The Best Way to Spread Christmas Cheer is Singing Loud for All to Hear!

Well... for once in my deeply procrastinated life, I've followed through on something I said I was going to do.  I had a weekend jam packed full of all things Christmas.  Nathan and I don't really get into the whole buy each other a million things for Christmas.   Rather than the immense amount of stress many people feel, we just enjoy getting into the spirit.  It was quite the coincidence that today at Church we were reminded to take a breather and remember what Christmas really is about.  It's not about getting up at 2am to stand in line for a toy that is soon going to be replaced by the next best thing, or about how many lights you can string outside your house.  I'm not saying you can't do that if you enjoy it, but that doesn't sound like fun to me.

I will now stop my rant and give a rundown of the weekend. Saturday consisted of a lot of gathering supplies and Christmas music.  We also watched Garfield Christmas and Elf with Joel, Lynsey and Ella.  Today was when it all came together.  The following a is a pictorial timeline of the weekend! :)

The House

The front yard of the house with snow!

The Happy Little Farmhouse in the winter! Yes, that's our tree on the front porch. 

The lovely wreath we got today!

The Decorations

       

 

              Just some candy in jars I made pretty with all the ribbon leftover from last year!

The DIY centerpiece... a separate post on these will be coming soon!

The stockings were hung by the chimney staircase with care... :)

Bubba Clause... :) 

The chalkboard turned Christmas! This might be my favorite decoration of them all! 

The Tree

Love this one! 

The Village:

If these photos don't put you in the spirit I don't know what will

Merry Christmas!

The (Future) Attic Master Bedroom

Our Happy Little Farmhouse currently has three bedrooms which are all located on the second floor.  

Our attic is unfinished but we have BIG plans for it.

<------------Future Attic Master

Anyway.... our plans for the Attic are to eventually convert it to a Master Bedroom.  We plan to start  filling those second floor bedrooms at some point, and I'd really like one of them to be my craft/scrapbooking room.  I put an emphasis on eventually because there is no set timeline for this project, and it most likely will not happen for another few years until our budget allows it.

Here are some before photos of the space:

The door to the attic from the second floor:

The stairs from the top in the attic:

Most of the attic from the top of the stairway:

A close up of the window from above: where the bed will eventually be:

 

 A view from the opposite end of the attic (the stairs are to the right of the chimney):

I attempted to draw our "vision" for the space on floorplanner.com.  I am either: a: not smart enough to figure out how to get a screen shot of the plans, or b. can't do so with the free account, so below is the link to the plans:

Our Attic Master Floor Plan
Be sure to check it out in 2D and 3D (the option is in the right corner)!  Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions are welcome!  We plan to add an additional bathroom to our home up here, as well as the mother of all closets.  The closet aspect definitely excites me more than Nathan, but he'll learn to love it!

 

To wrap up this post I wanted to share a few inspiration photos I found on Pinterest. 

 This is the direction I'd like to go in terms of decor in the room:

And to end with a little wishful thinking... I would be the happiest girl if this door could be in the room:

 

Some day......