Welcome to our Christmas Home

Welcome to our Christmas home.

I've been busy decking the halls, and boy is it taking awhile.  It seems like I don't do things quite the same each year, and so it seems to take forever ~ yet looking at these pictures the changes are always small.  

I guess I'm just slow.

But come and in and visit our entry and dining room.  Tomorrow I'll try to have the living room and library.

We have no foyer, you enter right into our living room.  I always put the tree with the glass ornaments in the living room.  You can probably tell that from my 3 year old header!

{ you also get a glimpse of the new floors that I am still recovering from}

This is at the top of the stairs.

An old cross stitch I did back in the day, but I love it and the hand painted mat and buttons so I was glad to find a place for it.  

A new little do on the newel post.

I changed the way I arranged the hutch, a change only noticed by me.  I always add the red toile dishes at Christmas and some red gazing balls ornaments.

My nativity remains unchanged ~ the manger is from my childhood, and plays Away In A Manger.  The figures are resin, Fontanini.  All but the sheep that is, I think those were my grandparents too.

Our tree remains the same too.  We have had this tree for about 7 years.  It is our only tree that is not prelit.  I use lots of silk poinsettias, tucked in deeply, and then add about 3 or 4 dozen red and green balls, also tucked in.  The hard part for me is next and that is the gold beads.  They can be a pain to hang, but I love the sparkle they add.  Then I add my Radko ornaments and a few others that I love that are glass.  The sparkle of this tree is just wonderful.

Of course that doesn't show up in the pictures.

I want to highlight a few of my special ornaments. 

This stack of books is not a Radko but I love it.

Another, non Radko representing our cabin.

I got this one to represent the millennium.  1999 on one side and 2000 on the other.  Very few of the Radko ornaments are dated so I like this one a lot.

I got the Chicago to commemorate the year Bob was president of his professional organization.  The conference was held in Chicago.

And, lastly, I've shared this one in previous years, but I think it's my favorite.  And it is granddaughter Elizabeth's favorite too.

So, that's it for the first tree.  I'll be back soon with tree 2.

Joining Kim for Wow Us Wednesday.

And Honey We're Home's Christmas Tree Party.

And the perfect party for me, The Better Late than Never Party at Housepitality Designs.

The Holiday Housewalk at Jennifer's.