Holiday Decor III

Pixie:
You have a BEAUTIFUL new ornament.

Everyone else ... top that!!
LOL!

Happy and Blessed Holidays to everyone

I don't have much new - I bought a disco ball ornament.

I like your card Candyce.
Al, last year I bought 9 of those disco balls and strung then in varying lengths in my kitchen window thinking how much light they would shine all over the kitchen. The Winter sun was too low in the sky to even hit the balls.

Al, you remind me of Charlie Brown in the Halloween show - "all I got was a rock"!

I like the disco ball, Al!

I have some prisms hanging in my east and in my south facing windows. Yes, they are rather low in the windows, but very secure, as the cats love to bat them back and forth. I find that the prisms have to be placed a lot lower in the window during the winter so that they catch the sun.

Al, where are the tiny disco dancers...I wanna see John Travolta

Well, much later than usual, but I think we're about done. DS and family came yesterday to help finish up. He's 6'1" and I need him for 'tall people' stuff.

Here's my big tree. and Mickey, Minnie and Goofy helping string the lights

my mantel with the village I made in ceramics. it's in the middle of a forest of old growth pine this year LOL I needed more trees for my growing ornament collection

also a new tree this year, it has my new 12 Days of Christmas and some colored glass that I have collected over the years (yep, it's leaning, and I'm afraid if we try too hard to straighten it we'll break the welds. it's driving DH crazy. the bird on the top is solid wrought iron and it's top heavy)

here's my welcoming snowman. Santa offers candy to everyone brave enough to come in LOL

a Mr & Mrs Santa I made way back when I was selling my handcrafts. they are adorning my great-grandmother's quilt and a pillow that matches a quilt I made for my mother's 80th birthday. the quilt rack was made by a friend who has since passed on.

my orchid cart always gets some decoration. there are some hand-crocheted snowflakes hanging from the candy cane garland that don't show up very well in the picture. they are also something that I used to sell...about 30 years ago. it's tough to get a flash of the cart with the lights on.

this is our 'favorites' tree. every year we put a few that evoke that 'I love this one!' when they get unpacked. and it's always different.

and the stocking were hung by the chimney with care. except that there's no room by the chimney because the the village took up all the real estate. so they are on the the video cabinet. mine was knitted by my grandmother when I was born (it's wool), so now it's just for showin', not for stuffin'. she made one for DH when we got married. the one for older DGD was made on my knitting machine. the one for younger DGD I knitted using my grandmother's pattern.

the wreath I made to match my 'decor'. I have a matching garland that goes on the mantle on the years when I don't put the village up there.

now for the tacky...the moose is motion activated like the singing bass. it goes 'Ho, ho, ho, merry Christmas' in a very deep moose-like voice and then plays Jingle Bells. I love this thing. the year I got it I put it in the bathroom. there were only a few minor heart attacks. now I keep it in the front hall and only turn it on Christmas day.

last tree...you know how there is a groom's cake at some weddings. smaller than the bride's big fancy one? well this is the groom's tree. every Star Wars and Star Trek ship ever made (DH doesn't care much for the figures, except for Darth Vader, who talks when the tree goes on, and C3PO and R2D2). then there's a mix of Santa doing manly things (playing pool, lounging on the beach, drinking a beer in his Buffalo Bills fan gear), some Air Force things (I even found a reindeer in fatigues that looked just like him when he was in the service), some large beasts (lions and tigers and bears, oh my) and some favorite cartoon characters. you get the idea.

Okay, this is a stretch, but ... it's my feeble attempt to break into the Cool Kids Klub.

Grampapa, you've got lots of groovy stuff!

LOL - I love the Groom's Tree.

wrightie, I love it!!! I think the coolest kids have a horse ;-)

Nah, the SuperGroovy ones have Breasticles dangling from their Trekkie Tree. Would it be okay if I sent your DH a small pair, too?

wrightie, Can I come ride? I want a horse for Christmas!! Think Santa can fit one on his sleigh??

wrightie, I think if he saw them, whatever they are, he would have to have them LOL

Pixie, Come Hither! Btw, it's common knowledge in the horse world that if you plant an apple tree, horses will grow beneath it.

In that case, Grampapa, I'm going to send him my low hanging fruit ... lol

love the grooms tree & the horsey!

Wrightie, I have a ton of apple tree's, how long does it take em to grow??

Uh-Oh. Did you forget to sow your wild oats beneath your apple trees after you planted them? Sounds like you've had a total crop failure. I'm wicked sorry.

Hi everyone!!!! finally a day when I can at least read and enjoy your postings...

Oh Gram, I love your tree... I am a star trek and star wars fanatic so the first thing I notice was the entreprise!!!!!! so nice!

here is the tree I got for my mom... she decorated the tree!

aw, pixie, that's too bad. have you tried planting horse chestnuts?

and this is my tree!!!! my favorite miniature rose Hi....

Kass, I love how your mom decorated the tree. and those stockings are beautiful! are they hand-knit? can't believe you got all those ornaments on little bitty Hi.

Hi Jan!!!!!

look what I have blooming!!!!

Kassia, it's beautiful! that'll make you feel good on a winter day.

oh Jan, I got the stockings at the Xtmas tree shop... no time to knit anymore... Hi is my favorite lillte mini... is she cute or what???

it's winter now... the days are getting longer... 90 days until Spring!!!

Looks great, Kass & Jan!

Here is our home: Our Christmas tree -

Another shot showing more of the dining room :-) DH worked VERY HARD to renovate this room. Every surface has been done.

Looking past the tree into the living room :-) DH completely did this room as well

A ridiculous looking brug . . . lol

Santa on the piano