Christmas Home/Tree Tour

Welcome to my home, Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year, I love it. I start to decorate after halloween, it does take a long time, I'm still finishing up a tree. I actually saw paper snowflakes on BJs post today and going to make some for a tree semi decorated.

I have posted my dining room over the last couple of weeks, but have since changed a table, brought a bigger one in from kitchen area and switched. We are having 12 for dinner and this table is bigger with four leaves, could eat in the kitchen, but too messy.

all ready for the big day, this is our larger table, an oak double pedestal and so heavy, Frank and I moved it in, took the four leaves out first. This table is also 6 inches wider, sure makes a difference, now just need to move the extra chairs in,

oh... yeh the food would be great,

below is the white Christmas tree, decorations are purple, black and teal

peacock feathers, and butterflies, the table setting is

the smaller table.

 

this is the tree in the kitchen, always have had a full size, that I won, from a decorating store. So I bought a smaller one -black although you can't tell and used the deocrations from the other one. Santa is laying beneath the tree, must take a picture of him alone, he's getting rested before the big day.

the tree skirt and the comforter on the back of the bench, match, belong to my daughter. She loves country, sort of country french-sort of.

the light has a gold cone that my grandson and I put on the lamp, doesn't quite reach the top, we need to lift it up,

 

then Trey (grandson) added the greenery and the icicles

moving to our living room below, is our fireplace

 

because we use the fireplace so much, the stockings won't be put up yet.

the santa heads on each side are Jacqueline Kents, she is a

very popular designer in our area, but is in the states too, specializing inolder faces, expressions are beautiful.

one of my Santas in the sleigh, he has a fur coat on, must be hot in front of the fire...

this is our memory tree, (got that from Fabby) ornaments have been from when we were first married,

42 years ago, although those days, I made them,
popcorn and use to hang cookies.

Betty Boops, airplanes, hubby plays the accordion, microphone for auctioning,
hockey players for grandsons, Gone w/the Wind, Wizard of Oz....

this is more my side, Lucy, Marilyn Munroe, Barbies,
Black Santas, kitchen items-stove, ladder for when we moved into this house five years ago,

Shelties, Ralphie, famous shoe lamp, Waterford decorations,
Tim Hortons on and on each one has a meaning

Have a village set up and a railing deocrated, plus a santa collection that I haven't got pictures of. Another time, or maybe another year.
Going upstairs now

these picture and frames I just added, trying to find small frames 3 x 5 and no luck,
been all over the countryside

below is one of my favourite trees, it's my shoe and purse feather tree,

lights are in pink and purple,

these are new boots that a friend got me in Niagara on the Lake... love them, would like them in real...

this room we call the turret room on the front of our house. My scrapping room, the tree to the right died on me yesterday, they change colours.

 

almost finished, hope you're not bored

 

this tree is in the green room, pre lit two years old, and the centre is out

not finished -going to put the paper snow flakes and have baby's breath, in it is a work in progress

green room above is spare room -but the boys room

bathroom below is pink and boys bathroom

gee do I want a girl?

 

another view of the shoe tree, and the garland on the railing, to the right of it,is a computer station

for my grandsons

 

Fr

Franks great grandparents, they came over from Devon in the 1850's

our grandchildren are seventh generation in the same village...

 

this is the last tree

our bedroom and it's an angel tree

when our first grandson was born, his dad is from Jamaica, I started collecting

black angels, very hard to find at the time, in fact I think they still are. That was 20 years ago

 

this is a little alcove that I have a Victorian desk/dressing table in, great for the tree. The little black chandelier hanging above serves as the tree stopper.

some of the black angels a lot of white ones too. We have three black grandsons, both daughters married Jamaicans, and our son has one son and no girls have I mentioned that before?

 

that is the end of the Christmas Tree Tour, hope you enjoyed it, thankyou for visiting and please come again. I try to join Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage weekly.

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