My decorating

This is about the extent of my decorating this year. I have my painted tree full of lights, my bell Santa's, all my bell hanging things, my card holder, our stockings, a couple candle holders and kitchen towels out on display. Instead of getting a tree and then figuring out where to put it I decorated my Jade plant with bows and a couple ornaments. If I would have gotten out the box of lights I might have put some on it but the painted tree gives me the light I want. Basically I've only put out about a box and a half of stuff out of the 7 boxes of xmas stuff I have.

I've decided I'm going to go with a blue snow man / ice cube motif (I have a kitchen towel set I'm using as my inspiration). As I was going thru the couple of boxes I got out I realized nothing matched - all different colors and styles and when everything was out it just looked cluttered. So I now have a pile of stuff to get rid of - right now its mostly xmas kitchen towels and such (as that was the box I was going thru)

I'm liking the minimalist approach. So much easier and alot less cluttered this way. And it only took me about an hour to decorate and will probably take even less to put away.