Sunday, December 15, 2013

Christmas 2013




I have to admit that I don't like decorating the Christmas tree.  I am too short, it is too tall, most of the ornaments I have are absolutely decades old and are beginning to look it.  I wish I could kidnap my daughter for a day and have her decorate the tree for me like she used to do when she was a child.  She was a perfectionist and absolutely ran her brother off when he tried to help.  I was more than content to get out of her way and let her do it.


Some years we don't put up the big tree because we have a small tree in the center of the Christmas Village that goes up every year. That tree is decorated with candy canes, jingle bells and glittery pinecones.







Since I don't particularly enjoy the decorating part of things, I started slow this year and did just what made me happy to do at the time.  I didn't want it to become a chore. 

I started with the ornament collection started for me by JLSHall.  I added one this year in the form of a little owl sitting on a candy cane.  For some reason he just spoke to me.





 We added the wreath






The Nutcrackers




And, of course, Tuppy




I wonder where he has gotten off to -- haven't seen him in awhile.  Hmm..that pesky little elf!

So, it is all decorated and I actually think I enjoyed it this year.  I decided early on that there was no "decorate by" date and I think stretching it out just made it better!

2 comments:

Jane and Chris said...

I absolutely love your front door!!
Jane x

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

I love your decorations. I don't enjoy decorating...my daughter used to do it, too.

Now I have three small trees that I decorated the first year...and carefully put them away like that. I just bring them out and fluff them up. Lazy, huh?

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