Another year, another tree (I'm up to five holiday trees now)!
Come in and take a look at my current holiday decor:
Living Room Tree
Other than adding our yearly ornaments and newly wrapped gifts, our living room tree has stayed the same. I'll share the ornaments in an upcoming post, but for now you can click here or here to see more about our living room decor.
I did add a bit of 'refreshment' to the coffee table though..........
Cookies & Milk For Santa
To me nothing says holiday magic like cookies and milk left out for Santa! I received two sets of faux cookies and milk for my birthday, and I think they are my absolute favorite holiday decor items!
Side Note: For a lot of people, the most important decorative item would probably be a nativity scene. I am not personally a religious person (spiritual, not religious), but I do think it's important to include those who are 😀
Not Really Cookies
Here you can see the faux cookie and milk sets in better lighting. The sets come packaged with one glass of milk, one plate and either two chocolate chip or two gingerbread men cookies. The milk glasses are real glass, heavy and look amazing. The cookies look great, but are made of spongy material instead of the hard plastic I was hoping for. Because they are spongy, the kids can't really play with them as they will tear right apart. That's too bad because I like to let my kiddos play with as much as possible. The plate looks like heavy glass, but is actually a very thin plastic with silver foil detailing. I'm not a fan of silver, so I'll be switching out the plate with something from my own collection eventually. Overall, I am very happy with the food replicas. So happy that a few more things ended up on my Christmas list, but I'll post about that in the future.
How did I find these? I was browsing on Amazon one day looking for milk glass collector's guide books. I found a great selection and then - out of curiosity - decided to type in milk glass. Well, I did in fact find a great selection of milk glass, but also these fake glasses of milk! 😂 My birthday was coming up, and the rest is history.
To order your own, go to Amazon and search 'Discount Warehouse'. There you can find cookies like these, or all sorts of fabulous food replicas.
Kitchen Tree
The only thing different about this tree is the handful of yummy looking ornaments that have been recently added - post coming soon!
You can click here or here to see more of my holiday kitchen decor.
Tree & China Cabinet
I was concerned that with my new cabinet, I wouldn't be able to fit my kitchen tree in anymore. But as you can see, it worked out fine. I really like the way that the glass panels reflect the dining room tree. But don't look too long, I've got a whole entire and separate post dedicated to this cabinet 😀
Kitchen Tree #2
I decided to add a string of lights to this little tree and keep it on one of our kitchen counters this year. To be fail, the tree is only about a foot and a half tall, so it's not like I went and put two whole trees in the kitchen. Because that would be crazy, right???? 😉
Dining Room
I was going to do a whole project this year that involved adding personal photo ornaments to this tree. Last year Dollar Tree had gold sparkly snowflake photo ornament frames that were sold in packs of two for $1. I had been planning on buying a few sets and adding family pictures to the dining room tree, but the ornaments are not currently available. I've decided to wait it out and see what I can find this summer.
Until then, I ended up weeding out a few ornaments that I no longer cared for. I pulled about eight red ornaments as I prefer that the tree be just chocolate and gold.
You can click here to see how the tree looked during previous years.
Dining Room Village
I didn't make any changes to the village this year, but you can click here or here to read more about this cute little town.
Festive Dollhouse
Before I talk about the kid's tree, lets look at how Baby Girl decorated her Lalaloopsy dollhouse. I love the colorful lights, but my favorite part is the tiny tree in the living room corner. Complete with lights this tree absolutely makes the decor of the house complete.
Complete...opposite of incomplete...as in; our dining room village is incomplete because the little decorated tree is missing. Oh, wait...never mind...😁
Kids Tree
And here we have the kid's tree decorated in a rainbow of colors. Baby Girl herself requested that this tree have rainbow ornaments, so I scouted around treasure hunting and found all of these for a total of $3.
Come in and take a look at my current holiday decor:
Other than adding our yearly ornaments and newly wrapped gifts, our living room tree has stayed the same. I'll share the ornaments in an upcoming post, but for now you can click here or here to see more about our living room decor.
I did add a bit of 'refreshment' to the coffee table though..........
To me nothing says holiday magic like cookies and milk left out for Santa! I received two sets of faux cookies and milk for my birthday, and I think they are my absolute favorite holiday decor items!
Side Note: For a lot of people, the most important decorative item would probably be a nativity scene. I am not personally a religious person (spiritual, not religious), but I do think it's important to include those who are 😀
Here you can see the faux cookie and milk sets in better lighting. The sets come packaged with one glass of milk, one plate and either two chocolate chip or two gingerbread men cookies. The milk glasses are real glass, heavy and look amazing. The cookies look great, but are made of spongy material instead of the hard plastic I was hoping for. Because they are spongy, the kids can't really play with them as they will tear right apart. That's too bad because I like to let my kiddos play with as much as possible. The plate looks like heavy glass, but is actually a very thin plastic with silver foil detailing. I'm not a fan of silver, so I'll be switching out the plate with something from my own collection eventually. Overall, I am very happy with the food replicas. So happy that a few more things ended up on my Christmas list, but I'll post about that in the future.
How did I find these? I was browsing on Amazon one day looking for milk glass collector's guide books. I found a great selection and then - out of curiosity - decided to type in milk glass. Well, I did in fact find a great selection of milk glass, but also these fake glasses of milk! 😂 My birthday was coming up, and the rest is history.
To order your own, go to Amazon and search 'Discount Warehouse'. There you can find cookies like these, or all sorts of fabulous food replicas.
The only thing different about this tree is the handful of yummy looking ornaments that have been recently added - post coming soon!
You can click here or here to see more of my holiday kitchen decor.
I was concerned that with my new cabinet, I wouldn't be able to fit my kitchen tree in anymore. But as you can see, it worked out fine. I really like the way that the glass panels reflect the dining room tree. But don't look too long, I've got a whole entire and separate post dedicated to this cabinet 😀
I decided to add a string of lights to this little tree and keep it on one of our kitchen counters this year. To be fail, the tree is only about a foot and a half tall, so it's not like I went and put two whole trees in the kitchen. Because that would be crazy, right???? 😉
I was going to do a whole project this year that involved adding personal photo ornaments to this tree. Last year Dollar Tree had gold sparkly snowflake photo ornament frames that were sold in packs of two for $1. I had been planning on buying a few sets and adding family pictures to the dining room tree, but the ornaments are not currently available. I've decided to wait it out and see what I can find this summer.
Until then, I ended up weeding out a few ornaments that I no longer cared for. I pulled about eight red ornaments as I prefer that the tree be just chocolate and gold.
You can click here to see how the tree looked during previous years.
I didn't make any changes to the village this year, but you can click here or here to read more about this cute little town.
Before I talk about the kid's tree, lets look at how Baby Girl decorated her Lalaloopsy dollhouse. I love the colorful lights, but my favorite part is the tiny tree in the living room corner. Complete with lights this tree absolutely makes the decor of the house complete.
Complete...opposite of incomplete...as in; our dining room village is incomplete because the little decorated tree is missing. Oh, wait...never mind...😁
And here we have the kid's tree decorated in a rainbow of colors. Baby Girl herself requested that this tree have rainbow ornaments, so I scouted around treasure hunting and found all of these for a total of $3.
Tiny Rainbow.
Ok, so I found the ornaments, but will they stay on the tree? I mean, really? Let's face it, that tree is going to end up on it's side eventually (has happened 6 times so far at the time of this writing). So how am I going to decorate a tree for the kids and put it in their room?
Drum roll please.....pipe cleaners! I'll wire that stuff to the tree, that's what I'll do 😉
Pipe Cleaner Strategy
By using pipe cleaners, I was able to group the rainbow ornaments into sets of threes and wire them directly to the tree. I've used this technique before in making wreaths and even for attaching the chocolate/ gold combinations to my living room tree. But, never before has it been such a life saver! Each time the kid's tree 'accidentally' falls over, I just pick it back up ornaments and all. Everything stays right in place, easy peasy!
You can click here to see more about those wreaths that I mentioned.
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That's all for now, I hope you enjoyed this holiday post! Thanks for stopping by!
By using pipe cleaners, I was able to group the rainbow ornaments into sets of threes and wire them directly to the tree. I've used this technique before in making wreaths and even for attaching the chocolate/ gold combinations to my living room tree. But, never before has it been such a life saver! Each time the kid's tree 'accidentally' falls over, I just pick it back up ornaments and all. Everything stays right in place, easy peasy!
You can click here to see more about those wreaths that I mentioned.
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That's all for now, I hope you enjoyed this holiday post! Thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer
© Jennifer Adams Flowers 2016
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