Classic Christmas House Tour | Vintage Santa 2024

Well, hello everybody. It is Christmas 2024. Are you guys ready to come on in and see how we decorated the Nashville house? Come on in. Okay. So this year we actually did the same theme that I did last year, which was a Norman Rockwell Christmas. And last year, our kids, specifically Sawyer, was obsessed with this theme. I felt like it just gave everyone so much joy. So when we moved here, I was like, well, it's a different house. It'll feel like a new application. But we'll just use all the same things. So I'm excited to show you guys how we decorated with some of the most beautiful, most exciting. A couple of things new, mostly reused Norman Rockwell Christmas decor, starting with my holly jolly Santa. This guy is my favorite. So this is our entryway here. It is much less grand than our previous home. Like you walk in and it's there. So I feel like I am able to add a lot more decorations to this space than in previous years, last year. And our old Tulsa house, it was a wide open entryway. We had our big, beautiful mirror and our bears were right there. Are you wondering where the bears are? Let me show you. Hello bears. Are we cozy? Are we comfy? You look so cute. So the bears are hanging out on the stairs. Bears on the stairs. That's gotta be a song, right? They are just adorable. And each one of them represents each person in our family. You have daddy bear, mommy bear, Brody bear, and Sawyer bear. And I just think they're so sweet. And every year we dress them up into different outfits, which makes it extra fun for the kids and for me. Okay. Walking into the entryway, we have a really fun letters to Santa station this year. Sawyer is like, it's his first year of really understanding the whole concept. So I just, I found these. I'm going to try to link these. I got them a few years ago in preparation for this moment. We can write letters. We can put them in Santa's mailbox down here. How cute these books are. Guys, I got these at Walmart. I'm going to link them. Don't worry. They are adorable. Moving into our bowl with my little, I think these kind of look like stamps, which is why I like them, but they are actually ornaments and onto our nativity. I wanted to bring in, you know, I love decorating Santa. Okay. It's fun. It's bright. It's jolly. It's festive, but the real reason of the season is Jesus birthday. So I want to make sure that we are incorporating that in the midst of all the fun, festive decorations, because we do both here. I love that I have my garland swooped. This says ho-ho, not ha-ha, just in case you were wondering, but I do love that it just feels like bright and red and jolly, hanging and swooping along the staircase, bringing you into, oh wait, no, we have to talk about the poinsettias. I bought these two years ago and I think I got them on Amazon and I think they're so pretty. They're obviously not real. They're fake. They came in a pack of like a hundred and you just build them, put them together. And I think this is so pretty. So I'm going to link these for sure, because I know a lot of you are going to want these. And again, I think they look super realistic and just a nice pop of red. This is our little living room and I have been so happy because I just didn't know if this giant tree was going to fit, but it does, and we had such an extra special time decorating. The boys were a huge help. If you guys saw our decorating video, it actually is really sweet and really funny how often they put ornaments on and while they're onto the next ornament, I'm slipping it off and putting it in a different place and surprisingly they haven't noticed that yet. So I'm next year, I'll let you know if it changes, but for now it's been actually a really sweet, joyous time to do this with the kids. And I just love how the tree turned out. It is really fun doing the same theme a second year. I feel like I love this tree better than the other ones because I knew, well, first of all, I forgot how many cool ornaments I had for this tree. Every time I kept opening new ornaments, I was like, Oh my gosh, I love these ones. These ones are so fun. I just think it was the way I approached this tree was different this year. Um, and if you guys want to watch the video that we did about, it was like a decorate with me video. I kind of explained that how I did it in chunks, but I just think it turned out beautiful. Moving over to the mantle. I did the mantle relatively the same that I have last year and the year before. I know it's crazy. And it's so boring for you guys that I don't mix it up, but I just love these greens, like they are just natural. They look like they're fresh. They're just classic and I want to promise you I'll mix it up next year, but I just can't, I can't commit to that. And you know, they're just so good. And these are still available online at a couple of different vendors. I think one year I linked them at Kirkland's. I found them. And then Amber Marie had them last year. If she does have any this year, I will be sure to link there because I think her price was better. And then of course, adding all of these festive little stockings. I get questions every year where I got these and where I got them embroidered. Pottery Barn Kids has great stockings. Here's a pro tip. You're kind of too late for this tip now, but just keep in mind next year. Buy them in June because they're always on sale. And then you add on the monogramming. I think they're adorable and they're so fun. And I like that this is like a little reindeer scouts, the animal, you know, animal with family. And then over here, remember I said we're mixing together Santa and we're also mixing together nativity. Well, run to us. The savior is born. Look, the star. Isn't it so cute? I love this nativity because it's white. It's not like precious moments, baby feeling. It still feels like an adult nativity, but it's like goes with whatever theme that you have. If you do red and green, it'll go. If you do all white, it'll go. If you do more modern, I think it'll go. And it's just a great nativity. I got that at Hobby Lobby and I don't know if they still have it, but I will try to link it. Here's another tip. When you do some sort of a nativity, using your greenery to kind of like build your landscape makes it feel like, even though they probably didn't have these greens like, you know, in Bethlehem, but it just makes it feel like it's outdoorsy, you know, they were in a barn. So we'll just, if I had hay, maybe I'd use hay. I don't have hay. I have greenery. Okay. Do you guys notice the art? Remember the art from last year? Okay. I think the best thing I did last year was invest in Christmas art. I know it's kind of investing in the fact that I'll use red and green forever, but I kind of think I will. When you have kids, red and green is just jolly and classic and fun, but I just love these art prints. These are all Norman Rockwell. And I think his approach to the art is just classic fifties, like vintage, all American Christmas. And that is what I wanted. And that's what I love. You know, we've got Midge and Fred decorating the tree and we have Sawyer, no, Sawyer, Brody, and their two friends and Scout going down the hill. I guess that could be me and Tyler. Poor Tyler. He's balding already. Can he put on a few pounds? And yellow is not my color. So that can't be us. Okay. And for a second, we do have to talk about these pillows because two things. I got them at walmart.com and they're just adorable. Are they not? These are great because they're classic plaid, red and green, and then Santa's little face. And then this is just like a stamped tree print, which I think goes nicely with it. And then look at this blanket. Did you even notice that there's trees on this Noah? It's a very subtle blanket, which is why I love it. Can you see the tree right here? And it's cozy, has tassels. And, um, I just love those because you can have them all winter long. Like even after Christmas, you could still use them while it's still cold. If you're in a cold area like I am. So I just think it's great. Okay. And then over here, you guys look, this is probably my favorite print out of all of them because we have Sawyer, Brody sleeping and Santa and the elves being like, are y'all awake? Are you sleeping? And I just feel like this looks like, well, that looks like Brody. That could, that's probably a girl. She has a bow, but we're going to pretend it's a little boy. It's just adorable. Well, I'm just realized that has that kid has a bow on, man. That really ruins it for me. It's okay. It's not a bow. It is a elf. Those are elf feet climbing behind him. Okay. Again, my poinsettias. We have them in this natural, beautiful rattan basket vase that I got from Walmart, which I use for fall and also for Christmas, which is very versatile of me. I have my wonderful leaves candle. This is one of my favorite fragrances for both fall and for Christmas. It is just, you smell it and it's just happiness in a candle. If you've ever wondered what that's like, go to White Barn and buy yourselves a leaves candle. It will change your life. Walking over here, we have our calendar and our advent calendar. This, I think I got it like anthropology or something, but I love it because it's great for the kids. It's easy for them to pull out and see when Christmas is coming. And it just seems very festive and happy and jolly. And I just use that every year because I love it. And then over here we have our dining table. Ta-da! Y'all remember last year? These are from mud pie. Okay. I love the Santa on these plates. Like this guy just makes Santa so cute. And then underneath these plates, I went vintage. I went on Facebook marketplace and I was looking for Norman Rockwell's dinner plates, if he had any. And sure enough, he did. And they were so cheap to get a set of four. So if you're looking for something similar, I would recommend that you go on Facebook marketplace first, because you can get a great deal. I have these fun Santa placemats that I kind of shifted to the side. These, I think I actually got on Amazon. The ones from last year were disposable and I did not have time to buy more this year. I might switch them out for actual Christmas. Cause as y'all know, we're right now, it's in October. So it's hard to get stuff on hand. You know, one of these years I will change up my tablescape. To be quite honest with you, I was in a bit of a rush putting this one together. So I just used everything, not even everything. I just used what I could find very quickly. And that is a fun runner that I got at HomeGoods that's in my colors, green and red plaid, these awesome candlestick. The holders are actually from Modern Cottage in Tulsa, and I don't think they have them anymore, but they always have something similar if you're looking for it. And then the candlesticks themselves, I think I got at Anthropologie. Anthropologie just always has great candlesticks. They're not cheap, but sometimes they do go on sale. Over here again, mixing in nativity with some Santa. Although we have two nativity moments. If you guys remember from last year, it's kind of a game. It's more of an activity. It's called Soft Enough for a King. So this is obviously Jesus' manger. And down here is straw. Now it comes with all these papers that you can fill out every day. And it comes with a book so you can read the book. But the whole premise of it is you want Jesus to be in a manger full of straw and full of hay so he's cozy and warm. Well, how do you put more straw in here? You have to take a piece of paper and you have to write down your name and an active service that you want to do. That's going to bless someone in your neighborhood or your family or someone in your community. But I love keeping it right here by the dinner table because it'll allow us every night to sit down and have that conversation with our kids on what things we can do to bless our community, to bless our family, to practice obedience or things that we're talking to our kids about and just kind of keeps it front of mind right here when we have dinner. And then we have the grand old, this guy. I will never not use. He is in every video and he should be in every video. And normally I hang little, what are they called? Candy canes. I hang candy canes from his ears, from his antlers because it's just super cute, but I didn't have any. We're moving on to something really sweet. My husband bought me this last year knowing we were moving and leaving Tulsa. A snow globe from Tulsa. We love Tulsa and it'll always be in our heart. Let's practice obedience, snow globe. There we go. Good job. The best part about this one is my kids think that Jesus has wings. Baby Jesus can fly away because of the way his blanket is placed. And so I don't really know about that theology, but we're just going to let them go with it, you know? These are picks that I, it's the same material as what I put on my mantle. Absolutely love these picks because they are beautiful and realistic. And these ones have pine cones in them. And while I do use picks in trees, sometimes they're also amazing to use for floral arrangements, putting in a vase, laying down on a table, things like that. I just think they look beautiful. Okay, let's go into the kitchen. We didn't do all that much in the kitchen, but we did do a few noteworthy things. Well, really what we focused on here are some of the basics. What are some easy ways to make your kitchen feel festive? Focus on greenery, focus on dishes, and focus on kitchen towels. I did put some swag. So swags are basically like three picks glued together. So instead of being individual picks, they're kind of glued together and they kind of have this swag thing. Okay. Those are what I use over the windows in the kitchen here. I love putting wreaths on doors and on the hood, the kitchen hood. Make sure it's secured. I am not a doctor. So don't allow them just kidding. You know, people give disclaimers, make sure it's secured because if your house burns down because you put something on your hood and didn't make sure it was tight up there. It is above a stove. Okay. Just telling you that. And just the pop of color guys. It's easy. Just put some color, go to home goods, get them from Target. I'll link whatever these were. I don't really remember, but we'll put something there for you. You can find it and it'll look extra special. And then over here, I'm actually hiding a bunch of stuff. I don't want you to see, but I'm just going to show you a few of them just to give you a sense of like, Oh yeah, that does make it jolly coffee cups. If you bake with your kids, like how cute are these? They're mittens. Yes. And kids plates, plastic kids plates. These are awesome. This makes it fun and festive and we'll make them eat their breakfast or their dinner better. So these are just fun ways to make the season feel festive and fun. And it just puts everybody in the Christmas mood. Just do it. You know, you'll use them every single year. It's an amazing investment for your family. I just highly recommend. Let's go look in my bedroom and I'll show you a few of the small things that I did to add some lovely Christmas touches to your room to make it feel festive. Hey, do you guys remember these art prints? I think we had them in our dining room last year, but I love that they go so well. They feel vintage. And I love that we have Brownwood, Brownwood. I just think it goes with the bed setting. So perfectly. And something that I love doing in bedrooms for Christmas is getting cozy Christmas bedding. Okay. I got these, I think at pottery barn, they're cooling, which is nice. Cause sometimes you have the heater on at night in the winter. I just love that. This is like the perfect plaid. It's just very soft and cozy. I will link where I got these, but I do think it goes great with my green bedding. Just kind of gives it a pop. And then I have my Merry Christmas pillow that I got last year. Goes with my Christmas art, which I, you know, one day we're going to reenact one of these pictures. I think that would be great for our Christmas card. Don't you? And then moving this way, we have Poppy throwing a snowball, Coco wondering what's happening. Brody fell, but Sawyer is all excited trying to run away from the snowball being thrown. You know, it's like a moment that's happening. We had this in our living room last year, but this wall is so big that we have put our previous living room art in here. And then when we switched it out for Christmas, it just felt right to put it in here. We didn't have a lot of wall space in the living room. So it kind of like works out that it fits in our bedrooms. We could still use it. Over here, we have another nativity. I told you I'm big on nativities. This one is really fun because it lights up, but I love having that here. It's really beautiful at night. Kind of casts a little flurry on the wall. And then I, again, filled this very large vase with some nice pine cone picks to add the greenery. I got my threes going on here. I have all my perfumes here, my leaves candle again with my little reindeer candle holder, which I think he's just so adorable. Look, I was going to wear this today. Wouldn't that have been, maybe that, maybe I should put it on still. Should we put it on? That'd be cute. But I kind of wish you could see it more, you know, do I just put it right here because you won't be able to see it the whole time, maybe I'll just put it on and you won't know. Every time I turn, you'll know it'll be our little secret. No. Okay. Anyway, I love having all of my bows and all of my headbands right here in case I want to wear them. And it just all kind of fits and feels festive. It's very small touches that go a very long way. Okay. Here is the boys room, which I think is so sweet and so adorable. And I just did a few things. Let me show you. Of course I gave them some lovely Christmas bedding, just like our own, except theirs is flannel. So it's a little bit cozier. Look at this little blanket. It's literally, I'll demonstrate, Santa with mittens. Don't I look so cute? Adorable. And then I added, you guys remember the Christmas art that I had in their rooms last year? So we have like a little boy. Again, everything's Norman Rockwell. Buy them in the spring. You could even do, or summer, cause they have good discounts. They'll probably have discounts during the holidays too. I'll link where I got all these art prints, but you can buy them framed. You can buy them just as canvases. I did not take down Scout because she is their guardian angel. So we leave her, but you guys will probably remember from last year. We have, I got these really fun, and this one does, is obedient when you tell it to turn off because it's switched, so that's nice. Or you could just have it be lit up. This is really fun. I think for kids to have these light up specialty toys, especially as they grow up, it's really fun to see if they remember them from previous years. And this year Sawyer did, which was really cute. So these are kind of fun to light at nighttime. They can kind of stare at them as they're falling asleep. We have the Christmas bedding for Sawyer. And then again, just switching out a few things like art prints. I found these thrifted Norman Rockwell little mini books for kids. Which are so cute. And then again, added these really cute prints over here of Santa looking at the globe, trying to find where Sawyer and Brody are, but the favorite thing up here, those are actually light up stars, which again, adding light up elements to little kids' rooms that feel festive, I think are just like the perfect fun way to get them excited about the holidays and to add a little Christmas glimmer and shimmer to their, to their bedroom. Cause everybody deserves to have some fun in their room, right? I didn't have a room for a tree, but I think these little teeny tiny additions do make it feel really festive and special. Okay, you guys, that is Christmas 2024. I hope that you enjoyed this fun little house tour. We have lots of other Christmas videos coming out. If you missed my decorate with me video that came out before this, go ahead and give that a watch. And then we of course did a bunch of fun things with the kids this year, just to inspire you guys on fun activities you guys can do with your kids this year. So thank you for watching. I love you all. I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you next time. Bye! Christ the Lord, the new born King.