Welcome! Come on in!If you’re visiting from The Nester’s Christmas Tour of Homes (or if you’re just here, making the rounds on a regular Monday morning), I’d like to invite you to come back on Friday for Giving Up on a Perfect Christmas. We’ll swap stories of beautifully imperfect (to borrow a certain someone’s phrase) holidays, and I’ll give away a beautiful Lisa Leonard necklace!
Now, on to the touring . . .
I didn’t put all my ornaments up this year. Now that we have a toddling toddler in the house, I’m not sure how safe my treasures are – or how safe they are for that kiddo! And, of course, there are always the cats to consider. As in, what will they destroy this year!?
So far, so good. We’ve only had one casualty, and it was only an ornament down, not even broken.
In addition to my dozens of shiny, matte and glittery red ornaments, I did put a few special ornaments up. Last year, we got Annalyn that frame ornament and recorded her giggling. And then I accidentally erased it. (Talk about giving up on a perfect Christmas, right?)
The Snoopy ornament is one of mine from 1980, and the hammer is the first one he bought for his tiny Christmas tree the year before we got married.
Normally, I fill this large vase with plastic (although very realistic-looking, of course) apples and berries. In my attempt to be a little more festive this year, I dumped out the fruit and dropped (carefully) in some of the red ornaments.
I’ve read some blog posts recently about how buying an artificial tree is a cop-out. That’s funny, because I don’t know if I even know anyone who buys a real tree these days. Do you?
Makes me think of a slumber party I went to back in middle school. It was on New Year’s Eve and my friend’s family still had their [very real] Christmas tree up. Sadly, my embarrassing allergies were out of control that night, and my friend’s mom ended up taking their tree down and tossing it outside!
I felt terrible, and the point of this rabbit trail is this: I put up a fake tree, but my tree-smelling candle makes it seem a bit more genuine.
So, that’s a bit of my home. If you want to see a few more pictures, check out last year’s Tour of Homes post. And if you’re new here and want to read more, check out these posts:
“I learned more from the stains than I did the paper.”
Cleaning when the clock is ticking…
It’s all about the chili.
Thanks for stopping by today. Merry Christmas!!
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Beautiful!! I bet that candle smells amazing! Merry Christmas!
Love the vase with ornaments! Very festive. :-)
very pretty! i love the cute sentimental ornaments!
O.K., that little hammer ornament is just too cute!
I love ornaments!!! And I'm an artifical tree girl too … I love real ones, but especially love the ease of artificial:)
Loved it all!! We use artificial trees too … 14 of them to be exact – all sizes and themes … and I, too, light a candle to make it smell "real" … though the real smells of Christmas to me are sweet things baking. :)
Real tree all the way, baby! We get ours from "Ye Old Home Depot." Mmmmm, smell that fir!
I love that you do the "Scent of a tree- who-ha!" too. I'm totally on board with having essence of evergreen wafting through my house. Cause I can't stand the needles. Especially with old hardwood floors. I was picking out needles in August! I think people who buy real trees also have to buy a Dyson or Kirby vaccuum. Cause my crappy vaccuum is outwitted by the shedding fir. (I'm so punny!)
And I love that you have such special attachments to ornaments. All of oursgot ruined in the great basement backup of '09, so we had to buy all new this year. So I went blue and Elvis style. ;)
Great contribution to the tour of homes! I love (snooping) sharing with your traditions!
All very lovely! :)
Hey sorry I haven't been around much… I have just been busy. 'Tis the season, right?!
We totally have an artificial tree. Def not a cop-out here. If we bought a real one we'd both be coughing, sneezing, and hacking more often than you can say Merry Christmas 100x in a row.
Ok, not sure that even made sense…. I think it's time for bed now. ;)