ta boot

Can you stand it? They are Celia by Frye. Are you listening Santa baby? Size 8 in either shade of brown.... I know a girl can dream though, right? How about I just agree to cash in all my holiday/birthday chips for a while...

fireplace scapes

I've seen dozens of holiday mantle posts lately that are so pretty and inspiring but it got me to thinking... what am I going to do when the rush of the holiday decor is a fresh memory on January 1st and I'm left with a naked house?

  

*via canadian house and home, elle decor, pink wallpaper

snow and such

I feel like sometimes obvious rooms and spaces are overlooked when it comes to holiday decorating. This year I just added a couple of subtle festive touches to our master bedroom. 

My salvation army chair is warmed up with a red silk pillow. 

I ordered these teeny Pottery Barn stockings when Nick and I were first married. 

We got a good laugh at them when they arrived- we've since upgraded to the standard issue size ; ) but now they have a fun spot above our respective sides of the bed. 

my photo shoot was totally crashed 

a fresh wreath hangs on the door to our balcony. 

and speaking of balcony here's what it looked like out there Saturday morning. 

I was so excited to see what the property looked like with it's first significant snow of the season. 

I'm so thankful to be in this beautiful home, with my sweet little family. 

a very swedish christmas

A lovely Swedish home decked out in subtle, pretty Christmas neutrals. I love how clean and soft everything comes across. 

holiday here part 1

I hope everyone had a perfect Thanksgiving holiday! We got tons done around here including picking up our first, real Christmas tree. With the larger house this year we knew we'd need a bigger tree than the one we'd had since our apartment dwelling days. I hadn't had a real tree since I was really little but I just remembered them smelling so, so good so I talked Nick into it. 

The "old" tree found a nice home in our living room and to my delight it gave me a reason to have a "fun tree" one that I can change around year to year and not feel married to it's ornaments. The new, real Fraser Fir family tree went in our 4 seasons room and I love passing through with that tree scent wafting through the air. 

My version of the book wreath also makes it's debut here. For those of you who haven't made one it was almost therapeutic carefully tearing apart the book and methodically putting the wreath together- I highly recommend it. Thanks to Nick for watching Lucy all afternoon Sunday so I could finally make one =)

I also opted for real garland and wreaths (also smells divine) inside this year but I've already learned that I may have pulled the trigger a little early on that so we'll see if it makes it to Christmas. Either way I love it! I'll post again soon with pictures of our holiday bedrooms and foyer.

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