Christmas Decor and So Much More!

The tree is up! The house is fully decorated!!

And I have the empty boxes to prove it!!!

There's even a gift under the tree...

to hide some unfortunate rust stains. *sigh*

Be that as it may, however, the tree looks beautiful...

if a little crooked...

and ever so slightly overloaded.

But that's our style.

We do it on purpose.

Honest.

Our stockings are hung from the display shelf with care.

(What can I say? Our fireplace doesn't have a mantle for dangling.)

It does have a hearth, though, complete with creche and snow scene.

The other fireplace has a hearth, too.

complete with every kind of thing

under the sun...er...snow, I mean.

But I digress. Let's go back to the living room display...

where many lovely things are crowded, willy-nilly, onto shelves

and more shelves.

(Sometimes I'm too lazy to move the regular stuff.)

Okay...lots of times I don't move stuff.

Most of the time.

But again, we like the cluttery look.

Or at least, we do a convincing job of pretending we do!

(I shouldn't say "we," I should say "me.")

My poor hubby actually prefers order and harmony.

He goes for style and elegance...

restraint, not resplendence.

Which must be why he married me... ;-)

the lady of many tsotchkes, Christmas and otherwise.

(Maybe he's something of a masochist??)

(Could be! He's willing, after all, to put all of these away for me.)

But personally? I like to think it's just love.

~ better 'n hot chocolate ~

=)

(drink deeply)

See more Christmas decorating traditions at Jen Denton's Sanatorium.