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Welcome back for our final installment of The Hive Christmas Home Tour 2015. Our front room is the most colorful and whimsical room in our house at Christmas time. I love my Christmas ornament wreath that hangs above my piano.
On the piano I have displayed pictures of Christmas past. It is so much fun to take them out each year and remember all of our fun Christmas memories.
I use my front room shelves to display my Department 56 Christmas Village.
Hello friends! Welcome back to our Hive Christmas Home Tour 2015. Today I'm sharing our entry way and family room. Our home has a very open floor plan so the entry way, family room, and kitchen are all open to each other as you can see by the pictures. For these rooms I basically stay with the traditional Christmas color scheme of red and green.
One of my favorite things is our garland on the stairs. We use this garland to display the Christmas cards we get from family and friends. We love getting Christmas cards each year! This is a simple way to display them so that they are easily looked at by even the smallest member of our family. He loves to recognize loved ones in the pictures.
Our tree has spinning ornaments that are fun. Check out my Instagram feed to see them in action! Notice the lack of presents under the tree. I'm so behind this year! I better get wrapping!
I love to use Christmas books as decor.
Tomorrow I'm sharing our front room decor. This is where I change it up a little bit and go with a more colorful decorating scheme. I also can't wait to share one of my favorite collections with you.
Welcome to our Christmas Home Tour! I wanted to start with the heart of our home, our kitchen. I would describe my Christmas decor style as part vintage, rustic, retro and colorful.
The focal point of my kitchen is my stove hood. I've decorated it this year using greenery with various kitchen necessities tucked in . I've used a retro beater, cinnamon sticks, a vintage Ball jar, a rosemary tree, and a Christmas plate and mug. Hanging from the garland are homemade cinnamon applesauce ornaments and vintage cookie cutter ornaments.
Filling vintage Ball jars with epson salt, Christmas trees, bells, and ornaments, is an easy way to decorate your kitchen for the season.
These berry branches were perfect for my Christmas tablescape.
I love tying mini-wreaths on chairs, and hanging them from windows. This jingle bell ribbon was one of my favorite finds this season. I found it at Home Goods!!!
I love collecting festive Christmas mugs. These "Cheeky Reindeer" mugs from Pottery Barn are my all time favorite! Aren't they darling? You can spot them throughout my kitchen because I'm obsessed with them.
I had a strand of vintage Christmas lights (note the little red balls on them) from my grandpa's house and I thought they were the perfect thing to bring a little holiday cheer to my vintage rolling pin collection.
I hope you enjoyed our tour. Thank you for stopping by! Stop back later this week for more of our Hive Christmas Tour 2015.
Graduation Party-Kids Buffet
My favorite thing at the graduation party was that we had an area in our yard designated as the kids zone with the kids tables, a teepee, crayons, paper, and a clothes line to hang the pictures they drew and best of all-A KIDS BUFFET! What little kid would choose to have a pulled pork sandwich over dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets? The kids buffet also had assorted juice boxes, veggie cups with ranch in the bottom, and of course any kids buffet wouldn't be complete without ketchup. When decorating the kids buffet table I kept with our retro travel and adventure theme with a small globe, retro toy camera, and tiny wagon.
Why are kids more likely to eat their veggies when they are displayed in a darling red wagon, in their own little yellow cup, with a spoonful of ranch? I can't explain it, but it's a fact.
To see what the biggest hit of our graduation party was click on the link below. Here's a hint...How can you go wrong when your guests can roast their very own marshmallows?
Graduation Party
I'm so excited to share the pictures of Queen Bee's graduation party. It was a wonderful event, filled with people who love her and have been a support and inspiration to her. It was a time for her dad and me to celebrate the amazing girl she is and all of her accomplishments. Can you tell we are super proud of her? The quote pictured above on her graduation announcement was the inspiration for the theme of the party. Queen Bee has an adventurous spirit and a enormous heart. She has already traveled quite a bit, including participating in a humanitarian program to build a kindergarten classroom last summer in Fiji. And she plans on continuing to travel abroad and help those less fortunate while pursuing her college education. I wanted her party to reflect her and the hopes and dreams she has for the future. She also has her mother's love for anything vintage and retro, so I wanted to have a playful retro vibe to the decor.
Here are all the details for where I found the things I used to create the party. For the items I found on Amazon, you can click on the link in the sidebar for more information. On our buffet tables I used a retro globe from Dot and Bo. I fell in love with these darling bright retro suitcases I found on Amazon. I also used some vintage cameras and cake plates from my collections. The globe and suitcases were the jumping off point for the color scheme of the party so I was thrilled to find these darling Meri Meri Charms and Stripes Hanging Pinwheels that I mixed with these Meri Meri Toot Sweet Pinwheels, they were the perfect combo of colors. The tiered chip server was from Target and I lined it with gingham printed waxed paper from World Market. Finally, throughout the party, I used scrabble letters to spell out words related to travel.
For more graduation party details, including the amazing kids buffet, click the link below.
