Holiday Open House - Disney Tree

Here's our Disney themed tree. We've always brought back ornaments from our trips to Disney World and when we remodeled our basement I knew I wanted to have a tree down there to hold them all.  Once we decided to have a Disney tree we made it our mission to collect more ornaments on our trips. We started in EPCOT and tried to find an ornament in every country around World Showcase.  Here are some of them.

This sleeping gnome from Norway.

This Nordic heart is also from Norway.

Flannel clad Mickey from Canada.

An Eiffel Tower key chain from France

A thong slipper from Japan.

And this little beauty.

Our animal birth years from China (this one is Year of the Dog).

A pillow ornament from the UK.

This sweet angel from Germany.

This one is a bugger to photograph but it's a beautiful Murano glass Nativity from Italy.

A parrot from Mexico

 A little girl from Mexico.

To represent The Seas in Future World we got a set of Finding Nemo ornaments.

 We were smitten by these Disney cuties.

These "vintage" ornaments were from my husband's childhood tree.  Aren't they sweet?

Of course we had to get one from our trip to Disneyland last year.

And from our favorite WDW Resorts,

This Santa has a Mickey in his bag.

The Sorcerer's hat from Hollywood Studios.

Cool glittery Mickey.

A set of plastic (easy to carry home on the plane) ornaments helped us fill in the tree.

This was from our trip last month.  The flannel pattern was all over WDW in clothes, slippers, purses, etc.

And I snagged this animal print key chain from Animal Kingdom.

We even found a Disney tree topper! The only bummer is that it's battery operated and you need a screwdriver to open the battery compartment so it's not lit up too often.

Read more about our Disney adventures here.

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Quick Decoration with a Twist

 Just adding to my peppermint obession this season.

Take a simple soup tureen

And a few boxes of these....

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And you've got this!

Total cost $4.50 and we'll use the candy canes for snacking, recipes and cute Valentines decorations like this.

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Holiday Open House - The Mantel

Here's the holiday mantel. I left up most of the creamy white pieces from Halloween and Thanksgiving and added in red accents with my Ikea finds.

I didn't buy anything new except the few things from Ikea. I'm loving all that fresh red and white this year!

How does it look in black and white?

I wrapped some books in red and white paper and tied them up with a bow. Most of the white pieces are from thrift stores.

The stocking hangers are from Pottery Barn.

I moved the red K up from the hearth and put it front of the mirror for a pop of color.  This Santa ornament was a gift from friends, years ago..I never put him on the tree because he's so huge and fragile. I like how he's presiding over the mantel now. I put some Styrofoam balls and ornaments in the little cheese dome cloche to look like snow balls.

A white bird sits in her nest in this cloche. The little red candle was from a Christmas store in Montreal. It's to be put in your window on Christmas eve and you make a wish. If the candle burns out in the night, the wish will come true. The mercury glass tea light holder is from Anthropologie. I found a similar one at Good Will.

The lanterns and red and white candle are from Ikea and were my inspiration this year.

These cones are from Ikea too. I didn't know what I'd do with them but I had to have them.

I also added some mittens to the garland (they were Starbucks gift card holders from a few years ago).

Our stockings are from Pottery Barn Kids. The kids have had a few different stockings through the years but I wanted all of ours to coordinate and these reminded me of the ones my grandmother knitted for us when we were kids.  The scary angels under the mantel really work with the season.

I'm also using the letter blocks that my daughter started for me.

They've already been switched out with new words, but that's the fun of it!!

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A Stroll Thru Life Christmas Cloche Party

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