Welcome to day 6 of Blogmas! I'm really excited about today's post. I absolutely adore looking at Christmas decorations, and I love seeing how people decorate their homes, and walking down the street and seeing all the beautiful trees in the windows. Everybody does it differently for their particular Christmas.
My family have always had a thing for a little bit of cheesiness (hello tinsel and silly ornaments!) and we don't generally have a theme. As we all still live at home (myself, my two brothers, my mama, the boyf, and the cat), we still have a lot of old decorations from when we were kids - mainly mulitcoloured baubles and tree decorations, meaning we have a very random selection in our festive set-up. We all, however, really like how it's turned out.
We were quite worried about the tree, since we don't have many nice baubles, just lots of cheap and cheerful ones, but it's actually looking really lovely.
We put the tree on top of a table to make it look bigger, and also give more room for gifts. As you can see, there is already quite a few under the tree, and still quite a lot more to come. We decorated the tree with warm fairy lights, and a huge variety of small and large baubles. There are lots of cute baubles too, like a little sprig of mistletoe, and some adorable wooden love hearts.
The fireplace in the living room has an artificial garland running over the mantlepiece, complete with berries, pinecones, and fairy lights. We got this from B&M this year, and I really do love it. On the little shelf beneath, we have silver pinecones and a little acorn garland, again from B&M. There's also two teeny snowman candle holders in front of the fire grate - we have had those for as long as I can remember.
The little alcove shelf has some random bit and pieces on, like a little dangly legged Santa and some festive teddies. Looks like Buddha is getting in the festive spirit too...
The little woodland frame on the wall is also from B&M, and it has little lights in it. We've had it on so much, we've drained the batteries already!
The living room door has a little wreath on it, and we've hung up a couple of cute Santa wall hangings next to it, and a sparkly Christmas sign above the door.
The archway into the living room has a couple of sprigs of artificial mistletoe for some cheeky kisses. The boys have decided that if they step under it and don't want to kiss eachother, they have to fight instead. What a family.
The mantlepiece in the dining room is probably my favourite part of the house. We have all of the advent calendars on top, as well as a couple of little ornaments - namely some gorgeous models of Santa and a penguin.
Everybody's stocking in hung underneath their advent calendar, and I think it looks really adorable. Mine is the reindeer stocking underneath the Lindt and beauty calendar.
Also in the dining room, we have a mini Christmas tree, covered in copper, rose gold, and silver ornaments, as well as some mini pink and purple baubles, and a few individual baubles that I love.
This is actually my Christmas tree and decorations from when I lived in staff accommodation away from home last year. We're keeping gifts for friends separate from ours underneath this tree, so we don't have to go pulling out everything to find somebody's present. The little bobble head Santa we have had forever. He's our elf on the shelf.
Last, but certainly not least, we have over 1000 warm fairy lights wrapped around the banister. Our house is 3 floors, so it's a lot of stairs. We actually had so many lights, we were able to wrap them all the way up, around the mirror at the very top hallway, and all the way back down again.
I'm definitely starting to feel really festive now, and I cannot wait for Christmas. This month is already going super fast, we're almost a week in!
What do you think of our Christmas decorations, and how have you decorated your home this year?
I'll see you tomorrow for Blogmas Day 7!
Ciao for now,
Katie x
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