The Not So Perfect Christmas House Tour

 

I started out with the usual grand plans for Christmas decorating. I even began immediately after Halloween. Almost all of my holiday decor was destroyed in the flooding this past spring, but I found a random box of goodies stashed away that was untouched by the flood and I had a lot of stuff left over from holiday markets that I decided to put to use. My goal was to not spend any money that I could be using towards the kids gifts this year.

I think we all see so many perfect photos of perfect homes this time of year and it's easy to get a little down in the dumps when we aren't able to match that level of perfection. I had nearly decided to not show any photos this year, and then I thought well why not? 

My house is perfectly imperfect and that's okay!   

Not gonna lie...I paint in my house and my floors are covered with drops of paint...picmonkey has amazing tools to smooth those bad boys right out though!

 

 The tree skirt is an old crinoline that I almost threw away because it was torn, glad I didn't!

I decided we needed a coffee table so I brought in an small table from the garage/shop. I cut the legs down with a hand saw that was so dull it would have had trouble cutting through soft butter.....that was my work out for the day!!

As I was taking photos, I realized I had forgotten to finish painting some sections of walls. Oh well....it's Vintage Farmhouse charm right?

 Stockings were lost in the flood. Have you priced stockings lately? Wowzers! $10-$30 for ugly ones. Whew, thank the dryer fairy for an old shrunken sweater that I sewed into stockings for the kiddos. Even stamped their names right on them. They aren't perfect either....but they can hold a perfect ton of stocking stuffers and that's all that really matters!

 I've received some flack about the "mustache" or "eyebrow" over the mirror.  I like it. Sure it looks a little goofy, but oh well. Holiday decor doesn't have to be so stinkin serious!

 I accidentally let my ferns on the front porch die in the first freeze, so I dumped them out and brought the urns in. In my box of random stuff that survived the flooding was a ton of pieces of an old silver tinsel tree so I just popped them on in one of the urns. 

Here we have the dining room all super pretty instagramed!

And next we have the dining room in the broad daylight. 

My fabulous boxwood wreath promptly dried up to a crisp despite spritzing it daily with water. My paper whites got super tall and only one bud. {Pretty sure I don't have a green thumb....just sayin}

My white tree that I used for show display came in the house with all of the left over ornaments from the shows.

And now we come to the even more perfectly imperfect part....

My favorite part. 

The part that actually makes this house a home. The part that is what REALLY makes up the holiday spirit.

While trying to take photos my son walks in and starts playing video games, and you know what, I kept taking photos. These are my favorites. These are the ones that will serve a lasting memory of how perfect and beautiful our holiday season is.

 My lil Izzy peeking out from the pile of blankets she loaded up on the couch.

  My crazy cats who absolutely have a weird need to be in every room for every photo.

 {Cat on a Shelf....our version of Elf on a Shelf}

And here's me, in my "Where's Waldo" paint pants, feet up enjoying the view of my house, enjoying the kids and cats and thinking about baking cookies with the kids while a cat stares at me from the counter top and not about trying to scrape the paint off the floor {that's what picmonkey is for} or painting those sections of wall I missed, or fluffing more decor. 

So if you are stressing this holiday season about how to make your house "look" perfect, take a good hard look around....chances are it already is perfect...perfectly imperfect and full of life and love!