Showing posts with label Christmas decorating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas decorating. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Christmas Is In The Air!

I'm Having So Much Fun!

A Little Sneak Peek!


A little Christmas project I've been working on
that has been growing with more ideas for two
weeks now. And guess what....left over pumpkins
were where the inspiration came from. I just can't
seem to get over the pumpkin thing!

Styrofoam cones, Christmas fabric, snowman top
hats with bling, real orange pumpkins, silver paint,
oblong canvas, door handles, leafy tree branches,
berries, pine cones, white paint, pine branches, and
who knows what else will be added to this fun little
centerpiece! Be back when it's done! (in between 
entertaining the grandbabies)

TaTa for Now!



Friday, January 11, 2013

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

Sunday, December 23, 2012

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