A Victorian Christmas in Mt. Dora, Florida

 

Christmas in Mount Dora, FL. is like no place we have ever seen before!

I went downtown and around a few neighborhoods so many times trying to capture the

Beauty of Christmas the way I saw it....but trying to take pictures at night was so hard!

But I'm learning slowly but surely!

 

Every beat of my heart made the camera move so the lights had all this zig zaggy look.

Some aren't so bad, but others I wanted to share just were horrible!
 

For Christmas my sweet hubby bought me a tri-pod so that the camera would be steady.

 

He is Such a JEM!!! And it works!

 

This home is just down the street from our home.

I went this evening in hopes their home would still be decorated and it was!

Here are the photos of this gorgeous Victorian home!

 

We have been looking at a piece of property on this lake in Mt. Dora and, if it works

out, this gorgeous home will be two houses from us! I will love being their neighbor!

Is this not just AWSOME!!! :)

 



 As we are driving from our house coming up to this house!
 You can tell something beautiful is ahead, because the darkness at night is so aglow!
 

  

 Front and right side shot.

 

Right side shot of the house.

  

 Close as I could get of the front door entrance.

 

  The Christmas tree in the formal living area in the window.

 

Side porch on the left....their gazebo on the right.

It even had a Christmas tree in the center of the gazebo with lights

all around the inside, and lighted garland and bows on the outside hung just

like the fence here in front of the property.

 

This home was on the Holiday Christmas Tour of Homes. Is it no wonder?!

 

You can see the lake in the distance which they also had lights on down

their dock and the ladder from the dock to the water.

The whole front of the house facing the lake was all decorated too!

 I just couldn't get good shots of that, but you could see it from the other side of the lake.

The whole place was just lit up to beat the band!!!!

 

The center section of this fence looks light lights are on it,

it is actually the dock and the ladder down in the water

from the shoreline to the end of the dock!

 

 

 

 

The driveway entrance to their home.

 

 

 

It was ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!! and so ELEGANT!

Just my SPARKLEY kind of place!

 

Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed this home.

It was so beautiful and I am so thankful to my hubby for getting me that tri-pod!

I was finally able to get some really great pictures using it!

 

I STILL have more Christmas in Mount Dora of the downtown

and the rest of the pictures of my house decorating inside

as soon as I get all the pictures edited!

Hopefully it will be before summer lol!

It just takes so much TIME!!!

 

TaTa Till Later!!!

Love and Hugs and Blessings!

Debi

Christmas Decorating On the Inside ~ The Breakfast Nook

 

Well it's almost time to take down all the Christmas decorations for another year!

I know sooner get into the holiday and BAM.....it's all over! geesshh!

 

Well here are a few areas of the house that I did get done decorating.

Never got it all done, but ol well.....it was enough! And I am wore out!

Seems like since we moved here in July, all I have done is put things away!

The move, the flood, and now Christmas!

AND....then we are suppose to move again in July!!!

I so hope the owners decide to stay away another year!

 

I Just want a break for awhile lol!

 

These are photos of our breakfast nook area. Jack and I love red and green,

and cardinals and poinsettia's,

(you probably figured that from the outdoor decorating,)

and apples and holly berries as you will see...oh and gold too! :)

Oh and plaids too! Have no idea what you would call our flavor of decorating.

We have a lot of traditional and french country going on in this house,

but this fits in just fine, we think anyway.

It feels homey and Christmasy...is that a word?

 

 

 

We have no curtains in the windows in the breakfast nook

or the huge wall of sliding doors off the family room

just behind the breakfast nook....

decided not to waste our money buying when we will only be moving

again shortly anyway. Plus we have a beautiful view out all the windows

 to the pool area, the ponds, and the woods!

And I love all the light during the day shining in! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got these pretty dishes with cardinals at a place we love to shop

at in Plant City, FL. call Southern Hospitality or SOHO for short!

It's an awesome place for crafts, home decor and decorating, furniture, and gift ideas!

If you live near it, I would highly recommend you visit.

Awesome place for any holiday decorating!

When Jack and I found this setting all laid out on a table there,

we bought the entire set!

It has a cookie jar, milk pitcher, salt and pepper shakers, the dinner plates,

salad plates, and soup bowls. We bought the place mats and napkins too,

along with the ceramic Santa napkin rings. And the dinner bell hehe!

We also got two of the cardinal figurines sitting on the mercury glass balls.

We had a ball that night!

That was the Christmas before Jacks stroke almost five years ago now,

and we still love it all! Oh that's where we also got the six Christmas trees we use for the

 Outside Decorating Here if you didn't see it:

and all the apple and holly berry garland, and apple holly berry stick thingies we stick in our Christmas tree and decorated the chandeliers with.

Oh and the cardinals!!! 

We walked out of that store that night with FOUR CARTS besides the six trees lol!

It's an AWESOME store!!!!  One of our FAVORITES!!!! 

They love it when we come there shopping lol!

They even know our names! :)

 

  

  

 

I just love these dishes!

We don't eat on them though lol....they are just displayed on the table.

We use our other dishes for the eating part hehe!

 

  

 

Well that's it for that area of the house!

More coming for the formal dining room and family room.

I did do a little bit in the guest bathroom and the formal living room,

but not near as much as I usually do. The master bedroom and guest bedroom

didn't get anything decorated this year at all!

 

Thanks for the visit and letting me share with you! :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Now the march is on for the New Year!!! 

Wow!!! Can you believe we are going into 2013!!!

Lord, where have the years gone too!

 

TaTa Till Later!!!

Love and Stuff!

God's Blessings to You!!

 

Debi



Our House Decorated for Christmas This Year 2012

 

Finally Got Most of It Done!

Had no idea how I wanted to decorate our new house this year....our last home was done in an "Old Fashion" style with a sweet front porch, two story, more of a traditional looking home to decorate with. This house is more of a Mediterranean style. I didn't want to have to buy all new stuff either. So I pondered and pondered how to utilize what I had already. Where we live at the end of a cul-de-sac, our driveway goes down a bit of a hill, so the front yard is mostly on a hill. We have a wide sidewalk entryway from the driveway which is where I have my garden bench.

 

So I got this idea to do like a park setting as the hill up to the road starts right behind the bench. It is now done other than more lights I would like to put up, but I still need to do Christmas shopping and get the house cleaned up before our guests arrive Christmas day, and so running out of time! So this is it! Done Done! There are seven homes in our neighborhood and we are the only house that is decorated! This sweet town of Mt. Dora is so decked up for the Christmas holiday, we wonder if our neighborhood is the ba-humbug kinda of neighborhood! Not even a wreath on their doors! Weird!

Oh well our house sure sparkles! :)

 

This is our "Park" like Christmas!

 

From Our House to Yours

With Love! :)

 

Christmas at the Willhoite's!

We had so much fun decoratig this year!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Our grapevine lighted Christmas mailbox.

 

 

Do you know what the word Joy means?..............it's the way we should live....

J=Jesus, who we should put First in our life and obey his word...

O=Others, putting others SECOND by loving and serving others.

Y=Yourself, love yourself as God loves you..................................

By keeping Jesus and Others first in your life, you feel the Joy of Jesus in your heart and Soul!

You will be the person God wanted and chose you to be, and you will love who you are!

Jesus, Others, Yourself! .........See!!!! :) ♥

 

Took these today.....loved the shadows across the lawn from the sun....our

"Christmas Park Theme" decorating is even pretty during the day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, that's it for the outside.....we love it!

My honey loves to sit outside and just look at it...

he's so cute!

 

When I have time, and I'm so running out of it....I'll share some of the inside of the house. :)

 

Thanks for visiting today!

 

Christmas is ALMOST HERE!!!! YIPPPEEE!!!

 

Merry Christmas!!! May God pour his Blessings over you life!

 

Love and Hugs!

TaTa Till Later

Debi