🌲 Decking The Halls. 🌲

🌲 I'm happy to begin transforming our home into a holiday wonderland.. :-)  I put my Fenton glass snowman couple on my cake plate, added my jadeite trees and a ceramic house and strung it with firefly lights for the evening.  I was looking in my china cabinet drawer and found a case and opened it up and it was my mother-of-pearl handled cake server and meat fork.  I can see I'll be using my silver polish today.

The sun was shining over the weekend in between showers.  :-)

And in the evening I turn on the firefly lights.

I really do enjoy it when the sun shines in the dining room.

The deck keeps getting covered with fall leaves and Dayle seems too have to blow it off each day.

I put this little putz house and the animated and lit tree on the table next to my easy chair.  See the little train going around the base of the tree?  Dayle was a railroad engineer for Southern Pacific then Union Pacific for over 30 years, so I'm fond of trains.

I made several of these little snowmen for gifts YEARS ago and I'm so glad I kept 2 of them.  I used graduated sized circles of white cotton, basted around them, pulled the thread to make a ball, stuffed them and then hot glued them together, glued on a red and green button, drew on the face, made a little stocking hat from knit fabric, used a short piece of orange pipe cleaner for the nose and glued in 2 arms of twigs from our own trees and lastly, cut a scarf from some plaid fabric, pulling the threads to make a fringe.  

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Another year I made these little houses as gifts, I had a woodworker cut 2x4 boards into these houses and he also cut the little chimneys for me, then I painted the house and free-handed the doors, windows and decorations.

I rolled more candles over the weekend.  

Dayle found my decorations in the attic and our grandson Hayden who spent the weekend with us carried them all down so we could begin putting up the mantel decorations.  I'm bummed as the lights on the wreath stopped working so I need to string it with more as I love it lit up.  Next up will be the wooden cranberry beads and stockings and the rest of the reindeer.  This is the "Before" picture.  LOL!

We got the carousel set up and going next to the TV cabinet.

And my Meadow blanket yarn package arrived, just 4 days after I ordered it.. all the way from Wool Warehouse in Birmingham, England!!  DHL is an amazing shipping company.

I think our tree is going to be delivered today.  Then I can begin hanging all the decorations on it.  Let's see how it looks by my next post.  How's it going on your end?  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)  

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