My {holiday} home

**Welcome to stop #3 on Jennifer Rizzo's virtual holiday home tour**

Welcome to my home ~ all dressed up for the holidays. Come on inside....

Thanks to Donna from Funky Junk Interiors blog for sending her visitors my way.

Where shall we start? Let's get straight to the tree.

We had to replace our tree this year and ended up with a 9 foot, pre-lit artificial tree. It's not quite as wide as our previous tree which is better for our small home.

Our tree is filled with sentimental-gifted and homemade ornaments. The little one helps decorate the tree so we tend to have more ornaments down low, but I never go back and change it~ after all the tree is really for her, not us. ☺

I have a mixture of wide jute ribbon, thick twine, fresh baby's breath and candy canes mixed in. Since taking these pictures I added some French script paper ribbon along with a few large pine cones to the tree (iPhone photo).
No angel or star on top, just a jute ribbon bow. We moved the wine tasting table and kooboo chairs to each side of the tree. Our skirt is a $10 drop cloth from Lowe's.

No gifts under the tree just yet, but we're getting there.

I tried really hard to keep it simple this year and not go full out Griswold Christmas overload in my teeny house {VERY hard for this hoarder~ish girl}. Hence, no holiday decor in the bookshelves, except for the glass block light on the left side. My beloved grain sack tree from Gina's '3 fine grains' giveaway last year {here}.

New stockings from Target, thanks to Rie's cute post here.

Some fresh greens on the mantle {I've since added a few large pine cones and changed out the stockings}. Our large nutcrackers stand guard of the stockings.
Keeping it simple and neutral where ever possible.
Glitter trees on the industrial end tables and a final view looking to the tree at the front of my family room.
Festive~filled ironstone bowl on the coffee table.
The hall tree at the back of the family room where a simple cloche ornament hangs and some fresh greens are strung into the chandy.
Fresh greenery, holiday sparkle and a few traditional Christmas items leave the tree as the main focal point in my family room {click on photo to see full width of room}.
Let's head to the other side of the entry, into the dining room.

A little sparkle under the cloche and a white tree plate on the server. I used to put a large metal tree here to hang my cards but that went against my 'keeping it simple' plan. Any great ideas for displaying holiday cards? I'd love to hear how you display your cards. Fresh greens and sparkle in the light fixture. On the table I have two chicken wire/beaded trees and a gorgeous white flower arrangement that I received at work last week. That's it for the dining room. To the left you can see the front entry and to the right is the kitchen~ let's head on in....
...some snowmen candles on a shelf and the powder bath on the right {click on photo to see full powder bath}. A few simple holiday touches in the powder bath.
The bakers rack received a little holiday love with some fresh greens and two Christmas plates from mom. More pine and another plate in the window above the kitchen sink.

Let's make our final stop in the cozy sun room. A few feathery snowmen up on the shelves...
...and pictures with Santa on the server, which was temporarily moved here to make room for the tree in the family room.
Oh, and an iron tree on the nesting table~ about as simple as I can get.

This wraps up our whopping 4 room tour! I'm going to lounge right here on the daybed and tour all of the other homes. I hope you'll join me while I hop on over to Jennifer's house at Dear Lillie Blog ~ this way!
Thank you for stopping by my little home and thanks so much to Jen for including my home on her virtual tour. Here's to a Christmas holiday filled with love and cheer~ from my home to yours.

Hugs~

Tricia