Welcome to the fourth week of the Seasonal Simplicity Christmas Series! Today a group of my blogging friends and I are sharing our Holiday Mantels and a few vignette decorating ideas, to help inspire you for the upcoming holidays. A special thanks to our friend Krista at The Happy Housie who organizes it all and hosts this amazing series! Today I’m sharing my glam white and gold living room Christmas tree and mantel!

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Glam White & Gold Christmas Living Room

Glam White & Gold Christmas Tree Ornaments & Ribbon

This pearl ornament was from a local boutique.  I had to have it! They only had one that I saw. Striped ornaments are from HomeGoods.  I have purchased most of my ornaments there or at Macy’s, Michael’s, Hobby Lobby or local boutiques over the years. At the end of the post I’ll have a bunch linked for you!

Velvet poinsettias from HomeGoods a few years ago.  The lovely bow ornament was a DIY Glam Rhinestone Bow Ornament tutorial I shared on the blog last week.  When I too these pics, I didn’t quite have all the ornaments done yet and now I do and they are so cute all on my tree!

Isn’t this the most gorgeous ribbon?! It’s white velvet wired ribbon with rhinestone edging and gold backing. I’m selling it in my online boutique for all of you.  It’s very expensive and a high-end boutique ribbon but it comes on a 5-yard roll. 

That cute dome house was from Target a few years back. I just love it.  And, of course, all of my cute white and gold boxes and wrapping paper are from Target and I just grab gold-toned ribbon and tie big bows on them, adding some little stems here or there. Wanna know a secret about my tree skirt? It’s no skirt at all!  Just a bunch of faux fur pieces of fabric and an old cut up rug bunched together.  It gives more dimension and is bigger that way!

My thick garland I’ve had for years burnt out on me and I was soooo sad BUT it was actually a blessing in disguise because it was so thick that I couldn’t fit all these glass trees on my mantel like I wanted to.

 Instead I purchased this inexpensive garland and added a strand of extra lights and then stuffed it with everything pretty until it looked how I wanted it to.  

The gold star garland came from Walmart, the crystal garland I already had from an old chandelier that I linked all together (but linked the same thing for you below at end of post), gold stems, velvet poinsettias from Hobby Lobby, gold eucalyptus from Pier1, and the little crystal drops were from Hobby Lobby too.  

The stockings have been with us for years now and I added fur trim and hot-glued it across the top (from Hobby Lobby). Can I vent for a minute?  Our closest Hobby Lobby is 45+ min away and it’s the first time we’ve lived somewhere where it hasn’t been around the corner.  Ugh.  But they’re finally putting one in here in Vancouver.  Yay!  Ok…back to the post.

While all my other glass trees in my entry came from Pottery Barn, these ones and the beaded and wooden ones all came from…..you guessed it….HomeGoods!  They had an entire aisle of trees this year.  It was awesome! I turned down it and thought, “These are all coming home with me and going on my mantel!” Ha!  And there is how I got the idea for my mantel.  Just a mini way-condensed version lol!

Glam White & Gold Christmas Coffee Table

I love a pedestal bowl with sparkly ornaments.  This one is from ZGallerie last year.

This is actually soooo much more simple than any other Christmas coffee table I’ve ever done but I’m liking it! Simple but sparkly and glamorous!

When I was a teenager, I performed in a youth group and one of my favorite Christmas songs was the Hallelujah chorus.  It gave me chills every time!

“King of kings, and Lord of lords…”
“…forever, and ever, …Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah!!!!!”

Oh gosh, I want to go turn it on right now.  So, that is what inspired me this Christmas for the downstairs decor here.  I wanted to continue with the white and gold like I’d been doing during the fall but add crowns to my decor and make it feel royal and special and white and bright. You’ll see more crowns later in my other spaces.

I added a gold velvet lumbar from HomeGoods to add more of that golden warmth to my sofa. Just what it needed.

Check back soon for my dining space and kitchen!!!

PLEASE visit my friends and their beautiful tours!
Click on the links below each image to be taken directly to the different posts.

The Happy Housie // Cherished Bliss // The Handmade Home
Modern Glam // Craftberry Bush

House by Hoff // Rambling Renovators // Rooms FOR Rent
Jenna Kate at Home // Just a Girl and Her Blog

The Turquoise Home // Sincerely, Marie Designs // Grace In My Space
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia // Zevy Joy

Lolly Jane // Tatertots and Jello // She Gave it a Go
Jamie Costiglio //Southern State of Mind

Place of My Taste // Summer Adams Designs // Life is a Party
We Are The Joneses // Kim Power Style

The DIY Mommy // Two Twenty One // My 100 Year Old Home
This is Our Bliss // Taryn Whiteaker Designs

Amber Tysl // Styled With Lace // Happy Happy Nester
Clean and Scentsible // My Sweet Savannah // So Much Better With Age

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Welcome to the “12 Days Of Holiday Homes” hosted by my friends 11 Magnolia Lane & Evolution Of Style!  We are so glad you’re participating in our tour, as we share our holiday homes with you.  A huge “thank you” if you’re new here and coming from Dixie Delights.  I am excited to share with you today my Whimsical Glam Christmas Living Room In Pastels.

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First, did you see my first Christmas tree and entry decorated in mixed metals?

Make sure to stop by that first tour if you haven’t already.

Moving into the living room, last week I shared our whimsical glam mantel to give you a little taste of the theme in here.

With the new Nutcracker Movie being released this year, and having 2 young children who still love the magic of Christmas, I was inspired to bring some fun “creatures” into our living room and bring a touch of whimsy.  These crowned swans were just the thing I had imagined!

I also shared our cozy glam hot cocoa bar station on the other side of the living room.

Adding one of my favorite deer heads that I’ve had for several years, and glamming her up a bit, was another perfect touch of whimsy.

Whimsical Glam Flocked Christmas Tree In Pastels

Tree #2!  Last year the tree in here was touching the ceiling and 1 1/2 feet wider and very full but it just swallowed this room.

This year I wanted this slimmer tree so that I wouldn’t have to move the furniture around. I’m sooo loving this tree and so glad I got it!

I also wanted a tree that was less full so that more light could pass through and also be able to tuck these soft maribou feather boas into it to look like soft fallen snow. I took each boa, folded it over and “doubled up” to make them look fuller and just tucked them in and out of the branches as if snow had just fallen there. I think I used 9 total!
I also have a pretty little tutorial on that middle ornament.

Hobby Lobby had all these pretty dusty blue and blush pink poinsettia stems this year and I was so thrilled!  I grabbed all of my sparkly white stems and ornaments to cover the tree and then just added small touches of the blue and blush.

All of my gifts always coordinate with my tree.  I’ve found such pretty wrapping papers and gift bags at HomeGoods and Target again this year, and the gift boxes as well.  I ordered pretty velvet ribbons from Etsy.

Tip: Don’t be afraid to add small Christmas decor items and stems around your gifts to create an even more beautiful look around your tree.

I love the soft look of this tree as the sun shines through and gives that glow.

I spent hours online looking for dusty blue velvet throw pillows and after having no success, I walked into HomeGoods one day and found these pretty ones with snowflake motifs.

Also there were these blush pink faux fur throw pillows that were more on the peachy side and less on the mauve side, just as I wanted.

On my coffee table I placed some faux fur beneath my “angel tray”.  This year I added all 3 of my angels to this pretty tray, along with one of my pretty deers and this bowl of ornaments.

I usually place my ornaments in a different pedestal bowl but I found this sparkly bowl at ZGallerie this year and knew it would be perfect.  You can use double-sided satin or velvet ribbon to tie on the ends for extra elegance.

Stay tuned because tomorrow I’ll be sharing my whimsical kitchen with you and it will be a treat!  Here’s a small teeny tiny peek.  

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Next….please hop on over and visit my good friend Jen at Style House Interiors.  Her home is just gorgeous!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of these bloggers as the week progresses!

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Hello friends!  I’m so excited to welcome you all to another Holiday Home Tour in our new home!  I brought together a handful of extremely talented friends with fabulous style to share our Christmas decor with you and welcome you into our homes.  Today I’m sharing my “Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree and Mantel”.

If you’re new to my blog and coming from my friend Alicia’s blog The Lush List, I’m so thrilled to have you and hope you’ll come back again and again.  A huge hug to all my regular readers also here today!

Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree & Mantel

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If you are a regular reader, you know how much I love a bright white home.  This home, we finished building and moving into last month, was no exception.  Relocating from Texas to the Pacific Northwest has been exciting but I’ve also prepared myself for the cloudy and rainy days by designing a bright white kitchen and this bright white living room, which I recently revealed. So, for this year’s Christmas theme in this area of the home, I really wanted it to feel like a Winter Wonderland.

When I think of a Winter Wonderland, I think of fresh mounds of snow and sparkling snowflakes falling like glitter. I imagine myself wearing a white faux fur coat and ear muffs and riding in a one-horse opened sleigh with a soft throw and hot cocoa.  Ok, I know…I’m getting carried away ha!

To make my own Winter Wonderland here at home, I wanted it to feel bright and magical, with a touch of elegance.

For the tree, I received this 9-foot flocked pre-lit tree from King of Christmas last year and it’s gorgeous!  It’s the BEST tree we’ve ever had!  The quality is absolutely superb and it is so full and dense.  (Stay tuned for next week as I’ll reveal the new 12-foot flocked tree they sent me for this new home.)

I used mostly white and silver but a few touches of gold so that this felt more like a Winter Wonderland.

I used these frosted magnolia stems that I used in last year’s tree. Aren’t they so pretty?!

Frosted winterberry stems were used as well.

I’m a sucker for lots of sparkly ornaments.  These looked like fresh snowballs!

I added shimmering pinecones and glittered deer ornaments and anything winter-y that sparkled.

My secret for the perfect Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree…

For the fluffy white “fresh fallen snow” that is softly tucked in the branches of the tree I use  THESE.  Hot glue sets of 2 and 3 together and then place them on the tree as if they’ve fallen like so.

I only have a few presents wrapped so far but when I finish ordering them all from Amazon, I’ll wrap them then…ha!

Seriously though…..most of our Christmas comes from Amazon Prime.  It beats the lines and the traffic!  Although, my Holiday Gift Guide contains the most fabulous items and they’re all online too.

The mantel….

I have a frosted garland that I use every year.  I added velvet, sparkly white poinsettia stems, ornaments, sparkly berry stems, and fluffy fur stems (from Michaels) to give it that snowy Winter Wonderland feel.

We’ve had these stockings for years but I added fur trim to the top of them last year.

Did you see these cute furry, sparkly white trees at Michaels this year?  I love them!

My mom gave me this gorgeous gold angel some years ago.  She makes an appearance on our mantel every year.  (The angel, not my mom..hahaha!).

Sparkly deer, mercury glass candlesticks with glittery candles, and shiny winter accents were used around my mantel and built-ins.

That darling nativity scene was the best $5 I’ve ever spent at a garage sale.  I just adore it!

The coffee table…

I love throwing a faux fur on my table in the winter and a large tray on top.

This sweet angel I found at a specialty store last year is back on my coffee table tray, embellished with a beautiful winter stem.

This frosted floral arrangement is the perfect snowy touch of elegance that this table needed.  I replaced my everyday candle to this gorgeous shimmery balsam candle and switched my other coffee table books to this one that I adore.

Winter Pillows…

Well look who wanted in on the photo shoot!  Hello Giorgio!

This pup is NOT allowed on my white furniture but I made an exception since he was crying for my husband and it was driving me nuts, ha!  Those two are like two peas in a pod.  So funny.

I had these beautiful Christmas pillows here but then the mailman came and brought me something fun!

Just as I started to shoot this room, these gorgeous new antelope pillow covers arrived from my friends at Laurel & Blush and the timing was perfect.

This touch of antelope looks perfect in my Winter Wonderland living room next to that velvet beaded “peace” pillow.  Isn’t that fabric just gorgeous?!  I love having that print, mixed with velvet and sparkly beaded pillows for that perfect Winter Wonderland look.

I’m loving all the pretty light I’m getting from my large windows.  It fills this room with a beautiful glow.

Thus, giving me my very own Winter Wonderland here in my bright white living room.  Don’t you just love the magic that you can create with seasonal decor this time of year?!

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Thank you so much for visiting my elegant Christmas entry tour today! Please make sure to visit my friend Doreen at Doreen Corrigan next and see what she is sharing on our tour today!  And please make sure to visit all of my talented friends sharing today!  See their links below.

Moth Design |  Modern Glam  |  TheLushList

SummerAdams  |  Doreen Corrigan  |  CC & Mike  |  Curls & Cashmere

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Welcome to our Bloggers Holiday Living Room Tour!  Thank you so much to Sandra at The Rustic Life for putting this together. Whether this is your first time visiting my blog or if you’re a regular reader, I’m so thrilled you’re here today!

We have all been DYING to share our Christmas decor with you.  Today I invite you into my Living Room where I did something fun and different this year.  This room has been my sitting room and is located off my kitchen, unlike my family room.  So it’s a little more feminine.  I like to sit on my chaise lounge and catch up on TV while dinner is cooking and get some blogging done.

I decided to use all ivory and then add hints of blush with a dash of leopard.

The leopard complimented my Oliver Gal Art called “Serving Roses” that had a lot of warm tones of bronze and gold in it.

This inspired my tree. I knew I wanted a flocked tree with blush but as soon as I saw these large, gold, beaded, sparkly magnolia stems at Decorator’s Christmas Warehouse here in Arlington, Texas….

I just knew I was keeping the leopard through Christmas because those flowers complimented the pillows and art as well.

It was a match made in heaven!  This tree is just a flocked tree I found at Walmart.

It’s a decent tree and fine for the little I paid for it but it is NOTHING like the tree I’m sharing in my next Christmas Tour on December 2nd.  You DON’T want to miss that!  I found this new tree-topper recently that looks like a mercury glass “Star of Bethlehem”.  Of course, it needed a huge bow below it on the front and back of the tree.

This tree continues down with lots of expandable sparkly ribbon I found at Michaels.  It is the perfect “champagne” color, a mixture of gold and silver tinsel. I also found some sheer, sparkly ribbon at the Decorators Warehouse and created huge bows and stuffed them in between branches. I love the way it glimmers as the light bounces off of it.

I found these large blush ornaments at Decorators Warehouse…

as well and these gorgeous champagne-colored sheer poinsettia stems.

They helped balance the rich gold and the soft blush.  The pretty blush roses were stems I found at Michael’s this year and they had soooo many gorgeous blush stems and flowers.

They even had these glittery blush leaf stems.

If you look closely, you’ll see I bought the matching gold leaf stems also.  They were a beautiful filler on my tree.

I filled my tree with all different gorgeous ornaments from World Market, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Decorators Warehouse, At Home, and Tuesday Morning.

Instead of buying a tree skirt this year, I grabbed some of my shiny gold material from my craft room “stash” and also some some sparkly gold tulle I had as well. I layered it beautifully on top of each other to create a tree skirt.

Can you see all of the sparkle?  It’s even prettier in person. You know how I just love sparkle!

Using cream, silver, gold, and different shades of blush wrapping papers and bags, I carefully wrapped each gift.  Yes, I’m ahead of the game this year and it feels ohhhh sooooo good!  {Thank you, Amazon Prime lol}

I love this sparkly, blush glitter ribbon from Michaels this year.

Don’t be afraid to run to the local dollar store and grab some sparkly ornaments to tie on your gifts. They make such a huge difference.
You don’t have to make traditional bows.  Have fun with some tulle!

Anyone else loving the blush gift bags from Target this year?  The  boxes and wrapping paper were too peach for me.  But then again, if I could find some, I might add some of it because I do love different shades.

There are all different fun ways to wrap your gifts and keep things “interesting” under  your tree.  Also look for coordinating gift boxes at your local home decor stores.  You can use those and just some ribbon and then won’t have to wrap….just tie a bow.

I just adore a glittery key!

After buying all the blush-colored roses I could find at several Michael’s stores in my area….unfortunately, everyone else wanted them too and they are not restocking them.  So I continued on with my mantel but left out the blush. I kept it white and gold and silver and champagne.

Almost every room in my home has an angel at Christmas.  I love this one.  She’s so elegant.

I made that “Peace” banner a few years ago and I can’t believe it is still in good condition after several moves.  And of course, no mantel in my home would be complete without sparkly glitter candles.

I stagger my candlesticks and mix metals to give it more appeal. I love the way it looks.

I found some pretty gold roses at Michaels so I was so thrilled about that.  They look lovely, bunched in with champagne foliage stems from Decorators Warehouse.  I love adding sparkly birds as well throughout my Christmas scenes.  This pretty little guy was a recent gift from my mom. She knows my affection for these little birds.

Using glitter deer and other pretty candlesticks, candles, and garland I have leftover, it’s easy to spread them out throughout the room and create lovely vignettes.

Ok, so this room has 2 angels!

A fun way to add some festive Christmas decor is to take a pretty bowl, apothecary jar, or dish and place a variety of sparkly ornaments inside.  They can be some of your favorites or even some from the dollar store.

This is my favorite Nativity Scene.  It was just a few dollars at a garage sale in Waco 5 years ago and exactly what I was looking for.

Think of the details in the room….make sure to add a touch of Christmas to your shelves and tables.

And there you have it…my living room all decorated for Christmas!

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I’m so glad you could join me today for my Holiday Living Room Tour!  I invite you to follow me on Instagram, Facebook and even Pinterest to see what I’m doing next.  I’d love it if you subscribed to my email list at the top of the page to get my weekly news of the latest posts and even sale alerts to my shoppe. Please make sure to visit my other friends joining me today and visit their Holiday Living Room Tours for more inspiration.

The Rustic Life

Our Vintage Nest 

The Glam Farmhouse

One Artsty Mama

The Leslie Style

A House and a Dog

Wishing you the Merriest Christmas season!

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