Decorating the Living Room for Christmas

Hello everyone, I have been doing a bit of decorating around the house and wanted to share some quick photos! It seems that I cant keep track of all of our decorations....I found a storage box in the basement with these gold themed ornaments so I have added them to the mantelpiece.

I moved an assortment of liquor bottles to the living room to make an impromptu little bar.  I am usually a wine drinker but as we are going to be a little isolated this Christmas it would be fun to find drink recipes using some of the liquors in this collection.  Although there is really nothing positive about the current COVID situation it really does encourage us to find ways to make our homes more comfortable (and comforting!)

The tree is getting full!

The deer are flanking this antique clock from my mother.  We were able to get it to work for a while and once we got used to the chimes it was quite charming.  Now however it has decided it no longer wants to work and will need to go to a clock repair shop.

Most of our ornaments were chosen with our many pets in mind.  It only happened once but we did have a cat climb into a Christmas tree and tip it over.  Not every ornament survived! This lovely angel is glass and is hopefully high enough in the tree to escape the attention of the cats.

I like to think of this as a pear.  :)  I am not sure what it is to be honest. 

I noticed that this year the stores have a very limited selection of Christmas items.  It seems to be a combination of stores not ordering very much, and people going all out to buy things to decorate their homes this year.  I suppose with everyone being asked to stay home we all want our homes to be as cozy and festive as possible.  One of the shops had 2 of these glass champagne bottle ornaments so I snapped up both!  One for me and one for my sister in law.

I am looking forward to spending some extended time at home over the Christmas holidays and will be putting up more trees and decorations for us to enjoy.  I will share more photos soon!  In the meantime I am hoping everyone stays safe and healthy.

Thank you for visiting!