It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

The Newlyweds Next Door have been busy "making the yuletide gay."

How so?

Let's take a tour!

Welcome to our condo...


When you walk in the front door you'll see our "Beach Tree"...

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This tree has always been a dream of mine and this year I finally did it!

It's all white shells with turquoise balls and ornaments. I just LOVE it.

I made pencil starfish and sand dollar ornaments using starfish and sand dollars left over from our wedding by hot gluing blue ribbon to them. Super easy and looks great!


I also picked up some fun turquoise ornaments and balls at Target.


This beautiful starfish ornaments is from our trip to Nantucket. A perfect memory of fall 2009.


Next you'll see this sparkly Santa on the pantry door in our kitchen.


And our dining room table scape.


When you step into the living room, it's aglow with lights! We hung icicle lights all along the inside of the floor to ceiling window in living room so you can see our unit all lit up from the street (which is cool since we can't display outdoor lights in our condo). It looks very cheery!


And of course, you'll see our main tree.


There's no theme to this tree. Just my favorite ornaments.

Some from my childhood...


And some from recently...


Things that's I've made and bought...


Uh oh... look who's hiding out, determined to destroy my tree...


Next you'll see our living room bookcases, that we changed for the time being to display some fun Christmas items.


Including this nativity scene that I've had since I was little.


Hope you enjoyed the Christmas tour! Can't wait to see all of yours!