I AM OK! I volunteered to help the chamber of commerce here in town decorate downtown. We were decorating light poles and I went up on a ladder to put up the greenery around the poles. Well, the ladder bent and slid out from under me…EEK! I slid down the pole and the ladder went crashing down. OOPS! I walked away with bruises on my ankle, leg, knee, and ego but nothing more 🙂
After decorating downtown and the park I got into the Christmas mood but I was being good and holding off decorating my house. Then my Christmas tree showed up. Great, now I have this giant box in my living room. Let’s just say I couldn’t wait anymore. I started decorating for Christmas this last week 🙂
I ran into a situation…I don’t have buckets for storage of my fall decorations. So, for now, it is all in my bedroom making it a challenge to get to the bathroom. One of these times I run to the store I will remember to grab some…along with nightlights. I have gone to the store multiple times. I have been reminded to pick them up yet I still have not picked any up…Seriously, people, it has been weeks.
Decorating has been so fun! I started and as I was going around putting things up that I had I made a list of things I wanted to add or wanted to think about. My mom and aunt came and we spend the whole day in Rochester and we shopped. I picked up stuff from so many stores and had so many fun things! When we got back we all jumped to decorating the rest of the house with all the goodies we got!
The picture below is a picture of my aunt and I configuring the star on top of the tree. It was more of a trouble than it looks in this picture… 🙂
SO MUCH FUN!
I am going to share a few pictures of some of my favorite pieces and settings in my house so far. This is one of my all-time favorite times of the season so there is a lot of decorations and fun little things everywhere 🙂
I get my tree lighting skills and pickiness from my mother. If a tree is not covered with a blanket of lights the lighting on the tree was not done right. I have 6 strands of lights I think on this tree and it looks about right 🙂
I kept mentioning to my mom and everyone that I was so excited to start my very own Christmas village. It has always been my favorite thing to set up at Christmas time. My mom had so many cool pieces and such unique things it was always so much fun creating my own “story” out of the pieces each year 🙂 I am so glad I get to continue that in my own home with the start of my Christmas village!
The pictures do not do this justice. In person looking at the fireplace, it looks like Christmas. It just makes me so happy!!!!!!
This is on the Library door and looks absolutely perfect with the framing. It is absolutely perfectly homey.
So, upstairs needed a little Christmas. Mom had the idea to put wreaths on the door. They look so amazing!
This guy needed a home for the season. The second floor landing in this corner fits him beautifully perfect! So, there he stands tall and proud and perfectly perfect 🙂
So there it is! My beautiful Christmas house and it makes me so happy and feel just at home!!! AHHHHHHHHH! So happy I am 🙂
Day 2
So day two of my mom and aunt being here was so much fun! We went to Red Wing and picked up things we forgot the day before or realized we needed last night while we were decorating.
Big news! WE REMEMBERED NIGHT LIGHTS!
OK, I need to go work on work now so I should probably stop yapping and start working…I love it I do! It is just a lot of busy work…Oh well! Life is a party and it is all fun!
BYE BYE!
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