Happy Monday, Penny Darlings!

I am currently bopping between, like, nineteen projects. I have five blog things I need to do, invoices & contracts, and shipping and writing and editing photos, and then I also am still wrapping presents and grabbing last minute holiday gifts for everyone and making to-do lists for the rest of the week and where we need to go.

But at this point, I have given up adding anymore Christmas decorations because it will end up taking up my entire house and I have to think about where I’m going to store everything come the end of January!

And I am praying to the Christmas Gift Heavens that everything ordered will get here in time. I ordered something just yesterday and YIKES – please arrive in time! I normally am done holiday shopping by the end of October – but this year – it was just hectic!

But the moral of the story here is – I wanted to show off how I decorated for Christmas! We are renters – so we can’t hang hooks very easily and we don’t really have the ability to hang stuff outside and our storage is a bit limited (like no basement or attic for big stuff) so I wanted to do some inexpensive holiday decorating that wasn’t a pain to store but was a huge POP of Christmas!

And blah, blah, blah, – check me out on Instagram here! I also started a Twitter account! Find that here! Follow Preston’s brand new fashion Instagram here! I also have a selling Instagram page where I sell some of my old clothes/styles so that I don’t drown in my own wardrobe. I just listed a few new things – so check that out!

Kitchen

Christmas Wall: Two rolls of wrapping paper from the dollar store! 
Poinsettia: Hand-me-down from my mama!
Plaid Tablecloth: TJ Maxx (less than $15!)
Plates: Thrifted & actual vintage
Dunkin Donuts: Seasonal Flavors, Peppermint Mocha & Brown Sugar Cinnamon

Coffee Table

Table Runner: Target
Retro Camper: Target
Fox Plush: Target
Christmas Morning Candles: TJ Maxx
Pinecones: Nature
Paint chips for lower level: Lowe’s (easiest DIY ever!) 

 

a couple of Christmas cuties

 

Couch

Christmas Quilt: Handmade
Merry Pillow: TJ Maxx (under $25 – holllllar!)
Plaid Pillow: Vintage
Red Plaid Dress: Modcloth
Preston’s Ho Ho Ho Sweater: TJ Maxx
Candy Cane Teacup: Home Goods

 

Bathroom

Rubber Ducks & Basket: The Dollar Tree

(We’ve been storing TP in that Santa basket and it’s SUCH a cute upgrade instead of having a few rolls on top of our above bowl shelf.)

*Bonus: our roommate came home and said he liked the rubber ducks. I asked him what he thought of the basket. He said he didn’t see the basket – just the ducks…and I was, like, how is that even possible? It’s duck BASKET duck? Like how can you see the ducks and not the basket

**Bonus: we’re light heartedly teasing him about it still (we’re all good friends!) so the phrase duck, basket, duck has been the holiday phrase this year!

Windowsill

Santa, Elf, Big Bow: The Dollar Tree
Red & White Garland: (it’s actually red and white and I braided them together!) Target
Little Bows: Hand-me-downs from my parents!

 

 

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SO HERE’S THE “END OF BLOG” SPIEL!

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How Very,

Abby