no place like [a new] home for the holidays

well we have slowly moved into our new house this past week. it has taken several days as we were waiting on some electrical work and such. we are still waiting for our new sofa and love seat to arrive that we ordered on black friday so our front room is looking pretty bare. but despite the slow moving we have tried to get our christmas decorations up in a hurry as to try to get the most out of them. i image in years to come that we will have our tree up on or the day after thanksgiving.  so here is a little sneak peak into our new home as i show off our christmas decor, most of which is diy stuff.

first off, i blog about this before but here is my gold pine cone wreath on the front door. (i am hoping to get a new door sometime down the road but this one will do for now). i may need to add a bow or something to it but for now that is how it hangs.

right when you walk in the front door you see our christmas tree (in the front window). this is my in-laws old tree and was about 2 feet too talk for our ceilings (blake wanted to make sure we left plenty of room for a beautiful star for the top, which star we have not yet found). we had to saw off the bottom of the tree to get it to fit. i made a lot of the ornaments (painted pine cones and a few glass ornaments stuffed with red flower petals). it needs a few more for next year i guess. but you can see the dark wood floors that i love and the very corner of our rug (another black friday purchase).

i used a few of the branches that came off the bottom part of the tree that we took to place on the mantle behind our awesome choo-choo train stocking hangers.

i used another branch and bent it in a circle to put as a centerpiece for our table. (it is our very small-apartment sized table that we will replace when we have a little more cash.) i put a candle in the middle and threw some pine cones around it. the light was one when i took the picture so its hard to see the chandelier but it is pretty awesome looking.

we bought this small tree to put in the kitchen on the island (along with some salt and pepper shakers that blake has bad since he was a kid), but this picture is mainly to show off the awesome exposed brick wall that i love.

and here is one more from the kitchen. my parents gave us this plate and mug last year from christmas so we have to find a good place for it. (more of that awesome brick wall too.)

this place is starting to feel a little bit like home. and its starting to feel like christmas as well. now as soon as we can get those sofa's delivered we might actually have a place to sit as well. 

we are so blessed.