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Christmas Haul | Blogmas #1

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By Rebecca Duerrwaechter
Welcome to the first day of Blogmas!! I'm so excited to be doing this this year! I will be doing one post every day up until Christmas! I will try to make it a bit interesting with doing different kind of posts rather than just my typical re-cap posts. I hope you enjoy!

Today I'm going to go over my Christmas Haul this year! We usually get Christmas decorations right after Christmas for the next year because that is when they are the cheapest but since moving into our new house (which is larger than our last house) it seemed like our Christmas decorations weren't taking up the house and it seemed a bit bare. I decided to get some stuff over the past few weeks. It's mostly from Walmart but there are some garage sale items. 




I got three garland sets. Two were pre-lit and one was not. I put the prelight ones on the staircase and around the front door. For the mantle I just grabbed one of the cheaper ones and folded it in half to make it thicker. I tied it together with some garland ties, the same ones I used to tie the garland to the staircase.

We already have a tree that we've been using for a few years now but it's only six feet tall and looks weird with our vaulted ceiling in the living room. So we decided to get a taller tree. This one is nine feet and it was half off at Hobby Lobby! I just love the pinecones on it. :)


Since we got another tree we needed some more ornaments. Jake picked these out and they're really pretty. Plus, they're shatterproof which we need because glass ornaments, tile floors, and a cat is never a good combination. 


I got this ribbon from a garage sale to wrap around the tree.





I also got this Christmas village from a garage sale! It was a great price. You can't tell from the picture that much but it lights up and is gorgeous at night.


Jake picked up this cat for me as a surprise! It is a little bit smaller than I originally thought it was going to be but it is still so cute!


I also got a set of light up mini trees to put on both sides of the front door, and a set of bells to put at the top of the door. The bells don't ring but they look nice. :)


Since we have a corner lot we decided to get these LED light projections to put on the sides of the house. So we have one on the front porch wall, one on the front wall, and the large one on the side of the house. 


I think that is everything I bought this year. Last year we bought some LED and solar lights after Christmas.

I hope you enjoyed day one of blogmas!
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