Simple Christmas Decorating

When it comes to decorating for Christmas each year, do you try and come up with a different theme each time or do you just let it happen as it speaks to you.  I decided that this year to decorate very simple, using as much natural items as I could.  Since I decided a few years back to not use a real tree, I miss the smell of Christmas pine.  I have lots of vintage Christmas items that I also normally use, some from the victorian era, but I don't think that I'm going to pull it all out this time.  I started out as you saw from the first post I did on my porch with the three white trees and then moved on to using more fresh greens, twigs, and just a few Christmas balls sprinkled throughout. 

Here's the front door:


I did leave the white pumpkins, they are still so pretty to not use.  Can you see I used simple cedar tree branches as my wreath with clear balls and angel wings inside them.  I just grabbed a few angel wings as they passed over my house *wink*.  They are actually doves wings from my family of doves.  I have four doves now and I think she may be sitting on more eggs.

This is the side view of my porch:



An overall view:





Here's more:







Then, lite up at night:

I still have a few more small touches I'll be adding.  Each week I'd like to show different Christmas decorating from a cottage Christmas to a homespun Christmas.  Hope you'll check back for more Christmas ideas.  Have a great week!!