KEEP ON DECORATING…No stop it!

As I told you in my last post, our family decorates early so we can celebrate Christmas during a Thanksgiving visit from out of town family. For the next month after they leave, I continue decorating, and decorating, and decorating!!

Here’s some fun stuff I’ve been working on:

One of our favorite family traditions is on Christmas eve, we act out Luke 2 (Jesus’ birth) with our Precious Moments figurines. We then sing Christmas songs together. All those piano lessons, trumpet lessons, trombone lessons, and saxophone lessons all pay off on this night!

A friend posted this beautiful picture with an even more beautiful message on Facebook. I printed a copy and framed it.

The most important reason we celebrate Christmas ~ Baby Jesus!!

I love me some red!! Outside the temperature is 70. There’s something wrong with this picture!

Because we don’t have a mantel (we have a television above our fireplace), we ad libbed with our half wall between the family room and kitchen.

I wrapped regular pictures that I had hanging on the wall as

presents. I stole the idea after a breakfast date at IHOP!!

My “No Mantel” fireplace. (sad face) Notice Tony DiNozzo from NCIS on the television. I have a secret crush on him!! YUM!

On a trip to AC Moore, I found this beautiful blue bow in a bin. I just had to have it for my blue dining room! Isn’t it just beautiful??

OOHH! AAHH!

My Son #4 painted a regular green wreath we had “hanging around”. Then I attached everything I could find that was blue and silver. Blue and silver bead chains, silver ornaments, and my new beautiful blue bow. I think I’m in love!

My next project…..

I found this baby sitting all alone on a bottom shelf at AC Moore. It looked so sad I had to just grab it up. My plans are to make it a “Family Tree” tree. I want to paint it white (like the blue wreath in the dining room), make ornaments that I found a tutorial for here. I want to glue black and white pictures of grandparents, parents, and our family inside the ornaments. What do y’all think? I’m excited to start. I’ll share pictures when I’m done.