Bittersweet

Our house is filled to the brim with family now.  I’ve had 2 of my granddaughters staying with me for the past 2 weeks and last night my son, his wife and Lily arrived from Germany.    Every bed is taken, the dishwasher runs everyday, along with the washer and dryer.  There are gifts to wrap and a house to clean, but these times are precious and I’m thankful for every minute.

 

My house is decorated with simple things this year and my granddaughters helped with every decoration.  We made photo tags of family members and mixed them with little woodland animals on the tree.  It’s the perfect Christmas tree for Lily’s tiny hands and she loves looking at the photos.

Bitsy & Chelsea

bottlebrush ornaments

Lily

Sweet owl

A simple candle in glass…

pinecone candle

…surrounded by cranberries and glitter stars…

cranberries

And on the mantle candles are wrapped in Christmas ribbon…Christmas mantle

We decorated a topiary with pink Christmas lights that were sent to me from Pamela in Indiana.   I love these lights!

Pink Christmas lights

Like so many of you I find the holidays bittersweet.  It’s a time of joy mixed with feelings of loss for those who are missing.

I hope this Christmas finds each of you surrounded with joy.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Hugs,

Anne

Christmas at Holly Hill

Holly Hill Quilt Shoppe opened up its classroom this weekend for the annual Homespun and Holly event.   Fresh trees filled the room and the scent and spirit of Christmas was everywhere.

Have you ever seen a quilt shop classroom decked out like this?  It was amazing.

Table centerpieces were perfect little boxwood trees carefully planted in a beautiful wood crates.

 A stocking filled with treats awaited each customer.

Eye candy was everywhere.

Visit the Holly Hill Blog to capture the spirit of this special event.

Homespun and Holly happens once a year and it’s worth a trip to attend.

A great start to the holiday season!

Merry Christmas!


Wishing You A Very…


It’s almost Christmas! Are you ready?

I honestly don’t now where this month is going!  Feels like it’s flying by!  I desperately need more time!!!  I have to fit in making cookies, our hometown parade, Granddaughter’s birthday, school play, time with friends, wrapping presents, shopping, and projects for January.   Do you feel this way?  It’s going way too fast, this month we call December.

I’ve done as much decorating as I can this year.  There’s just not enough time!   I actually let my husband slip by without putting lights on the house!  I must really be feeling rushed to let him out of that!

Our tree stands in the center of the living room.

My little black cat named Topsy came out to see the tree.  She’s very shy so it really must have  attracted her!  She loved it!  She was purring, licking her paws and sitting so happily under the tree!  And yet, if you were to stop by you’d never see Topsy.  She’d be hiding as quick as a wink!

She’s content to sit under the tree…

…and enjoy the ornaments!  Or maybe she loves my little stuffed Allie dogs & Scooter Pie the cats!

My feather tree is dressed in silver this year, with a little touch of gold…

And the dining room hutch is home to my little pink sheep…

How do you decorate?  Do you always put your tree in the same place?  Do you have ornaments you mix up each year?  Different sets of ornaments?  Do you move everything around or does it make you feel more “at home” with things the same every year?

If you visit Kevin Sharkey’s blog (he’s part of the Martha Stewart team) you can watch how he decorates  his trees.  He has boxes and boxes of wonderful ornaments and he’s so dang organized.  I’m taking notes for next year.  Be sure and click on the slide show above the picture.  You’ll see 3 gold tinsel trees come to life.

Hope your shopping is done (LOL) and presents all wrapped.

Anne

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