Christmas is Aloof!

Hello there, Merry Christmas! I know "Christmas is aloof" doesn't really make sense to normal people. It is my families way of saying "Christmas is in the air." Not "Christmas is conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste" like the dictionary might lead you to believe. I don't know why we use the word aloof, but we do, and we like it.

It is time for my Christmas Decorations post once again. Since I didn't sew 1,000 throw pillows for this season, decorating went a lot faster than Halloween did, thank goodness.

This year, some decorations got switched up, and some stayed the same. Like the display below. Isn't the wall art cool? I found it at a thrift store last year. It's just a bunch of vintage Christmas cards glued to wood!

Here is the living room:




Every year we get one or two new ornaments for our tree. We only get the ones that we really, really like so they are more special.



Cody thought it was pretty ridiculous that every time I went to the thrift store, I would come out with a wreath. It was all for this little display. I LOVE how it turned out. It looks way better in person. Each vine wreath has its own little red accent.



I did my shelves much different this year. I got this cute framed subway art from a free download on Pinterest.



This is my new favorite item. He is a Jim Shore Santa. I love Jim Shore!



Cody is amazing. He made me these little houses that I now decorate for every season.



Tiny Wreaths!



The nutcracker and snowman shelves pretty much stayed the same as last year.





The dining room:





The fireplace:


This is the only craft I have made this year. I gathered the pine-cones from Cedar City months ago so I could make this garland.

I think one of the reasons I like decorating so much is because of how good I feel once a project is finished. I love to walk away from the area for a while and then surprise myself with how great and different it looks whenever I come back to see it. Ha.

This year Cody finally put Christmas lights on the house! I was so excited to see him up there with the ladder, fixing dead lights and being brave on the roof. He never got around to it in the past years, and it made me a little jealous to hear about men who got up early to get a Christmas tree before their wives woke up, or to see them up on their roofs before Thanksgiving even came. I guess this is just because Christmas is a huge deal in my family, and Cody's family never made a big thing out of the holidays. I just want him to get excited about these things and he just isn't the "excited" type. But this year he made some effort. Bravo, husband!

Side note, Cody's mom also didn't have many Disney Movies around. It is insane to me that he never saw Mary Poppins before I came along. INSANE.