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Kicking off my parade of Christmas tree posts with one of my favorite trees, the woodland tree!!!

I moved it this year and it now sits at the end of the dining room!

Little critters are sprinkled in the tree and under it!

I found this squirrel this year back in September and knew he’d look great in the tree!

The main ornament on this tree are pinecones and natural ornaments. Any glass ornament in the tree is an animal!

Dominick the Donkey sits below the other side of the tree!

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Happy Thanksgiving! Popping in for a short post that maybe you’ll quickly browse through on your way to your Thanksgiving (or while you’re headed into your food coma!)

The color scheme for this year’s living room fireplace mantel is green and white!

I found the garland at a local store some years ago, although I did find a similar one at Ballard Designs. I did purchase the stockings this year on Amazon (link here) and was surprised at their quality despite being a good bargain!

The pillows and little tree with black and white came from Mackenzie Childs, retired now.

I was going to tie some little bows on the stocking, but have yet to find the perfect color ribbon…. still on the hunt!

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Updated November 3, 2020. I have been a fan of artificial flocked Christmas trees for years. It is pretty difficult to find flocked Christmas trees in person, so many (including myself) have to resort to buying them online. Without being able to see them, who knows what you’re going to get, right?

I am pretty picky when it comes to picking out a flocked Christmas tree, so I thought I would share some of my tips for picking out a tree and some of my favorites.

Choosing your Tree Shape and Height

I like trees that have branches of various lengths kind of protruding past the overall shape of the cone. I don’t really love the cone shaped trees and here’s why – I find it very difficult to place ornaments on them. You can see what I mean by looking at some of the ones I picked out as my favorites in the widgets below (note – some may be sold out already as they sell out quickly!) :

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I like to pick slightly shorter trees than the ceiling height because I like to boost the tree up and put items below the tree. For instance, this room has a 10′ ceiling and an 7.5′ tree that I placed on a bin and covered with a tree skirt. This also leaves room for plenty of presents!

It’s All About the Amount of Flocking!!

I like trees that really look like fresh snow had just fallen on them. I love clumps of snow just like you would see in real life. I like seeing a bit of green underneath as it adds to the realism. Can you see this tree below and how there are clumps of snow on it? This is what I look for!

Let’s Talk about the Lights

1. LED vs. Incandescent: I’ll be honest, I prefer the look of incandescent lights better because they have a softer glow and I feel that LED lights still have not been able to emulate this. THAT said, the LED lights are much more power efficient and when one LED light goes out the entire stupid tree doesn’t go out. I know that some incandescent trees state that when one light goes out they all won’t… but that’s not always true!
2. I recommended about 100 lights per foot for the height tree for maximum wow factor on a tree. So, if you have a 7.5′ tree, you want around 750 lights on the tree. If you have an unlit tree (real or faux), I recommend one strand of lights (so 100 lights) per each foot of tree height. An 8 foot tree needs 8 strands of lights. Make sense?
3. Colored vs White. I prefer white lights on a tree and let the ornaments act as my flash of color.

My Favorite Artificial Flocked Trees

I’ve rounded up some favorite trees below by trusted brands Vickerman and Sterling. I have had several flocked trees from these companies and have not been disappointed. Vickerman is by far my favorite.

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Below is my favorite tree, the Slim Sierra Flocked Tree. This tree I own and is the one with the polar bears and white snowy animals under it, as pictured in the first picture in the post (Mine is a 10′ tree).

I just ordered this tree below for this year, the flocked Fremont Spruce 7.5′ tree: (this is now discontinued but this one here is very similar)

Now I also have this Sterling Flocked Slim Pencil tree – while I love that this can tuck into a corner, it is a little difficult hanging ornaments on the top branches because it is so slim! I have mine pictured above in this post.

You might also enjoy these other posts:

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree Like a Pro

My Amazon Christmas Picks

My Shop updated with Christmas!

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Yes I KNOW, I know it is a wee bit early to think about Christmas but I had to share these finds with you because I KNOW they will sell out by the time you start really thinking about Christmas. #thankmelater

I am sharing a bunch of COTTON sheet sets – so many Christmas sheets are flannel and I just get way too hot in them.

Snowman Cotton Sheet Set – I bought this set last year and it was sold out by the second week of November.

Christmas Gnome Cotton Sheet Set

Vintage Santa Cotton Sheet Set

Cotton Red and White Stitched Quilt

Prelit Snowy Christmas Trees

Prelit Flocked Mountain Spruce Tree

I’ve also updated my SHOP, you can shop my Christmas selections below.

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I don’t know about you all, but I’ve been super busy during this holiday season.  I haven’t even been able to read up on all of my fellow bloggers.  I know I have missed so many Christmas posts.

I decided to do a little round up of my Christmas posts.   I debated about posting this AFTER Christmas, but I like to lay in bed at nighttime and browse the net.

First I shared my Christmas Porch.

Then I shared my French Country Christmas Home Tour.

Then I shared my Farmhouse Christmas Home Tour.

Then I shared my Woodland Tree and the Merry Musical Christmas room.

Next up is my Traditional Christmas Table.

And last but not least, I shared my Christmas kitchen!

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My Christmas home tour ends with the Christmas kitchen.  It was the last room to officially be decorated.  

I moved the Santa from the bedroom to the kitchen.  He really shines out here! He is made by Ino Schaller… I would like to have more from this company!

On top of the refrigerator sits this new whimsical swan.  My Arctic Santa joins him.

In one corner of the kitchen sits the “Sweets Tree”.  This is a new themed tree to me this year!   I bought this colored lights tree several years ago.  It was previously the “pop culture/movie tree”.  I decorated that tree actually.  Then while unpacking ornaments, I noticed I had quite a few dessert ornaments, and a lightbulb went off! 

So I took down the movie tree, moved it to the kitchen, and went to town!   I had a number of these ornaments already, but then we just kept finding cute dessert ornaments this year and, well, now my tree is full!  

I moved my gingerbread Advent calendar to sit next to this tree.

I thought it went well with the sweets theme.

On the opposite side of the window from the sweets tree sits the chef tree.  

Chef ornaments fill this tree! 

We are in the kitchen, after all.  So here is one of our beverage stations for the holidays.  Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we will have thrown 5 parties! Wow! I am tired….

On this island sits my favorite German Christmas pyramid!  I didn’t light the candles for the picture, but it is so fun watching the pyramid spin around and around when the candles are lit.

Little German Erzegebirge angels sit below the pyramid.

And the scent of Frasier Fir fills the air in the kitchen! Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

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Today I’m excited to share what I’m calling my Farmhouse Christmas tour AND I’ve also organized a Christmas Home Tour Blog hop, part of the “It’s a Wonderful House” Series!  

Today I’m kicking off the tour in my mudroom! 

Don’t be getting mud in here though, I’ve set up a little animal tree below. 

I’ve styled the mudroom with my boots – I did have to wash the mud off of them for the photo! 

A red French market basket holds greenery.  My husband found this for me – I love the red! 

Touches of greenery make the mudroom festive.

Sharing a few more pictures of one of my favorite trees, the animal tree.  All the ornaments on this tree are mohair ornaments by Steiff.

Now into the living room!  This is THE Christmas tree. It is 10 feet tall! 

This year Arctic critters have gathered under it! 

I love the little polar bear and cub! 

I usually have a theme to my trees.  The theme for this tree is… Christmas! Many Santa ornaments adorn the tree, as well as snowmen, angels, and other symbols of Christmas.

Fragrance of fir trees fills the air. 

A faux fur throw and Christmas pillow. 

My little Christmas village sits under the tv.

This is the other side of the fireplace that you don’t see to often. 

This is one of the cat’s favorite places to sit!

I hope you enjoyed my Farmhouse Christmas tour!  If you missed it, you can check out my French Country Christmas tour  and my Christmas porch.

Next up on the Christmas Home Tour Hop is Raising a Farmhouse. You can visit all of the bloggers Christmas homes below!

Petite Haus || Raising a Farmhouse

 Virginia Sweet Pea || A Purdy Little House

From House to Home || Follow the Yellow Brick Home

Back to the South || Frazzled Joy

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Looking at pictures of Christmas past today.  Finding inspiration for myself and maybe for you too!

I was kind of MIA from blog land for about two weeks – my internet went down and took a while to repair, and then we had Thanksgiving weekend which was crazy busy for us too as we hosted 40 people here.

The house this year is almost decorated, but I haven’t had time to take pictures yet!

This year I moved the big tree into the corner.  It’s fun seeing how it was decorated last year though! 

This year I’m trying to figure out how to hang garland around the door as the husband doesn’t want nails poked into the wall… hmmm…

The pastel tree in the mudroom…

My favorite tree – the Woodland tree!

French country touches…

So that was last year! I’m excited to show you how I’ve decorated for this year!!  There are lots of blog hops I’m participating in!  December 3 is a Holiday Porches tour.  December 10 is a Christmas home tour.  December 14 is a Musical Christmas hop. Stay tuned!