Most you should recognize it as the song that is being sung in the background of the Clark Griswold attic scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I've loved the song since the first time I heard it twenty five years ago.
Outdoor illumination was first and we lucked out on a nice weekend and we're able to get what lights we wanted up in just a matter of a couple of hours. All the houses in our cul-de-sac put alternating green and red light bulbs in our house light fixtures. Our house is a very tall two story and it's rare we get up on the second story to hang lights. We have put both lights and large evergreen wreaths up on the second story but I made my husband happy this year by saying we wouldn't do this year. This is as good as it's going to get. :)
Of course, as soon as I saw this door mat at Target for $10 bucks, I had to have it.
The Spirit of Christmas is also all through the main floor of our house this year. Funny thing.....the year that I have the time to spend decorating to my heart's content, is the year I decided to scale back a bit and change things up. Some years I put small trees up in our master suite and in the kid's room, but decided not to this year. I think the short amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas (or at least it seems like it's shorter) is one of the reasons I made that decision.
When we moved into this house almost eleven years ago, I bought new Christmas décor to mix in with the heirloom/vintage stuff that I had and kept, but here I am eleven years later and I'm at a point where I'm tired of some of it and want to freshen things up. Don't get me wrong, I still use the things that I hold dear, especially the things my mother either made for me or my family or things she bought me. I also have a couple of different Christmas collections and decided that I was only going to display one of them this year and this year it's the Heartwood Creek Santa collection -
For the almost three decades I've been married and had my own home, my family knows how much I love all things Rudolf, snow globes and Jim Shore Heartwood Creek Santas, so I've been gifted with some beautiful things over the years, but this year I kept my Rudolf stuff and all but just a couple of the snow globes (I must have 25 of them) safely packed away to be brought out next year.
Here's a couple of my favorite snow globes I couldn't keep packed away -
The snow globe on the left was a gift from my husband and son years ago and not only is it musical but it also has a elf/train scene that goes around at the bottom of the globe.
This year is also the first year in at least a decade that I've had a poinsettia. I had always believed that they were poisonous to cats, but recently found out that it's not true, so I had a gift card to use at one of our local greenhouses, so I went and bought this beautiful cream poinsettia. It sits on the small console table in our den.
This is our bar area.....which can be one of the most important areas of the house this time of year. I bought a lemon cypress plant on the left that I tied a woven red bow on and I dressed a bottle of wine in a reindeer costume :) I have the "Merry Kris Moose" cross stitch that my mother made for me for me almost 40 years ago on the wine rack shelf and the red subway graphic canvas below was a Christmas craft I made last year.
I also like to use things in unexpected places, like his glittery present stake and a cinnamon stick Santa. They dress up a house plant perfectly for the holiday.
A couple of things I use in the kitchen during the holidays are my Fitz & Floyd cookie plate and mug that I bought for our son's first Christmas.
Last year I fell in love with a serving plate I saw at Pier1 last year, so I waited until after the holiday and got it for 75% off...SCORE!
I think I'll use it for a cheese platter this year....
I've got some other holiday things to share with you, but I'm afraid it will have to wait for another post. I have to finish up my wrapping and I have a couple more baked goodies to make.
I'll post more later......
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