Christmas Vignettes from Years Past

While I am in quarantine awaiting my return to the hospital midweek for a  further testing procedure, I have been perusing my photos of the past for Christmas inspiration. The kids are coming to celebrate both Thanksgiving and Christmas the week of Thanksgiving  so instead of waiting til Thanksgiving weekend to Yule up the house, I really need to start , hopefully,  by next weekend! I decided I needed a good game plan! 

So today I am sharing some  vignettes around the house that have helped in the past to add joy and merriment to our home.. And because of covid they would be new to the kids.  I don’t know if you were like me during covid, but a bit if extra creativity was born out of those holiday hours  of separation. 

I really like how those red berry picks stand out against the white mums in the above  planter… I hopeI  can find all those elements! 

That hall cabinet is a relatively new piece of furniture and during covid. I had great fun creating this homage to  Christmas teatime! I actually got the idea for this from my visit at Open Door, Open Window, Pam’s vignette was blue and totally charming!

Again, due to covid, we took time to declutter the basement storeroom and found the boxes containing the Christmas house collection!The grands have never seen them, so they must be on the mantel this year! Note to self, find the extension cords!

One of my favorite decorating escapades of last year was doing a bit in the den, even if it did come together without a lot of planning!  This year after watching so many wonderful vlogs I would love to beef up the garland and also do both windows.. haha last year it seemed fine to just do the north facing window.  Yes, I hope to do both windows this time!  And apply a bit more consideration on making those garlands statement pieces!

And, last, but not least, if I do not get around putting up a tree, I could just resort to this!  I do remember that the tree lights still shone gloriously through the front window,  which for me is pretty important!