I got out a few boxes of Christmas decorations this weekend and started decorating!
We don’t have a mantle, so I used whatever surfaces I could find. 🙂 I put our pepermint topiearies from last year on Kate’s toy cabinet and hung our advent calendar above it.
I need to go through and add the cards that say what we’ll do each day, but I’m still loving it.
I put our nativity set on top of the piano. I actually like it a lot here. Before I had it on one of our built in book shelves and it seemed pretty cramped. Here there’s more room to spread out. I have Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus elevated on a Melissa and Doug food crate so they weren’t blocked by the music stand. I have plans to cover the crate with some burlap or something. You know, someday. lol.
I still like the card wreath, at least for now. I’m thinking I’ll remake it at some point with something other than a clothes hanger. It doesn’t stay as a perfect circle… Still, I love the concept.
If the weather isn’t terrible, we have plans to go cut down a Christmas tree this weekend! Our stockings are in with our ornaments. 🙂