Ho ho ho! It’s the annual weekend of decorating the house for Christmas. After spending a few days out of state visiting the hubby’s family for Thanksgiving, we arrived home yesterday in time to drag lots of decorations out of the attic, put on the Christmas music CDs and start decorating. The inside is done, and I plan to tackle the outside lights today before it starts raining again. My friend Mary beat me to a Christmas decorating post yesterday, but hey, there are never too many pictures of holiday decorations.
Here’s a little Christmas tour through the inside decorations.
An animated Santa given to us by hubby’s parents a few years ago greets anyone who steps in the front door.
The Nativity sits in a different spot this year. Since we’ve closed off the back of our house to save on our natural gas bills this year, the Nativity is now sitting on top of an end table in the front living room rather than atop the entertainment center in the den.
This Irish angel is one of tons of Christmas ornaments I’ve collected over the years. I have so many that I normally decorate two trees and still have ornaments left over. This year, because of closing off the den, we only have the one big tree in the front window. So tubs of ornaments went back into the attic.
Two of my favorite decorations are my Ice Sculptures figurines. I got these at a big Christmas store in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, next to the Great Smoky Mountains. I could spend a fortune I don’t have in that store. The figurine above is called There’s Snow Place Like Home. And the one below is Heaven and Nature Sing.
No kitchen is complete without a seasonal cookie jar. Isn’t this guy adorable?
Part of my Bearfoots collection that only comes out once a year is sitting atop the TV. It’s called The Perfect Tree.
I wish I could take better pictures of what the lights look like, but here’s the slice of the living room that has the big tree, the lighted snowmen around the window and the stair railing wrapped in garland and lights.
I love this time of year because of all the festivities. It makes the cold bearable. 
Happy Holidays and Happy Decorating to all of you who’ll be pulling out the seasonal decor soon.
November 27th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
Looks very pretty. I will gladly pay you on Tuesday if you will come to my house and decorate. You do a much better job than I do. Dad usually waits until the week before Christmas to think about getting the decorations out. By then, I’m sick of Christmas but he’s just starting.
Thanks for your congratulatory remarks!
November 27th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
LOL – you win! I don’t have enough ornaments for two trees. My mom does. If I can get pictures of her house, I’ll post them.
Fred’s job today was getting the lights on the tree to work. Uhhhh….they worked when he put them on there. Now he wants to get more. I got them at WalMart. Reckon they’ll have any left???
November 28th, 2005 at 9:36 am
DH put icicle lights on the outside of the house, much to my surprise. Otherwise our road towards decoration has been limited to getting DD one of those animatronic snowmen that sings “Jingle Bells”, accompanied by a barking reindeer dog.
I think I was hearing it in my sleep last night. Would explain how tired I feel today.
Jody W.
November 28th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
LOL, Jody. Don’t you know the people who work in the stores that sell those things about go bonkers.