Garth and I put up our Christmas decorations the other day. We have four Christmas trees around the house, leaving only the bathroom, computer room (soon to be nursery), and tv-ish room without. All of this stuff makes me sort of miss last years decorations. But first, the background story.

Garth and I moved to Pensacola last fall. Our possessions took another 3 months to arrive. We lived in a hotel for a month or so, and moved into this house right before Thanksgiving. We had a few bowls, two plates, and plastic utensils. Our landlord lent us a bed until ours arrived, and I had my sewing machine and various other crafting materials. I wasn’t able to find a job right away, and as the story goes, money was tight. So, this is what I did with what I had. It’s so simple and wonderful to me, and I think that I did the whole thing with about $10 or so. I look at our living room now, overflowing with the Christmas things that have been hiding in boxes, and while I like it, it lacks the passion, simplicity, and sentiment of what was there last year.

I learned how to make pom poms and used lots of scrap yearn that I had. Some I strung into garland for the mantel, and some I just left on the mantel with some thrifted plastic deer. I purchased vintage ornaments from a thrift store and hung them on fallen branches from our backyard, using acorns that I’d gathered from the neighborhood, as a foundation. I made a tree out of really thick floral wire and hung our photo strip pictures on them. In the kitchen I hung ornaments and pom poms above the window. We had a tree also, and I hand-stiched a little tree skirt for it, along with some stockings, but I don’t seem to have photos of those. =)

When the house is done this year I’ll be sure to post the 2008 decor edition. =)
Hope all your halls are decked exactly as you’d like!

xo
elle

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