Christmas Home Tour... Part 2 (2015)

Merry Christmas Eve.

I have spent most of the morning in the kitchen. It has actually been quite delightful!

I don't mind baking and cooking when there is time, when I'm filling requests, and for special occasions.

Speaking of my kitchen, here is how I festified it this year. That's a new word. Use it, go ahead... Merry Christmas!

I indeed have a ton of Christmas stuff that I have collected over the years, and as I mentioned in round 1, I am thrilled to have every last bit of it out, making our home feel festive and merry everywhere you go!

So, welcome again! Feel the merriment as we go through the kitchen and family room.

We'll start here at my buffet. I adore it, I love the color, it goes with everything. Soon I'll show you the before and after post on this treasure I got for free!

I did the kitchen in red and green, more traditional. I love that each room has it's own 'thing'.

This year I bought this print and wanted it to take center stage. It is even signed by

Greg Olsen! I 'puffy heart' it and the reverence, and thought behind it. It is a great reminder to make sure we are worshiping the reason and not the symbol of Christmas.

'Christmas water' as Jane called it! :)

Here is our table, all decked with lanterns, candles, greenery and ornaments.

From the buffet, looking out the window. I brought in a bench for Halloween and I never took it back out... I may never!

This tool bucket is new this year. I filled it with greens, firewood, ornaments and poinsettia's.

These snowflakes are an example of a clearance item purchased and never used! I put them up this year and will keep them up through January.

These roman blinds are so not my style, they will be coming down when I paint the kitchen!

Remember those 11 wreaths? Here is one of them.

On to the family room, which I like to do in brights...

We collect snow globes, I was struggling to find safe places to put them in the old house. There is plenty of space for them here.

The tree, oh the tree was a fiasco this year! This is the largest tree we have ever gotten, and we weren't quite prepared! I came downstairs the first three days and each day it was leaning in a different direction! We had to shim it, so it wouldn't move. After we decorated it there was no more touching of the tree, and I was terrified it would fall for the first week! We need a stand to accommodate a larger tree, if this is what we continue to do!

AND, I need larger ornaments! You can't even see those puny things on there! Like I said, there is no more touching of this tree, but next year... now that I know what to plan for!