It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

***I started this late last nite and wanted to post but needed more pics...then I've not felt well today and got tired of trying to rearrange the pics...the codes are a bit odd, so I just finally gave up!***

Well, my day was spent lugging boxes back and forth to the storage shed, cleaning up, and decorating. I really didn't get cranking until about 3:30 an by then I was already praying for more hours in the day. Bon enjoyed helping me decorate some (hence the cringe I felt as she was placing ornaments on the tree like all kids do - in one spot!); she did put out the Snow Village for me and did a pretty good job! It just needs some snow now! Chase hung the 3 ornaments that were his and then called it quits and hung out playing in his room...that may have been better in the end!

The tree is decorated and casts the most serene feeling in the den...it needs to be topped with the star and that will happen if I can talk my best friend into using his height to place it up there! The nutcrackers are all at their posts...the stockings hung underneath the mantle. Everything else is in its place and I must say I am already dreading when it will have to come down because everything looks so peaceful and the way it is supposed to be.

My study is complete with all the little vignettes - my Clemson tree, the village, my snowmen and red and bright green Santa and reindeer...ecletic, yes.

My kitchen does sport the gingerbread gathering, but I've yet to put up my everygreen branches and birds...I was trying to decide what to do in there...I am wanting to redecorate some...new curtains especially, so I was thinking of when I was going to do this...I have decided to wait until the first of the year...it'll give me something to look forward to after the holidays to hopefully forego those after-Christmas blues!

The bathroom is so sweet with the new hand towels and some new displays. The end of the hall is is home to my snowman and baskets and baskets of ornaments!

The hall though...HAS to be my favorite...it looks like a little gift shop in there! It is so pleasant and peaceful...the pics do NOT do it justice...the soft glow of white lights and little tea lights make it so warm and literally makes me stop everytime I walk by. The stockings add some more

color to my bench and hopefully the pillows will be updated with something wintery this week!!!

This is my newest gathering...a little bench I got at the antique place in Edgefield...an old bell from last Christmas...a lantern I've had for years...and two new treasures from the Ragpicker! The old quilt is soooo worn but the colors are beautiful. It is only a piece of an old quilt...which was probably best...I don't think I could have afforded a whole one! AND...the lute...the tag said old guitar, but it is indeed a lute. Very worn and cracked but that adds to the charm. I LOVE how it looks leaning up against the bench!