Christmas Decorating on a Budget!

First off, if your wondering what happened with the giveaway..........well, I decided to hold off on it until January, I really am sorry. I had only gotten like 4 comments on it in two days so I thought maybe if I waited until after the holidays people might be more interested.

I've been trying to get my house decorated for Christmas on a really tight budget. I used to babysit my niece which gave me some fun money, but they fired me. Not really, my brother n' law (their dad) just watches her now. So..............no fun money for me!!!



I think this is the first year I've really decorated all that much for Christmas because all my decorations from previous years fit in a Luv's diaper box. I REALLY wanted a big beautiful mantle garland like the Nesters or Kimba's but this just isn't the year. So here is what mine looks like!

I used a lot of ribbon this year to try and make things look more like Christmas. I decided the garland needed a little something more so today I picked up some curly looking twig stuff from Walmart and added it. (Ya like how I never know the real name for things)

Here it is after the curly twig stuff, I though it helped!

And the other side of the mantle. Now, if this were my dream decorating job, I would put some vinyl lettering of that said And the stockings were hung.................... And then hang my stockings below with some cute little hooks, but I'm a slacker and we don't have any stockings. I've just never found any that I really loved, I probably just need to make some.

Here is my nativity scene that my parents gave me. They gave me a few pieces at a time over a couple birthday's and Christmases. I really do love it. I found the background at our local craft store for like nine dollars.

And here is the Christmas tree. The decorations used to be a little more strategically placed, but my almost two year old likes to do a little decorating of his own.

These are a couple of my favorite ornaments that I bought last year from a store called Rod Works.

I'm loving looking at every one's Holiday decorations! I'll be back later to show the rest!