dreamflower | Busy weekend (Reply)

I had a rather busy weekend this week--I had to work Saturday, and then we finished up our Christmas decorating. Saturday evening we finished the tree. And Sunday morning we finished the rest, as we decided to go to the evening service instead.

I got some lovely cards from

shirebound,

gamgeefest and

slightlytookish.

Holiday picspam of our decorations behind the cut:

First of all, here's our Christmas tree. I made that angel on top the first year we were married--32 years ago. The DH won't allow anything else on top of the tree, even though it's begun to show quite a bit of wear.

This is our mantel. The gold bell in the center is a music box, that plays "Silent Night". I made the other ornaments many years ago, before we were even married. Probably around '71 or '72. My mother bought some plain satin balls, and my sister, brother and I spent many evenings decorating them with Mom's old costume jewelry and stick-pins. I kept all of the ones that I made myself.

Here's a close up of a couple of them--the flower on the blue one was originally a brooch...

And a couple more...

Here's the front of the house. I will try to take some "after dark" pics later, so I can show it lit up...

I made new wreaths this year. This is the front door...

and this is the one for the front porch screen door...

The reason we decided to go to evening church was that last night was the children's Christmas pageant. Here's a pic of our sanctuary...

I took some pics of the program, but I don't want to post the kids without their parents' permission--except for this, because I don't believe any of these adorable little lambs are recognizable! These were the littlest preschoolers...