We have decked up our walls and our home is now on Christmas mood! I can’t help it, but the simple sight of the Christmas tree lights puts the biggest smile in my face every day; Dani, who wakes up (way) earlier than me, always (with not a single miss) lights them so when I raise with Juno I can have breakfast with all the holiday decorations around making me feel warmer. I think it’s one of those methodical actions in him (he is quite the routine guy, just like Juno) that he does to make me feel good, that I know he performs out of love.
By now maybe you’re wondering why we start this post with a picture with an owl, is an owl really a Christmasy thing? Well, I’m maybe biased and completely wrong, but owls make me think of winter. In addition right now I’m in the middle of a Harry Potter rush – reading (please don’t judge) for the first time Prisoner of Azkaban – so it made perfect sense that I DIYed a pinecone-owl as the new main guy on our Christmas decor using this tutorial here.
In fact my initial plan was to create three owls, one being a pink cute girl but I’m not sure I would be able to make it before Christmas evening. Still, I’m happy with how this bushy eyebrowed one turned out and how cute it looks on top of some books.
We recycled our “pom-pom everything” items from last year but also created a little silly glittery paper garland and bought a handsome little plushie reindeer (from Softheads in case you’re curious!). But the real novelty this year is the tree; we said our goodbyes to the small fella we bought the first time we moved in together (more than 5-6 years ago) which was looking really small in our current home but was fitting perfect on the apartment we used to rent.
And with the new tree (from Ikea, we went there on the first days or otherwise they are always sold out), everything had to be new since our former decorations adapted to the 80cm tree where looking a tad ridiculous in our almost 2m current one. We also bought new lights because Ikea has cool led strings that are more eco-friendly and come with the cutest & combinable decorations to put on top of each light bulb.
We bought two type of light bulbs decorations: snowballs and golden stars. I like that they come in two sizes in the same box.
Inspector Juno thinking if it deserves her seal of approval or we still need to work harder.
“right, right, left…left!” Juno always knows the best place for each ornament.
Yarn hearts that give me an idea for a DIY ornament next year.
Two inquisitive eyes fixed on me, oh my… hope I will be up to her expectations ;)
Gorgeous crystal balls that cost the same as all the golden regular ones, ikea tricks guys! Juno is such a good one that we are not afraid that this will be broken.
Dani says this is “robo-Santa” but I love it! We are also planning on buying a robo-Dino for next year.
My mom bought the little ballerina specially for the new tree, she is ceramic-ish and has feathers in the tutu.
The only thing the tree is still missing is our personalized ornaments (check last year post to see them) that we still are not sure how to transfer, since they are certainly also too small. I’m thinking of giving the idea a twist, like putting the images inside clear ornaments or something. Any idea would be super appreciated with lots of cyber love!
Do you have your Christmas decorations ready? Do you like to change it each year? Let’s talk Christmas stuff!
I’m always traveling over winter break, so I haven’t decorated for Christmas for the last few years :( When I was younger, my brothers and I would always have so much fun putting the Christmas tree together and unwrapping the ornaments. I feel bad that my youngest brother never really got to experience a traditional Christmas (he’s 7 years younger than me). But I guess the holidays is all about spending time with your loved ones, and we got that part down, so all is well! Anyways, I really love the felt pinecone owl :) My college mascot is an owl! That DIY project is sure to be a hit over here! -Audrey | Brunch at Audrey’s
How fun that your college mascot is an owl :) that’s such good one! :) Thanks Audrey for your sweet comment, I agree that the most important part is to be with your loved ones. Wish you a nice time back home this Christmas! ♥
This is such an adorable post! I love the joyful Christmasy spirit of it.
I moved recently and don’t have a tree this year in my tiny apartment, but I did get out some of our ornaments, like a felt fat Santa, a teddy bear with a scarf and winter outfit, and a moose shaped like an angel that unfortunately only has one googly eye left ) : But maybe I will add to my decorations – thank you for the inspiration!
Thanks Cory for the nice words! The felt fat Santa, winter Teddy Bear and angel Moose sound like the perfect Christmas gang! :) Wish you the merriest Christmas holidays in your new home!
You guys – your Christmas craft is epic! Your owl is awesome – how rad is his pinecone body – so perfect, I feel you must have hunted for the best looking pinecone in existence! That tree is super cute too, Ikea knows how to do a fake Christmas tree (I really don’t think I’ve seen a fake tree look so real before). All your decorations are so pretty and match your tree perfectly and I really like the two light designs and how nice and big they are! It’s funny we went from an 80cm tree (had to measure him!) to an 180cm tree this year. I sneakily have both trees up :P The little tree is from my Grandma and has built in lights (very tacky and awesome) and can only fit the smallest sized ornaments. I like putting it up because even though my Grandma isn’t here anymore it has become a nice happy reminder of her at Christmas :)
Both trees! That’s a great idea, oh my… Dani is in trouble next year, hahahahha. I wish though I could find a little pink tree so we have the same but on opposite sizes ;) (my pink obsession is back) I think it’s super sweet of you, and your grandma is giving her loving seal of approval to having both trees up. Big Christmasy hug – they are different from the current big hugs of the rest of the year.
oh, love, love, love the little reindeer head :)
I think they are not selling the little ones in their online store, but they had lots of different fabrics and combinations to chose on the winter market we found them (and also dog heads). Although these little version are prepared to be hanged on the tree as an ornament I liked the look on the wall :) – hug!
I love how everything looks. And I love your lights for your tree! We’ve been getting small lights but this year i’m really into the big ones, but won’t be making the switch until next year! :) Happy holidays to you~~
Thanks Jane! I also love the look of the bigger lights I guess we never thought about it before with our little tree but automatically assumed it should be so with the bigger one ;) Wish you the merriest holiday Yoo family!
such pretty decorations :)
Thanks Sara!!!
We didn’t even get a tree last year, we just never felt in the Christmas spirit. This year we bought a huge (real) tree that Eric had to drag home from the farmer’s market all by himself! He said it made him feel like a real Quebecois lumberjack. I love all your gold and crystal decorations. Ours are such a hodge-podge. And lucky for you that Juno is so good around the tree. We have to make sure all the decorations are at least 5 inches from the bottom so Gatsby and Kala don’t break them while they play under the tree (it is their favourite thing).
Hahahahahah, too fun how do you explain Eric bringing the big tree :) When I see things like her not caring about our tree decorations I sometimes wonder if Juno is really a cat or an undercover agent ;)
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