It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around our house! I spent last week putting the final touches on my decor and getting ready to host a Christmas party for our church youth group. The Christmas party was a lot of fun and a great way to kick off the festivities. Here is a tour of this year's Christmas decor, glitter is definitely the prevailing theme, I am just drawn to everything glittery right now! :)
On the dining room table I have set a glittery vintage Christmas scene, I love all of my fox ornaments as well as all of the retro trucks with Christmas trees on top.
I love these little pine cone elves, and if you look in the back of the picture you can see the little retro style camper with a Christmas tree on top, I love retro campers and I was excited find this little ornament.
For our Christmas party I wanted to do a dessert table with a milk and cookie theme, these little milk glasses were perfect with chevron printed Christmas straws, sadly the kids all opted for soda, but that's okay, I will put the glasses to use at our next party. :)
I made a tray of mini red velvet cupcakes, I always make a few batches of these every Christmas for various events.
I made four different cookies to kick off baking season, you can read the bulk of my cookie recipes in my cookie posts
here, and
here, or in my baking index on the side bar. I made green colored crispy rice treats, oatmeal scotchies,
Andes mint cookies, and
molasses cookies.
I set out hot cocoa packets with a jar of peppermint marshmallows, we love hot cocoa this time of year!
I was at target last week to work on my Christmas shopping and found these reindeer and Santa on sale, I just love the way they look and it was nice to update my living room decor a bit, I hadn't changed it much in a few years. This year my living room is a sort of modern vintage glittery theme.
It all started with this little red glitter deer ornament.
This little red glittery deer is perfect for my tiny hall table.
I just fell in love with these vintage deer and the domed Christmas scene, this little display makes me happy every time I see it!
Last year the fireplace mantel was old fashioned Christmas Santas. This year I brought out the flocked metal cone shaped trees that I hadn't used for a few years, I thought they would be perfect with the reindeer.
I love the turquoise with the red and green. The little pine cones in the front are tea light holders from Yankee, this year instead of a Playmobil or Lego advent calendar, since the kids are now young adults, I decided that I would get the Yankee candle advent calendar, each day you open a window and get a new Christmas scented tea light to burn, we have all been enjoying it!
I love the way the Christmas lights reflect off glitter, it really sparkles at night.
The foyer I kept pretty much the same as last year, with only the addition of a couple more floral picks and two faux gold mercury glass candle holders which I found earlier this year. I love this glittery cardboard village.
Back in the dining room I have set out the candles on my craft cupboard flanked by a couple of my favorite nutcrackers, this will have to move to the back bedroom soon to make room for the tree this weekend.
The old world Santas are usually in the living room, this year they find themselves on a book case. I think they look nice next to all the colorful books.
More glittery deer! When I was at Target I wasn't sure about these black reindeer, but I didn't want to leave them and regret it later, which I often do, which necessitates a drive back into town often to find that what I passed on is now sold out, so since they were on sale, I decided it wouldn't hurt. Well it turns out they look pretty cool flanking our TV on the entertainment stand. :)
I also found this cute chalkboard style sign in a dollar bin and it matches the black and red reindeer and our entertainment stand.
I love this cute retro Christmas village that is printed onto wooden boards, I found it on clearance at CB2 this past spring, and I love it, the colors match with everything else in my living room. I decorated around it with glitter star-bursts, and glitter Christmas balls. I also put two glittered red trees behind the village, they reminded me of the tinsel trees that shopping centers would put up in the parking lots when I was a child back in the seventies and early eighties.
Here is the coffee shop up close, with a figure from my very first village, I put out this fellow enjoying his coffee every year. :)
I love the Thrift shop as well, this little village reminds me of shopping in Portland! The set also came with a bar, but we are teetotalers here, so no bars in the Christmas decor, lol! Fortunately three buildings were a better fit for this cabinet anyway.
Well that's the end of my Christmas Home Tour, I look forward to sharing our tree decorations next week.
I hope everyone is having a nice start tot he holiday season!
I am also hosting a Christmas Homemaking Hop this December, please stop by and link up your holiday posts.
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