Christmas Tour of Homes

Click on the button above to tour some holiday homes! There are almost 1,000 of them on Mr. Linky - but don't worry, you don't have to visit them ALL! Just peek at a few - it's so much fun! And - welcome to those who stumbled upon me from BooMama's site!

All the trees in our house are "themed".

Foyer "Snowman" Tree:

This "snowman" tree is in our foyer. It has white garland & ribbon, snowflake ornaments, snowmen and all the makings (carrots & mittens even!). The tree topper is a top hat. The picture of the top hat didn't turn out too well - maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

Blown glass, Winnie the Pooh snowman ornament:

A Boyds' Bear dressed as a snowman:

"Mouseketeer" snowman:

Family Room "Sentimental" Tree:

This is the 12' tree in our family room. It's covered with sentimental stuff. All the ornaments are either hand-made (bought over the years at craft shows and some that my kids made), antique ornaments - some from RV's grandmother, some from my childhood, photo ornaments, or ornaments from places we've traveled.

This is a tiny little ornament - hand cut scissor art (can't remember the name of the art form):

Stockings:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE stockings!!! When I was a kid, they were my very favorite part of Christmas!!!! And I love THESE stockings - from Lands End!

Pop Up's "Nutcracker" Tree:

He does have a nutcracker ornament collection started - but we've yet to claim a tree for it. In the meantime, you can enjoy his nutcracker collection ;-)

Pop Up decided a few years ago that he wanted to be just like his paternal grandmother and collect nutcrackers. I'd say he has a pretty good start on things! Wonder how many he'll leave home with when he gets his own place one day? We already need more space to display them! Every Christmas I realize just how challenged we are with our lack of table tops & horizontal surfaces around here!



Guest Bedroom "Antique Toy" tree:

Wooden red, beaded garland, chenille ornaments, rocking horses, stick horses, wooden blocks, etc.



Kitchen Trees:

Themes of these trees are: Gingerbread Men, Hope ornaments and a menagerie of food/candy ornaments (going to re-vamp that one as soon as I determine a new theme).


I picked up these ornaments on 12/24 at Joanne Fabrics for 70% off - and added them above the little pub table in our kitchen. I love their quirkiness:

Nativities:

This was a gift from Pop Up this Christmas. It's sitting on our mantle now. The colors match our house beautifully:

We have several other nativities -- a ceramic one that my MIL and SIL made, one just purchased in Cozumel, a Boyds' Bear nativity and a handful of others.

Mr. Christmas:

RV loves Christmas! This is a GOOD man! He bakes! He wraps! He decorates! He does it all!!! I know you're wondering ... what do **I** do? I shop! I blog! We make a good team!


I hope each of you has a wonderful Christmas and a blessed 2009!