See Our Magical Candlelit Christmas Home Tour!.

Well hello my friends and welcome back to our home. It is a gray drizzly day outside. It's not quite snowing but I heard that we're supposed to get snow this weekend which I'm really excited about. I'm actually not going to turn on any of our lights for this tour. I love to do my daytime home tour looking very like rustic and like a heritage Christmas. I'm going to bring you through my entire home today. We're going to hit every room in here. Everywhere has a little bit of Christmas touch and I can't wait to show you. Okay so I'm going to go ahead and set this here. I shared a little bit with you guys about our Prairie Farmhouse and the goods that she sent to us. She gifted us with this beautiful cast iron candle holder. Isn't that so beautiful? It is so heavy and gorgeous and we are just enjoying it so much. We always light it at night with our dinner. Just so pretty. I will say that I love like our antique candle company candles for everyday use just around our home but when it comes to like cooking a meal and having people over sometimes you can have some competing scents and in that situation I love to have taper candles going. I just feel like especially this type it feels so old world. Let me share another couple of pieces that Tammy sent over to us. I showed you guys that she also sent us over these beautiful curtains and our table cloth and I'll get to those a little bit later but let me show you this gorgeous quilt that she sent us. This is the Ticking Stripe quilt of my dreams. I have been looking for a red and white Ticking Stripe quilt for years. I remember even looking for something like this when we lived in our old house and I wasn't able to find exactly what I wanted but this is just absolutely beautiful. It's 100% cotton and I'm absolutely obsessed with it so she sent us this quilt and also a couple shams. I'm gonna go ahead and put this bed together. We're gonna have some family members sleeping in here in just a little bit and I love to make a good old-fashioned Christmas bed. She also sent me these pretty shams that have kind of these ruffled edges that match the quilt. They're so cute. I thrifted this quilt from Thrift America in Omaha maybe six or seven years ago and I remember almost not buying it because it was Christmas colors and I was debating do I really want to spend seven dollars on something that's going to look Christmassy in my house and looking back if I would have not gotten this quilt I would have been kicking myself for the rest of my life. The greens and the reds in it are just absolutely gorgeous and it's the star quilt pattern which is my very favorite. Thank God I picked this thing up. And I finally found my second place to put these poinsettias that I got from my dad's house. Looks so cute and festive. Over here I kept it pretty simple. We pretty much always keep this little bitty baby here and the puppy but I just brought in this old lantern that we've had for a million years and then I thrifted this brass rocking horse last year. I should put like a little red ribbon around his neck or something like that to make him a little bit more Christmassy. Timmy also sent me these really pretty like tiny cast iron shears from her shop as well and they're great for cutting little pieces of ribbon like this. This is almost kind of like a rust color. I bought it and I'm still not 100% sure if I love it or not. I wish it was a little bit less vibrant. It's a little bit funny with his mohawk but it's cute. Not bad. So this pretty much does it for the girls room and here. I told you that I like to keep things pretty simple in the kids rooms just to give it a little bit of Christmas feel but without having a ton to clean up because listen we got enough to clean up in our life. Okay and then coming out of Ivy and Lily's room I'm just going to give you guys kind of a walkthrough of the rest of the house. We're going to start over here in our living room. We've got this pretty little candle right here. This is Main Street Bakery and then coming over here into our kind of couch area. I did bring in lots of like burgundies and brown for our couch pillows. I've told you guys that I do like to keep it pretty scaled back in here. I like to keep the tones muted with just like little pops of red and with the bows up in each doorway that is enough red for me if I'm being honest. So I did just try to keep it pretty neutral in here. I am going to be decorating the porch here pretty soon. I was not able to get that ready for this part of the video so we'll just have to do that in one of our upcoming videos. Over here we have our little advent calendar. Our girls are so excited. Monday is the first and they are chomping at the bit to get into these little drawers. They've got little candies for each day. Over here I have this pretty brass reindeer and then this cup that I thrifted last year. It's got a Courier and Ives painting on this little mug. I actually think it's a shaving mug. It came with a shaving brush with it so who even really knows? And I also wanted to show you guys this beautiful pillow. This was also a gift from Tammy over at our Prairie Farmhouse. She gifted this to me. I didn't even ask for it. It matches the other quilt and it looks so good with our existing stuff. I just, you guys know that I am a ticking stripe lover. We have our little centerpiece in the middle of our coffee table. Super simple. Just kind of a antique book with a candle burning on it. What can you love more? And then in this vintage crock that I have I just threw in burgundy red kind of greenery. I don't know if this is cedar or what. I got it from Hobby Lobby but I just threw it in there and yeah we always like to keep this pretty simple because this coffee table gets covered with projects every single day of our life. So as I've been getting our house ready for Christmas, whether that is prepping our guest rooms or hanging up greenery or lighting candles, I've also been looking for gifts that feel meaningful but are also really simple. And one that I'm genuinely excited about is the Arzova D14 digital picture frame. What makes this frame such a sweet gift is their gift card setup. You can actually preload photos, videos, or a message without ever opening your box. You just scan the QR code on the side, upload through their app, and when the recipient connects it to their wi-fi and enters the code, it plays a precious little gift animation with your message. It feels so personal. And once it's set up, the unlimited cloud storage means you can keep adding memories all season long. You can upload through the app, through the cloud, by SD card or Windows and create custom playlists with as many files as you want, which is perfect for building a little Christmas playlist of memories. It also becomes a sweet family feed. The Arzova D14 supports multi-member uploads, double tap likes, and comments that show up right on the frame. It's such a fun way to stay connected with family who can't be here during the holidays. And design-wise, it's beautiful. It has a 14-inch anti-glare IPS screen that you can see clearly from any angle, and the retro artistic metal frame looks high-end and blends right into your decor. It's also smart about power with low power mode and flexible nighttime sleep mode, so it's only on when you want it. So if you want to get something personal, thoughtful, and perfect for treasuring those holiday memories, the Arzova D14 digital picture frame is such a lovely gift. And I would like to know, who in your life would you like to surprise with something meaningful like this? Tell me in the comments. I always love hearing your ideas. Over on our fireplace, I wanted to bring some attention to this beautiful German smoker. This was a gift from my husband. He got it from this store called Mulhalls. It's a local business in Omaha. It's like a nursery, family-owned, and they have all kinds of beautiful pieces. I'll show you another one here soon. But a couple years ago, we could not afford this little guy, but Josh decided to get him for me as a surprise gift after he saw how much I loved them in the store. You guys saw me light it earlier, but we have frankincense incense that is inside of his belly. We top him off, and then he lets out all of this smoke out of his mouth. His mouth has a little bit of burn around it, but it's still so cool, and it smells amazing. Next to this is one of these beautiful new ironstone pieces that I found with this red transferware. So gorgeous. And I know I decorated our mantel with our new garland, but there was something about it that just looked a little bit too much like a tail to me. So I'm bringing back our old thrifted garland. I got this from Goodwill years back. It's a little bit patchy, but I did bring in these red berries that I have kind of throughout our whole house. I have them in all of the garlands that we have going up our doorways and everything, and I think that adding that extra bit of care is what made it look so much better all put together. I have these cute little Killam stockings that we have with our little faux fireplace that just treats us so well, and then these bells. I don't know how I feel about how things are balanced on here, but you know what? It's good enough for me. Sometimes I just can't be bothered to do things over and over a million times. Up here I have my cute little antique crock on an old sleigh with just the candles that we have going all year round. And then here we come into our bedroom. Y'all, I have been taking all kinds of pictures of Buddy because he just sits here and snoozes all day long. We put his bed at the end of our bed and there's something about it that is just so sweet. He looks like he should be on a Christmas card or something. Here is our sweet little Christmas bedding with our thrifted Santa cross stitch. This is one of my favorite pieces I've ever found because Santa just looks cute and not scary. And the cross stitch is just beautiful. The red tones are gorgeous. They're not obnoxious. And then this year I decided to do a brown bow with some garland on the end of our new bed. I am loving the look of this bed. I just think it's so pretty. And then over here I just brought a little burgundy blanket to just give a little bit of Christmas cheer over here. And then I kept this area up here super simple. Basically the only thing that I put up here that was Christmassy was these poinsettias that I told you guys came from my dad's house, from my house when I was a child. And I just decided to bring in a little bit more red this year. Hello from the mirror. This area over here again, keeping it super simple. I know that I mentioned that I should go back and get this little piece and I did. I had been looking for something to fill this out. It was a fern and it was just looking very like tropical almost and not Christmassy at all. So I decided to go back and get this little guy. I think it was like maybe seven or eight bucks. It wasn't cheap but it wasn't like the very worst. And then I have these pretty little candles lit. Here is the view from our bedroom into our living room. I decided to place this wool blanket over here and you guys it just looks so cozy over in this corner. I love the look and feel of wool blankets. And then I just brought over these antlers. I've had these I don't know 10-12 years probably at this point. We always use them in our Christmas decorating. So I told you guys a little bit about mole hauls. Again it's a local nursery that we have done some work for. Josh and I have been in their commercials before. I did a giveaway with them this Christmas time and they told me that I could have one item from their store. I chose this one and listen the nativity is going pretty fast but in there we've got all the wise men. These things are called German Christmas pyramids and I just love the look of them. I really love like Scandinavian Christmas things. So you just light all of these candles and the heat from the candles propels the top of this little whirler thing that spins everything inside and it is just so gorgeous. In this antique ironstone pitcher I put these juniper stems that I found at Hobby Lobby along with some more of those pretty deep red berries. And then y'all I finally put up our garland. Oh my gosh so I have to tell you I struggle with filming putting this garland up every year because it's such a hot mess. I always drop it a hundred times. Everything always goes wrong. This year I had to have the girls help me out and listen. Sometimes life is just too chaotic to film. This is an old garland that I got from Hobby Lobby years ago but I think I did get these little brass bells last year. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still there. This is that gorgeous deep red kind of velvety ribbon. It's actually made of 100% cotton which I love. Let me give you a little bit closer look at it. Here you can see it a little bit better. It just has such a soft feel to it and because it's 100% cotton and all made of the same material it's the same color on the front as it is on the back. It just gives it such a beautiful and droopy authentic look. So I have three of these going up our stairs. I told you that I do like to keep the red to a minimum and really just let it pop. And then down here I have this beautiful linen stocking that my friend Cammie from the blog Tidbits gave me last year. She sells these and they're just gorgeous. And then again my friend Tammie from the YouTube channel Our Prairie Farmhouse, the one who gave me the quilt and everything, she gave us also a matching stocking. And so since these don't go with our other four I like to keep them together over here and I think they look so cute at the end of our newel post. This is one of the sweetest little vignettes that we have in our home. I just got the one gift that I have quote-unquote wrapped over here and I actually have to do a ton of wrapping tonight so I'm going to be diving into this wrapping paper. I did put a couple, I only had enough to make three of these kind of like smaller versions of the ribbons that are on our stairs but I think it's enough to give it the little pop of red that I wanted. These we've had for a while but we are really thinking a lot about cardinals and my grandma this time of year. And then we've got lots of like handmade stuff on here as well. This is a little note from Harold that was made possibly by, you know, who knows, but it says Dear Hoffmans, I hope you get to have an awesome time with your cousins. May your trip be merry, Harold. So Harold is the name of our little guy. And then our other daughter made this little guy that she wanted to make sure was prominently displayed in the very center of our tree. So you guys this tree is, it's just a hodgepodge of lots of different things. We have handmade ornaments, we have vintage ornaments, we have ornaments that are new and made to look vintage. Y'all I am loving these. Sentimental ornaments, this was Josh's very first gift to me ever. And then, you know, we just also have gifts from grandparents like these, just that really special thing. I made these with you guys last year. I meant to put these all over our garlands on our doorways, but I accidentally put them here. I don't know what's going on. I feel like I'm losing it because I just forget what I'm supposed to do with all this stuff every year. We have our little sled here that has been scraped out by a four-year-old a million times and, you know, never put back the way that it was. But there were some mittens and some ice skates on here at one point that looked cute. And then over here we have our beautiful brass Indian bells. You guys know that I have an affinity for India because I spent quite a bit of time there when I was younger. And they're just gorgeous. And as every home should have during Christmas time, we have our nativity right as you walk in through our front door. And I can tell that kids have also been messing around with this. But just super simple, nice, white, stacked alongside some books on my desk that I do all of my editing on. I'm sure I'm sitting at this right now. All right and over here we have one of my favorite areas in our home to decorate at Christmas time, our sweet little hut. Let me show you inside of here. So you guys can see that we start out with these sweet little wreaths. And then inside, I actually wound up taking out the big bowl that I had right here and I placed it over the fireplace. I just brought in some antique books and old brass candlesticks. I have our newest addition which is these antique ironstone red transferware dishes. And so I tried to kind of scatter these all around our home. And then down here I have some Currier and Ives plates that I've had for years and years. We had those in our old house and everything. And yeah, just more of these transferware plates, some little greenery. I think that's the trick to having like a very natural looking Christmas is just having greenery everywhere you can. But yeah, I did keep in a few little hydrangeas this year. And that's our hutch looking super cute. And then on top of our hutch, we just kept it super simple with some candles and some unifor stems that I thrifted from Goodwill. And then over here is our pantry. I have decided that I think that this boxwood wreath is too large. You guys can see that it is super cute though. I tied up one of these brass trumpets on it and it has this cute little vintage Santa. And then up here, I try to keep it as simple as possible. You guys recommended that we just leave the ironstone pitcher with nothing in it. And yeah, I just brought in a little bit of kind of muted reds and I love the candles going. And the only extra thing is that over here, I switched out the greenery that I had originally put in here for some of these kind of red berries and just dropped them into this antique crock. Let's move into our kitchen now. You guys know that this is one of my very favorite rooms to decorate. We spend so much time in here. But first, let's go over to this little high chair. So here's where we keep our high chair complete with a little cheerio from this morning's breakfast. Over here again, we're just keeping it really simple. I did this last year where I brought in some antique sleigh bells. You guys, I found these at the Goodwill outlet. Can you believe that? If you can find these on a leather strap, they're like hundreds of dollars and I could not believe it. But I love these guys. They have this beautiful patina on them and then I just brought over this little tiny gingham dish towel to kind of give it that pop of red. And then on this door over here, I still have my basket complete with this brass horn. I put this new ribbon on it and you guys, I am just not a fan of it. I used it in a few places. To me, it just feels a little bit orangey, a little bit bright and so I probably will not be using it next year. And then here is this wreath that I was talking about earlier that I used to have hanging. It just fits so perfectly underneath this bowl and I love how it brings in that green and those sweet red berries. This is the red Christmas runner that I got with my friends when we went on our U2 retreat in Walnut, Iowa last year and I just brought in this new kind of cinnamon brown tablecloth from my friend Tammy over at our Prairie Farmhouse and then it wouldn't be complete without a little red transferware and an antique candle. I stuck this tree here over into this corner. It's looking a little bit Charlie Brown but that's okay. And then you guys, I have loved how this wreath looks from Walmart. I can link it below. I know that a ton of you guys loved it when I mentioned it in my video before. It's really affordable. I just am in love with it. It might be my favorite wreath in the house and so I wanted it prominently displayed in our kitchen. And then up here I brought in this old blanket that I've had since God knows when with some new little Norfolk pine branches. Typically I have this area all lit up but I wanted it to be off for the video with just a sweet little candle lighting it. I feel like that just makes it feel so little women in here. Here's our leftover cookies. They are almost gone you guys. I have to cook up some more. Our family is loving these. And then we brought in all of our cute little Christmas mugs. You guys know that I am a mug fanatic. I have these beautiful cookie presses that I have used for multiple projects. You guys, there are more designs but why would I need more because a rose and a pine cone are just perfect for Christmas. We've got our sweet little cardinal. I also brought a cardinal up here too to remind me of my grandma. And then over here is the sweet gift that Josh surprised me with, this adorable rosemary bush. I just brought in a couple of candles and some greenery over here. I love our Seasons Greetings cups. I have them in these tall and skinny ones and then we also have them in the short fat ones up here. On our door to our side porch, I feel like it's always so hard to see in the daytime but at night it's so cute. It's got this little swag with some sleigh bells on it. I think I got these from Hobby Lobby, I believe, but the strap actually feels like leather. And then on this little corner, I just brought in some vintage aprons. I love this. I got these both last year. And then a hand towel that we got at a garage sale. Also, this is where we keep all of our keys. And just a quick peek into our bathroom. I have this cute little vintage Santa cup for our toothbrush cup and then I decided to bring in this pretty cinnamon color again for our towels. I also put this cute little wreath on here and look at these cool bulbs that you can buy. I will link these. I got it on Amazon. It literally looks like a real flame burning in there. And then another little Christmas pyramid. I got this one on Marketplace last year and sometimes when the heat turns on from the register, it'll make it turn on itself. So I thought that this is really cool. On a red old book, you guys can see our new curtains and they are shaking because it is windy outside and this room is so poorly insulated. But we're gonna come back here into our back porch area. We just like to keep it pretty simple back here. Our girls spend a ton of time back in this room and so it so easily gets messy. I told you guys that this was looking a little bit too much like a tail in the other room so I actually moved it back over here. I just brought in this cute little Christmas tree. This is another one of those from Hobby Lobby and I just wrapped it in a towel and I set it on top of this little sled. I wanted to get it off of the metal because I don't feel like it gets dangerously hot but I'm also not really willing to take that risk. I just brought in this sweet copper candle that literally smells like Christmas and then I brought in a little pillow over here and this red book with a little bit of Christmas cedar over here. Okay y'all and we are going to be making our way upstairs now to the girls rooms. I had them clean them themselves so fingers crossed that they're not disgusting. Okay the girls actually did a pretty good job. Up here we just brought in some vintage quilts. I also added some little twinkle lights on tops of the beds to make them just look super cute and then at night we have this little tree all lit up. This is the girls tree where they keep all of their little kid ornaments but let's be honest we have lots of little kid ornaments on our tree too. We also brought in a little tree over here and again this blanket is really special because my grandma made it for me. Okay and I did turn some lights on back here because if I don't have a light on you literally cannot see back in these corners but this is how this little Christmas bed ended up. We brought in this red and white striped bedding along with this buffalo check pillow and this ticking stripe pillow and just brought in a little bit of pine needles behind the bed. This is the only pine that I have like this in the house but I actually think it's really pretty. You guys can see that I have this red and white striped bedding here again and y'all this is why I don't like led lights. Look how it flickers in this film. I just need to replace these things with incandescence. Okay and moving from our playroom we're going to come over into Ruby's room. Here is this beautiful quilt that I thrifted this year. I got the whole set for $12 and I paired it with this sweet cotton green throw that I guess it's not a throw it's like a full-on blanket but I love this thing. I love putting little classic vintage bears on their beds. I just think they're so cute and I did forget to turn the lights off on this one so whoops it's too hard to reach the timer back there anyway so I'm not doing it. I'm not changing anything. Like I said we love to keep their rooms as simple as possible because no matter what I do to simplify they always wind up bringing in all kinds of weird things in here. Okay and it looks like Rosie's timer is actually working correctly so that's good and you guys I'm so excited. Finally as I'm finishing out this tour we have some sunshine in this room but again we're just keeping it really simple in here. Just a little teddy bear and some ticking stripe pillows and some greenery up here and then she really wanted this little Christmas tree in here. I was about to throw it out. This is another Target dollar spot find but I do love these. I think I got these from Hoppy Lobby maybe like four or five years ago and then you know kids who can relate. All right my friend well thank you so much for joining me on today's Christmas home tour. I know I get a little bit chatty and you guys often request a music only home tour. I'm going to be bringing that here soon with my candlelight home tour. I'll give a little intro and then I'll bring you in. We'll have lots of nice music and you guys can see this place all lit up for Christmas. Can I also mention something like a little bit silly? I am noticing that our channel is getting so close to 100,000 subscribers. I know that many of you guys who return week after week are not subscribed. Wouldn't it be so cool if we could hit 100,000 subscribers by the end of the year? I just think that that would be such a fun goal and a way to celebrate the new year going into 2026. And I also want to mention in the season of gifting what a gift it is that you guys return back to our videos week after week. Your faithfulness and your support for us puts a roof over our head. It puts food on our table for our kids. It is truly the greatest gift so I want to say a huge thank you for being here and we'll see you guys in next week's video. Bye!