Snowy Rustic & White Christmas Tree

My snowy rustic and white Christmas tree has stolen the show in my family room!

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Welcome back to part two of my family room tour: The Christmas tree. My last post was all about my neutral Christmas mantel in my family room, so it seemed only right to dedicate an entire post to my Christmas tree as well.

By the way, if you didn’t catch my Facebook live on tree decorating, make sure to watch it if you want some behind-the-scenes looks and advice!

The day after Thanksgiving Jason, Hannah and I went on our annual adventure to find our perfect Christmas tree at a local Christmas tree farm that we go to every year. We always take the tractor ride down to the field of trees, except this year we didn’t. It was bitter cold that day so we instead walked to the closest Christmas tree lot on the property to try and hurry the process a bit. We definitely didn’t need to go tree shopping THAT day, but I think we were all so excited to get Christmas kicked off in our home that we turned the other cheek at the temps and went anyway.

Although it was freezing, I did notice that my body slowly adapted to the cold temperatures and after ten minutes or so I wasn’t feeling quite as frigid. Isn’t it amazing how our body’s work? OK, I’m digressing as usual.

We found our perfect Christmas tree nestled between thirty other beautiful trees and Jason got to work sawing it down. We took a few pictures and got our cold bums outta’ there!

Also, let’s just all take a minute and notice how Jason is a natural male model. THAT POSE THOUGH!

Back at home, we put up the Christmas tree in our usual spot, the corner of our family room. We left it naked for a few nights while I figured out how I wanted to decorate it this year.

Ultimately, I decided to continue with the snowy theme that I created in my dining room and kitchen.

After I wrapped the lights around the tree, I got to work on the snow. I used the same thrifty pillow hack that I used for my dining room tablescape to create the snow. I simply tore open an old pillow and used the stuffing as snow! It works quite perfectly actually. You can tear it apart in clumps and manipulate it easily so you get the perfect configuration that looks like snow.

Next up, I added the ribbon. As you can see, the ribbon does not continuously go around the tree. Instead, I used smaller cutouts of the ribbon and pushed the ends of each piece into the tree. The ribbon piece cut outs spanned about 10 inches to 24 inches. I just cut pieces randomly to have some different lengths to work with.

I tucked bits of the longer pieces of ribbon into the tree to give the illusion that the ribbon just kept going.

The last step was to add the ornaments. I used some elegant glass ornament balls and rustic-style, snow-covered picks.

I think each element on the tree helps compliment the others to give a rustic and elegant vibe all at the same time.

I am obsessed with the twinkly lights and how they play off the ones we have on our mantel. I prefer the large cone-shaped lights in the soft white hue. I think they bring an especially nice ambiance to our space.

Here’s a peek at the entire brick wall, or most of it anyway. Make sure to hop over to part one of my family room tour to see more photos of the space including our mantel and the spot in our home that I think is the absolute coziest.