We got our 9 1/2 foot Christmas tree from a moving sale. It’s prelit, and may work just fine, but I can’t figure out how to connect them, so this year I used the Tree Dazzler. The children all “help” with the decorating, and then alter I go in and space out the ornaments and add the ribbons.
Our star is from Dollar General, as is the burlap and glitter wired ribbon. The red ribbon is from the Dollar Tree.
Under the tree you can see our fantastic collection of Christmas books.
Our mantel isn’t everything I want it to be this year. I’d like to make all matching Christmas stocking hooks, or have some that don’t show at all. These are all from Goodwill and they do for now.
My amaryllis is sadly just the one leaf, because someone broke off the bloom stem just as it was emerging from the bulb this year.
My dad brought the giant pine cones back front the redwood forest for me. The garland is a hand me down from my sister-in-law.
I’d like the candles tucked in among the garland so you can’t see them, but alas, kids. If you zoom in you can probably also see my half broken speaker and ziplock baggie with ornament hooks in it because I never got around to getting it back upstairs to the holiday closet.
I made the stockings without using a pattern and so I didn’t line them. That wasn’t the greatest of ideas. They all have pieces of cardboard inside them to make them hang straight-ish.
The large ceramic Christmas tree I bought at an antique shop before they were popular, and therefore it was a steal. The smaller one was given to us by The Farmer’s mom, and was from her younger days.
I found a plain inexpensive garland at Hobby lobby and hot glued the same non breakable many years old ornaments we have on the tree and berries to it. I can’t believe they can charge so much for fancy garland!
Twelve year old wrapped the banister with colored lights. I did have garland over the lights on the newel post, but I also have a three year old.
Holiday pillows I have collected, which never stay on the couch, and a snoozing schnauzer
This is an inexpensive and easy DIY.
I keep my decorating to a manageable amount. Since this is the most decorations for Christmas I’ve put up in years, I felt compelled to record it!
What is your favorite decoration in your living room? Do you love pre-made or DIYs? How do you keep decorating fun and frugal? I’d love to hear in the comments.
I have access to a lot of greens, so I made a big wreath for our door for $5 (for the wire form and some wire), and made a boxwood tree for my fragile angel ornaments! It was fun and inexpensive to do, although a little time consuming. Most of my decorations are on the porch…and than again, with greens I cut from our property. There’s nothing quite like the smell of fresh greens, and I like the “natural” look.
That sounds wonderful!