So this was Christmas: The sunroom
I think the sunroom (more like ice chest in the winter) is my favorite room of my entire house at Christmas time. I'm not really sure why... it's the most neglected, it's always the last room I decorate, the last room to get un-decorated, and the least used. But there's just something warm and cozy about it when it's all decked out. The soft pink glow from the colored lights strung around our windows, the three nesting trees covered in cookie cutters, various snowmen decorations from my mom, the colored balls hanging in the windows, and the handmade felt ornaments from Jeff's childhood hanging from the ceiling just ooze Christmas goodness.
Cookie cutters aren't exactly the first thing you'd think to decorate a Christmas tree with... unless it's your first Christmas away from home and they are the only thing you have! I had a gigantic box of colored cookie cutters that I'd take babysitting with me and figured they would look cute and crafty on our tree when I was in college. The first Christmas Jeff and I were married, they also adorned our tree. Then Jeff bought me three nesting trees on "black Friday" at Jo-Ann's the first year we lived in our house and told me I could get a "grown-up" tree now with white lights. So they were relegated to the sunroom. Elephants, money symbols, various shapes, cars, trains, moose, baseball bats, and the 100 other cookie cutters (there really is 100 of them on these three trees) don't have much to do with Christmas but I'm telling ya, there is something wonderful about them on a Christmas tree. Homemade, childhood, magical sort of feel.
This miniature gingerbread couple came from Nauvoo. I got them when I went and visited my grandparents on their mission. I love them. 
My honest thought when Jeff's mom handed me these felt ornaments was to give them back to her. I figured they would end up in the box, never to be put on our tree. But then I thought our sunroom needed just a little something else to make it magical. They were perfect. They hang from the ceiling from a strand of lights and I just love them. They make me happy every time I walk under them. 
Cookie cutters aren't exactly the first thing you'd think to decorate a Christmas tree with... unless it's your first Christmas away from home and they are the only thing you have! I had a gigantic box of colored cookie cutters that I'd take babysitting with me and figured they would look cute and crafty on our tree when I was in college. The first Christmas Jeff and I were married, they also adorned our tree. Then Jeff bought me three nesting trees on "black Friday" at Jo-Ann's the first year we lived in our house and told me I could get a "grown-up" tree now with white lights. So they were relegated to the sunroom. Elephants, money symbols, various shapes, cars, trains, moose, baseball bats, and the 100 other cookie cutters (there really is 100 of them on these three trees) don't have much to do with Christmas but I'm telling ya, there is something wonderful about them on a Christmas tree. Homemade, childhood, magical sort of feel.
This miniature gingerbread couple came from Nauvoo. I got them when I went and visited my grandparents on their mission. I love them. 
My honest thought when Jeff's mom handed me these felt ornaments was to give them back to her. I figured they would end up in the box, never to be put on our tree. But then I thought our sunroom needed just a little something else to make it magical. They were perfect. They hang from the ceiling from a strand of lights and I just love them. They make me happy every time I walk under them. 
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We would have fought over my felt ornaments if they had stayed in a boxx...
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