Courtney’s Holiday Home Made Lovely
Welcome to Holiday Home Made Lovely
a little collection of previous Home Made Lovely blogger’s that have come back to share how they make their homes lovely…for the holidays.
Hello! My name is Courtney and I blog over at A Cottage Family. I blog about my family, crafts,and my love for vintage. My blog has been pretty quiet for the last few months but I’m not gone for good! I was so happy to be a part of Heather’s home tour last Spring. I’m not the type that decorates much for every holiday that comes around but Christmas is one I get excited about! We live in a pretty tiny house with tiny rooms to boot! Most of my decorating goes into our living/dining room. It’s the hub of the house and where we live most of the time.
But first welcome! My sled and skates are my Christmas time standby. Cute and easy and involving no electricity! (My luck with getting Christmas lights to actually light up out there this year is zilch!)
I’ve seen these little toy trucks with the trees all over the web and thought I’d add one to my decor this year. They are so cute I want to put a tree on every car my kids have!
The corner by the door holds the Advent calendar, a Pottery Barn knockoff I made a few years ago. I still need to stuff it with goodies, mostly activities for the kids and a few candies here and there. It was lost until today so I am a bit behind on getting it filled!
Little vignettes on my kitchen shelves. A card from Heather’s shop…I love it! Such a beautiful reminder that it is Jesus that we are celebrating this season and everyday! Little DIY snow globes and miniscule deers decorating my plants.
Jars full of Christmas treats tempt little hands and mine on the kitchen counter. A “Merry” banner and the number 25 are reminders of the season on my window.
Well, that is just a little peak at my home during the Christmas season! Thank you Heather for inviting me to be a part of this fun little series!
Merry Christmas to you friends!
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
a little collection of previous Home Made Lovely blogger’s that have come back to share how they make their homes lovely…for the holidays.
Hello! My name is Courtney and I blog over at A Cottage Family. I blog about my family, crafts,and my love for vintage. My blog has been pretty quiet for the last few months but I’m not gone for good! I was so happy to be a part of Heather’s home tour last Spring. I’m not the type that decorates much for every holiday that comes around but Christmas is one I get excited about! We live in a pretty tiny house with tiny rooms to boot! Most of my decorating goes into our living/dining room. It’s the hub of the house and where we live most of the time.
But first welcome! My sled and skates are my Christmas time standby. Cute and easy and involving no electricity! (My luck with getting Christmas lights to actually light up out there this year is zilch!)
This little scene is in our living room on the right just after you walk in. Well, everything is just after you walk in really. I found a new to me side of the road t.v. cabinet a few months ago so this old red one moved here. On the top is a painting my Dad did years ago when my oldest son was a baby. It is a Christmas scene and always gets displayed prominently during this season. My sister in law is also an artist and every year she hand carves stamps of a different Christmas scene and stamps out her Christmas cards! They are beautiful and hang on the doorway to our bedroom!
The cubby is filled with painted pine cones and the sweetest little Christmas houses! If I could fill my house with pine cones and teeny tiny houses I would. The musical nativity is one I recently found at an estate sale and just had to keep. It reminds me of one I grew up with that my Mom still displays.
I changed things up a bit on my big wall this year. I usually have a big wall map hanging right over my dining table. I really love my wall map but I really love to mix it up too. I get bored with my decor pretty quickly. The other day as I was lazily scrolling through the latest pins on Pinterest I happened upon one that dear Heather herself had pinned! They were for digital downloads of Christmas chalk art from a really cool store called Caravan Shoppe. Well, I was all over that and quickly had some printed at my local Costco! The map got rolled up and my temporary Christmas art had a home! Some fresh garland and the globe lights that have lived there since last Christmas round it out and it is my new favorite wall in the house.
This is our vintage Nativity scene. It’s a little wonky, the roof needs to be glued down but we love it. I found it last year and when I came home with it my husband told me it was the same one his Grandma used to have. I love it when things work out like that! It is surrounded by houses that a family member made. They all light up and are really beautiful.
It is always a squeeze to fit a tree in our living room. This year we had to move a chair out to put the tree in. We can’t go huge but I love the sparse Charlie Brown variety! We pack on the ornaments and my kids have it down to a science balancing five ornaments on the tip of one branch! We have a basket of Christmas books under the tree for the kids to grab whenever they want. I wanted to try the wrapped books that they could open every day of Advent this year but my daughter thought it was a little silly since she already knew what most of the books were! Pretty good logic for a five year old! The plastic light up choir girl is a little bit of kitsch that I love. Last year she lived in the kitchen, this year under the tree!
I usually don’t put wrapped presents under the tree until Christmas Eve night because I’m afraid my kids would be too tempted to sneak a peek. I couldn’t resist dressing up the tree a bit with a few though. This year I’m trying out little photos for my present tags. The gift in the front is for all three kids hence the photo with all of them. They caught on pretty quickly which gifts were for them!
I’ve seen these little toy trucks with the trees all over the web and thought I’d add one to my decor this year. They are so cute I want to put a tree on every car my kids have!
A shot of almost the whole room! Even though it is small it is still so hard to get a shot of the entire space.
The corner by the door holds the Advent calendar, a Pottery Barn knockoff I made a few years ago. I still need to stuff it with goodies, mostly activities for the kids and a few candies here and there. It was lost until today so I am a bit behind on getting it filled!
Little vignettes on my kitchen shelves. A card from Heather’s shop…I love it! Such a beautiful reminder that it is Jesus that we are celebrating this season and everyday! Little DIY snow globes and miniscule deers decorating my plants.
Jars full of Christmas treats tempt little hands and mine on the kitchen counter. A “Merry” banner and the number 25 are reminders of the season on my window.
Well, that is just a little peak at my home during the Christmas season! Thank you Heather for inviting me to be a part of this fun little series!
Merry Christmas to you friends!
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
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