Christmas Decorations – 2025, A Smoky Mountain Christmas and a Quick Trip to Biltmore

This post was to go up yesterday but I am still decorating and changing things around.

What I have to share today is some of the main living area upstairs.

The pencil tree was in our bedroom last year. It has replaced our main tree, which resides in the downstairs family room this year. Our main tree is a live one and we do not want the mess on the new wood floors.

I didn’t put all the ribbon on it this time but did include the red and green hand painted ornaments that I skipped last year.

This tree also holds our White House and Biltmore House ornaments. 

I also added the snowflakes I recently made on the new embroidery machine.

The kitchen sideboard with prim snow people remained pretty much the same, except I added a little tree.

I bought the bells and little gingerbread people a few years ago at Walmart. They were for cross stitch finishing.

The dining room buffet stayed the same as last year.

I am using the tiered floor stand for Santas.

I added small wreaths to the pantry doors and think I’ll keep this up year-round.

The kitchen niche across from the pantry…

The piece next to the garage door never changes too much.

There are still a few areas on this floor that need tweaking. I'll show you those in a future post.

We had a nice time with Mom last Saturday. It was the Smoky Mountain Christmas event downtown.

We skipped riding the carriage as Mom has been having issues with her back and hip. It wouldn’t have been easy for her to climb the steps to get in.

The usual characters were out and about. Although, we somehow missed Santa and Mrs. Claus.

There were musicians performing all along the sidewalks.

An ice sculptor drew quite the crowd.

An ice sculpture to sit on for photos…we passed on that opportunity.

On Sunday hubby and I went to the Biltmore Estate for brunch and to get our 2025 ornament. 

The Stable Cafe' has the best cornbread with

sorghum butter and roasted pecans.

The 2025 dated ornament was already sold out so we got this one instead…

The 2026 ornament was already available, so I had to…

These guys must feel safe now that Thanksgiving is over. Wildlife is abundant at the Biltmore.

The temperature dropped Sunday afternoon and continued to do so throughout the night.  It was 9º F when I awoke Monday morning. Then it warmed up to 44º F in the afternoon.

With all the weekend’s activities, I only put in a few cross stitches and did absolutely NO sewing. On my list for this week is to finish the decorating and prepare for the kid’s visit; they arrive this weekend. I’ll pop in a couple times to show you more Christmas décor.

Enjoy your day and week ahead. 

See you soon,