Home for Christmas

A warm welcome to our home. Come in out of the snow and let me take your coat. Notice the snow on top of the roof makes it ready for Santa to appear...

Our living room is mostly decorated for the reason we celebrate this magical season. The birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his birth... along with lots of family memories:)Our tree has lots of angels, nativity ornaments and Santa’s.

My large angel was a gift from a good friend.

My favorite angel is really a porcelain doll which belonged to my grandmother more than 100 years ago.

I cherish this doll and this is the only time of the year I bring her out of her box.

I love this Noel pillow a friend gave to me... because when I see it, I see my dad’s name. Noel spells my dad’s name backwards...I miss him. He passed away over 20 years ago and the holidays bring sweet and tender memories of him playing his harmonica as we all sang carols on Christmas Eve.

The large gold ornaments are truly a Trash to Treasure and were rescued as they were being thrown away
because their pink finish was all scratched. (Please visit Diane 's beautiful home for more for more Trash to Treasures)

After some paper marché and gold paint ago they took on a whole new look! This gold boxes is one used by our grandchildren who are Wisemen for our Christmas Eve nativity pageant.

Our mantle looked bit scrawny after looking at Kimba’s beauty on her mantle. This green chair is the same one I posted a few weeks ago which was a wedding gift to my same paternal grandmother whose doll adorns my tree.. I love my own grandchildren knowing their loved ones from the past.

So with a garland with snow tipped edges added and some large pine cones collected from a vacation to Lake Tahoe years ago, we a have a new and fuller garland. ( I am still trying to decide if it was an improvement or not...)

I made the gold stars from gold wrapping paper.

The winter scene from my kitchen window

One of my 'must haves' is a home not only filled with CHRISTmas music but also with the smells of CHRISTmas! Thanks to Bath & Body works I have it! I enjoy most of their holiday scents. Tonight we are burning Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin oil.

For viewing more homes for the Holiday Party please go to Hooked on Homes , Kimba's , and Rhoda's to join the CHRISTmas parties or at least help your selves to all the delicious blog candy!

Hope you enjoyed your tour of part of our home. please leave a comment as I would love to hear from each of our visitors and we want to wish you a
very Merry CHRISTmas to you and to your family!