Holiday Gift Guide: Toddler

Hi Everyone! I've kicking off my gift guide series for the 2013 with the Toddler Edition. I love finding unique and fun Toddler and sometimes retro inspired gifts for Avery that we have hours of fun playing together. 

All the toys in my holiday gift guide for toddlers are available online at Amazon. I love online shopping and do most of it at Amazon, because I love their fast shipping and hard to beat low prices.  Also check out Diapers.com for some of the toys listed below, I've also ordered from them before and was shocked how fast items arrived! [As also before you buy, Google the item to make sure your getting the best price before you buy!] 

1. Melissa & Doug Monster Bowling Set So furry & So cute!
2. PBS Kids Exploration City Blocks Avery has a few sets of these blocks and loves them! If there's a Tuesday Morning near you check there toy aisle you may luck out and find them there! That's where I got his. 
3. Fisher Price Changeable Picture Disk Camera  This retro camera is so cute and perfect for little hands
4. Fisher Price Learning Projector I loved View Masters then I was little and love how the projector brings it to life
5. Melissa & Doug Wood Train Set Toddlers love trains, this set is the perfect intro to the world of trains 
6. Melissa & Dough Shopping Cart The shopping cart is perfect for the little shopper in your family 
7. Hape Alphabet Abacus Perfection and a great price! 
8. Fisher Price Classic Record Player I love retro gifts and love this little record player 
9. Fisher Price Say & See Perfect learning fun for little ones 
10. Fisher Price Little People School Bus  Little People are so much fun and great for imaginative play
11. Jarod Story Box Circus paired with Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Circus I love finding theme gifts for Avery's and his friends, Circus toys paired with a Circus book is double fun 

For more unique and fun retro toddler gifts, check out Ebay!! I've come across alot of Fisher Price Little People toys that I remember playing with as a child that are still fun for the little ones in your life. I used the search 'Vintage Fisher Price' and found a slew of fun toddler gifts! 

I hope you have shopping for your the little one(s) in your life!! 

Decking Our Halls with Color

For our Christmas decorations this year I wanted to take a colorful approach with a mixture of fresh winter greenery by using lots of wreaths and garland in our home inside and out! Lets begin our Christmas tour with the front of our home. I'm still head over heels in love with painting our front door a shade of Chartreuse and knew it would look perfect paired with a fresh green wreath & simple green ribbon finished off with a bow. I bought one spool of 2 inch wide ribbon from Walmart for only $1.79, and used a cream plastic wreath holder concealed with ribbon. 

I found the pretty wreath at Lowes and added a few left over sprigs of greenery from our Thanksgiving centerpiece to add little more texture. I wanted to keep the outside of our house festive and simple, so I left the wreath and garland bring all the Holiday Cheer In. 

For the first time ever, we added Christmas light outside, loving the happy glow it brings to our outside, I hope to get a good picture of our house at night and share on Instragram. If your on Instragram follow me @mrsclh 



Last year we had our first real live Christmas tree, and planned on getting another one. However I ended up wining the Oh Christmas tree from Treetopia along with two wreaths thanks to the fabulous giveaway hosted by Jennifer at Rambling Renovators. I love this tree, its so pretty and so realistic looking, and the wreaths are so pretty! For our Christmas tree this year we decided to bring on the color and lots of it! I found fun colorful ornaments at Target, along with colorful ornaments I bought last year from Land of Nod in an after Christmas sale. 

In our living room we hung of our wreaths in our window, I love all the color it adds in our living room. I love colorful felt ball garland and decided to add some hanging garlands to our window. I found the felt balls via Etsy seller Yummi, I ordered 50 and loved them so much decided to order 50 more. I strung the felt balls together using embroidery thread and an upholstery needle. 

I hung fresh garland in the doorway between our living room and dining / kitchen. I love how the wreath frames the garland, adding more color and merry in our home. 

I found this colorful tinsel garland at Target and love how colorful and fun it was and decided to place it a bowl as a centerpiece for our dining room table. I also have a bowl full of tinsel garland on our coffee table. 

Here's a picture of Avery and I hanging more ornaments on the tree Sunday morning [I shared this picture on Instagram] This year I sat back and watched Tabari and Avery decorate the tree, loved how pretty and colorful our tree came out. 

Even though our tree is up and decorated and garland is decking our halls we still have more Christmas decorations to put up. Namely our stockings and more wreaths around our house and bringing in Christmas cheer in the kids rooms. I'll share more Holiday decorations as its completed on the blog. 

What do you think our Color-fulled Holiday decor so far? Have you started decking your halls with Christmas?