Simple Vintage Christmas Front Porch 2014

Welcome to our Christmas Front Porch for 2014!
 This year I kept things fairly simple. It did not take long at all to put it together minus one feature but I will get to that in a moment.

I kept the Welcome sign on the porch. Last year it said "HoHoHo" but I wanted to keep things easy as possible so I opted out of changing it up. Besides that I love the pop of blue it adds to the porch. 

I added tinsel garland to the tree. I love the vintage feel of it. I used it on our Christmas tree inside too. Can't wait for that reveal!

Here is where I spent most of my time. I have always wanted to hang ornaments from the porch ceiling so I decided this year I was going to do it. Found beautiful shattered resistant ornaments at Costco. I then made bows and hot glued them on each one. I climbed up the giant ladder I do not remember how many times making sure they were spaced accordingly. After I was done I realized the darn things would not stay turned out so you could see the pretty bows and designs on the front of the ornaments. Major fail but I was like whatever by that time and just left them up there. I will say they look really pretty from inside the house!;)

I updated our Christmas wreath with a grapevine reindeer my mama gave me last year. To make him full of whimsy I hot glued a red pom pom to his nose.

And what porch would be not be complete without a visit from Ol' St. Nick!? 

This fella was my splurge for the porch this year. I purchased him from Antique Farmhouse and added lights to the tree. You can not see them in this pic so I will be sure to take a pic at dusk so you can see the porch all aglow. 

Thank you for stopping by!
Hope to see you back here this evening for Treasure Hunt Thursday.