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Signing off for the year and wishing you and yours the merriest Christmas. Praying you’ll feel the gift of His love like never before. (Luke 2:10-11)
Thanks, as always, for reading my blog and for your kindness and encouragement throughout the year. –Emily
As you may have noticed from the small Christmas tour I posted last week, I like to keep things pretty simple. Not too many things–just some extra greenery, a few touches of traditional red and this year, more wooden beads. I did order a few new accessories last month, including a couple of strands of fir and pinecone garland that will hopefully last for years to come and some deep green velvet pillows for our living room.
See our stair runner (before and after) here.
I put this short list together, in case you’re still plan more decorating this month or just shop for bargains after the holidays. (Images are linked to product pages.)
A few iPhone snapshots of our house at Christmas time. You’ll just have to imagine the good smells and Christmas music in the background. . .
Christmas in the Carolinas = green grass and 68 degree days. We tried to step up our outdoor decorating this year. I feel like our house requires wreaths on the windows. . . (We used command hooks to hang them, btw.)
I was hoping he might get stuck there. We weren’t that lucky. . .
My other purchase from the Hearth & Home collection was this candle holder. The flowers were a gift from my friend Carey.
This is the new rug I recently posted about on my Instagram stories. (We moved the Pottery Barn one to the office/dining room–see below.) So far, so good. It’s thicker than the other one and I like the pattern it adds to the room.
Here’s a few shots from our house at Christmas last year–and our last home, from a few years ago.
