Christmas From Astoria

Happy Monday Friends, Hanna here!  I am finally on winter break, am enjoying a quiet day at home, and playing catch up.  I figured I better share my Christmas displays before I run out of time.  This has been a very crafty season.  Last weekend at Erica's I got a little wild and ended up making 2 wreaths, fixing Erica's ornament wreath, and crafting a few other goodies.  The weekend before I made myself a new ornament wreath also.  Who knew this prego girl would be so crafty?  I'm guessing it is the lack of cocktail consumption and the fact that I'm a busy body in general.  Erica calls it nesting.  Whatever it is, I have to say I am a lucky girl that Erica has a phenomenal stash of goodies to craft with and lets me go wild.  Here is what was created:

I had to steal this one from Erica's Instagram because I realized I didn't get any pictures of her wreaths.  I really am loving how kitschy they all are.

Here is the red tinsel wreath I made along with the ornament wreath Erica and I made together a few years ago.

This is my new ornament wreath.  I made it with really small ornaments and could not believe how many this baby could hold!  I think it is my favorite wreath I own.

I bought this industrial muffin tin for Erica probably 3 or 4 Christmas's ago and she has never found a place to put it.  I decided it was perfect to contain tiny Christmas scenes.  This turned out so good, I wish I had some close ups of each of these little scenes.

There is no Christmas tree at my house this year.  Partly because I don't trust the cats or Piper and partly because Matt is a little bit of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas.  He is well aware this is the last year he gets to enjoy a tree free house with baby on the way.  I need to give him credit because he did put lights on our entire house while I was at Erica's, but I'm happy to say the no Christmas tree streak will be ending .   With this being the last year without baby, I tried to keep the Christmas relatively contained.  Most of it fit on my big bookshelf and on top of our entertainment center.

 I love that all my deer get to be reindeer this time of year!

This elf is my most favorite find of the season.  He moves and plays jingle bells.  He really is the creepiest elf I own.

Onto the book shelf where there was a slight attempt to stick with a theme on each shelf:

Sweet little deer friends.

 Elf and knee hugger land.

 Mug madness.

 Mostly Santa.

Gurley candles and kind of a catch all.

I'm really happy with the end result (forgive the depressing lighting of the Oregon coast):

That's all for me for this Christmas.  I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday with their families.  This is definitely a Christmas of anticipation for us as we continue to get more and more excited for miss Norah to arrive!

Happy Holidays!
Hanna