Share & Win Holiday Decorations for the Home

we start after thanksgving decorating the outside of the home and then we move inward. We save the tree for last . We alwasy buy and make new holliday crafts from covering old jelly jar lids with fabric and felt and gluing magnets to the other side to put on the refrigerator. We bake and make a whole month long celebration. My most favorite is watching a new christmas movie every night til christmas

I use fresh cranberries and make wreaths for my house

had to continue! A tree out on the back deck by the firepit. Flashing lights, plastic glass-like ornaments, hand made peanutbutter/birdseed and sueet bread treats for our woodland creature friends. Each tree has a different personality and everyone here usually has a favorite. I love them ALL! (we use artificial trees inside due to allergies but outside we get a balled pine that we plant in the spring!) My 14yo son even got a tree for his bedroom and COVERS it in NY Giants football stuff. The other kids are all begging for one too so it looks like this year, I just may be trying to decorate no less than 9 trees. (the bedrooms will get LITTLE trees!LOL)

Trees! GLORIOUS, TREES! we love trees EVERYWHERE! We have a tree in the basement family room,( couches and big tv for family fun night and movies) all colored lights and fun ornaments that the kids choose, from Happy Meal toys to GI Joe men. A big fancy schmancy tree in the front family room (more formal for guests and such) near the fire place and picture window. All bedecked in gold and silver, colored and white lights and glimmer and shine, ornaments from my childhood, the handmade kids ornaments, you know. the important stuff.... A tree in the side gameroom (couches and big tvs for video gaming and a piano) , that is a bit more demure and simple in white lights and beads and pretty handmade bow from a new ribbon chosen each year.

I say this is the way for a busy working mom... I begin my holiday season at Halloween. I begin with a through house cleaning. My Halloween decor is more pumpkins and scarecrows (than ghosts and ghouls).. this way my decorations can blend from Halloween to Thanksgiving with little transition. After Thanksgiving I go to the Christmas decor, which is more snowflakes and snowman related. This was I don't have to rush all items down right after Christmas and can celebrate winter. I also, love the scent of cinnamon in my home; as it makes me feel warm (especially on a cool day). I use cinnamon sticks in boiling water on the stove top, scented candle or even an air freshener in the air duct return for scent through the house.

I like to watch shows on television for ideas. I don't have any special shows, just any television series that I usually watch that has Christmas themed episodes. I will study the background for ideas. My main theme, however, is still the artwork I get from my kids school. I love to hang up their pics of Santa!

Tara and i have a similar secret. My dh LOVES to decorate. He started buying lights in October, he was buying halloween and christmas decorations at the same time, a cashier even joked with him about it. He lights up the house from the outside and we both work on the inside together and then our lil guy(now 4-today) helps with hte tree trimming, nothing like a good glass of egg nog and carols as you trim the tree.

We put up an artificial pre-lit tree in our living room and both of our kids rooms. A lot of our ornaments are from years ago as we have a yearly ornament exchange in my Mom's extended family. It is an awesome way to fill your tree with ornaments that have meaning and purpose behind them. My favorite scents at Christmas time are things like "Christmas Cottage" by Scentsy, the smell of fresh pine and warm drinks like Russian Tea. Just writing this makes me want to start decorating for Christmas now! Thanks for the chance to win too.

I usually put up a small xmas tree in my NYC apartment, even though I go back to my parents for Christmas. It really makes me happy and puts me in the Christmas mood through the month of December!

Holidays can be a bittersweet for me....it brings back lots of memories good and bad and it makes me think of my family that is gone now. But i look at my beautiful family and the smiles on there faces and realize how much i have and im thankful for! Decorations for me can be the most simple things as a home made wreath form things my kids found on the walk home from the bus.... Bringing the warm colors back into the house...... lighting a pumpkin buttercream or apple spice candle form yankee and making scones, muffins, cookies, soup anything yummy and home made! I think that just being togeather and enjoying what we have is a decoration itself!

An easy centerpiece to make that won't fade is a floral arrangement. Any craft store or craft department will have little bags full of pieces to reflect the season that you can fill a tall clear glass vase, or you can go out with your young ones and collect fall reflections, then grab a few singular or bunch of different flowers of whatever shades and shapes you like and place it in the vase. I recommend you start with the flowers first, then fill it with the fall reflections after. I prefer artificial items because they will hold and not fade quickly, and it'll last throughout the season and can be reused again later. Happy Decorating & Happy Fall!

It really starts after Halloween, the orange shades have already been introduced, then we add the reds, browns, yellows, and make the harvest season come alive with candles and decorative potpurri, I adorn the walls with my kids "Thanks" pieces of artwork and create festive centerpieces. using gourds, acorns, pinecones, some real and some artificial, I love the fall season and I love for my home to reflect warmth, welcome and thanks!

Our holiday decorating secret is decoratating with the kids, making holidays kid friendly is important to us. We search for neat ideas and make them.

My holiday decorating secret is having a husband who enjoys doing the work. I will watch HGTV to get ideas and buy the things I like. Then I go out Christmas shopping and let my husband decorate the house wth the kids.