Christmas Tour

The women at church got together last week for a "Christmas House Tour" of three homes. We tried doing it last year but had to cancel because of snow. It snowed a little Wednesday night but thankfully the weather was good for Thursday. My house was our last stop.

My entry table.

I stayed with a simpler theme this year. Mostly fresh greenery, pine cones (which I painted the tips white), candles, etc.

Stockings hung on the mantle. I wanted to sew new stockings this year but didn't get around to it. Something about not being able to thread my sewing machine just put a damper on my plans. Hopefully next year.

This is the first year none of my children's ornaments went on the tree. Seth put his baseball ornaments on the tree last year but since he is out of the house I didn't put them on this year. Sarah took most of hers with her after Thanksgiving. Well, I found out that without the kid's ornaments I really don't have any. I just used some Shiny Brites I found at an estate sale and a few other balls, spray painted white snow flakes and of course Spangler candy canes. Spangler candy canes are a must for me since my mom and grandfather worked at Spangler Candy Company way back in the day when I was a little girl and we lived in Ohio. I wanted to hang some more of my vintage ornaments but dropped one and broke it so decided to put them elsewhere. My tree may be a little bare but I'm not sure what else I want on it so I'll leave it for now.

I put Granny's old ornaments on a tiered server with greenery and pine cones.

I love these ornaments.

My living room coffee table. Beth told me when they left my house after the tour Katelan said she liked my silver tree and silver dog. How sweet. She played with Riley.

Fresh greenery I cut and it still had the pine cones.

My dining room hutch. Just greenery, pine cones and white ornaments in the dining room.

Instead of doing a deep cleaning to my house before the "Christmas House Tour" I spent a few hours baking a gingerbread house and decorating it. This is the third year of making one and I used a different pattern this year. Besides being in a hurry on Thursday and some of it not being as neat as I would have liked it turned out well. It smells so good.

From this angle someone said it looked like a church. Hmmm, maybe next year I will look for a church pattern.

Just like the women at church loved going around and visiting a few homes and seeing everyone's decorations I love going around to all the blogs and seeing decorations. This is my first year but I'll be linking to a few blog parties.

2011 Virtual Holiday House Party at Jenniferrizzo.com

2011 Christmas Home Tours @ The Inspired Room

2011 Christmas Tour of Homes at The Nesting Place