Christmas Kitchen Decorating | Warm & Welcoming Traditional Holiday Inspiration

Hey guys I hope you are having a wonderful week today. The Christmas decorating continues and we're going to be decorating here in my kitchen but there is one big change. I thought Wayne's last project was going to be the upstairs hallway but I had one less idea and I cannot wait to show you that here on our peninsula. Wait to see how it turns out. It looks so pretty, really warms up the kitchen too so I cannot wait to get Christmas decorating here in the kitchen so grab yourself a warm cup of coffee and let's get started. I had that sharpie shiplap here for years so it was time for a much needed update. It was just a sharpie that we drew lines to make it look like faux shiplap. We found this pre-assembled molding which comes in a various different sizes. This is a 24 by 24. I did three of those on this wall and then 18 by 24 over here and then we painted it this beautiful dark chocolate brown. You just attach this. It already comes like this. You can attach it with some liquid nails, some adhesive, use an air gun. We just used liquid nails, hopped it on the wall and then painted it. Easy peasy, such an affordable way to update a space. Wayne ended up building this faux vent hood for me too which I think looks great. I love how it coordinates with the peninsula too and he just took some crown molding and made a little box and I absolutely love the way it turned out. Before I continue Christmas decorating, I would like to thank Etsy for sponsoring today's video. I have some gift ideas I cannot wait to share with you. Have you started your Christmas shopping? I would love to know. Are you already done? My favorite place for thoughtful, personalized, and unique gifts is Etsy. Etsy has everything and the best part is I don't have to go hunting all over for it. We have snow coming up in the forecast and I can stay cozy at home with a cup of hot cocoa or a cup of coffee, snuggled up with my PJs, and get all of my holiday gifts on Etsy delivered right to my door. I love Etsy and I share Etsy finds with you all the time and when it comes to holiday gifts, Etsy is always my go-to. Let me know what you love about Etsy and what are some of your favorite gifts you have found on Etsy. I would love to know and if you are looking for gift ideas, I've got you covered. Waiting to see these gift ideas I got from Etsy. So I'm going to show you the Christmas gifts that I picked up because I think you're going to like them too. Waiting to see and if you like any of these ideas, they will also be linked in the video description. If you have a sports enthusiast on your Christmas list, wait to see this idea. This is a sports card advent calendar. I got my son the football one and every day he gets to open up a new football card. I thought this was such a great idea. I always love having little hostess gifts on hand or in case somebody stops over last minute and I want to bless them with a little gift. I love these simmering potpourris. Look at how great these are. I think I'm going to keep one for myself so we can use it today because it's going to make the kitchen smell so Christmassy and look at these cute little snowflakes. These are great little stocking stuffers too. If you have a bookworm on your Christmas list, I have a few. Look at these. These you can even personalize as well and they keep your pages open when you are reading books. I thought this was such a great idea and the fact that you can personalize them with the initials too and if you have a tea lover on your Christmas list like my daughter, look at this tea gift set. You can even do a personalized card. You can even ship it to somebody. You can choose the teas. There's a variety of teas. I have three teas in here. Also comes with a little honey, some chocolate, of course your tea ball. I thought this was a wonderful gift. Personalized and unique gifts is one of the many things I love about Etsy and I got these personalized tags perfect for gifts or I'm going to actually use on our stockings. There's my daughter's name Eden and my son's name is Tyler and then of course I got mom and dad from Wayne and I. I'm going to hang these like I said on our stockings but these are so great for gifts as well. I wish you could feel this minky blanket. It is probably one of the softest blankets I have ever felt. It is so cozy and if you have somebody on your Christmas list that you don't know what to gift, this is a perfect gift. Who would not love snuggling up with this? I also picked up for my daughter this pistachio gelato whipped soap and body lotion. It comes in a lot of different scents but she loves pistachio and gelato and I love the two together so if you are looking for a gift like this too, I love this gift idea. I want one for myself too. It is a breadstone with a bread basket and it's not just any breadstone. There's different designs to choose from. This is for my brother. My kids are gifting it to him. It's their uncle and it has an owl on it. There's different designs to choose from. He loves owls so I thought this would be a perfect gift for him. It comes so beautifully packaged. You can also get a card with it too so I don't want to unwrap it but I will post a picture for you here. You're going to love it and if you know me, it wouldn't be a gift haul without a candle. I love gifting candles. Who doesn't love a candle? I picked up this warm and cozy candle. You guys, this one smells so good. I've had it before. That's why I got it. It burns so well too so I will link it in the video description but I also picked up a candle warmer. It comes so nicely gift boxed that I'm not going to unbox it but I'll post a picture for you here. So this makes a great gift for the candle lover on your Christmas list or two different gift ideas. I have a lot of Bills fans on my Christmas list. Go Bills! So I picked up these earrings. It comes in a lot of different teams too so if you like this idea as well, I will link it for you in the video description. So hopefully these ideas gave you some gift ideas as well. Let me know what your favorite was and again, if you like any of these ideas, you can find links for them in the video description so you can grab them too and again, thanks to my friends at Etsy for sponsoring today's video. I'm going to start by adding a lamp on the side and a lamp over here. I've had lamps there for years so I'm just replacing them with these new ones. I do feel like the kitchen is so dark without the lighting underneath the cabinets. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just so used to it. So I have this one here and I just have a very low wattage bulb in it just like I think a 25 watt. I don't want anything too bright. I just want that cozy glow. They even have the rechargeable lamps too if you don't want to use an outlet. Anyways, I'm going to put this one here and then the other one like I mentioned on the other side. So I have a basket. I decided to switch out the vase I had. I thought the basket kind of warmed up the space. So I'm going to tuck it here. I found this beautiful holly at Michael's. It was $19.99 and then I think 40% off. This is such pretty holly. I love that holly at Dollar Tree too that I've been using a lot but then I found this big bushel of it at Michael's too. So I think because I'm going to use some on the kitchen table too. This looks so pretty in a basket and is so Christmassy too. So I just love the simplicity of that and I think I'm just going to add a candle over here just to balance it out and just keep it fairly simple. Now I want to add a little something on top of this ledge here. I have some greens that I think I'm going to try and it's a long piece of garland and I think I'm going to just cut it down to fit. Look at this beautiful Norfolk pine garland and what I love about it it's very bendable. Some of it that I find it just kind of flops you know and then you really can't do much with it but this is very bendy. So I'm going to cut a piece. I have my wire cutters long enough to fit on top of my ledge. I'll be honest that was not easy to cut. That was I probably needed some stronger wire cutters but I was just using what I had. So anyways hopefully now I cut enough to just kind of tuck up here. I have this platter that I actually had sitting over here earlier and I'm also going to add this to the counters too. I have this tartan runner and I had an idea that I thought I would drape it just kind of hanging over the end here and just kind of sit there and then add a few candlesticks and then a bowl and then add some apples. So let's see how that looks. So I actually like this. I love using apples for Christmas. It reminds me of Williamsburg which you know I love too. So let me grab some candlesticks. I also have these Ralph Lauren towels. I'm going to hang one on the stove and I think one on the dishwasher too. So I have this beautiful washable runner. It is so soft. I love this pattern. I love this one so much. We actually have it upstairs in our hallway too. So I'm going set it here next to the sink and then I'm going to get this simmer pot going to make it smell nice and Christmassy. I don't think I could have timed this any better because look it is snowing outside and it looks so Christmassy. So now I'm going to start decorating here in the kitchen dining area. I just finished the tree which I'm going to show you the base that I used. I was looking outside and I saw one of the urns so I grabbed one of them and I put the tree in there. So I just finished decorating the tree. So we're going to finish decorating in here and then I'm going to head back into the kitchen because meanwhile I was also tweaking a few things in there too. I'm going to start by adding a runner. This is the same runner that I used on the counter behind me. I like how it coordinates together. So I'm just folding it in half and I'm going to keep it very simple here since this table gets used a lot. I was going to add a tray but I think I'm going to try this. I don't know. I might change it. I have this basket which actually was going to go back there but I'm just going to try here and then I have more of this holly which I love and let's see how it looks there. This looks very pretty and I just love the simplicity because the table does get used a lot so I don't want to have a lot of clutter on the table. I like this so now I have to change my plans of what I'm going to do over here. Between the snow and the simmer pot going and I have Johnny Mathis playing it is feeling so Christmassy. My daughter Eden's been joining me and helping me decorate too so I just want to keep the kitchen very cozy homey and inviting. I have the Ralph Lauren thing going on in the dining room even a little bit going on in the living room but the kitchen is the heart of the home so I really want to just keep it very cozy and Christmassy and a little nostalgic too. So anyways I'm going to flip the camera around and show you what I've done here. I've also added a few more things too but Eden wanted to wrap some of the cabinets with some ribbon too to make them look like presents. She's been wanting to do that for years so I really want to give her that so we started with one and then we ended up doing another one and now we're working on a third. I think just three will be enough. It really is just makes it look very Christmassy so I'm going to flip the camera around show you what I've done show you what I've added. I also pulled out these which I haven't used in years and I just love these little glitter globes too so Wayne just went and got me some batteries too because I didn't have the C battery so I have a couple of these out too. It is feeling so Christmassy. I love just this like traditional Christmas vibe I have going on in here so let me flip the camera around and show you. I just finished adding the ribbon on the other cabinet and I love the way it looks. It is so Christmassy so I wanted to show you a few other things that I did starting with the garland above the stove. I added these oversized bows. Aren't they pretty? I love the tartan of course. I added some little holly picks. These are from Dollar Tree along with some dried oranges. It just makes it look so festive and Christmassy. I also changed the bow on this wreath too to match the other tartan on these bows so it looks so pretty over here and then over here next to this basket I added this picture which I shared with you a few weeks ago. I love it. Love the tartan on the handle too as well as this adorable platter too where it says may your days be merry and bright. So Christmassy. I love it. I love how it coordinates with everything and then of course these glitter globes are just so precious so I added that over here in the corner too and over here I added this gingerbread cookie jar. I found this at Aldi a few weeks ago and then this is where I ended up moving the platter to for that little pop of tartan as well as this cute gingerbread cutting board and this simmer pot. You guys it smells so good and Christmassy. I think the only thing I may want to change is the rug. I think maybe a larger rug a plaid rug would look really good so I'm going to be on the lookout for that. I like this here for now but I think changing it up because we did move the table just so it wasn't in the way for the holidays and I kind of like it opened up added one of these cute little nutcrackers over in the corner too standing guard and it is so Christmassy. I love playing and styling these shelves too so this is more of that Norfolk pine garland that I love and what I did is I just folded it up on top to make it really full and thick and then it's just draping down the side and another one of those tartan bows and then I just wanted to show you quickly how I styled these shelves a lot of little gingerbread accents these mugs this is a little measuring set all from Aldi. I found this which is so cute as well as this little sugar pot too and then I add a little pop of tartan with these platters or little plates actually as well as some brass candlesticks and then these bells that I've had for years I just switched out it had like a nautical rope on it and I switched it up for some of this velvet ribbon little bows that I got already pre-made added some cute little Christmas books here too and then over here I decided to add a basket with some poinsettias these are the poinsettias I shared with you a few weeks ago when I was decorating my dining room these are from Dollar Trip two of the little baskets in here they're so pretty and then I have just this swag that I've had along with these gingerbread houses got a little Christmas candle going I love the tis the season smells so good and then I have another one of these nutcrackers over here. I wanted to show you how I styled these shelves above the ice maker which you can probably hear right now so I just have a lot of tartan plates and then these Santas aren't they cute Eden and I just picked those up a few weeks ago we actually used the large one as our Christmas candy bowl filled with lots of Christmas candy which everyone loves to grab a little piece here and there just makes it fun and festive a few of these really cute festive cups some greenery these are the Dollar Tree candles that I love I love these mugs here's another one of those Santas just keeping it really simple festive and Christmassy here is the slim kitchen Christmas tree again more of these bows and then I just love filling it up with picks so I had lots of picks already on hand lots of berry picks some more of these velvet bows just some ornaments on here keeping it pretty much with the red and gold also some dried oranges that I've had every year I make some and I add them to my collection but just very Christmassy over here as well some little flocked ornaments too that I had it is still snowing outside and it is making it feel so Christmassy and it feels so Christmassy here in the kitchen I love the way it turned out and my family does too and that is the most important part this is the heart of the home and I wanted to just feel like Christmas in here from the baking to the decor to the smell with the simmer pot going all of the Christmas vibes are going on in here so there's still a few little touches I want to add in here but stay tuned for the Christmas home tour coming up in a few weeks and you'll see the final look in here but I hope this gave you some decorating inspo for your home as well you can also follow me on social media mother time you can check out my blog mother time.com and if you've enjoyed this video and you are not subscribed to my channel yet don't forget to click that subscribe button so you never miss any of the videos next week is the 2025 Christmas gift in a jar video coming up I know you look forward to that so stay tuned for that coming up next week and I cannot wait to show you what I got in store for this year's gift in a jar ideas so thank you guys for hanging out with me here today I hope you had fun and I will see you guys very soon in the next video bye guys