Getting in the Christmas Mood

Frankly, it's been a little challenging to get in the Christmas mood today with the weather in the 60's.  But, since today was shopping day, I went to Walmart and picked up a few pretty things.  This evening, with Christmas music playing on my phone (thank you, pandora!), the decorating began. 

I have to admit that neither of these ideas with lights were originally mine!  For now, our fire place is merely ornamental, so I made it a little more ornamental by strewing lights over the wood inside.  It literally took about 5 seconds.  John's opinion on the effect is that "it works," which always means that something looks good.  :-)

I LOVE how the kitchen looks with lights!  I wedged push pins into the joints between cabinets to pull the string taut and keep it at the front edge of the cupboards.  So fun.

I picked up this gold-glittered "peace" ornament at Walmart, too, without any particular design for it until I got home.  Sticking it onto the wreath (which also came with the house!) took, again, literally five seconds.  Yay.

Now, I think I'm officially in the Christmas mood.  :-D