Christmas in the Trailer

Some of you have asked how we have decorated the trailer for Christmas and the answer is, pretty simply. Last Christmas, knowing (hoping!) we were going to be taking this trip, we packed up a few of our smaller decorations to bring with us. Our friends the Iekels had given us some Airstream lights last year so we were sure to pack those (see photo above). We also packed an extra strand of lights, an angel, a very small nativity scene given to me by a priest I know and a few other items we wanted to have with us. My parents shipped the box to us in November and right after Thanksgiving we started decorating.



We obtained our Christmas “tree” in Weatherford, Texas. It is a combination of a rosemary bush, some kind of succulent and an ornamental grass or two. I’ll try to take a close-up picture of the Holy Family that we made and put it on our next post. You can kind of see it in front of the Advent candles. I found the idea for this in Family Fun magazine and we adapted it slightly so it would be a better fit for the trailer. Elise made Mary, Bobby and I made Joseph and between me and Elise, we got Baby Jesus done. It is a cheerful addition to our decorations and something I don’t mind Elise playing with.



The balloon wreath was made for Elise by the Ballooniac in Austin. He lives in the RV park where we were staying and stopped by the morning we were leaving to create some masterpieces for Elise. He was such a nice guy, as were all in that park.



We bought the hanging garland of boots and mittens at the Seafood, Arts and Crafts Festival in Homasassa Springs, Florida. The two snowmen ornaments that are on the Christmas bush came from there, too. The couple running the booth were lovely. They made all of the crafts and traveled around to different fairs in Florida selling what they had.


We very luckily found our Advent calendar on November 30th and Elise made the pine branch decoration and the elf.


The Gingerbread Man is on Elise’s window.

Everyone got in on the action with the suncatchers and we have them on various windows around the trailer.





It has been fun to decorate and remember that even though we are not “home” this year, we can make the home we are in beautiful, festive and cozy.