How do you decorate your home after Christmas? It’s still a long way to Valentine’s Day and spring is about 100 years away. I’ve already done the Christmas Breakdown and I was in love with my clean (slightly bare) home. For exactly 5 minutes.
Then I went hunting for a few winter-y things to foof up the place a bit. Funny, most of the winter stuff was in with the Christmas stuff so after I spend 5 hours putting it all away, I pulled a little of it back out. I’m a freak. But greens in an urn are wintery, so they stay.
And electric candles are just about the most welcoming thing in the world, so they stay too. (I never actually took these down.) I may leave them up all year, I love them so. You’d think I could have cleaned the window before I took the picture.
This pinecone wreath was made for Christmas but I think it can hang out on the playroom door for another month or so.
Cause pinecones are way wintery….fighting the urge to end that statement with “yo”.
And wintery words. Love wintery words. The weather has certainly been cooperating here. It’s been snowing for about a week.
Here are a few other fantastic winter decorating ideas:
The most adorable Winter Garland from Clover Lane. LOVE THIS! And she made the cutest winter display on her sideboard. My boys would be hiding Star Wars guys in there in about 6 seconds.
I think paper snowflakes get wrongly pigeon-holed (what exactly is a pigeon-hole anyway?) as Christmas decorations. Intimate Weddings has a great collection of DIY Snowflake Garlands to see.
I love how Lemonade Makin Mama kept a little of her Christmas sparkle even after she took down all her decorations. I want to curl up on her couch and watch tv.
How about a DIY Pinecone Garland from Twig & Thistle? Cause remember, pinecones are winter-y.
I’m pretty sure snowmen are winter-y, too. These Twine Snowmen at Design Sponge are so cute they make my teeth hurt.
Now tell me… Do you do any winter decorating?
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What???!! We’re supposed to CLEAN the windows? Huh.
Love your stuff, Kimba, the pinecone really especially. Are we lovin’ all this snow around here or what? Have a great day.
Hi,
I am loving the pinecones…I too made a wreath of pinecones for xmas and now its hanging on my hall
I love “recycling” ideas…Don’t you?!
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I think you’re right – your touches look wintry and not Christmasy at all. The “Let It Snow” chalkboard is so cute!
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How wonderfully funny….. just a few days ago I started thinking about winter decorations. Thingas are looking a little bland since the Christmas stuff was taken down.
I love the electric candles…. they are classic and sooo inviting!
Thanks for the post…. off to ponder decorating!
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I leave up the snowmen decorations that I have around, but I am now moving into Valentine’s Day.
Blessings,
Nancy
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I have a ton of snowmen decorations mixed in with my Christmas ones so I leave the snowmen out when my Christmas decorations go away. I also have “winter dishes with a lodge type theme. They come out with the Christmas things and stay until spring. I think that helps my house feel less bare after Christmas.
Love what you’ve done and the links above!
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I always struggle with this as well. I really agonize over what to put on the front door when the Christmas wreath comes down. I don’t have anything to put on it until spring and it always looks so bare. This year we have a real wreath and it still looks fresh, so I think I am going to take the red bow off it and hang some sort of plaque or monogram from it. I ususally also leave my antique tobaggon by the front door as well, very wintery. I’ve also left my pincones as you have.
My favorite is the picture of your electric candle with the view out your window. Simply gorgeous.
Happy New Year!!
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I keep my electric candles in all the widows year round. When the sun starts to go down, it is the 4 year old’s job to go turn them all on. Living out in the country with no street lights . . . I find that it is so warm and inviting to drive up to the house at night, even in the summer, when the windows are lit by the candles. I usually change out my wreath because my Christmas wreath is very Christmas-y but I keep my garland on the mantle. It is just evergreen, red berries and pine cones.
I honestly don’t know that I usually do much for winter decorating other than pinecones. Hmmm. I guess I am just always ready for spring and getting in my garden!
I have had neighbors keep their lights in the windows all year, and it looks so fantastic and warmly welcoming! I may have to leave those out for a while! Thanks 
.
Blessings,
Stacey
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I don’t decorate for winter. I love my bare house right now, but that will change! I can’t wait for spring! I’m thinking spring comes a little earlier for me out in Northern California.
We all suffer from Post Holiday Decor Syndrome at my house. The house feels empty so we separated the Christmas things and the Winter-y things. After Christmas decor is down, I put up all my Snowmen and snowflake things. With the my maiden name of Flake, I have been collecting SnowFlakes for years. My mom and sisters even leave up the tree and decorate it with blue and white ornaments and lots of snowflake ornaments. I don’t go to that extent. I do leave the snowflake light up. We are looking forward to our first snowfall of the year tonight. My kids will be wearing their pjs backwards, doing a snow dance, and putting a spoon under their pillow. Don’t know where most of those traditions came from but if it works I will try it too. I look forwar to Building a Snowman, having a snowball fight, and tubing Flake style. (My dad pulls us on HUGE innertubes.) Then it is hot chocolate time with marshmallow Snowflakes.
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I have been looking for something to gussy up the house since Hubby informed me it looks like “Grandma’s brown attic” and not like young 30 somethings with small children live here.
Grandma definitely didn’t use twine, pine cones, or winter decorate!
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Nope, I don’t do any special decorating after Christmas is over. Once the Christmas decor is put away, the house is pretty well back to the way it looks all year long. Except for some fresh cut roses from my garden during the summer, of course. And I’ve thought about making some lighter curtains for the living room window for the warmer months. But that’s about it.
I’m really struggling with this myself. There are bare spots just begging for ‘something’. It’s tough though, living in So. CA, we don’t have snow, so snowmen, snowflakes, etc. look (atleast I would think they would) strange.
Any suggestions? I do love the pinecones though and will be looking to get a bag!
I just did some winter decorating today! I pulled my Christmas stuff out of the apothecary jars and added silver bits and bobs, fake snow and big sparkly snowflakes in. SO pretty. At my front door I wrapped an old vase with quilt batting and stuffed in some silver branches I bought yesterday for 0.50 (less than a can of spray paint) and hung little crystals on them. Loverly. I love winter!
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Love the pinecone banner!
Although it’s not necessarily winter-ing our home, I have kept an ornament out that I love and use it like I would use a tassel on a lamp. It was just too pretty and fitting for our whimical house to put away for 11 months.
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Love your winter fluffiness…such a pretty pinecone wreath.
I have to ask…how do you get your candles to stay on the window like that? I have the same ones, and I end up having to Scotch tape them to the sill and it looks awful, but nice from the outside, of course.
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Mine seem to stay in place without a problem…unless the kids knock them over or something…which happens all the time.
I did, however, see something at the craft store that you wrapped around the candle and then closed in the window that held them in place. I can’t remember what they were called but they sold them with all the electric candles.
I try to leave a few snowman things around and I usually leave my wreath and white lights up outdoors til the middle of January.
Love the pinecones idea.
When the Christmas decor comes down . . the SN*WMEN come up. My snowy collection stays up until about March 1st. =)
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Kimba, I love your Winter ideas.
I still have a bag of pine cones we gathered last fall. Those are large cones, so I’ll make ‘em into a wreath. As for the teeny-tiny spruce pine cones, I love your pic with the red vase. I’ll grab some greenery and use those lil guys on it! Thanks!
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Hey thanks for the shout out!! Gosh, I’m blushing…. (giggle)
Blessings,
Sasha
I decided a couple of years ago that I have enough Christmas decorations and enough snowmen to separate them. So I did. Christmas decorations go up after Thanksgiving and in January after all the sparkle of Christmas I get out my snowmen. January is such a dull month and to early for spring decorations. The snowmen are happy and welcoming and they spice up a dull month. I love them.
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Hi Kimba, can’t wait to meet you at Blissdom
You’re going??? That’s awesome!!!!!
I really love the uncluttered look after all the Christmas “stuff,” so I don’t usually decorate for Winter! (although right now the new toys are cluttering up the house)
I love the pine cones, though, and I also like to decorate with coffee beans in glass candle holders.
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Thanks girl! You’re going to Blissdom, right?
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I AM going to Blissdom as of this week, and I’m so excited!!
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No winter decorating here – but I did rearrange the family just a big and I can’t believe how good/different it feels!
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Hi there! I saw your post on twitter and am happy to help. As for the blog post, I live in So Cal where it is 75 degrees today. Snowman look odd hanging around my house.
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I usually pull out the snow/snowmen things after Christmas but since we just moved at Thanksgiving, I decided to pull down Christmas and try to get the regular “stuff” put up. But I have to admit that right now it looks like hurricane season here!!
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Gussy sure does decorate for winter. I keep our Nativity Set up because it’s so beautiful
It’s the Willow Tree one. LOVE IT! And we have red and silver jingle bells intertwined with red plaid garland/ribbon. It’s gorgeous, dahhhling.
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I recycled some of my Christmas items for a winter centerpiece including pinecones. Everything else is gone, gone, gone!
http://www.theoldwhitecottageblog.com/2010/01/winter-centerpiece.html
For winter I always leave up my garlands on my mantel and piano…plus the kids small trees. Then I bring out snowflakes, a “snow” glittered letters banner and some blue and silver items to mix it. I like to save all the snowman themed stuff and snowflakes for the time between Christmas and Valentines day. So in a nutshell, lots of silver, blue, white and sparkle with some winter greens thrown in.
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I filled my 3 apothecary jars with 3 different kinds of fake snow/ mini styrofoam balls and added a mini pine tree (from the Christmas village) for a little snow scene.
I also added my mini stocking caps (yesterday’s DIY link) and some silver snowflakes to my white painted tree limbs for my winter mantle. Hmm… I think I need to do a post on this.
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Since my Sound Man wanted ALL of the Christmas stuff down last year (including the snowmen…what’s up with that?) after Christmas, I didn’t even try to decorate, except one wooden snowflake that I demanded (okay, asked nicely) if it could stay out. It’s very pretty. And makes the little table it sits on very winter-y. -y. : )
Gonna miss you at Blissdom but can’t WAIT for Relevant! Woo hoo!
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I just packed up Christmas as well, but am considering pulling some red berries out.
I want to use pinecones… but I can’t find any! Where can a gal get some pinecones?
Holy Cow. I love those twine snowmen. I don’t have twine, but as a knitter I have tons of yarn. Hmmm, wonder what I can make today to keep a little wintery in my house>
Thanks Kimba!
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Kimba – I love the candle in the window idea. Not many people do that here in NW but my peeps in the South do. Every year DH and I argue over when he takes the Christmas lights down. If I had my way he’d leave them up until Easter but he’s afraid people will talk. I just love how warm & cheerful it is to drive up and have the house lit up ~ especially during a Seattle winter where it rains for weeks on end.
I’m going right out to get electric candles and timers. This way DH can take down the lights and I can come home to a cozy looking little house. Thanks for the great idea(s)!
I think pine cones are totally transitional after Christmas!! At least mine are still out!
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It is so cold here, and we have so much snow. I’m jumping straight to spring decorating! Already packing away the heavy winter linens and breaking out the light, airy ones.
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