Little Christmas Decorating Touches and Practically Free!

Seasons greetings! I hope that you are almost ready for Christmas. I haven't been able to post much with my dad here, but you're probably busy yourselves with little time to read blogs!

Because I didn't have a lot of time to decorate after Thanksgiving, I decided to keep it simple. I also decided to keep it cheap! Most of my decorating items were things that we already have, so I won't bore you with the repetitive details of that, but here are a few small and recently acquired things that I placed around the house.

 Our little addition this year is the wicker doll carriage

that you see below. We purchased it for about $15

at a going-out-of-business sale in a small shop in Flat Rock, NC

when we were up at Birdsong. It was really trashed as they

had it sitting outside, but sweet Mr. Perch put it back together

and gave it a coat of spray paint so that we could bring it

inside for Christmas...

This morning I decorated the covered glass bowl that

often sits on our dining room table (purchased a couple

of years ago from Pottery Barn).

You may or may not know that the bird and nest

that you see in the center of my blog banner were actually

sitting in this bowl when I took the photo that appears

in the banner.

This morning I removed the bird, nest and moss,

filled it with some silver ornaments and decorations,

and inserted copies of old Santa photos from my

collection. I copied four pictures, and glued them

in pairs back-to-back so that you would see them

from all sides.

Cost: Nothing!

And above it hangs our chandelier,

dressed in some simple artificial greenery,

purchased at Michael's for 50% off.

Last year I think we still had our crystal chandelier

hanging, and could not decorate it.

For this one, we cut apart the clusters of

greenery that are meant to put in a pitcher,

and just laid them above the arms of the chandelier...

I don't think that I've ever shared photos of our master

bedroom, mainly because it is not my favorite room in

our house.

Hubby purchased the bedroom set new just prior to

meeting me. It is nice furniture, but more in the craftsman

bungalow style. We will be shortly redecorating more in

tune with our farmhouse preference,

but in the meantime all I did in here was to add the snowflake

ribbon through the spindles on the headboard

(ribbon purchased for 50% off at Michael's),

the stockings, which we already had,

and new shams, chenille pillows, and the plaid throw

(all purchased at Target for cheap).

The "jingle" burlap pillow was purchased

at the craft show that my neighbor and I went to

up in Hendersonville for about $20.

After the New Year, I will take down the stockings, 

and flip the "jingle" pillow to the reverse side,

which shows French script. 

Voila! A winter theme to take us to spring! 

The fabric reindeer were also purchased at Target. 

I think that they were about $20 each.

I splurged a little more on the bedroom 

because I never did much in the way of Christmas decorating

in here before! 

Our friend and neighbor from Hendersonville is coming for a

few days this week to celebrate Christmas with us,

so here is the upstairs guest room,

with just a touch of Christmas.

I also put up a small feather tree in here,

and some decorative things on the night stand,

all stuff that we already had

(not shown in this picture).

Again, simple simple simple!

And in the upstairs guest bathroom

I wanted to do something neutral, simple and quiet,

so in addition to some Christmas-themed bath towels,

I couldn't resist buying this collage frame at Kohl's for 60% off.

It is shabby painted metal, and was the perfect ticket for holding

copies of more of my old Santa photos.

Since the shower curtain and walls are beige,

and I used beige and brown Christmas towels,

I didn't want to go with too much color.

And last but not least, my little studio tree.

One of Miss Phoebe's relatives watches down.

I won't have much time to post now until after the holidays, so I wish you a wonderful season with many blessings!