Last year's colors were blue and white; a winter wonderland theme. The year before that was a pastel Christmas with the apparent theme of NON-traditional. This year I wanted a mix of modern and traditional. I wanted the colors to stand out and be the theme. This year's colors? Red and silver with touches of green.
Our tree this year was a MAJOR fail. I messed up on measuring from the floor to the ceiling. And even when Joel insisted that we could get a bigger tree I had already fallen in love with this one. I've always liked the skinny ones! This is a pretty awful picture of the tree. It's so hard to get it with the lighting. It's mostly red and silver balls; glittery, shiny and matte with several larger novelty ornaments. We also hung clear beaded garland I intentionally bought for wedding decor, but never used. It looks amazing in real life.
Here's a closer look at the ornaments and garland.
And, or course, my wrapping paper matches our Christmas color scheme.
This actually looks quite different now. We've added Christmas mugs that Joel got at our Chicago Cmas party, plates and I made a new centerpiece. Which means that the silver tree with tiny red balls goes back to the corner of the bar where I meant it to be all along.
I used these ornament place card holders as more table decor. I scored 4 of these for $4 at Michaels and made little holiday greeting cards to put inside. This missing 4th in the set is in the garbage, since I had an accident and dropped it!
Our stockings this year are from Target. $9.99 each! Can't beat that! I customized them with our names using iron on printer paper. They're hanging off of silver 3M hooks I just stuck to the wall.
We have a few hanging Cmas plates and wall art, but not too much. One of my favorites is a Cmas basket I picked up to put magazines in. I'm still trying to get accustomed to this MUCH smaller place to decorate. Temporary homes are not too much fun. My sister-in-law had her house decorated SO cute. She wrapped all the frames hanging up on her wall, so they looked like presents. Definitely stealing her idea next year!
And, or course, my wrapping paper matches our Christmas color scheme.
This actually looks quite different now. We've added Christmas mugs that Joel got at our Chicago Cmas party, plates and I made a new centerpiece. Which means that the silver tree with tiny red balls goes back to the corner of the bar where I meant it to be all along.
I used these ornament place card holders as more table decor. I scored 4 of these for $4 at Michaels and made little holiday greeting cards to put inside. This missing 4th in the set is in the garbage, since I had an accident and dropped it!
Our stockings this year are from Target. $9.99 each! Can't beat that! I customized them with our names using iron on printer paper. They're hanging off of silver 3M hooks I just stuck to the wall.
We have a few hanging Cmas plates and wall art, but not too much. One of my favorites is a Cmas basket I picked up to put magazines in. I'm still trying to get accustomed to this MUCH smaller place to decorate. Temporary homes are not too much fun. My sister-in-law had her house decorated SO cute. She wrapped all the frames hanging up on her wall, so they looked like presents. Definitely stealing her idea next year!
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