Squeezies!! Aw, I missed you! It was so important for me to focus just on my family this week. It’s been a sad, happy, rough, inspiring, overwhelming week. I’ll leave it at that. And a reminder to hug and kiss your loved ones and let them know how you feel about them — NOW.
I’ve shown you my fruity kitchen before (it’s been defruitified a bit since that post). I had a goal to just have FUN with the Christmas decor in our kitchen this year. That’s what I kept in mind when I scoured the after Christmas sales last season.
I only purchased a few new things this year for the kitchen – a couple of dollar store plates (perfect in red and white!), and salt and pepper shakers ($3 for the pair at Walmart!)
Oh yeah! And my Believe blocks from Amanda’s shop at Imperfectly Beautiful. I LURVE them!!: 
The rest I bought on clearance last year or I’ve had for years. When I find something that works, I keep it and try to use what I have to change it up year to year. This cloche and pedestal (from Hob Lob) is always in our kitchen, and this year for the holidays, I just changed the ornaments to a variety of red ones:
I always swag garland around the door. It has candy pics, berries and red bows throughout. And the wreath is usually slightly different every year:
This year I went with all red and a sparkly Dollar Store ornament in the middle. I covered the wreath hanger with ribbon using the hot glue gun. 
Last year I found an old, gross wood thing at Goodwill. I think it said “country” or something like that. It was kind of grody. 
I transformed it with my Santa Red paint, some fun paper and foam letters:
Oh yeah, and I hang Dollar Store snowflakes in a few windows. Do you see a trend here? (Dollar Store love?)
I took some little blocks of wood from Goodwill last year and made a cute little Jingle sign as well:
Above the cabinets, I used my regular greenery and wrapped it with red lights and ribbon. I also threw in some red and white beady pics and huge ornaments I’ve had for years and never known what to do with. They are perfect here!:
(My camera was taking some crapola pictures today, sorry!)
I fell in love with these little felt trees from the Dollar Store last year, and only was able to grab the last lonely one. Amanda sent me two more – isn’t she fantastic?? I big fat puffy heart love her!
It’s fun. It’s festive. It’s exactly what I had in mind.
Hope you have a great weekend! I hope to finish up an adorable Christmas craft to show you later this weekend. It should be cauuuute!
Don’t you know you need one on every floor of the house, plus an extra? What?! You don’t? 
About twenty of these:
