More Christmas Decorating!

I thought I would share some pictures 

that I snapped of the Living Room before 

our Company Christmas party began.  

We decided to hold the party at our home this year 

in order to save money for the company.  

I liked the idea for two reasons; 

one~ it would get me motivated to get the house ready for 

Christmas, and two~ I thought it would be cozier than 

having the party at a restaurant or another venue.  

I did a big tree this year instead of the tabletop tree 

that I had last year.  

The color scheme this year is gold, white 

and a touch of aqua blue.  

Even though my tree has over 750 lights on it I added 6 

more strands so that it really shines at night!

The mantle this year is also very simple.  

Just layers and layers of greenery 

with a few sparkly touches added.  

Do you remember my mantle from last year?  

My Decor Steals Angel Wings!  

I love them but they didn't make it out this year.  

I reused the mantle piece that Mr. Beaux made for me last 

year to extend the depth of the mantle.  

 I layered garland that I already had along with new wispy 

garland that I bought at Nell Hill's 

I hung a pre-lit wreath in the center of the fireplace 

and tucked in a few birds and pinecones.

I love the movement of the pine branches from Nell Hills.  

Sparkly icicle garland and snowflakes 

make the mantle very wintery.

To add to my wintery Living Room, I reused my Dollar Store glitter house under a cloche.  

You can see the original post Here.  

Next to the fireplace I set this urn with greens 

and glittery ribbon and a silver gazing ball 

in the middle.  

The beautiful thing about decorations like this 

is that I can keep them out through January.

On the other side of the room the Wine Cabinet 

is set with a Wintery scene as well.  

Fresh flowers for the party sit inside a 

silver champagne holder.

Some of the elements from last years mantle now grace the top of the Wine Cabinet.  

For our Company Charity this year I organized 

to "Adopt-A-Family" 

through a great organization 

Operation Breakthrough.  

They help families in need in Kansas City all year long.  

The office had fun buying gifts for our "adopted" family 

and brought them to the Christmas Party.  

Giving back is what Christmas is all about.  

I hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

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Tabletop Trees~Christmas in My Living Room

I shared my Living Room Christmas Mantel 

with you recently.  

Because the Mantel makes such a statement 

I wanted to keep the rest of the room soft 

and kind of uncluttered.  

Also, to be perfectly honest 

I have done a "designer" tree in this room 

for a lot of years and I am just tired of doing it!  

I would rather spend time doing other things...  

Like baking, or making gifts, or wrapping them...  

It takes a lot of time and I seem to be the only one 

who appreciates it.  

So no more about that (my bitter party of one is exiting).  

Let me show you my Tabletop Tree!  

The beauty of a Tabletop Tree 

is that it can be placed just about anywhere.  

It doesn't take up much space 

and because I placed it in the urn it looks much taller. 

I filled the urn with sand and stuck the tree inside.  

The sand really keeps it stable and it doesn't topple over.  

It's also easy to adjust the tree so it isn't lopsided.  

I used a round table from my guest room with a gold table skirt and a white topper. 

I placed some keepsakes around the base of the urn.  

My favorite picture of my grandparents 

and my kiddos when they were teeny tiny.  

I love this little hand blown glass present.  

The cloche in the background is filled with ornaments and the cute heart pillow I won on Debra's blog, Common Ground.

I used soft golds, blues and silver in the tree this year.  

I wanted a kind of snowy Swedish look.  

I started with lots of lights 

and wove the white and silver ribbon through the tree.  

When I finished placing the ornaments 

I placed little tufts of snow inside of the tree 

with pine cones resting on top.

I love the effect that this gives the tree.  

I also placed some of the fluffy snow 

in the bottom of the tree inside of the urn.

I used picks that I had with clear sparkly ends on them.  

 I ended up only buying a few ornaments this year, 

most of them I already had.  

 This crown tree topper was a new find at Hobby Lobby. 

 I made these wreaths from the fresh rope garland that I bought at Costco.  

I adore the unstructured look of them.  

It is really hard to get a good picture in this room.  

I just wired the garland onto the grapevine 

wreaths that I already had.  

I could have wired all of the loose greenery 

but I like the way it falls every which way.  

My wine cabinet got dressed up too.  

Just a little garland and a few ornaments.

The paperwhites are in full bloom in my silver reindeer bowl.  I finally tied them up and staked them the other day.  

I walked by and they were flopping all over the place.  

Thanks for stopping by to see my tiny tabletop tree 

and my living room!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy

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