Om Monday, I shared our colorful Christmas decorations with a mixture of fresh winter greenery, if you missed the post click here to read it. I've gathered some pretty Holiday inspirations to help kick off your decorations and put a new spin of traditional Holiday decorating. 

Hang Wreaths Everywhere
Wreaths look pretty hung over a mirror, inside a window, over interior doors, in the kitchen and in your kids rooms. They look pretty everywhere

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Hang Fresh Garland 
In my house I hung fresh garland above our front door entry and over over our doorway. Its amazing how pretty fresh Christmas greenery looks in your house. Consider hanging it above windows and doorways, on your staircase and draped over your fireplace. Add extra glam to it by hanging ribbons, ornaments and holiday cards from it.  

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Create Garlands & Mistletoe with Felt
Felt looks so pretty and festive transformed into garland hanging from windows, on your tree or banisters or even turned into a kissing ball. The ideas are endless. 

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Add Pretty Bows & Gift Tags
Make presents feel extra special buy wrapping the gift in a pretty Bow

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I hope you enjoyed a few fun ideas to add to your Holiday Decor this Christmas. If your looking for more ideas for your home, check out my Holiday Pinterest Board. 

Holiday Gift Guide: Toddler

Hi Everyone! I've kicking off my gift guide series for the 2013 with the Toddler Edition. I love finding unique and fun Toddler and sometimes retro inspired gifts for Avery that we have hours of fun playing together. 

All the toys in my holiday gift guide for toddlers are available online at Amazon. I love online shopping and do most of it at Amazon, because I love their fast shipping and hard to beat low prices.  Also check out Diapers.com for some of the toys listed below, I've also ordered from them before and was shocked how fast items arrived! [As also before you buy, Google the item to make sure your getting the best price before you buy!] 

Decking Our Halls with Color

For our Christmas decorations this year I wanted to take a colorful approach with a mixture of fresh winter greenery by using lots of wreaths and garland in our home inside and out! Lets begin our Christmas tour with the front of our home. I'm still head over heels in love with painting our front door a shade of Chartreuse and knew it would look perfect paired with a fresh green wreath & simple green ribbon finished off with a bow. I bought one spool of 2 inch wide ribbon from Walmart for only $1.79, and used a cream plastic wreath holder concealed with ribbon. 

I found the pretty wreath at Lowes and added a few left over sprigs of greenery from our Thanksgiving centerpiece to add little more texture. I wanted to keep the outside of our house festive and simple, so I left the wreath and garland bring all the Holiday Cheer In. 

For the first time ever, we added Christmas light outside, loving the happy glow it brings to our outside, I hope to get a good picture of our house at night and share on Instragram. If your on Instragram follow me @mrsclh 

Its Getting There

Since moving back in our home a few months ago after re-building our house due to a fire, I've been in the constant state of bouncing around from various projects [did you notice that too?] I work on areas around on home verses completing an entire room then going to the next project. Mostly due to what's on sale and priority of need etc. Our living room hasn't received much love love in the past few months. Which is odd because its the first room you walk into when you enter our home, its also where we spend our time as a family since our small rancher has no separate family room.  

So far we've added a pair of matching sofas, added a grey Dhurrie rug with a large scale print and sprayed painted a coffee table found via Criagslist. I also recently refinished a vintage campaign dresser I found out a antique store, that we're now using as our TV Stand. We found that all the drawers in the dresser are the perfect size to hold our constant growing DVD collection. I few weeks ago I painted the inside of our front door a deep grey. The new interior color adds so much color in our living room and helps define our small entry. 

With the long Holiday weekend, I wanted to knock some things off my to do list. Namely making our living room feel more like us and a little more like home. Before I share our living rooms recent new additions, lets look at how far our living room has come this year. Earlier this year our living room was completely gutted down to the studs along with our entire home. During the rebuilding phase of our home, we decided to widen our doorway between our living room and dining and kitchen, I'm so happy we did this! This change makes a huge difference, our home now feels more open and even bigger. 

Our living room after being dry walled and our new door hung, love how you can start seeing our home taking shape again. 

Finally our living room right before more in, lots of blank walls and good bones. 

Our Modern Thanksgiving Table

As promised last Wednesday, today I'm sharing our Modern Thanksgiving Dining room. I hope everyone had a Thankful & yummy Thanksgiving weekend! To be honest, I'm still a little stuffed from turkey and pie overload [I'm thinking its a good thing lol] This year we stayed home for Thanksgiving a first for our family and it also marked our first Thanksgiving since moving back into our home a few months ago. For our dining room table, I took a more modern approach by using colors we already had: shades of aquas and chartreuse. Now with our new vintage dining room able, we're able to seat six, which is perfect since we had a small Thanksgiving dinner with my sister and nephew.