Decorating Christmas Tree Blue And Silver

I know, I know. We haven't even gotten to Thanksgiving yet… and I have Christmas up!

Maybe I should move to Canada… I hear that after Halloween, Christmas is the next big holiday 🙂

But let's get real… it's EVERYWHERE you turn now.

Christmas decorations, music, and toy catalogs galore!

So I thought… yup! It's about that time!

Christmas, Here I come 🙂

I've had some of you ask… "Where do you even start, when decorating!?"

It can be a bit overwhelming, I'll admit. Especially when you have LOTS of different ideas floating around in your head.

So I start with a

~~REALLY BAD~~

sketch of what I THINK I might do.

Looks a little something like this…lol

And ends up like this! 🙂

We're not putting up a tree this time around…

so I wanted to make the best out of what I AM decorating, this year!

I really wanted to follow suit with my Halloween idea of NOT using the most obvious color for these big holidays. So for Christmas, I naturally opted out of using "red".

Shock! I know. LOL.
I really DO love red for Christmas, but thought it would be a bit more challenging to see what I could do WITHOUT using red at all!
Um… and Challenging was right. ha!
Believe me, there was more then once when I would be somewhere and would just want to grab some red berries, or a pretty red wreath for my door… but nope! I didn't give in. lol.
I stayed true to my original plan and tried to get creative, using just a handful of winter-y colors, in a classy way 🙂

So I thought I would give you a little breakdown of everything I used, and where I got it from, and such 🙂

First off, the antique window.
Tausha gifted this cute little chippy window to me a few months back, and I KNEW I wanted to use it somewhere for Christmas… so I just hung it directly from the wall, from two screws.
That way I had less "shelf decorating" to do… which was nice, because shelves can sometimes be tricky.
To me, they tend to look "cluttered" if you get too MUCH going on.

When I was stumped with what to use, or where to place things… I made sure to call on my amazing neighbors 🙂

These great dinner napkin "snowballs" on these silver IKEA candlesticks were ALL Keily's idea.
Genius I tell ya! And SO ADORABLE, and inexpensive!
I decided to put my own little twist on them, by scalloping the edges a bit… and I LOVE the way they turned out!
See Full Tutorial, HERE

I knew that using a large phrase on my window would be the "easy" way out, so I decided to try and come up with something different.
Ronda helped me decide on these cute paintable, unfinished wood numbers at Joann's, to place on top of my window… to give it some dimension.
(We just slapped some tape on the back, and pressed them to the window)
Ronda also let me barrow that cute little standing finial next to the berries that she found at the DI.
It was the perfect "space filler" 🙂

Thanks ladies!

Neighbors are great 🙂

These silver berries were purchased at Hobby Lobby at 50% off.. making them .50 cents each…along with the "joy" ornament, that ended up being $1.20.
And I found the white pitcher at Tai Pan Trading, for $2.97.

Like I said before… using a word or phrase on the window was just too predictable… so I designed this Christmas Tree out of a bunch of different scrolls.
You can buy it HERE

The Bottom Shelf :
A couple of these pieces might look a bit familiar to you.
I'm all about reusing what you already have, if you can 🙂

Remember this plate I used for my fun Halloween saying?

Well… I decided to use the same plate, because I loved the slight scallop, and just added a Vintage looking Santa Silhouette, instead!
I opted to make him in silver, instead of black… for a more subtle look.
And then just added some spray painted green pip berries around the bottom of the stand.

Originally I wanted to try and fill the space on the bottom shelf, with LOTS of hanging ornaments, but once I got them all up… there was just… too much going on. LOL. So I narrowed it down to just a few, and went lurking around my own little "store" in my house

aka: A room full to the brim of previously used home decor that I either need to sell,

or use before I buy ONE MORE THING!… as they Hubby says. L OL

And found this plaque!

Here's what it looked like before…

picture from a few years ago

And here it is after 🙂

I just gave it a few coats of semi-gloss white paint, distressed it a bit, using the same technique as I did here, and here… added some olive green vinyl and ta-da! A totally different look!

I set it under the 5 silver hanging ornaments that have letters spelling out "MERRY"

(sorry, those are kind of hard to see, from the picture, because of the reflection)