Our Christmas home....

Welcome to our Christmas home 2012.

Truth be told - I don't get that excited about adding a bunch

of holiday'stuff' in and around my home, I kind

of like it as is and frankly, I don't need anymore stuff to dust.  I do love to add

holiday greenery, paperwhites and pointsettas! Oh...and

upon looking at these photos, I decided I must love Christmas words

cause there are a whole lot of them showing up!

Basically I am a 'less is more' kind of gal when it comes 

to Christmas decorating.  Oh, and if the word 'Christmas'

offends you in anyway, you can move on .....around here

we celebrate Christmas - nothing against any other celebrations - 

just around here it's Christmas, pure and simple. And if anything,

I am NOT a politically correct kind of gal.

I did a bit of a happy dance at my Trader Joe's 

when I found they had boxwood wreaths

for 9.99 - I loaded my cart with boxwood

wreaths and Peppermint Joe Joe's and headed home....

just what I needed to get into the holiday spirit.

We had our tree in our great room last year - where I currently have this white 

cupboard.  I just was not in the mood to move it so we put 

our tree in the living room - a nice change,

plus you can see it from the front of our house.

What is more festive than a lit Christmas tree

in a front window of a house????? That's

what I keep asking my kids who claim "BUT WE

NEVER GO INTO THE LIVING ROOM".....

And why yes, those are some random boxes{to be assembled}

from Ikea leaning against my cupboard in the photo above.

Obviously, the stylist in me had lowered her 

standards today.

Maybe I will let my kids have a candy cane....when they

appreciate the tree in the living room where they neighbors

can see it when they drive by!

The large cloche holds some of my vintage ornament collection.

And {gasp!} I don't even get rid of my broken sea shells when

I bring out they ornaments....they are friends and get along quite nicely.

I am entertaining this season - a couple small gatherings 

and then one BIG one - yep, yours truly is hosting

the soccer team holiday party......this coming Sunday.

We will have just 19 teenage girls and their parents in our

humble home.....Heaven help me!

I'm joining my friend, Jen Rizzo's Holiday 

Housewalk party. cause it's a party NOT 

at my house!