Scandinavian Inspired Modern Christmas
We teamed up with 9 other bloggers who are all bringing their readers inside their home for the holidays. Here is ours, decked out for the holidays. Be sure to have a peek at what the other bloggers have been up to, links at the bottom of the post.
Every year we seem to go in a slightly different direction with our Christmas decor. I have way too many plastic boxes of decorations; it's a little ridiculous honestly. This year we wanted to go Scandinavian inspired so we paired greenery, fur, white, and wood tones to try and achieve a simple "winter" look.
We reused some of our 3d stars from last years decor and hung them over the bar we will be using for entertaining. Everyone seems to gather in the kitchen; by having the drink station away from the main area, it keeps the traffic down.
We bought some magnolia leaves from the Flower Studio and casually laid them on the table with some birch tree garland and white candles.
We wanted to keep things simple. We just use one kind of greenery in a vase that was cut from our yard. No complicated decorations or getting the arrangement to look perfect. So easy!
A wood tray on the sideboard holds bottles of our favorite elderflower beverage and our silver to clear ombre glasses we picked up at Target last year on sale.
We went simple with the tree by using grey and white bulbs and adding in a few wood and cork ornaments. You can catch the DIY tutorial for the Merry shadow box here.
This year I decided to do a little decorating in my office. Since my Mummer's didn't match with the rest of the house decor (and Chris hates them) I thought why not do up my shelf. If you don't know, Mummering is a Newfoundland tradition that has been going on for centuries. Done on the 12 days of Christmas, people dress up in unrecognizable disguises and go around visiting peoples' homes. Typically someone who was dressing up to go Mummering (or janneying) would put together an outfit with items from their home. Underwear get worn on the outside, curtains and tea towels get worn on heads and most times the people dressing up will change their shape, voice, walk, what ever they can to not be recognized. If the Mummers are allowed in to a visited home, they would entertain them by singing, dancing, or telling jokes. We even have a Mummers' Festival which includes a Mummers' parade which you can check out here. You can also have a listen to the Mummers song here. How can you hate that?
Each year my parents give me one of these figurines which are based off a specific outport community. They all have names and are dressed in typical mummer attire. I paired them up with my foam core trees from last year. They work well with the red accents I have in the room.
