Brandon and I finally finished decorating the house for Christmas. We were thinking about getting a real tree again (last year’s was so pretty), or maybe a big white fake tree, but we ended up using the little silver tree that we already had. It’s cute, just a little too small.

Our white ceramic deer made an appearance again on the buffet, this time surrounded by silver ornament garland (picked up on sale at Pottery Barn).

We don’t have a fireplace, so we hang our stockings on the built-in buffet.

And again, because we are lacking a fireplace mantle, I decided to decorate the TV stand.

There are those twee little reindeer again.

The paillettes that were in our old apartment are back out on display.

And I couldn’t let the sequin balls go without use another year, so I put them on my desk. They’re a little ridiculous, but they make me smile.

Tis the season!

Jules warned me that my taste would change. Whimsy, sweetness, and cutesy… it will all be irresistible to me now that I’m with child.

Is this proof? Would I have seen these pre-pregnancy and thought “meh, too twee”? Especially since I couldn’t get them to stand up and instead placed them in tiny little chairs? I don’t know, but I sure do love them.

Felt Reindeer by feltmates, purchased at the DIY Trunk Show

I wish I could find a good place in the house for these. They’re too awesome to live in plastic bags in the basement.

(They were up in the old apartment for the holidays.)