Because you asked...

I now present...

Christmas in our living room! 

(With studying for final exams + working 30 hours a week, we do have a few other Christmasy spots in our home, but they're not quite ready for their unveiling.)

Very vintage nativity set that I adore from my Grandma & Grandpa Tunney. They used it beginning in the 50s!

I chose to do a more simple, neutral look this year for our living room and I am loving it. No bright colors, just neutrals with a little green here and there.

The other, less Christmasy side of our living room.

Our tree is pretty bare bones when it comes to decor, but it lets the earthiness shine through beautifully.

I did add this music paper garland from this tutorial.

As for the mantle, we still haven't found a permanent solution for what to go underneath it, but that window had been sitting on our front porch for a few months and I decided it would work for now.

Also, I did make these stockings the other day (when I should've been studying). We had bright red stockings - which now grace another room - but burlap stockings seemed to fit much better. And they were free! I already had the burlap and the cream fabric, just traced our other stockings for a pattern and made it up as I went (with lots of help from the seam ripper).

I wanted them to be similar, but knew Shawn probably wouldn't like a flower on his. :) This is mine:

And this is his (I wouldn't necessarily call it "manly" but no flowers in sight!):

Hope you enjoyed the tour!