Christmas 2012

We're back today with more Christmas inspiration! How is your Christmas decorating coming along? If you are still looking for ideas I hope you are able to use some of our ideas to help with your Christmas decorating. In our Christmas 2010 decor we used white, silver, and red to create a sparkly snowy feel. And in our Christmas 2011 we used green, brown, and silver to create a woodsy/woodland theme. Today, we are sharing our Christmas 2012 decor. We used most of the decor from 2010 and 2011, but wanted to use more red in 2012. So, we changed out the stockings, tree skirt, and pillows, and then added more red to the mantle. I love the reindeer pillows. We're almost ready for Christmas!

When I saw this idea on Pinterest, I decided we needed to make one too.

Hailey and I made it together and she wanted to know what it said.

After I read to her what it said she answered, "Amen".

This was our front porch.

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Christmas 2011

Hi everyone! Are you all ready for Christmas? We're still working on getting ready and still reminiscing as we go through our past Christmas pictures. Today we are sharing Christmas 2011. We changed it up from Christmas 2010 and went with a woodsy green, brown, and silver theme. Christmas 2010 we went with a white, silver, and red theme. We used all of the ornaments from Christmas 2010 and added more. We, also, kept the stocking holders. We changed out the pillows, throw, tree skirt and stockings, along with the decor on the mantle. This year (in our new home) we are using almost everything from 2011, in addition to some of the decor from 2010.

In 2011 we were able to see the KCS Holiday Express!

We will be back soon to share Christmas 2012!

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Christmas 2010

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It's hard to believe that the Christmas season is upon us! As we get ready for Christmas in our new home, I thought it might be fun to look back at our past Christmas decor. And maybe, a little Christmas inspiration if you are looking for ideas this year. (For those of you who are new to our blog, we moved this past summer ( Exciting News! and Moving Days ). You may also like to read Our New Home ~ The Downstairs Before and Our New Home ~ The Upstairs Before. We still have a lot of worked to do, but you will have a better idea of the rooms I refer to in our new home.) This is our 2010 Christmas tree and mantle. We did a silver, red, and white theme. I love pillows and throws. I think they are the easiest way to warm up a room and I can reuse them year to year. I'm, also, able to reuse them for a different season or holiday, if I choose. These red and white check pillows and throw are on our side porch this year. We are using the ornaments, angel, and tree skirt on our dining room Christmas tree, this year.

We will be back later in the week to share our Christmas 2011. 

I love the reminiscing that goes along with looking through old photos.

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Our New Home ~ The Downstairs Before

Yay! Thankfully, we now have air! Of course, the weather is suppose to cool down a little this week and we may not need it, but we are so happy to have the furnace and air, almost, complete. Last week, we shared pictures of the outside of our home that were taken on the day we purchased our house (Our New Home ~ The Outside Before). Today, we will share the downstairs "before" pictures. It will be a while before we will have "after" pictures. These pictures I, also, took last year, on the day we bought our house. When we bought our house we thought the layout was great for our family and it had plenty of space. We could see the potential and knew what the house could become. After being here for two months, we are, even, more excited to make it into the home we envisioned, last summer. Recently, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to see older pictures our house. It was such a lovely house. It will take a lot of work, but we hope to make it lovely again!



Enter the front door and there is a foyer. To the left is the stairway,

to the right is the parlor, and straight through is the office/playroom.

 



 

Parlor

 

 

 

Dining room

 

 

 

Office/Playroom

 

 

 

Bathroom

 

 

Sunroom/Eating area (Part of the family room.)

 

 

Family room

(To the left are the kitchen and bar area.)

(The kitchen, sunroom, and family room are all connected)

 

 

 

Family room

(You can see the side porch through the door and window.)

(Also, behind the door that Chris is working on there is a back stairway to the upstairs.)

 

 

 

Kitchen

(Hard to see, but the deck is off the back door.)

 

 

Kitchen

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed our tour!

 

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Blue Spring and Easter 2013

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. We sure did! In my last post I showed you our Yellow Spring and Easter. This post you get to see our blue spring and Easter. We, generally, decorate in neutral tones. Then, I am able to change out the pillows, flowers, throws, and candles to update the season or holiday.

Hailey set this Easter display up all by herself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hailey put carrots out for the Easter Bunny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

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Yellow Spring and Easter 2012

This blog post, I thought I would share last year's spring and Easter decor. Our home is decorated in neutral tones which makes decorating for the change of seasons and holidays an easy task. I only need to change out the pillows, candles, and flowers to reflect the seasons. I, then, am able to add a few trinkets to make our home holiday ready.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little side note: The purple coat that Hailey is wearing was Lexie's when she was Hailey's age. Ah, memories.....

 

Hope all of you had a wonderful Easter!

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