Merry Christmas, from my home to yours.....

Welcome to my home!



Here's our Christmas tree.
Last year, we put one thousand white lights on this tree
and it was impossible to photograph it.
All I could really get was kind of a "glow" in the photo.
We downsized to 500 lights this year.
And I still can't photograph it well enough to do it justice.
But I think you can see it's a very pretty tree.



This is my very favorite Christmas decoration,
although it's usually out year round.
I love it so much, I can't bear to put it out of sight.



I have several velvet Santas, but this is my favorite.
This is the only one I put out this year.
Cameron loves to talk to this Santa. They're about the same size. :-)



These are some pretty, sparkly candles
I found at Pottery Barn about five years ago.
Obviously, I'd never burn them. LOL



This is a sweet Let It Snow pillow
my sister Bev made me a few years ago.



I fell in love with this snow globe
when I saw it at Bath & Body Works.
It stays out year round, too, and is supposed to remind me
to do my Christmas shopping throughout the year.
So far, it hasn't worked. :-) When I serve a sit-down Christmas dinner,which I'm not doing this year (we're going buffet),I set these little silver candles at each place setting. Very, very pretty affect.



Three of my favorite things.
The snowman is adorable, isn't he? He was a gift from my sister, too.
And that's my new oil burner and a bottle of The Perfect Christmas Tree oil.
And every time Cameron breaks a candy cane on the tree, I stash it.
And I eat it later. When he's not looking.
So far, he hasn't figured out they're candy which is off limits to him.


I'd love to tell you my house is all in order and ready for Christmas.

Not!



I'd love to show you my beautifully decorated dining room table,
but this is what it actually looks like,
and it probably will until five minutes before the kids arrive
on Christmas Eve. Projects, projects!


Here's a project...the Christmas cards I made this year.
Only they're not finished. And they're sure not mailed.
There they sit on the high chair. Sigh.



Over there in the corner of the dining room
is my gift wrap station.
By the way, if you run across this gift wrap container
in the after-Christmas shopping madness,
this is one of the best things I ever bought.
It's a great, great way to store all your gift wrap.



Here's what my kitchen looks like all day long.
I'm baking up a storm,
but Rob and I are eating it as fast as I can bake it.
So this is ongoing. LOL Messy, messy!




It overflows to the laundry room.
Here's what the top of my washer looks like. LOL



And finally, here's our front yard.
Actually, I took this photo last year.
This year, there's snow on the ground
but other than that, it's exactly the same
and the street light in our front yard makes it impossible
to get a good photo, so phooey! This photo works, right?


Thank you to Boo Mama for hosting the Christmas Tour of Homes again this year. I participated in it last year too and based on that post, I seem to have my act together a little earlier than I do this year. I'm sure it's because I'm making so many things this year.

Beginning tomorrow, Cameron is going to be here with me every day for the next two or three weeks. And I love it. He's making this Christmas so, so much fun.

Merry Christmas and thank you so much for stopping in to share some of my favorite things about this special time of year.