It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The Christmas decorating is wrapping up (no pun intended, he he) here at my house. It's been a little hard to get into the spirit since it's been unseasonably warm here, but I got over it quickly enough once I started bring out all the Christmas goodies. My hubby and I just love the Christmas decor so I tend to go a little crazy. This is the one time of year that I am happy to have popcorn ceilings, as they allow me to hang my snowflakes/stars from the ceiling as a tree topper.

Bottle brush tree are one of my favorite things to bring out.

The mantle is covered with them, and I use silver tea pots, creamers and sugar bowls as stands. I'm still in need of a few more, but I'm sure I will find them over time.  My garlands tend to be very sparkly and very drippy with silver and crystals.

Since I don't have a young child at home anymore, I've really missed seeing toys under the tree. I've started collecting vintage ones to use as decor. My sweet hubby found this tricycle on the side of the road set out for the trash. Of course it didn't look anything like this when he found it. It was red and very sun faded, and the metal had lots of surface rust. My sweet man spend an entire weekend restoring it to this little cutie. I love it!!

 Here is the rocking horse that I got at Sweet Salvage last month. Now he has a little friend!

I love the way it looks under the tree.

 Here are some the ornaments that I made for the tree over the past couple of years. I am having a little open house and make and take ornament party next weekend and my guest will be making one of these.

 I made this one a few years ago.

 This one is new this year. I covered one of those paper mache' ornaments with music sheet paper, and used crepe paper, silver tinsel and mica snow. Then I topped it with a bleached bottle brush tree that was embellished with glass pearls and gave it a silver pipe cleaner handle.

 This one is a couple years old.

 I made this one last year. I have one with an S on it for my hubby too.

 This one is new this year also. I used a vintage tart tin.

 Can you tell I like layering???

 Another old one.

 I wanted a variety of looks, so this year I wrapped some balls, that were colors I'm not using anymore in macrame cord and added some lace trim.

 Another new one from a tart tin.

Yup. you guessed it... a tart tin.  :)

This is a shadow box I made a couple of years ago and felt very honored and excited when it got published in Sommerset Studio Nov/Dec. 2010.

This is some of the garland that hangs between the family room and the dining room.

I'll probably show more of it later.

Well that's all for the family room! If you would like to see Christmas in my Living room, click here!  And if you would like to see some cool wood spool and vintage tart ornaments, click here!
I hope you all are having as much decorating as I am!


 Too see lot's more beautiful Christmas decor, go see Kathleen at Faded Charm for a holiday home tour linky party!!!!