Christmas Tour of Homes

I am a little late in getting this post up but I wanted to participate in the Nester’s Tour of Homes.

I participated last year and have been waiting to participate this year, but life happened and I haven’t gotten the post up….So here we go….

My grandma gave Mark this John Deere village a few years ago but we haven’t had it up due to little hands! We decided to put it in the hutch in the dining room to keep them out of it!

 

Our John Deere/Travel tree in the dining room. We had so many John Deere ornaments and ornaments from places we have traveled they needed their own tree!

 

Tee-Dee (Grayson named him) the shelf elf joined us this year. They kids have been behaving very well since Tee-dee reports to Santa every night! My Mom Gave me this stocking/card holder a few years ago. It just happens to be Tee-Dee’s spot for today!

This is our tree and mantle this year…..I had good intentions of sprucing up the mantle garland but haven’t yet and probably won’t…..I am waiting until we are finished having little ones to buy or make coordinating stockings. We have a hodge podge of left over ones.

These are my favorite ornaments this year…..These are the first one’s my kids have ever made!! See how to make some of them HERE and HERE….

One of my favorite decorations…..this Santa I splurged on after Christmas a few years ago….

 

Hope you enjoyed the tour….Off to embellish some towels for Christmas gifts…..tutorial for that tomorrow!

Homerama #4

The Winchester by John Henry Homes

5600 Square feet $699,900

Check out this chalkboard wall!

I think they Mod-Podged sheet music to the wall to create this! Now that is some serious Mod-Podging!

Loved the flowers painted on the wall…

Envious of this built in entertainment center/office space!!

LOVE this ceiling!

A master suite with it’s own seperate sitting room….I need that kid free space!!!

Looks so cozy…

Look at this pantry…That’s what I need!

Tomorrow is the last house of our tour and my favorite decorated house!

The boys' nursery

I am joining the party over at Kelly's Korner and showing off the boys' nursery. We painted this room for Grayson but decided to keep it the same for Grant. I did make some letters to personalize it for Grant but they haven't made their way up on the wall yet! Terrible!! Anyway some of you long distance friends and family haven't seen their room anyway so here ya go.......




Mark painted this barn and Johnny tractor for Grayson. Notice the TONS of toy tractors all over the place! All Mark's, on loan to his boys!

The barn says Grayson Farms on it.

Mark and Papaw Harold made this bookshelf.

The giant tractor was supposed to be removable...NOT! The crib is currently on this wall as we have rearranged a little now that Grant is in this room. Grant's name should be on this wall over his crib but the giant tractor is in the way and we don't want to repaint, thus the reason they are not on the wall yet!

This is Grant's closet...look at all the blue :)
Here is how the room currently is for Grant. We had borrowed Grayson's crib and need to return it to my wonderful friend Joan. We moved the dresser from Caroline's room into Grant's room.

Here is the new crib and that giant tractor that is in the way!

Hope you enjoyed the little nursery tour! You can see pictures of Caroline and Grayson's room here.

Mistreatments

Here are my Window "Mistreatments" ala Nester. For those who don't know about "mistreatments" there is little or no sewing involved. In mine there is NO sewing!!

These are in our bedroom. I just cut the fabric, ironed up the hems with iron-on hemtape. I hung them from curtain clips I got a Wal-Mart for about $10. I got the rods at Big Lots for no more than $10 a piece. Very easy and cheap!!

This is our Dining Room. I am not crazy about it but it still looks better than an empty window. I hot glued the hem on this one (use the hem the hem tape!). I also hot glued the fringe on the bottom. I just draped it over a curtain rod I already had and safety pinned the bottom for a faux Roman Shade look.

This is our playroom. The shade was a kit I bought a few years ago at Jo-anns. It is for a roller shade and you iron the fabric on. I had the fabric to make a valance but Momhadn't gotten around to it. I just tacked it to the wall with uphostery tacks. I hot glued pink pom-pom fringe on the bottom.

These are in our living room. I just ironed the hems...didn't even use hem tape. I clipped them with curtain rings and tacked them up with Upholstery tacks. No curtain rod needed! I draped them on the floor so you can't tell their not hemmed.

Maybe this will inspire some no-sew decorating. They aren't perfect but they are better than bare windows! Browse Nester's sight for tons more ideas!!