LET'S CUT A CHRISTMAS TREE | HOLIDAY

So I've been begging Devon for the longessssst time to take us to a Christmas tree farm to cut down our own tree so this year, he planned the whole thing out for us to go to a farm that's not too far from our house to get our second tree for our living room!

I didn't really know what to expect because I've never been to a place like this before but when we arrived, we were taught about all of the trees that they had to offer and which ones smell the best, so that's the section we headed to because that was really my main goal in all of this lol We already have an 8ft tree that we put up in the front of our house and I try my best to use live greenery for the rest of the decorations so the house smells some-what Christmasy, but this year, I wanted to add a smaller, real tree in our living room to decorate.

Here are a few of the pictures that we took - truthfully, this has been the coldest day we've had so far so we were pretty unprepared for how cold it actually was lol so when we could get our hands out of our pockets, I got a few pics!

If you have the chance to go cut down your own tree, DO IT. It's obviously a fun experience for kids and makes for a pretty cool tradition! Tonight, we'll spend the rest of the time decorating everything and seriously cuddling up on the couch because it is freakin' COLD, y'all! 

STAY WARM!

xx, tbp

reindeer food......

"Sprinkle on the lawn at night.

The moon will make it shine bright.

As Santa's reindeer fly and roam,

this will guide them to your home."

christmas decor on the mantel........

Our first Christmas in our house has been a success - so far! 

While still awaiting the big day, I figured I'd piece together our mantel for y'all and let everyone in on how I decorated it.

I went with a red theme this year with our tree and gift wrapping so I wanted our living room to be a little more neutral. 

     I used everything from Home Goods to Michaels and mostly all of it is on sale!
So either head out to the stores today to see what you can get in order to be ready for Christmas or just stock up for next year ;)

Christmas time......

So I just finished up our front porch last week.... ahhhhh

Interior (and exterior) design has always been my thing... I just get such satisfying feeling when I've completed a project. Now, if you're talking about time, well, not so much... We were rushing to take our family pictures Thursday before I went out of town to NYC on Friday, lol. They got done and Christmas cards are ordered! Hallelujah! But anyways... I put together all of the items on my front porch, so I wanted to share just how easy it was and how you can DIY it for yourself :)

So all that I ended up using were a few faux barrie sticks, pinecones, 25ft live garland (that I purchased at SAMs Club for $12!), two plain wreaths, some twine to hang the wreaths, red burlap ribbon, a hot glue gun and some wire cutters that cut really well through the stems from the berries sticks.

*(All of these were purchased at Michaels and some were from last year)

Devon bought these really pretty green wreaths that only came with a red bow and live greenery. I twisted to bow so it would lay sideways, rather than hang from the top, hot glued the red burlap ribbon to the back of the velvet ribbon bow tails in order to add more dimension and then hot glued the pinecones and berries to the wreath greenery. 

    

After all of that, I just stuck and hot glued a couple of sticks to the garland that surrounded the door in order to bring all of the colors together. And for the final touch, I added some lights to the garland around the door. They're Martha Stewart 9ft, battery powered, LED lights. Woo to no wires!

xo tbp

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