House Tour: Living Room + Christmas

Continuing on with my very slow tour, here is our living room.  The curtain rod branch is from our yard--it was needing to come down and I needed a curtain rod.  Perfect.  Next to the tree is our TV.  I forgot to take a picture of that.  

It was fun pulling out the Christmas decorations.  Two of my favorite things are these kind of scrunchy looking Christmas mice.

I tried my hand at chalkboard lettering that's so hipster this year.  I need more practicing.  Funny story this is one of my favorite Christmas songs...and one of Corey's least favorite.

The girls love looking at the tree lit up at night.  

Noelle can't help but touch all the ornaments, and loves to play "i-spy" saying the different ornaments she finds.

I updated my tree skirt (aka, hacked up the old one and refreshed it).  I love it.  Pom-poms make anything more cheery.

It's fun to hide little things around the house (he's in our cupboard).

Here's what's on my walls.  Count on me to be a little off the wall with my decorations (that is an old mailbox  if you were wondering).

And here is the other wall.  Corey and I have jokes about me needing more picture frames.  I say frames add character and life to your house.  And they are cute.

Home Tour: Girls' Room

So months ago I had planned to show you around our house.  Long story short I kept waiting until the whole house was clean, and realistically that almost never happens around here.  So I'll start with the girls room and hopefully make it around the rest of the house in upcoming weeks.

Here's Noelle playing on her bed.  I made her bedspread.  I was going for an over-sized gingham/buffalo plaid look.  Something not obviously girly, but still cute-sy.  I know later on I won't have a choice and she'll have princess everything.

Here's a wider shot that show's ivy's crib.  They are doing pretty well most nights sharing a room.  Noelle has figured out that she gets into trouble for turning on the light at night so she'll turn it on, play a bit, then turn it off again before calling for us.

Hey, where did Ivy go?  Oh there she is!  She is moving ALL OVER now.  She often rolls under her bed and loves kicking the mattress with her feet  (she also loves kicking the door, couch, or wall with her feet too).  If you leave her on one side of the house and go to a different room she can roll to the other side of the house pretty quickly if she wants.

P.S.  Happy 7 months Ivy!