Deck the Halls!

Last weekend I pulled out my Christmas tree from closet under the stairs and started setting it up. This weekend I turned on some Christmas music and I finally finished putting on the ornaments and decorating the mantel. There are still a few things I need to do (like dress up the stair case with garlands and lights, add more color to the mantel display, and table centerpiece). Here is our fun and colorful tree.

Last year the tree was sparsely decorated with various shades of green and gold ornaments..and when I say sparsely, I mean it was only decorated in the front. hehe. I had just gotten a house earlier that year and so I didn't have much of holiday decorating budget. Most of the decorations were unused items from my parents house, with a few sale items I bought before Christmas. After Christmas last year I bought the blue and magenta ornaments super cheap from Target. Most of the ornaments are still in the front, so I think I will be making another after Christmas ornament purchase this year. :)

On one side of the mantel I created a little display. The glass vases are three candle holders that were used as centerpieces at one of my cousin's wedding. I filled the tall with with glittery gold curly sticks. I have no idea what they are for or where they came from..but I found them in my parent's Christmas decoration stash that they weren't using. The medium height glass is filled with gold holly leaves and gold berry branches. I found that the "stems" were really ugly looking, so I filled the bottom of the vase with a couple of strings of gold beads that you normally hang on your tree. The small vase is filled with gold "sugared" fruit. I had wanted to fill this one up with some mini ornaments, but I ended up using them all on the tree.

That's all I have to share for today. I will post a few more pictures once I have completed all the decorations. Everytime I'm near my tree, I keep moving ornaments around. OCD at its finest. hehe.