Experience the MAGIC of My 2024 Christmas Home Tour!

hey guys today's video is going to be a Christmas home tour of my own home so let's get [Music] started to start this tour off I want to start on my front porch this is so important to decorate for your guests when they come and here is a trick that I do every season now this is just two earns I have two on each side and I have a cheap little $20 tree from Walmart that is lit at night and then I'll stick faux pics in the little trees but then when I'm going to have company I go forage real Magnolia and real Greenery and fill that up and it takes it to a whole another level all right come on in we're in the for year and every year I put my lighted houses on this piece they're not expensive I think a couple of them I found at garage sales my grandkids love to decorate and put the little people in different spots one of my other very favorite things is this picture I found it in an antique store I'm all about vintage Christmas and when I saw this I had to have it I have two lanterns that flank the front door and they stay out all year long but of course to make it more christmy I added some bows with a little bit of greenery I love to use these candles they're flameless candles on timers so that in the evening they come on and they shut off in 4 hours but it just makes this whole for your area very romantic we're in my dining room and for a centerpiece I just did a floral I have this jar out all year long so I took out what I had added some Greenery and then this year I found these beautiful little small magnolia flowers that I stuck in with that and that's all it needed now I have a tree over here um that I've kept really kind of simple and for the first time I put tinsel on it this year I don't know how many of you remember tinsel growing up as a child but that is how my mother decorated the tree these are ornaments that I made myself and I have a video so you can check that out but they're plastic ornament that I used tissue paper and mod podged them onto the ornament it was such a fun project nothing takes a tree over the top to me other than droplets glass droplets you can find them anywhere but put them on the edge of your tree and it just makes this tree so elegant another ornament that I made were these beautiful I wanted to imitate intaglios I used air clay and cookie molds that I found on Amazon and made these and added it to the tree I kept it pretty simple but I absolutely love the way it turned out now I have two sconces that flank each side of my mirror and of course I added bows anything that can get a bow I'm probably going to add it and then I have a swag that I've had for years I don't know if you guys are like this but I collect I've collected Christmas since I was raising the kids I've had that swag forever but to take it to another level I added some beautiful large pine coms and then I stuck some real Magnolia in the top this is a special print I found it at a garage sale and just reframed it and the Vintage Santa he has my heart when I'm decorating for Christmas in my kitchen I tend to just sprinkle a little bit of Christmas in but one of the things I really like to do is to create what I call vignettes and that's just a little bit of a collected items in certain areas of the kitchen this is one of them I have this wooden tray out all year long with my paper towels but I put a little snowman on it a little candle and this little butter dish I found at an antique store here's an example of just a small vignette I created with a little house and a little Santa and another vintage print let me tell you if you are looking for some unique Christmas art go on Etsy you will find a lot to choose from That's where I've got that and just put it in a gold frame [Music] this is a special towel that one of my friends from church made me the details on it are so beautiful and it just looks so lovely on the black stove my little salt and pepper Kissing Santa and Mrs Claus are vintage as well and reminds me of my mother you will notice in my house that I don't really do a lot of red for Christmas except in my kitchen but these little guys are my favorite things to get out every [Music] year here's a tip when you are creating a vignette whether it's in your kitchen or any other room and that is to add a little bit of greenery around what you've collected it really just Nestles it in this is real Greenery a lot of times when you put real Greenery in your house it's going to dry out in about a week to 2 weeks but if you're getting ready to have a party real Greenery makes it [Music] beautiful here are two more vintage artwork pieces that I got off of etsy and put them in gold frames this is such a great way to elevate your Christmas decorating for pennies on the dollar this is my main Christmas tree again it doesn't have very much red on it but I really love to pull out a bronze color I love plaid ornaments I love the gold stars everything about it I think I'd like to keep my tree up all winter but I don't think Scott's going to let me I have a video on how I decorated this tree and the steps um that I used to add the decorations to the tree remember you can always add more and more every year this little dish that sits on my table was from an antique store the ornaments were just a couple of dollars you can have Elegant Christmas decorations and do it on a budget for the Garland on my mantle I did something very simple this year I had to get new Garland because last year I let it swag too low and the fire melted some of the the Garland so be careful not to do that but I decided I didn't want to do a lot on the mantle so I kept it very simple by adding two ornaments in the middle and a very simple deep burgundy bow I have had these stockings forever they remind me of something you might find in England I actually put tissue paper in them so it fills them out when they're hanging under the mantel we all have our favorite things that we have gotten over the years and this Santa is absolutely one of my favorites you know how I love twah but I love the pattern on the front of his coat and then I found these two little white sheep and so I just put Greenery around them I'm nestling them in and then I took a little bit of snow and sprinkled it all the way around and I also added just a little small string of lights this floral arrangement is super easy please don't let Arrangements intimidate you especially ones you're going to do for Christmas or winter you just need a few different types of stems and I have different stems in the summer and the spring I pull those out and pack them away and then for the winter these are the stems I chose a little bit of glitter a little bit of green here's just another simple vignette I have created I've had these snowmen forever and they think about this when you're creating a vignette if I had just put the snowmen here in just the house it would still look cute but the fact that I nestled it in with Greenery and a little bit of snow it just makes the whole vignette beautiful here's a simple collection of trees they don't all have to match in fact after Christmas go shopping and after clearance Christmas sales I do that I add them every year and after I put them up here I just sprinkle a little bit of snow the centerpiece on my coffee table is extremely simple it's a big basket that I filled with some pine cones a few ornaments and a little bit of greenery I absolutely adore this this beautiful needle point Christmas scene that yes I found at a garage sale I believe my kids are going to fight over this one in the guest bathroom I have this Grinch painting that I did years ago but his colors just pop off of the white Bard and Baton and of course if there's a place for a bow I can't help myself like on these sconces [Music] [Music] well I hope you enjoyed my Christmas home tour be sure to follow me on Instagram at Jennifer decorates and I will see you in the next video have a very merry Christmas [Music]