scene I got in El Salvador. When we did a little Market shopping on our compassion trip - everyone seemed to collect Nativities from different countries and I thought that was a great idea!
More balls in more containers!

This is a shot of my living room. I'm keeping it real with the pack and play in the corner! :-)

My mantel - we have stockings for me, Scott, Harper and Dawson (our dog). There is an extra stocking in storage in case we have another child. I bought all 5 of these years ago......just believing that one day they would all be monogrammed.

This is mine and I love it.

Harper's is just like this only it is red damask. I'm in the middle of having it monogrammed. So this stocking is for child #2 if we are blessed with one someday.

Thank you for visiting our home. Psalms 126:3 says "He has done great things for us and we are filled with Joy" and that is truly how we feel. God has blessed us with a child that we thought we would not be able to have and then we thought we would not be able to keep and we are beyond thankful this year. We truly are celebrating Jesus as the reason for the season! Please come back and visit any time!

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