Outdoorsy Christmas.

Christmas in Pittsburgh

Last Christmas I needed a break from work, took a walk around the city and began noticing all the beautiful sites of the holidays around Pittsburgh. It was my first December working downtown, so I never really knew of anything but the ice skating rink in PPG Plaza. Well, little did I know the holidays were everywhere. I decided to do the same thing this year. Most of the buildings were decorated the same, but there were a few new additions and changes. Here's my Pittsburgh Christmas post from last year. Seeing this makes you realize that the littlest things in life can brighten your day!

Gallery in the Allegheny County Courthouse 

Allegheny County Hartwood Acres Mansion

Pittsburgh's City-County Building

Macy's Downtown

Holiday Market in Market Square 

Market Square

Holiday Market in Market Square

PPG Plaza

PPG Plaza Ice Skating Rink 

Allegheny County Courthouse Courtyard

US Steel Building

Beautiful Nativity outside the US Steel Building 

Getting in the Spirit.

I started my own holiday decorating yesterday! I bought the cutest gold mini tree from Target, then added my collection of peacock ornaments. I accidentally bought four new ones yesterday at Walmart--how could I not, they were $1.50 each, and super cute. One day I plan to have a big tree decorated in all my peacock ornaments, with beautiful peacock colored ornaments. Thankfully peacock has been kind of in lately, so I've been lucky finding some great decorations.

My second mini tree is for at work. I always like to decorate my office for each holiday. I figure, I spent most of my waking week hours there so why not make it homey? This tree has my Beatles ornaments and these cute little peace signs my old boss bought me! They're from 10,000 Villages and imported from Bangladesh!

Nothing crazy, but enough for me!

One of my Walmart ornaments--most of the rest are from Pier 1.

Looks much better with the lights plugged in.