My Christmas [Room] Tour...

...but what about an entire home tour like the rest of the bloggers? You ask. My reply: Sorry, but I'm just not that ambitious right now. Maybe next year you'll get the whole thing [ but I've gotta leave something to the imagination, right?!]. However, until then... I did straighten-up [parts of] one room for a few photos to share!

I keep my colors pretty simple: silver, white and green with little blue accents. I love filling bowls with ornaments. It's a great trick if you want to showcase a special ornament [the blue ornament is my favorite, but it's really old so I don't trust hanging it on the tree...]

And here's the television [which is also a bit of a focal point in the room]. We are honest with ourselves and with others and accept the fact that we enjoy watching tv. Therefore, rather than hide it... we choose to dress it up instead!

Here is a little trick that makes me really happy: use stocking hangers to display ornaments [they're never strong enough to hold the weight of stocking anyway!]. I love this JOY moment... see the ornament with the tag? It was made by my super sweet nieces and I'll never take that tag off because everytime I see it I think of how much I love them. In my opinion it's those little things that make the holidays even more special!

And here's our tree. Yes, the angel is bowing her head in prayer [not slouching over because I need to prop her up again!]. I don't go crazy about making my tree perfect. Maybe that's because I have a one year old who likes to pull-off ornaments [probably not... ]. 

I have a metal tree on the wall and I decided to make it festive this year. First I added ornaments. Then a couple strands of silver garland. That's when my super hero hubby said, "You do realize that isn't a real Christmas tree, right?" I think he was worried that I would add lights as well!

More Christmas cheer on the China Cabinet. [Here's an I Spy Moment: find the tiny yellow soccer ball. My son had stuck it in the silver bowl of ornaments pictured above, so I moved it to get it out of the photo. It managed to sneek into this one instead!] 

Yes, you've seen the hanging ornaments already. Here they are again!

And finally... another simple decorating idea: fill vases with silver ornaments, then add one bright ornament for a pop of color. This little vintage pink-striped ornament is just perfect [to me at least]!

Hope you enjoyed my one-room Christmas tour!!