This is part of a Decorating for the holiday Blog hop hosted by The Frugal Housewife. Today you can travel from blog to blog to check out their decorating and get some ideas. Getting our home ready for the holiday season is sometimes hard. However, it is a joy when it's done. This is how the Blog hop works. At the End of my post will be a link to the Next one to visit. Each blog you visit will have a different one to visit. There are 23 different blog participating. come along with us and have a wonderful Holiday Viewing Day.
I got into the home decorating while in Germany. A friend of mine did her home up and I really liked it. She would wrap her pictures in Christmas paper and put big bows on them, scatter a few Christmas books around and her tree would be decked out. It has now been over 25 years. I have collected a lot of things since then, winter pictures, houses, and other items. Each of my rooms has a theme, which makes it very easy to decorate. Also it makes it nice to shop because I know which room the item goes in.
Here are a little peek at some rooms.
Dinning room is Reindeer.
My Kitchen is snowmen.
This year My new item is a Refrigerator Snowman. It's A hoot, when You open the frig door he talks and sings!
Santa is in the Solarium .
On the Coffee table I have books all about The Santa Man.In the Laundry room is my Village.
I love the villages and I tend to scatter them all around the home. They stay up all winter. This is so I can see the snow.... even if we don't get enough. I Love To be snowed IN!!!The Living room is.....
Victorian Christmas and Poinsettias.
Victorian Christmas and Poinsettias.
In this room I put out my Southern Living Christmas book Collection. As well as the angels and Angel tree.Our Family room is...
An All American Christmas.
An All American Christmas.
Each year we collect ornaments from all our travels. This year we had a lot because of our "GoWestMyFriend Trip". Saturday we decorated the tree and watch the The Santa Claus movie with Tim Allen. I just love that movie. We have a fireplace in the Family room so of course the Mantel get done. I also have a ski village in the room. I'll post More village pictures later.I wanted to show you the whole house but there is so much and not enough space on this blog. You would probably have to spend all day with me, that would be fine.... but I want you to see twenty three other blogger friends Holiday decoration. So you can leave you comment and then hop over to Laane on theWorld to see what she has done.
Wow that is gorgeous!! I am not a very good decorator. I was proud of myself for putting up the tree and getting the nativity scene up on top of the piano :)
ReplyDeleteI love your village - those are beautiful.
I hope you have a Merry Christmas soon!
Your house is so beautiful. The refrigerator snowman is full of attitude.
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I just love it!!! I noticed that you have the same Christmas dishes I do!!!
ReplyDeleteThe tree is beautiful!
Wow, I'm so impressed. I love the idea of covering your pictures with wrapping paper. I will have to try that for a frugal yet fun way to decorate. I love that you have themes in all of your rooms. I'm sure your house would be fun to visit during the holidays.
ReplyDeleteWow your house is beautiful. I like the way you decorate every room. One of the favorites is the candle holders that are deer. The tree is gorgeous too.
ReplyDeleteOh your house looks beautiful. I love your Santas and that frig snowman is adorable!
ReplyDeleteVery nice job.You have a lovely house.
ReplyDeleteEverything is just gorgeous! I like the idea of giving each room a theme. I tend to collect things and decorating this way would allow me to collect more things :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you have a different theme for each room! I've never heard of the Refrigerator Snowman, but now I am on a hunt to get one...he's too cute!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of different themes in each room. My new favorite has to be the refrigerator snowman! I need to find me one of those!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
What a wonderful job you did.I like the comedy aspect also.I could use a snowman in my Fridge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea - I love the idea of dedicating each room to one collection :)
ReplyDeletei could use a refrigerator snowman that asks" Do you really want to eat that now?"
ReplyDeleteThanks for all who stopped by.
ReplyDeleteFor all who want a Refrigerator Snowman, He was purchased at The Hallmark store.
Carol, he does say" You again I'll have to get a lock for the door", will that do,lol.
Beautiful! I love the fridge snowman, I need one of those!
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done! I don't think you've missed one room! ;)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the holidays! ;)
I thought the blog decorating thing looked and sounded like fun; but I've not even begun to decorate. I tend to not like things up very long; though we did just buy our tree this evening and it's now in the garage. We'll put it up this wkend. I'm thinking about bringing up a few boxes and maybe if I get off work early enough tomorrow (which I was suppose to and didn't again today), I'll start decorating a bit tomorrow.
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Stopping by from the Blog Tour! Love the idea of wrapping pictures in Xmas paper! Love the fridge snowman too!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I need to put out some decorations ... ;-)
ReplyDeleteVery impressive! I love hotting snowman. I wish I could find one in the shops here as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your photos and idea.
I absolutely love that Snowman in the Fridge. Wherever did you get that? I have been collecting snowman decorations for years. My family complains that there are not enough Santa decorations.
ReplyDeleteHow pretty. Your house looks very festive indeed.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, that is so gorgeous looking.
ReplyDeleteYour decorations are beautiful. I love the snowman in the fridge.
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