Red and White North Pole Christmas Porch

Hello! I am so excited today to take part in Chris from Just a Girl blog’s Welcome Home Tour!!

If you are here from Sarah @Thrifty Decor Chick’s GORGEOUS home, Welcome!!! 

You are in for a TREAT!! 20 beautiful homes for  holiday decorating inspiration. I am humbled to be included in this tour.

And it’s the last day of the tour, so be sure to go to the links at the bottom of the post and see all 20 homes. SO fun!!

Red and White North Pole Christmas Porch

I know I’ve mentioned before how much we LOVE where we live. We live in a huge community of colorful houses.

And every house has a porch, or two!! So it’s so awesome this time of year to drive through the area and see all of the ways people have decorated their porches!!

I love a theme and this year my home’s theme is NORTH POLE with a red and white scheme. I decorated our family room with a NORTH POLE tree: 

I made a North Pole sign and hung my stockings on a DIY ladder: 

The stockings are from TwentyEight12 on etsy.

My daughter’s room has a red and white theme.

My bedroom’s a little festive for the holidays:

The canvas is a Caroling Printable that is on my site…

My little Game Night kitchen eating nook has a red and white look:

And here is my Red and White North Pole Porch:

Red and White North Pole Christmas Porch

I love making giant typographic signs. They make a statement and I love the graphic look. PLUS it only cost me about $6 for the wood and I can paint something else on the back and flip it over for Valentine’s Day if I want.

I found some red and white pillows.

(it was a little windy the day I was taking pictures – can you tell??? LOL)

Red and White North Pole Christmas Porch

In my old neighborhood there was a home that always hung wreaths on all of their windows for the holidays and I think it reminded me of growing up on the east coast. So when we moved here I really wanted to do something similar. I tied a simple red and white bow on each wreath and I love the way they look.

I think the red and white theme looks pretty with our newly painted door.

I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the color of the door. It’s Sherwin Williams Tantalizing Teal. And I love it.

The wreath is from Michaels and it lights up. I added a cute fabric reindeer that I’ve had for a few years and never used. Then all I had to do was add a bow. SUPER easy.

The mat is from Ikea and I think it was under $10.

I was going to buy some lighted topiaries for the sides of the door but they were so pricey. So I just wrapped the planters I already had like presents and added some ribbon. I think that project cost me about $3.

Red and White North Pole Christmas Porch

I tied simple polka dot ribbon to my sconces and reused a garland I brought with me when we moved.

I love how bright and cheerful our home looks when we pull up. It makes me so happy to be here, starting a new chapter with my children.

Be sure to see Chris’s beautiful home and all of the other bloggers homes.

AMAZING!!

Be sure to see all 20 homes!!

Monday

Just a Girl
A Thoughtful Place
Yellow Prairie Interiors
Haneen’s Haven

Tuesday
Hi Sugarplum
Brooklyn Limestone
320 Sycamore
Southern Hospitality

Wednesday
Sunny Side Up
Marie Flanigan Interiors
The House of Silver Lining
Bower Power

Thursday
Erin Spain
Honey We’re Home
Beneath My Heart
Home Made By Carmona
Decor Gold Designs

Friday
Centsational Girl
Thrifty Decor Chick
Tatertots and Jello

Happy Holidays!!! 

xoxox

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Santa North Pole Christmas Tree and Decorating Ideas!

One of the things I look forward to in blogging each year is decorating my Michaels Tree. I think this is the fifth tree I’ve had the opportunity to think up and decorate. This year as we are in our new home I was even more excited about the challenge. Since I still love our teal couch I needed to come up with a Christmas color scheme that would compliment our couch. I thought a simple red and white color scheme would be really classic and pretty. And it kind of reminded me of the North Pole and Santa.

As I was looking at Michaels and all of the fun holiday items I spied the most adorable Santa ornaments. Perfect for my Santa North Pole theme!!

Santa North Pole Christmas Tree and Decorating Ideas!

I added classic striped red and white wide ribbon, felted ball garland and striped candy canes, plus I spray painted the star marquee lights from my tree last year.

Another item that I love is the galvanized tree enclosure. I get a little OCD about tree skirts. They always seem to get messy-looking with kids or pets. This galvanized enclosure is so clean and it fits in with our farmhouse decor. I love it!

I found the red and white BELIEVE pillow. It is perfect next to the tree. And I also love the striped Christmas puppy pillow from Michaels too!

And I was even able to incorporate my big DIY ladder into the decor. I have used it the past four years or so for many different uses.

It has been used to display an advent calendar, hang cards and this year I thought it would be perfect to hang stockings! And I love the Bell Banner I hung from it. PLUS, one of my favorite parts of the decor this year is a little mailbox hung on the ladder. I used thickers from my Pebbles Home+Made collection to spell out – NORTH POLE MAIL. We will use it for a family project that is coming up soon where we do little random acts of kindness for each other. I will share more on that and a little printable in the next week.

Santa North Pole Christmas Tree and Decorating Ideas!

I also made a simple DIY wood sign that says NORTH POLE and hung it over the fireplace. I used my Cricut to cut out the letters and vinyl from Michaels. A tutorial on that and another big sign I made for our porch is also coming up soon.

I added my little sled I’ve had for a few years. Aren’t the coal fabric bags so cute? I think they are funny.

Santa North Pole Christmas Tree and Decorating Ideas!

I also made a little Santa scene in my glass birdhouse on my work desk. You can find all of the little village figurines at Michaels in the Christmas section.

I added some simple wood letters that say SANTA to the middle of the tree.

Instead of a star for the top of the tree I took two of the candy cane ornaments and hot glued them together criss-crossed and added a simple fabric bow.

I love seeing all of the Holiday Tree ideas from the Michaels Makers! Be sure to check them all out!

Santa North Pole Christmas Tree and Decorating Ideas!

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Have you started decorating for Christmas?

Do you put up a tree?

Share YOUR ideas in the comments!!

Have a festive day!

xoxo

Thanks to Michaels for the fun Dream Tree Challenge. All ideas are mine.

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