This past weekend we hosted a Christmas potluck dinner with some of my husband's co-workers and their spouses. My husband took on the cooking so I just had to focus on getting the house decorated. The party was definitely the push I needed to get all of my Christmas decorating done ahead of the holidays! The dinner was a lot of fun and definitely got us excited for next week.
Since my husband sees his co-workers everyday, we decided to just e-mail out the invitations. Here is an example of what I put together...
In the window bay, I hung the two wreaths I made last year along with some mini trees that my niece helped me decorate last year with some small pearls on wire.
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And here are the Christmas decorations I put up in the dining room….
I added some burlap bows to the hanging candleholders in our dining room. As you can tell, I love burlap. Our house has an open floor plan so the burlap in the dining room tied in well with the burlap wreaths I made for the living room {see here}.
For the table centerpiece, I made a wood box and filled it with a garland and various pinecone and berry bushes and trim that I picked up from Michael's. The box is made of three pine boards (two 1 x 4 x 8 boards for the sides and one 1 x 6 x 8 for the bottom). I cut the boards to be 3 1/2 feet long and then stained them using the Varathane stain I had left over from the photo ledge I made earlier this month {see here}. After three coats of stain, I simply screwed the boards together.
I was really happy with the end result and figure I can fill the box with other decorations throughout the year depending on the season.
In the window bay, I hung the two wreaths I made last year along with some mini trees that my niece helped me decorate last year with some small pearls on wire.
For the buffet, I simply switched out the potpourri in the candleholders with some Christmas potpourri from Home Goods.
The napkin rings are just ribbon and pearl trim that I had from previous projects.
Now that the house is all decorated, I just need to get my Christmas shopping done!
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