It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Hello family and friends! It's a week before Christmas and we have been working like crazy to decorate our house to match the season. However, we have only lived here for two years and on a budget, so we've taken a simplistic budget approach to christmas this year. So here's the deal/goal I'm going to try and make a post every day up to Christmas with our budget Christmas works. Things like awesome but budget friendly gift ideas, decoration idea, projects etc. But for starters here's a look at some of the Christmasy area of our big house!

Since the hubby made the enormous table downstairs, my large Christmas tree spot was taken so we moved the "people" (you'll see below) tree upstairs to the loft.

We don't have a mantle of any kind or a fire place so I got this cute stocking holder

This beautiful card holder was made by the hubby and will be featured in a post later this week!

This awesome table was made by my hubby and cost close to nothing to decorate!

The tablecloth was a gift from a neighbor. the candles and cancel holders were wedding gifts. The centerpiece was $3 from goodwill. The antlers were graciously provided by the desert. And the ribbon cost $1 from Michael's last year. 

Each year I get a "pet tree" I make sure to load it up with unbreakable items such as plastic ornaments and ribbon and burlap. I also made the tree skirt last year and since its pretty big it does a great job of covering up the water bowl for the tree so the pets can't add to their water bowl collection. I also made the tree topper bow last year for about $3. 

Did I mention it's a PET tree?? complete with a coal treats, squeeky elf and yule log from barkbox.com 

Santa even is in the bathroom!

This is our "table for two" Christmas table 

Our cats even joined in the festive decor :)

Last but not least for those of you who follow my instagram you will recognize this advent calendar. (I was bad this year and didn't refill it.) It came with a daily family advent calendar book that me and the hubby like to read. It is however pretty funny as we don't have kids and when the book suggests including the children in the nightly activity my four legged children rarely cooperate. 

So as for tomorrow's post I all be starting some of the money saving christmas ideas! Until tomorrow! 

-Bre