holiday home tour...

warning...alert, alert. this post if photo-heavy!

i love christmas and i'm not ashamed to show it...lol!

frame wall number 2. this wall only took about 3 years to come to fruition. we did our first frame wall several years ago, and i finally just jumped in one day this summer and made my hubby help me put it up!

for the holidays, we pop different decorations into the empty frames.

papier mache numbers from hobby lobby...

still debating on whether i want to add a border of silver glass glitter around the front edge of each...thoughts?

this is frame wall number 1.


santa's key. since we live in a tiny house with no fireplace, we have to have an alternative for santa to get in. each christmas eve, the girls hang the key on the outside of the front screen door for santa to use. try as they might, the girls can't get the key to fit in the front door lock...only santa and his magic can make that work.

vintage christmas light reflectors...

my santa collection...

sometimes, i sit and admire the tree with just the lights...beauty.

my elves...




our stockings...

this glass knob hanging "shelf" thing-a-ma-jig has served us well over the years. it's perfect for the 4 of us.

each girl has a rhinestone initial clipped to their stocking for easy identification and no arguing about who's is who's.

yep...getting close!! (i think by the time this posts, it will be about 28 days to go...)

a bunch of random stockings i've collected. the onlyone that actually belongs to me is the "aja" stocking. you can't see them in the pic, but the 2 stockings on the end say "shawn" and "steven". do i know shawn and steven? nope...sure don't. but their stockings were too cool to pass up.

christmas card holder...



bedroom...



and finally, i had to include these pics. we have these large, heavy, cracked-glass ornaments that i don't put out every year. my hubby seems to like them, and told me that he wanted them out this year. i told him he had to find something to do with them.

so...he decided to go all martha stewart and make some sort of arrangement with the balls and some leftover floral picks.

i give him points for effort...

holiday home tour...

sneak peeks...

if you know me at all, you know that i am absolutely, positively, one million percent, head over heels, madly in love with christmas.

i adore it! it is by far my favorite time of year. i always put my decor out early (this year it was 2 weeks ago...lol) and i savor it throughout the holiday season.

here are a few sneaks of what you'll find around my house.

check back this weekend for the full post.

raking...

leaves?

screw that!

just use the leafblower...

and then? jump away!


favorite!

fall happenings...

i know...

i'm a bit late, but, what are you gonna do?

here's a rundown of all of our fall & halloween happenings...

we hosted our 6th annual haywood hayride...

and for the first time in about 3 years, we actually got around to carving the pumpkins we picked on our hayride.

this is not one of our pumpkins. it's my cousin's. pumpkin "pi". love it!

a couple shots of our decor. we had a lot of halloween decor out, but this is the only one i took a pic of.

i'm bad about snapping those random, around-the-house-every-day pictures. i need to get better. especially since it's so easy with my phone.

and i know this is not halloween, but it was put up in october. i am absolutely, head-over-heels, madly in love with christmas! can't wait for it! we are never home for thanksgiving. so my poor little house doesn't even know it exists. it just thinks christmas trees naturally follow pumpkins.

we took the girls to foy's...a local strip of halloween stores. costumes, grim reaper on stilts, haunted ambulances, free candy...what more could they ask for?

and of course, trick-or-treating. the girls almost always pick the same or very similar costumes. ashlyn was a spider bride and jaden was a spider witch.

we live in a tiny neighborhood...like 8 houses. and we have the only kids. so our first stop, before heading to my aunt's neighborhood, is the next door neighbor's house. they buy candy just for the girls and love seeing them every year.

then, we hit my aunt's neighborhood. this is the crew that went out to score candy. (that's my aunt in the toy story alien costume) the 2 big kids took the rest of the kiddos around while we hung out in my aunt's driveway with all her neighbors and passed out candy. loved it.

oh, did i mention i'm a candy sorter? and...all this and only one bag of peanut m&m's?!? wth!?