Christmas Decor

As promised, here are a few shots of my living room decorated for the holiday season featuring a few new "old" items I've gathered over the past few weeks. (Yes, there are two cats and a dog in the photo - only Dakotah is missing... this area is a favorite napping spot).

Our floor to ceiling tyndall stone fireplace was draped with the usual greenery, but instead of hanging small ornaments from it as I have done in past years, I added my antique horse / oxen yoke to the mantle and hung two stockings from it's rusty hooks on each end. A few thrift shop felt cardinals and some large pine cones are all that's needed to finish it off.

Oh, that framed piece is a two layer cross stitch I did many years ago; it only comes out at the holidays...

... along with my cross stitch Santa hanging in the entranceway.

Of course I couldn't wait to add my antique sled to the fireplace display... I attached some rope, greenery, antique wooden skates and the old authentic sleigh bells.

Even those $ 10 antlers got a sprucing up with a suede cover, rough rope and a few gold ornaments to celebrate the season:

I've finished my baking and decorating, my cards are in the mail, the turkey is in the freezer - now I can concentrate on finishing shopping and starting wrapping... whew!

Oh, you want to see my cards for this year? Well I made 30 of these:

The stamp is from Stampendous, and when I saw it earlier this summer, I just KNEW I wanted to use it for this year's Christmas cards. I used Copics to colour it in, added a trim using a Martha Stewart punch and a small baker's twine bow.

The "Special Delivery" was cut using my Cricut; it is from the "Sentimentals" cartridge -- a perfect saying to add since that is the name of the stamp!

Now where's that shopping list I started?

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